injuneer Forum Posts (55)

RE: Sicko

Mike Moore has a reputation (well deserved) for pushing to the limits in his film making, but as we saw with his first film about GW Bush, there is a considerable amount of truth that sometimes gets overlooked because of his tendancy to "sensationalize" the subject matter.

He makes his point again and again and despite the direct "in your face" approach to the problem, he's once again hit the nail on the head.

Personally, I think healthcare should return to the non-profit state it had back in the 40's and 50's. Having a healthy nation is imparative to our success and survival. We are in a generation now that will, on average, have shorter life spans than our parents and our children will have an even shorter one, leading to the eventual downward spiral of our society.

Our country and our world are under pretty serious strain now days and nature had a way of self-correcting. Self correcting means survival of the fittest and we are a far cry from that in this country .....

RE: Paloma Tankless Water Heater

I suppose the first question should be "where" is the water heater leaking? In the greatest number of cases, it's an indication that the unit is going to fail soon, most probably because it was not "blown down" on a regular basis, causing the particulate matter to settle in the bottom of the tank. This creates an insulating layer so the tank has to run for longer periods of time in order to heat the water to the desired temperature. Over time this puts greater strain on the metal at the bottom of the tank, causing it to overheat and fail.

Tankless water heaters work by the simple principle of a large amount of surface area exposed to direct heat. They are expensive to operate, but since they only operate as you need the hot water, in the long run they tend to be must less expensive. Be very cautious about having them in-line with a water softener (according to the Mfg) and inspect it at least 1-2 times a year for leaks and indications of overheating.

If you have other questions feel free to write and good luck with your selections!

RE: World War 3

Actually, during both the 1st and 2nd World Wars, they were not considered to be World Wars until years aftwards. If you look at the length, cost, and scope of our current "war" it surpasses what would be considered a World War, with the exception of the number of people that have served and the casualty count.

We live under the assumption that the next world war will involve some kind of nuclear exchange between super powers, but only time and the historians will really declare if this is indeed a war of worldly proportions. One thing is for sure, the instability of so many countries with so much at risk certainly makes our world situation no less precarious than we've seen it in the past and with the current leadership we have, I worry that the next election can't come soon enough. Let's just hope next time around we get a chief executive that is considerably more "worldly" in thought and experiense.

RE: Curious why...

LOL - Oh lord, post on the international sites? I got enough strange women from all over the world "suddenly falling in love with me", all I have to do is send them a check and go rescue them .... quick, somebody hit me with the Gomez stick .... it's all starting to make sense now!

RE: my pet peeve

There are a few out there that certainly make it a challenge to be civil and decent at times. I've found myself on the receiving end of a few that apparently don't bother to actually read more than a few words of a message and blast away at you!

Finding people that are as thoughtful as we'd all like to believe we are is getting harder; probably because the net allows people to behave in ways they never would think about doing out in public.

My own pet peeve is the number of people that say they would love to correspond, then after two or three messages they just disappear. I often refer to it as that "kid in a candy shop" syndrom where they just sump around to the next shinny penny without any concern for the other persons feelings, but I guess the internet imitates society since relationships, marriage, and so much more seem to be the same way out in the "real world" these days too .........

RE: soldier

A salute to a young soldier from an old soldier. Glad to see you serve, be safe and be true to those words "Duty, Honor, & Country"

RE: is anybody on connectingsingles educated ?

LOL .... if I was half as smart as I should be, I'd find a better barber ... this one seems to be a former strip-miner!

RE: Imagine ...YOU are the only one...but could you handle it?

Hmmmmmm.............that is an interresting challenge, but my real question isn't so much if I could, but if they'd let me get close enough to try! Now, if we can find enough volunteers I am always up for a challenge!

RE: make a word from the last letter of the word above #3

ilker? OK, that's not a word, but it's the best I could come up with! LOL

RE: Dating with age

Age is really just a matter of attitude ... mutual respect and honesty carry a lot more weight. In the age difference, the frequent cause of tension tends to be a misunderstanding that "can" be triggered due to a slightly different outlook, sometimes based up age & experience.

But it's like anything else in life. It is what you choose to make it ... no more and certainly no less!

RE: rules

1. Be honest
2. Be yourself
3. Be prepared for a lot that are not

4. And mostly, have fun and enjoy life!

RE: your motto

Favorite Saying - he who ignors history is doomed to repeat it.

My pledge - A man's word is his bond and his honor is the only tangable thing he has that can't be taken away from him.

My Creed - Duty, Honor, & Country

RE: not another mama's boy

Of course, the obvious questions I would hope you asked were:

1. Is he living there in order to care for her as many baby boomers are
having to do for elder parents these days.

2. Is he really sneaking out or just showing his mother respect by asking
her if he may go out? Sure, he's obviously an adult, but coping with an
elder parent is sometimes easier to play the game and keep the peace
by being subsurvient.

Not suggesting you are wrong, but if you jumped to a conclusion without getting all the facts, you might have just lost a man that loves and respects his mother; and isn't afraid to show that.

Of course, if he is living at home because he's afraid to get out on his own and be responsible, that's a different story .... but it pays to find out for sure. He might just have turned out to be a very kind and considerate man that is dealing with difficult times, helping his mother, and just trying to be a good son ................. you could do far worse in finding a man.....

RE: What is your definition of a "REAL MAN"?

That question is generally spawned out of some form of disappointment. An equally interresting question might be "where your expectations so lofty that it would take an unreal man to fill them?"

Several decades ago a person might have half a dozen "relationships" in their lifetime. Now days all the outside stimula (primarily TV) encourage us to make change and attempts to "upgrade" a normal activity. As with anything else, too much variety can confuse and confound, making it nearly impossible to find that "perfect" mate because our expectations exceed the limits of humanity. Figureing out and zeroing in on those genuily important factors will help, but at a point in time you have to get past the obviously foolish ones like what kind of music they like or who their favorite TV star is.....

More important questions are around issues like, is this a person that will work "with" me on our relationship? Will this person be supportive when I need it as well as be fairly critical when it's benefitial to me; and can I count on them when everyone else lets me down?

RE: Act Your age

Naaaaaaaaa.............tell him you ARE acting your age. You're at the age where you can afford each and every toy you want and if he's lucky enough he might grow up enough to someday enjoy the one's he wants too!

And by the way pal, when you are ready to build your own moon rocket, let me know and I'll be there to help act yours and my age too! Life is just too much fun to let the jealosy of youth interrupt the happiness of success and "maturity"!

Why Ask Why?

One of the little gifts of life is our ability to enjoy and suffer through a complete range of emotions and feelings. We frequently complain about that we cannot change as thought it would magicly transform us to a different place and time. We imagine ourselves in the middle of the greatest of success when we seem to really be in the depths of dispare. And worst of all, we tend to invite everyone around us to bath in our sufferning, then cast them away from sharing our successes.

One of those golden moments for me was when I understood the comment "we must learn to be happily single before we can appreciate being appily involved". I was lucky that the person that said it, also handed me a sticker to put up on my refrigerator where I would see it every day, and over time I realized the wisdom of those words.

So now, while I am still very much single and most likely will remain that way the remainder of my days, I have learned the true meaning of contentment and being comfortible in my own skin. While being single isn't what I want, it's something that I've learned to enjoy. So, perhaps in the coming years fate will provide me with that impossible opportunity to once again enjoy the company of another, I know for now that I will survive, be happy, and not worry.

It is a powerful emotion - contentment. It is a journey I wish and hope each of you can realize, enjoy, and grow comfortible with ... so then you will be ready for the next trip and an even happier destination.

Alvin of Ohio

RE: hey!....do you think.....

People under the influence certainly speak "a truth", but not necessarily "the truth". We all tend to broadcast only the truth that we want others to believe, but with alcohol we tend to say anything that crosses our mind ... but the problem is that an opinion is created by sorting through dozens of emotions, thoughts, feelings, and compileing it into a final truth.

When you hear the alcohol implied version you get all of those emotions, thoughts, and feelings ... completely unsorted, uncompared, and unrefined. So be careful, it's like being tossed a deck of cards and asked to select the right one .... there are many different answers and you're trying to face odds that are staggering!

RE: hello our names are tess n lorrain n we are......

Help? Cure? Geezzeeee, I was thinking the only reasonable treatment was mainline'ing it till ya pop!

RE: Is America going to win the war in Iraq?

There can be no "winning" in a war in the middle east; it is as it has always been, just another battle in over 1,000 years of conflict. Anytime you take up arms against a people that are fighting for a belief they have been taught since birth, the only possible victory is allialiation of their entire race, which, because of the spread of our races across the globe, certainly impossible.

The only victory that can possible occur in Iraq is for us to find a way to gracefully exit with the respect and appreciation of the citizens of Iraq. Even doing this does not satisfy the primary objective, which is to "try" to elliminate terrorism in the world. Only a fool thinks that terrorism can be elliminated with guns and bullets. It is only conquored through education & opportunity. Elliminate poverty and elliminate one of the basic building blocks of war ....

RE: What is wrong with men?

Oh I wouldn't say that at all, there are plenty of men that see the value of a good woman, no matter how "imperfect" she might see herself. Your greatest value is found in that 7" found between your ears, all the rest is just eye candy.

Hang in there, you'll find plenty of good guys around. Perhaps you only need to expand your horizions to the next sunrise.....

RE: Why do people always change after you start dating them!!!!

It takes two to change the same as it takes two to experience life together. You must remember to ask yourself if that person has really changed, or have you only now begun to notice those things that were previously blinded by the "infatuation of the moment".

Never easy to realize, always hard to accept.........

RE: It Hurts So Bad

I'm currently going through the same thing, but my kids are a bit older at 18 and 23. Of course, it's no longer visitation, it's just visiting with the old man. As I discovered over the years, children go through several phases in their relationship with the non-custodial parent. A few tips that might help you:

1. Try to find that "special" thing they enjoy doing and do it sparingly,
making them try some things you also enjoy so you'll find mutual
interrests to share together.
2. NEVER say anything negative about the other parent or their pardner,
This backfires just about every time. Just be respectful and when they
want to talk about it, be a good listener, but avoid comments.
3. Don't be afraid to just ask them. Kids are painfully honest.
4. Be prepared to accept the unhappy fact that some children just never
do come around to one parent. I know that's painful, but in the long run
you have to avoid chaseing after them or you'll be saddled with that
reputation and expectation the remainder of your life.

Hang in there, keep in touch with them, and sooner or later they will come
around.

RE: would you eat another(dead)human being to servive???????

Hmmmmm......that would have to be a pretty dismal area to have to resort to canibalism, and of course one would have to be very careful since we human's carry some of the more deadly bacteria found in any "body" ... but with a few Killigans, salt and pepper, toss 'em on the barbie and let's have a cook out!

RE: I'm Dying....

LOL .... oh yeah, I got a few pair of "fruit of the loom" that I did that too, but thankfully the new stain remover fixed it (course it took damn near the entire bottle of the new spray & wash, but they are white again!)

Wonder with all that bleaching how long before they just fall apart! ROFL

RE: How important is it to you

It's a double edged sword. I think it's reasonable to expect parents and family to make every effort to accept a pardner the same as it's reasonable to expect the pardner to make every effort to accept your family ... and you should be equally willing to go to the same extents for their family too. That being said, there are situations when personal friction just makes some of those relationships impossible. At that point you have to sit down, talk it out, and come to some agreement what the ground rules will be & this conversation needs to be held with both the pardner as well as the family members.

Supportive relationships come in many different forms and are a lot like clothing. You can try "off the rack", but you're going to find that for the best fit and greatest happiness, a bit of custom tailoring is required so the better you get at discussing these things with the pardner as well as the family, the better over all communicator you can become.

In rare cases you'll find inlaws that go to enormious extreams to try to accomodate difficult pardners. That's a sure sign of the love they feel for their own child. If you can harnass that power of love and devotion you're going to experience the kind of relationship that legend's are made of.