http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725 what i want to talk about. en mark725 mark725 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:46:24 +0100 daily 1   what's the difference between a sex addict and a man with a normal sex drive?   if we compare sex addiction (about which we don"t know) and drug addiction (about which we think we know) maybe we can figure this out.  people talk about gateway drugs when they talk about the beginning of drug addiction.  in sexual addiction the gateway would be first realization of one"s sexual nature.  cigarettes have been labeled a gateway because they are a deliverysystem that one has to "learn" to use, then it can be used for other substances.  we think of an addict as someone who "has to have" something in other words he is defined by his disease.  a normal man feels this way due to his sex drive about sexual release.  therefore there is the confusion about sex addiction, since the "has to have it" that defines a substance addiction is present, but relating to a natural need.  when does this need become an addiction?  when it becomes a... Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:46:24 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/sex-addiction/9/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/sex-addiction/9/ About a month ago pres.bush was in china and gave a speech.  afterwards he went to leave the room through some ornate double doors but both were locked.  this scene was shown on a few blooper shows and some news programs.  i saw a replay recently and noticed something  that bothered me.  after he realizes both doors are locked, he immediately drops his hands to his sides and faces the cameras with no expression on his face.  i thought "look how thoroughly he has been trained to give no ammunition to the press in his actions"  the only pictures that the outside world would see are the video ones and they are fleeting.  actually he didn't do anything to be embarassed of, it could have happened to anyone.  a charismatic person would have had some fun with the situation.  he might act trapped and pretend to be panicked, he might have said something to the press like "anymore questions?"  but pres. bush doesn't feel free to act, because he is so kept under... Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:16:21 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Bush-can-t-be-human/8/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Bush-can-t-be-human/8/ When i was a teenager, that's a bad sounding start for a blog, i was convinced that my parents were the best in the world.  They had treated me and my sibs fairly and kindly and to my way of thinking done so with wisdom.  Some years later it dawned on me that what i had experienced as a child i was so close to i couldn't really form an objective opinion about.  It turns out that compared to the upbringing i might have had i was blessed.  But there were issues that made me who i was and am that i still grapple with.  For instance, i always felt there was something different about me that everyone could see or somehow detect which made me inferior to others.  As the oldest child in my family it was always my duty to give way to the younger children because i was oldest and "ought to understand".  Also i am hot tempered by nature and my father believed teasing ws the way to convince me to stop throwing a fit, with the result being much greater anger from me.   As... Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:46:55 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Why-am-i-the-way-i-am/7/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Why-am-i-the-way-i-am/7/ this past week my daughter told me a friend of hers was at a funeral where protesters had signs saying things like they were glad a soldier had died.  this was horrible enough to contemplate, what this family greiving for their loss felt, then to add a public protest so cold and evil i didn't think it could be true.  then my daughter said the protest was put on by anti war left wingers.  that made no sense at all to me, and led me to look up the subject online. guess what? the protests were done by some ultra-right christians who see the deaths our armed forces are suffering as God's judgement on our evil society.  the main crime we have committed in their eyes is allowing homosexuals to be in the military and in other areas of our society.  as if it were possible to just make gays go away or something.  from what i've seen in my 49 years, most likely these people are homosexuals who hate themselves for their identity and lash out cruelly for that reason.  isaw a picture... Tue, 27 Dec 2005 03:14:06 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Right-wing-Ignorance/6/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Right-wing-Ignorance/6/ In my city today a mentally deranged woman highjacked a delivery truck and made the driver take her to an affluent suburb.  The driver was released unharmed,  then she began wandering the streets of this community brandishing a knife and rifle.  In short order the police arrived andtasered her but her coat was too thick to penetrate. She pointed the rifle at an officer another policeman fired several times and killed her, the only other reported damage was a bullet hole in one of the fine homes there.  I ask the police who were there, did you even consider another option?  might there have been a way to save the disturbed woman and protect the community?  I am afraid a state of fear is so pervasive in the minds of people that they accept anything as a threat and anything as a good end if the possible threat is stopped.  Wasn't the woman a person with value and the right to protection from the police?  If she was not in her right mind she was acting in... Sun, 18 Dec 2005 06:06:23 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Police-attack-and-kill-crazed-woman/5/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Police-attack-and-kill-crazed-woman/5/ It is bitterly cold tonight.  We are in the grips of an Alberta Clipper.  This weather has led to the deaths of two men in our city.  They were homeless and both died waiting near a church where they had received some assistance.  In a sense we could say the cold wearher wasn't the real killer of these people, but our failure to care for them as they needed.  And it gets more complicated, often when homeless people are interviewed they say they have chosen to live in this rootless way.  So even if shelter was provided or job training or whatever else we might think would end homelessness, there'd still be the willful type.  So some people, who are colder than this weather, would say these people are getting what they deserve.  I believe we are obligated to treat others as we would like to be treated, I wouldn't want to freeze to death, therefore we have an obligation to make available shelter and food and training for those who will take advantage of it.  And... Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:42:53 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Two-dead-homeless-men/4/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Two-dead-homeless-men/4/ When i'm alone in my car, especially at night, i like to imagine how i would explain our world to Abraham Lincoln, if there were some way he could travel to our time.  I always feel that since he died so soon after the civil war ended, with so much unsettled, he may have died uneasy about our country's future.  Of course i would love to awe him with some of our technological wonders.  Just driving down the road at sixty miles per hour would be sufficiently awesome for him.  But the game is really about me looking at modern times through his eyes and appreciating all we have and take for granted.  Every  few minutes a huge glistening vehicle lumbers into the sky at the airport, inside it forty or fifty or even hundreds of people sit in comfort and enjoy the view and the greatly shortened trip time.  In the car i can push a button and listen to a symphony, some of the new music would require some explaining, but we have so much variety at our fingertips music-wise.  I... Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:30:20 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Riding-with-Lincoln/3/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Riding-with-Lincoln/3/ I was told that my cholesterol is a little high.  Not so high that i need medication, just need to eat better and do some aerobics.  It kinda makes me think about how old i am and what i've done to myself over the years.  What should i have done differently?  Not eat so much fast food is my first thought, followed closely by make exercise a regular part of my life.  I have done some exercising, it just can't compete with all the other things in life i spend time on.  I'm lucky i don't have a desk job, atleast i do some brisk walking everyday.  Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:08:13 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Time-to-change/2/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Time-to-change/2/ What kind of dope is Goldberg smoking?  There is no comparison between the Bush Junta and Roosevelt's government.  The run-up to the Iraq invasion was a case of national blackmail.  Bush, the former cheerleader led the fear cheers, got our nation extra fearful that there "might " be a threat and we don't want another 9-11, and anyone who questioned him, even decorated veterans were smeared  with why don't you love America?  By holding our nation hostage to fear, created by his cooked-up threats,  he got his way and for the first time America attacked a country who had not attacked her first .  I shouldn't have to explain how that is different from our run-up to WWII, except that liars and spinners create so many alternative histories/realities that after awhile some junk begins to clutter the memory.  Knowing how the conservative info pipeline works, I know that a small mention in that column of an American schooner that was rumored to  have... Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:09:39 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Reaction-to-Jonah-Goldberg-column-of-11-29/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/mark725/Reaction-to-Jonah-Goldberg-column-of-11-29/1/