Jeff Herwatt's Daily Missive!

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This week my personal site got hacked by a racist, homophobe skin head who even was so kind as to leave a calling card, along with all the rest of his vile hate speak .  My blog was about my daily journey through life and how I spin things.  I have asked Vox to KINDLY restore my site. It just so happens that they also created a couple of bogus MySpace profiles for me, so I know that they did it on the 14th.  The only reason I discovered this at all was that I pointed a friend to my Blog to read my position on Gay Marriage.  This was a nicely thought out, 5 screen discussion, covering topices such as assimilation and recounting my work with the Gay Right movement in the 70, and what my per5sonal friends and Gay Activist Randy Shiltz and Vito Russo would say about "marriage", and how that would impact the Gay Culture and Gay Agenda.

I live in San Francisco, but do not identify as "Gay", I have been married for 17 years, but I did contract AIDS ion 1985, but from a Blood Transfusion in the Army (documentedf in Randy Shiltz's book Conduct Unbeacoming.)

I plan oin filing a police report tomorrow, and want to leave the site as it is so that the People at Vox can unsort it. i HAD A COUPLE OF YEARS OF BLOG ENTRIES I wsould like to get back, and never backed them up to my hard disk.

What a nightmare, I can only assume that the skinheads targeted me because I have AIDS, am a AIDS Activist, and had pictures ofv the Prop 8 RALLY's and Marches POSTED TO MY SITE.  The make it very cleazr that thyey do not like homosexuals, nor people of color!

"A meowing cat catches no mice" - Yiddish Proverd

I do so love Yiddish Proverbs.  They catch the most importannt of concepts and present them  in a durect, distinct way.  And this one is no different.  It catches and tries to correct on of our societies greatest problems, which is that people talk a good game, but fall flat when it come to action.  Talk, Talk, Talk, sometimes I find that people spend more time talking about what they want to do than actually doing it!

They seem to need constant reassuranc e, reassurance that they are on the right track, reassurance, reassurance, reassurance.  People just doin't DO any more, they think, they worry, and they beg for reassurance before they ever bother shifting the car to drive.

Thisis something I have a real problem with.  My moto, "Do something, ANYTHING!" point to the fact that I am at the other extreme, why talk about it when you could be doing something aboiut it.  Of course this means I deal with something the talkers know nothing about: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.  You see, I sometimes jump into action before really thinking about what I am about to do, and this leads to consequences that the talkers never have toi deal with.

For many they seem to find it easier to talk than to take the first step, and for these people I challange them to:

Make sure they are actually doing things, not just talking about them! 

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your ownself. -From a Fortune cookie found at Andy's Chinese "

 

I, like everyone else, have lots of ideas for how the world could be better, and as many of you know I am more than willing to share my insites into the workings of the world with anyone that will listen, and sometimeseven those that don't!  Dealing with the drama of our government, other people's dramas, it is all obvious to me what needds to be done.  I often tell people that it is easy to live someone else's life because as an outsider because we are removed from the emotional baggage that goes along with all that drama.  Be deviod of all that emotional baggage, we are free to be objective, and see things without the clouding of emotions.  Oh without emotional baggage it is simple for us to see how the government should be run, how a merchant ought to run his business, and even how our best friends ought to lead their lives.  As Lilly Tomlin says in "In search of intellegent live in the universe." the trick is not to mind it!

If we applied these ideas to our own lives, not only might we improve ourselves, but we might also realize that we don't have as many answers as we thought.  I have found that it is best to just try and enjoy the mystery of life, give up that false notion that you have any control and just roll with the flow of life, not looking for answers, but enjoying the mystery.

I have also found that if I can be a little more detached in ,my own life, and get off that emotional rollercoaster, try to be more objective, trying to tap into the clear objectivity that makes it so easy to know exactly what someone else should do, and appply those same insights to my own life.

So, I have this to say, my ideas are good ones, but there's no reason anyone else should listen to them.  I realize they have there own ideas of how things should be done, and I can respect this.

Here's an interesting video that shows how out of touch are media talking heads are!

Fox News viewers witnessed a rather incredible scene on Wednesday as anchor Shepard Smith and Fox contributor Judith Miller (of CIA leak infamy) repeatedly and passionately condemned torture, with Smith declaring at one point, "We are America, we don't torture! And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train! This government is of, by, and for the people -- that means it's mine. That means -- I'm not saying what is torture, and what is not torture, but I'm saying, whatever it is, you don't do it for me! I want off the train when the government starts -- I want off, next stop, now!"

The full segment is worth a watch. And Smith felt strongly enough about the issue to speak out about it again as he was heading into commercial break.

"They better not do it," he said. "If we are going to be Ronald Reagan's Shining City on the Hill, we don't get to torture. We don't do it." Fade to black.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/shepard-smith-torture_n_190350.html

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seekiung new landscapes, but in having new eyes." 

  -Proust

"Our life is frittered away by detail, ... Simplify, Simplify." - Henry Thoreau

I keep a To-Do list handy at all times.  Years ago I was taught the Franklin method of time management.  In this time management scheme you have A gals, B Goals and C Goals.  At anyone time it is suggested that you have no more than 5 high priority A goals, and as you finish a high priority goal, you move another one up.  So you always have 5 A priority tasks to be completed.  And you are always doing one chore after another.

The drawback to this time management method, for me at least, was at the end of the day, after you completed many of your chores, you still don't feel that you have made much of a dent in the list, because there are still 5 A priority tasks waiting to be completed.

But then it dawned on me the really awesome thing about this style of time management, you can work it from both ends.  You see, if months pass and you have certain C level tasks that still haven't been accomplished, how important are they really?  Maybe they are things that really don't need doing, so maybe it is best ju7st to scratch them off the list, since it seems you will never get to them anyways!

So you just decide that if the task is so unimportant that you will always do something else first, then maybe you should find someone else top do this for you, or just get real with yourself and admit you aren't about to do the task, and scratch it off the list!  Why carry around dead weight, simplify, simplify!

Remember that song in the Peanuts Happiness is ... <check it out here on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKKjqzkGo3o> ... Today while at Trader Joes the cashier and I had a meaningful if not fleeting exchange of words of words on being happy;.

Well I am finally doing a little bit better.  I have been suffering from a bad case of mono, and resulting in a swollen speen, which has been closely followed!  Finally today I was given good news, as the swelling, for the first time in a week has gone down!

We will never find another being more worthy of our love than our Selves... Buddha