Impressing Others is a Waste of Time

Has impressing other people ever brought you actual success, happiness, security, or fulfillment in life? And if so, how? Is life smooth sailing for you now that you’ve wasted energy impressing those around you? And when you impress one group of people, there will always be another group that doesn’t approve of you.

It’s a waste of time. Do what is right, do what you must. Don’t get caught up in popular opinion or what other cool people think you should do. Time to grow up.

-From the mind of the EgoAssassin

SouthPark – Hooked on Monkey Phonics

I like how the monkey looks back at him after the first drum lick.

Airport Security Scores Again

I’m late to post about this story, but for those of you who have not heard, there was a 30 year old man named Brad Jayakody who was stopped in a London airport (by security) for wearing a shirt with a transformer on it that was holding a gun. He was told that he could not fly until he changed his shirt. WOW! Thank you homeland security. You guys are really focusing your time and resources on the real dangers in life. I feel much more comfortable knowing that on the front lines of the defense against air travel terrorism are these genius security teams protecting us from t-shirts.

As if it is not bad enough that we take so much crap from the only games in town when it comes to long distance travel (the airlines), now we can’t wear shirts with cartoons on them? What a joke. If this is not the twilight zone yet, it will be soon.

As you will see in this photo of the detained passenger, Brad Jayakody, this shirt was obviously an extreme security threat.

You Give Your Whole Life

I’m thankful for the concept of work and for the ability to do work. I also realize that without working, we would not have food, water, shelter, entertainment, computers, telephones, etc.

I do, however, find it both amazing and quite depressing that most of our lives are given up to the workplace mainly because this fact is often overlooked and under appreciated. Spending most of your life at work may not be so bad if you are a Hollywood star, but the average human being spends more time with co-workers and supervisors than they do with their own families or friends.

This is something we should always remember so that we respect not only the workplace, but more importantly we respect others around us, whether they be co-workers, subordinates, or even our bosses (as they are known to be difficult). But we spend so much of our lives in this rat race and most of the stress we make is simply made up by bad attitudes and lack of respect. It is sad to see people knickle and dime each other over petty things and add to each others stress each day. I suggest that you think about this the next time you step into your workplace, because it is honestly a home more than a job.

-From the Mind of the EgoAssassin

Amazing Facts from World War II

I’ve enjoyed a site for a while called “Amazing Wartime Facts from WWII” that talks about several unknown or amazing facts from the world war 2 era. I’m not positive as to actual hard evidence found on the claims, but I would say that even the history books have a lot of “fact” that has very little absolute evidence behind it. With that being said, I have taken a few of the amazing facts and put them below for you to read. I suggest you check out their website by clicking here.

• The US Army had more ships that the US Navy.

• When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore were 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants.

• The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937)The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940).

• At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”), the shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45^th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named “Amerika”. All three were soon changed for PR purposes.

• Most members of the Waffen SS were not German.

• The only nation that Germany declared was on was the USA.

• Among the first “Germans” captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were capture by the US Army.

• A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)

-Excerpts taken directly from: http://www.5ad.org/AmazingFacts.htm

Contributed by Ronald Padavan, LTC, CAP MIWG Chief of Staff
MSGT, USAF (Ret.) Past President Lodge 143, Fraternal Order of Police
As printed in, The Victory Division News.  No. 4. December, 2000.  

5 Ways to Start Getting Noticed in Public

Are you sick of being average and always fitting in with the rest of this boring society? Try these tips on for size the next time you’re in public and you’ll be sure to start getting some attention….finally. Oh, and it’s only funny if you do these things with a serious face as if there is nothing wrong.

1. Wear tighty whitey underwear on the outside of your pants (I don’t mean just guys, girls too)

2. When strolling down the street, put a dog harness on a wild rabbit & walk it around town. (make sure you have a dead serious face of course)

3. When pumping gas, jump on the hood of your car and start doing the robot while simultaneously yelling out the amount of gallons that you’ve paid for.

4. When your co-workers ask you a question, just respond by hissing back at them like a cat.

5. Wear a giant watch on your forehead with a sticker of your face on it.

-From the Mind of the EgoAssassin

How’s Your Fear Working Out For You?

Fear has always been a natural part of life and obviously one of our most important survival tools, but I’ve noticed a ridiculous amount of time and energy being put into illusions of safety vs. actual safety. By illusions of safety I mean the silly superstitions, nonsense habits, phobias, and meaningless routines that several of us go through in order to feel secure about our daily lives; when in reality we consciously open ourselves up to disaster in many other areas of our lives.

Take for example the increasing group of people who fuss about needing a trash can next to public bathroom doors. (So that they can bring a paper towel to touch the door handle upon exiting) This makes perfect sense right? You would not want to touch a filthy bathroom door with your bare hands. Who would?

But don’t forget that the same people who freak out about touching a door handle, will gladly handle things like money, car doors, shopping carts, chairs, books, computers, and the list goes on and on. This just seems very hypocritical to me, and an outright waste of time. And don’t think I need a lesson on O.C.D., because I do have my stupid habits as well…But I digress. As most of you already know, one of the items we touch most often is money, and money happens to be one of the filthiest items around. Actually, in most cases, money is much filthier than any public bathroom door. So why not bust out the paper towels when you are paying for a meal? Oh, all the sudden you don’t need a buffer when it comes to money? I for one have yet to see anyone hand money to a cashier with a napkin, but I’m still young.

So my point is this, why settle on this illusion of safety? Why waste the time, energy, money, and especially the emotion whining over such hassles like opening a door without a napkin? The truth is that we are usually only fooling ourselves, not the germs or the “fears”. We are ALWAYS at risk and there is no such thing as a perfect situation when it comes to safety or germs. Not to say we should not take precautions, but where has our common sense gone?

Now the only question left is this: How’s your fear working out for you?

-From the mind of the EgoAssassin