A Thought on Justice

I find it disturbing how often we Americans forget that Lady Justice holds scales in one of her hands. Too often we remember only the sword and seem to believe that 

Justice = Revenge. 

It doesn't.

Friday Mishmash

A Story of Injustice

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. ~ Arcesilaus

I invite you to click over to Candid Yammering and read her post, Omar Goes Home

Deportee ~ Peter, Paul & Mary

Sometimes It Takes a Bit of Research

One of my old college chums forwarded the following to me yesterday:

THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I know that some of you don't like to read long drawn out missives ... so here's the executive summary.........

Congress Military

John McCain 26 Years 22 Years

Barack Obama 143 Days 0

So I did a bit of quick historical research and emailed the following back to him:

President Congress Military Ronald Reagan 0 0 Bill Clinton 0 0 George W. Bush 0 Ha! Hubert Hoover 0 0 Franklin D. Roosevelt 0 0 Calvin Coolidge 0 0 Woodrow Wilson 0 0 William H. Taft 0 0 William McKinley 0 0 Grover Cleveland 0 0 Millard Fillmore 0 0 John Q. Adams 0 0 James Monroe 0 0 James Madison 0 0 Thomas Jefferson 0 0 John Adams 0 0

Are You Looking for Alex?

If you’ve come here looking for Alex, the furball who owns me, you can finds lots of blogging by and about him—Alex’s most used blog tag is ME—at his blog: Alexicon. OK?

All My Other Blogs

As I previously wrote, I removed the blog list from the sidebar of Nick’s Bytes after that Blogger error code locked everyone, including me. I’m in the process—slow process—of relisting the 160 or so blog links I had on that blog list into a new blog: St. Nick’s Splendid Blog Roll. I am only through the letter C in its construction; however, I do invite you to drop by and comment on what you may like or dislike about it.

I have also reactivated my long neglected blog, UCC on the Net, that I began as a bit of ministry as my pastoring days came to an end. I also invite you to drop by and comment on what you may like or dislike about it.

Next Celebration…

Having recently completed the 1,000^th Blog Post celebration, the next in line for Nick’s Bytes is the 100,000^th Visitor. As of this writing, the visitor thingie (on my sidebar) reads 99,028. If visitors come by as usual, that means that visitor Number 100,000 will be by within the next week or so.

So…. Please take a glance at the visitor thing and, if you turn out to be the 100,000^th visitor, please tell me about it in a comment to Nick’s Bytes or in an email. Thanks.

Questions that You Didn’t Ask but that I Answered Anyway

Why did I increase the font size of my blog?

If you were to ask me that question, you must be under the age of 50! I increased the posted font size of Nick’s Bytes because I have to click on View—>Text Size—>Increase on 95 % of the blogs I visit so that I can read them. Therefore, especially for us old dudes and dudettes, I have increased the size on the text of my blog so that we don’t have to do it.

Did I heal OK from that fall through my deck steps three weeks ago?

Strange that I should ask myself that! Both of my legs were swollen and bruised after the fall, as was my right wrist.

Do primarily to the workings of the Veterans Administration bureaucracy’s Catch 22s (I loved that book!) I wasn’t able to see a physician, so I decided just to allow the bruising to heal. My right leg and wrist did. However, my left leg, although the bruises have disappeared, remains swollen and painful from my foot all the way up to above my knee.

So, this morning, after telling myself “to hell VA with rules and procedure,” I drove myself to the VA hospital emergency room where I spent the next six hours. Without going into the details of that adventure, let me inform the world that the reason for the swelling in my left leg is (1) a cracked heel and (2) a chipped knee (whatever those two diagnoses mean).

I now have this thingy on my left foot covered by miles of that stretch stuff. See:

The ER doc told me to use crutches and not to try to drive my car, especially since I need my left foot to engage the clutch. Ha! I left the crutches at the hospital because I’d probably break one or both legs if I tried to use the damned things and am using my walking stick (cane). That’s the way I’ve gotten around for most of the past thirty years and I don’t feel like moving up to crutches or (God forbid) the wheelchair they offered me.

So, after leaving the hospital with my trusty walking stick (someday I really must take photographs of my stick collection and post them here), I climbed into the CR-V, tested that I could depress the clutch even with that thingy on my foot, and drove home, stopping on the way to pick up some (you guessed it) cat food for Alex and cigarettes for me.

The doc at the ER has made a referral for me to an orthopedic dude or dudette and hospital is to telephone me next week to set up an appointment. In the meantime, I can still hobble around and do just about everything I normally do except scratch my left ankle that is now itching horribly.

How are Alex and I dealing with the heat?

Today has been heavenly! It was cool last night and we shared my bed. We not only needed a top sheet, but added a comforter, beneath which both the furball and I snuggled. When we arose at 5:00 a.m. or so, the temperature in my bedroom was a wonderful 62 F.

The present temperature is about the high for the day: 83 F (which not long ago was the low for the day).

How are you going to spend Labor Day?

I’m not sure, but not here:

That’s enough Q & A for now. I am going to post this, feed the cat and myself, and maybe rest for a while!

Don’t forget September 27^th:

Click here for details

Looking Toward September 27th

I picked this up from Cursuum Perfidio:

To me, who has posted so much about abuse, I believe that it’s a great idea and I plan to participate:

On September 27^th , join 1,000s of bloggers around the world in BlogCatalog's Blogging for a Great Cause Challenge.

This Blogging Challenge will be:

Bloggers Against Abuse
September 27th, 2007

The Outcome we are after is to be part of the largest group of bloggers to ever blog about an important cause, all on the same day.

I invite other bloggers to also participate on September 27. You can find more information about this project here.

To get your creative juices following, here are a few of my (egotistical, ain't I) blog posts on the subject of abuse:

Sexual Assault Awareness

Sexual Abuse: A Rule of Thumb

Incest: The Crime that Devastates Lives

Incest: Does the Pain Ever Stop? A Personal Story

Women & AIDS