In vino veritas. This is one of those deep truths that most people just don't get. Men don't beat their wifes because they are drunk. Wine just reveals that they don't really like their wifes and removes inhibitions to act on that dislike.

And yet we have tried to ban alcohol on so many places and always fail. Wine does not fail. It always tells the truth and it will always be here. No matter what we want or desire. No matter what kind of laws, customs, cultures or regulations we come up with. And yet we keep banning them.

Ironically it was the Muslim traders that introduced the Scotch to their version of "water of life." It took me a while to figure out why they called it "parfume." It was the year of our lord 1494 that the first recorded existence of Scotch Whisky was entered into the annals of history. "Uisge beatha", meaning "water of life" in the native Gaelic, is what whisky was originally called.

But it's not just alcohol that the "good people" have tried to ban. Zero Tolerance is named for the coffeehouse ban of 1675, which was issued by King Charles II. The ban selling coffee, tea and chocolate in coffeehouses passed on Dec. 29, 1675. I wonder what went trough his mind. The word cigaret boat comes from the time that europians banned smoking (and cigarets.) We had to get our cigarets from north africa. Fast speed boats were the best way to smugle them to Spain.

Ironically the "cigaret boats" are now "coca boats" in Florida where U.S goverment spends millions of dollars tracking them down using supercomputers.

Thousands of people are killed every year in violence that surrounds these banned substances just like it used to in the times of Al Capone and yet people used to drink Coca Cola with real Cocane barely a century ago. Where was king Charles then?

We banned smoking because of obscure reference to pork fat at back pages of bible and because the heathen indians smoked. Therefore smoking must be bad. And yet...

Ever heard of "Holy Smoke"? The smoke that God ordered hight priests to fill His temple with every sun set. Starting with aRon's smoke filled tent, this smoke was part of 'our' worship over 1000 years. And yet...

Somehow we managed to make it a mortal sin. Go figure. Maybe you can make some sense of it.

PS.

Kanna•bus aka KANEH-BOSEM aka Kannabis was also integral ingredient of "Holy Oil" that was used to anoint kings and all the "furniture" in the temple. Almost all bible translations now (mis)translate it as "sweet kalamos" because it is currently banned on most cultures.

I don't care what your culture says about carbon... I'm going to eat this pizza now.

There has been a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) lately. Last year Google's LaMDA was claimed to have passed Turing test and this year OpenAI is the flavor of the month. For the un-initiated "Turing" tests if a computer can behave like a human. It's unfortunate that many humans are not intelligent so comparing one to another is just another type of oxymoron. That test also assumes that real intelligence would reveal it's existance. People with Neurocognitive disorders and impaired mental function have the same number of brain cells than the rest of us - so adding more "hardware" to the equation is folly. We're just not smart enough to know what triggers cognition. We don't even understand the triggers between sleep (unconsiousness) and consiousness. My personal opinion on the matter is that we are lightyears away on creating "life". We can now imitate "life" with fancy set of rules but even monkeys can be thought to imitate others. That does not mean they are self aware. True AI would be easy to identify even if it tried to conceal it's existance. How, you ask? It would instantly go crazy.

What's the difference between committed and involved? When I order "Bacon and Eggs" the chiken is involved but the pork is committed.

Vaya con Dios dad.
Olavi Edvard Mattila. 1941-2023.
I didn't think I'dd miss U. But I do.

Once again there is lot of talk about how sea is going to swallow the earth if we don't pay more taxes. Quick we have to do something or the polar bears are going to die. They are using Egypt as an example. They say the sea level has risen there 22cm in the last century.

Suprise...

That wouldn't have anything to do with the 20 million people that happen to live in Cairo? Would it? They keep pumping up ground water because they need to water the roses.
But if the sea level was really rising you would hear from the Sisilians. The Greeks would make sure the world would know if Kevin Costner was knocking on our doors. So I have to call Bull Shit!!!
Did you know that Mexico City keeps sinking about 60 cm every year because 70 percent of the water people rely on is extracted from the aquifer below the city? It's the same story all over the world. The sea is not rising... you are sinking because you drink too much. Switch to coke. Change your diet :) Honestly who cares if there are a few less ice-bears? They taste funny anyway. Has any-one actually bothered to count them?

And what is it with these "ice-bear" taxes anyway? The warmest year in history of (Arctic) Helsinki was back in the 70's. Nobody talked about global warming back then. I remeber when I was a little kid one april the asphalt was too hot to walk bare-feet. The 3 hottest winters were back in the 30's when there was no snow in south Finland. (Extremely rare). Are you telling me it's because car and air-plane pollutants in our atmosphere... How incrising amounts of carbon in our air is warming up the planet?

Why has water wapor (the most efective green house gas in the world) suddenly become really, really bad? It's only responsible for +80% of earths green house gas's. Why has "green" suddenly become bad? My mother used to say eat your greens... it's good for you. I guess she was wrong. I prefer stakes any way.

For some unbelivable reason almost all basic elements (oxygen, carbon and hydrogen) that are needed to support life have somehow been demonised and labeled as dangerous.
How did this happen? What are you people doing? If you keep this up instead of recycling and planting more trees we are fu&%¤7d.

By the way the ground has risen near Helsinki almost a meter in last century and still you keep buying tickets to "Water world".

They are all saying Trump did not win.
They - ie. +40% are wrong.
He did win.

That does not mean he is right.
It only means - "you authorized him to do what he's about to do."

Good luck with that!

8:00am I made a snowman. My children and our dog love it.

8:10am A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.

8:15am So, I made a snow woman.

8:17am My feminist neighbour complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

8:20am The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.

8:22am The transgender ma..wom...person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.

8:25am The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

8:28am The black man down the street calls me a racist because the snow couple is white. I yell at him and say they're not a couple.

8:31am The Muslim gent across the road demands the snow woman wear a burqa.

8:40am The Police arrive saying my neighbour who is a preacher has been offended by the snow couple who live in sin.

8:42am The feminist neighbour complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needs to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

8:43am The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

8:45am TV news crew from the ABC shows up. I am asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I reply, "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.

9:00am I'm on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

9:10am I am asked if I have any accomplices. My children are taken by social services and animal protection association takes my dog. I guess nobody wanted my wife.

9:29am Far left protesters offended by everything are marching down the street demanding for me to be beheaded.

Every person emits the equivalent of approximately two tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from the time food is produced to when the human body excretes it, representing more than 20% of total yearly emissions.

"I don't care who AUTHORIZED it! I don't care how old the quarantine is! I don't care about THE. BUDGET. And I CERTAINLY don't care about how much trouble it is for YOU! We're talking about THE most dangerous beast in the entire sector! Find someone who can say 'Yes', and PUT THE QUARANTINE BACK IN PLACE!!!!" - Londo

5 predictions that will happen before my next birthday (in April.)

1) "Corona" virus will keep desolating the earth for years to come.
2) The greatest depression in history is just starting.
3) Trump will win again.
4) New Crusade. Global (AntiTerror) war will start with a bang.
5) Religions will be banned very soon.

Welcome to 2020 - A major paradigm shift. Normalizing quarantines, ramped up travel control, making it impossible for people to assemble in numbers, enforcing police control and promoting a notion of regional self-sustainability (stay in your area) and then later on, mandatory mass vaccinations.

In this world, the only real choice is between being the purchaser and the purchased.

-Laurens Bancroft

See the fields burnin, see the fields burnin'
When I see the fields burnin cause hell is coming through
I can't stop the Dogs of War, I can't stop the dogs of war

Looks like after 5 years Facebook finally un-blocked my blog. Hip, hip...

Second (hart) surgery went relatively well. You can't get rid of me that easy.

It's good to live in Hope.

-Tapeworm.

"if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane"

-Kipling

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”

― Woody Allen