Royal Wedding

So welcome back my fellow friends, family, and knowledge seekers to another episode of QM strikes back.
Today I want to go hard on an issue that is just flat out pissing me off. Unless you live under a rock in a cave, I'm sure that you have been inundated with the near constant coverage of the media for the royal wedding between Prince William (Why the fuck don't we know the royal family's last names??? It just so happens to be(born William Arthur Philip Louis on 21 June 1982)) and Kate Middleton.

I am sure that Kate is a lovely woman. I have no official opinion on the state of her character, because I do not know her and I wasn't invited to the wedding, nor would I go even if I had the money and time. Anyway...
Just about every time I turn on the radio the last couple of weeks someone is on air talking about how they think this royal wedding is so exciting and whatnot. Not only do I not give a shit because it is all pomp and circumstance, but here's the real kicker... you ready?

July 4, 1776
Why is this date so important? This is the date of America's independence from the monarchy of Great Britain.
I know that stupid youngsters don't give a rats ass about history, but I feel that this one NEEDS to be said. I was watching a web cast from Alex Jones last night and it got me thinking about what's going on with this nation. Apparently too many people have forgotten what our ancestry fought and died for in the Revolutionary War!
Here's the problem and here's where it gets a little crazy to me: NOTHING has changed about the royal family. NOTHING. There might be newer faces in the monarchy now than there were in the late 1700's, but the policy and agenda is still the same. For me it breaks down like this. The royal family represents a bygone age of tyranny and oppression that has been clung onto for far too long. The founding fathers of America fought and died for the belief of a life BETTER than one of subservience to the crown of England.
For a while now, and a lot of this is through the American media, the monarchy has been turned into an almost celebrity status as movie stars and musicians have gone overseas to be "knighted" or otherwise honored by a woman who has servants to wipe her ass.
So this celebrity status associated with royalty is not a new idea. I get the whole deal with little girls wanting to be princesses and whatnot. The main problem that I have with the whole situation is that these people are all inbred ass-clowns. If they lived in Arkansas, Kentucky, or West Virginia, no one would think twice about this nonsense and would laugh and make fun of them for being inbred like the trailer trash that they are. The ONLY difference is that the people over there in England are one of the richest families in the world, mainly because they get paid off the top like a politician from the taxes of the British people. The whole idea of monarchy is outdated and obsolete, yet they cling onto their power like the leaches that they are because they see US, the common people, as being much much less of human beings than they are. Money and power have a perverted way of changing how people see their fellow humans. The royal family views are not indifferent to the American aristocracy of money, fame, and power that look down on the rest of us as well.
My biggest question, I suppose, is WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE SO ENAMORED BY THIS EXTRAVAGANCE AND IGNORANCE? Have we all forgotten the oppression and hatefulness that the crown held against the U.S.? Have we forgotten that WE had to bail THEM out during not just WWI, but also WWII?
What is worse to me is that even the British are getting tired of the monarchy which hails in ITS ancestry from... here it comes, here it comes... GERMANY!
But wait a minute, QM, I don't get it?
Remember the Nazis. The crown was a big supporter of Nazi Germany until they got a little too ambitious. The crown of England has been ALL ABOUT world domination for a long long time now. The New World Order is NOT a new idea... it IS the same OLD WORLD ORDER from the U.K. and German ancestry that came up to the Northern part of Europe after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.

You can make your own decisions, my friends, but I chose NOT to support the tyranny and oppression of royal families and monarchies alike. Those inbreeding bastards can KEEP their traditions and their elaborate fancy weddings.
This has been the Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Truth. Respect. Down with the tyrannical oppressors!!

Love Bank

Hello once again. Welcome back my friends, family, loved ones, and fellow knowledge seekers, it is I, the Quiet Mouse, back after a short hiatus of family emergency. 
I'm gonna start by taking an excerpt from www.marriagebuilders.com

Inside all of us is a Love Bank with accounts in the names of everyone we know. When these people are associated with our good feelings, "love units" are deposited into their accounts, and when they are associated with our bad feelings, love units are withdrawn. We are emotionally attracted to people with positive balances and repulsed by those with negative balances. This is the way our emotions encourage us to be with people who seem to treat us well, and avoid those who seem to hurt us.

The emotional reactions we have toward people, whether attraction or repulsion, is not a matter of choice. Love Bank balances cause them. Try "choosing" to be attracted to those you associate with some of your worst experiences -- it's almost impossible. Or try to feel repulsed by those associated with your best feelings. You do not decide whom you will like or dislike -- it's their association with your feelings, whether they have made Love Bank deposits or withdrawals, that determines your emotional reactions to them.

We like those with positive Love Bank balances and dislike those with negative balances. But if an account reaches a certain threshold, a very special emotional reaction is triggered -- romantic love. We no longer simply like the person -- we are in love. It's a feeling of incredible attraction to someone of the opposite sex.

The feeling of love is the way our emotions encourage us to spend more time with someone who takes especially good care of us -- someone who is effective at making us very happy and knows how to avoid making us unhappy. We would certainly want to spend time with someone we simply liked, but by giving us the feeling we call love, our emotions give us added motivation. We find ourselves not only wanting to be with the person, but also craving that person. When we are together we feel fulfilled, and when apart we feel lonely and incomplete. So the feeling of love is usually effective not only in drawing people together for significant amounts of time, but also in encouraging them to spend their entire lives together in marriage.

But our emotions give us more than the feeling of love. When they identify someone who makes us happy, they also motivate us to reciprocate by encouraging us to make that person happy. They do this by making it seem almost effortless to do what makes most of us the happiest. Have you ever noticed that when you are in love, you seem instinctively affectionate, conversant, admiring and willing to make love? That's because your emotions want to keep that person around, so it gives you instincts to help you make that person happy which, if effective, triggers his or her feeling of love for you. The "look of love" not only communicates our feeling of love for someone, but also reflects our instinct to do whatever it takes to make that person happy.

When a man and woman are both in love, their emotions encourage them to make each other happy for life. In fact, the thought of spending life apart is usually frightening. It seems to them that they were made to be together for eternity. In almost every case, a man and woman marry because they are in love, and they are in love because their love bank balances are above the romantic love threshold.

But what goes up can usually come down, and love bank balances are no exception. As most married couples have discovered, the feeling of romantic love is much more fragile than originally thought. And if Love Bank balances drop below the romantic love threshold, a couple not only lose their feeling of passion for each other, but they lose their instinct to make each other happy. What was once effortless now becomes awkward, and even repulsive. Instead of the look of love, couples have the look of apathy. And without love, a husband and wife no longer want to spend their lives together. Instead, they start thinking of divorce, or at least living their lives apart from one another.

Okay, so I think we can agree to what that website has said, but I want to take it one step further and equate the idea on a societal level. I know I have said this before, but I find it amazingly ironic that we are in this supposed age of technological revolution. With sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, MyYearbook, and many many more along with cell phones, texting and minute by minute updates of a person's life, one might think that human communications have reached some sort of apex... however the truth is much more shocking (at least to me). For all the advances in communications, people are more distant, apathetic, and detached from one another than any other time I can think of in history. A person used to be able to just walk down the street and say hi to others without being looked at like a freak or having to worry about getting his/her ass kicked. Why is this so?


I knew you were curious and would ask, so I came up with my own answer: The love bank.
In my opinion, American society in particular is nearly completely devoid of love. Before you go barking up my tree allow me to explain if you will. 
Here's the deal. I think it doesn't take a rocket scientist or an advanced degree to follow my logic when I say that the Love deficit for most Americans (and others in the world too) is directly linked with the monetary deficit that we face as well. My point is that people seem to feel this insatiable need to fill the void or lack of love with material possessions, often times ones they cannot afford such as expensive houses, cars, and technological gadgets. I also believe that this void is filled with alcohol, tobacco, drug use, gambling, and sexual deviancy, among other vices. 
The reality is that each and every one of us as humans has the innate NEED, call it an instinct if you will, to find love and happiness in our lives. Too many people mistake SEX for love. These two are NOT the same, however true pure LOVE WILL lead to a better sex life.


I think apathy and materialism are the antithesis of real love. Many people are fearful of finding love because they equate the feeling with negativity. Let me explain. Men in particular are fearful of finding real love because there is a social financial expectation from American women. The MAJORITY of American women expect fancy gifts like jewelry or romantic dinners for all of these silly Hallmark holidays that are accentuated for mainstream corporate profits, unrealistic expectations, and the overall dissatisfaction and detachment between men and women. 
If we could get past the desire for more and more materialism, past the carnal sexual desires, and move to a state of intimacy and communication, then and only then perhaps we can begin to repair this rift between the genders. Same thing goes for same sex couples as well. We ALL have a love bank that needs to be repaired. Think of it like a piggy bank, except too many people have theirs smashed with a hammer. Love IS the super glue to repair your love piggy bank. 
Also, I think a lot of people are addicted to relationships (notice how I did NOT say love here). It seems to me that a lot of people, both men and women are addicted to the IDEA of being in a relationship, mainly for financial stability it seems, but are NOT actually interested in the person they are with (EVERYONE has problems and issues, that IS part of being human). I think the word "love" itself has been thrown around too much by fly-by-night relationships. What is worse is that these same people that throw this word around casually are ONLY trying to fill a void in their own persona. The ONLY way to have true love in your life is to first and foremost love the man or woman in the mirror!! If you can't even look in the mirror without disgust... how on Earth do you plan on making someone else happy or feel loved??? Happiness, similar to love is obviously NOT a universal experience. Many people do not even recognize the signs of happiness or love when they are faced with it. Loving someone does NOT mean that you have to be all glossy-googly-eyed at one another 24/7. Love does NOT need constant affirmation (insecurity DOES). No wonder people feel disconnected with the idea of love when the person who said that says that they love you is the one who hurts you the most. It doesn't have to be this way.


I am gonna end this blog in a moment, but I want you to think about being KIND to one another. You don't have to be in an intimate romantic relationship to feel or give love out to others. Sharing kindness, empathy, and happiness with others (even strangers) IS the key to a happy life. There is a harmony and homeostasis in the world, so please understand that there is no love without the opposite feelings of fear, hate, and insecurity. We ALL have to experience strife and adversity to have a basis for comparison so we will appreciate the good times. Learn from the bad, take the good and become a better person. Find the middle road, even if you don't believe the teachings of the Buddha or the Bible.
Also remember that you do NOT need a special holiday to spread love and joy to others. Make today, tomorrow, and EVERY other day your day to lift your fellow man and loved ones UP rather than pulling them down with insecurity, fear, and hatred.
This has been the Quiet Mouse. Keep the love alive by being a better person. Love is NOT asking for more material possessions or receiving, but love is about GIVING and reciprocating, NOT Hallmark holidays!
Peace. Love. Respect. Truth.

My Cats Worship the Refrigerator

Hello my friends and welcome back to another edition of the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back.
Today I want to bring a funny light to animal behavior, namely cats once again.

Have you ever noticed how aloof cats are sometimes? Often it seems that they only want your attention when THEY want it, and on many occasions this is at an inopportune time for us human slaves, such as when we are making dinner. Inevitably it seems that as soon as you open the refrigerator, the cats come around...
Or sometimes it is when you open a can of tuna. THEN they want your undivided attention, clawing their way up your clothing leaving little holes as they go, all the way to climbing down your arm to reach the tuna treat.
However, it seems that most of the time, like bad kitties, they just jump up on the counter and take what they think to be their property already. Meow!! Meow!! Meow!!
I think that cats must worship the fridge because it is the only place in the house that cats cannot readily get into lacking the proper higher order opposable thumbs that humans and primates possess.

I guess to the point, I don't mind giving the fuzzy little monsters a treat on occasion. I even have them trained in a very Pavlovian way to come to me when I whistle loudly because they believe they will get a treat. MOST of the time this is correct and they are positively reinforced in their behavior. Maybe for my psychology class I will write about cats, lol...

This has been the Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Meow.

Public Pajamas

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back, this is your  blog host, the enigmatic, one and ONLY Quiet Mouse!!
(by the way, I do NOT know who these pics are of, I just found them on Google, lol)

Today I want to talk about people that wear pajamas out in public. It has been recently brought to my attention, due to my attendance in college classes, how many people (especially women) wear their pajamas out in public.
It is not really my personal business what people do or do not do, but for the sake of my blogs, I feel the need to provide a certain level of social commentary from time to time. THIS seems to be a growing issue.
Here's the thing... I understand that people have hectic lives filled with drama and busy work schedules, etc... BUT... looking like you just rolled out of bed is REALLY TRASHY!! I don't think it really takes a whole lot of effort to throw on some jeans and a t-shirt rather than looking like you were rode hard and put away wet, OR go out looking like a Wal-Mart trailer trash reject. Perhaps you should keep your fat, toothless ass at home???
Besides the minimal lack of effort it takes to make yourself mildly presentable, I believe that there should be, or maybe there is a social faux pas about looking so lazily out in public. What is worse is that there are people who even pay a lot of money to look like they just rolled out of bed.

It is my belief that pajamas should be worn in the bedroom and NOT out in public. If you just can't get up in the morning, then perhaps you should go to sleep earlier??? Do your laundry???
There is one thing to wear sweats in public if you are going to work out, but the pajamas... REALLY?
Have these people just given up on being socially acceptable? The SAME people are generally the ones bitching and complaining because they are lonely and can't get a man... well, lady, that could be because you look like SHIT! You look like you just don't care!
Don't get me wrong, I am all about the naturalistic look of women, but there IS such thing as a personal standard. Some MAY look good with the pajama look, but the fact is that the majority of people look like dorks wearing their pj's out in public.

Another opinion would be that people stopped caring since so many people are OUT of work. But please understand this. Showing a little bit of self respect and dressing in some clothes that are not all wrinkled and shabby does wonders for your self esteem. Plus, people treat you differently based upon your appearance, or LACK THEREOF. If you look like a piece of crap out in public, people are NOT going to show you the same level of respect as if you are dressed for success and look like you are ready to knuckle down and be productive. This can be said of the work environment, social environment, and even the school environment. I firmly believe that the teacher will take your educational success more seriously if you look like you WANT to be there. This does NOT include wearing pajamas that make it look like you are ready for BED, NOT ready to LEARN.

To conclude, the POINT is to NOT look trashy. If you LOOK trashy, guess what? You're gonna start to FEEL trashy. Set yourself up for success, NOT failure by dressing appropriately for the given situation. If you are sitting around the house doing jack shit... feel free to wear your jammies and laze about freely. Places like Wal-Mart or the grocery store is NOT the place where people want to see your camel toe or love handles poking out of your pajamas. Dress like you actually CARE about yourself. You will be amazed at how much better people will treat you if you just ACT like a member of the same society as the rest of us who DO take the time to at least put on pants and a shirt. It doesn't have to be a 3 piece suit with tie to look good, but rather it only takes a minimal amount of effort. People just need to stop being lazy and TRY.
This has been the Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Truth. Respect YOURSELF and OTHERS!!

Inspiration ON DEMAND

Hello and welcome back to another blog from yours truly, the Quiet Mouse.
Today I am going to serve up a quick blog that I hope will inspire others to learn and go back to school.
This last semester (the winter term) I started back into college after a 14 year absence from the academic world. Believe me when I say that going to school at 31 is much more difficult than when I was 18, when knowledge seemed to flow and be stored that much easier. Not only did I start back to school, but I did it with emphasis and a high class load. I took 4 classes: Math, English, Intercultural Communications and Sci-fi/Fantasy writing.

I just got my grades back last week and was enthused to find that I made 3 A's and 1 B for a 3.8 GPA. This is the FIRST time EVER that I have made an A in English class!! That excited me by itself, believe me. However, I was even more excited when I found out I made the Vice President's honor roll. Out of the 15,000 students attending Clark college, only 1,033 made honor roll, so I am supremely proud of this achievement as I placed in the top 7% of all students this past semester.

Am I proud... YES! Am I gloating... NO!
I am hoping to inspire others that I know to reach higher and let you know that YOU CAN DO IT TOO!! Now don't let me fool you, this was no easy task. It took a lot of hours of studying, reading, writing papers and lots of homework. My point though is that after 14 years of being out of college, I DID IT! It took me turning off the television and putting down the cell phone, ignoring the lure of the internet for periods of time... all which were still available when I got my homework  done. I made it a point to NOT procrastinate and to do my homework FIRST, before play time. I like to work hard AND play hard. You TOO can do this if you put your mind to it. You TOO can go back to school and be successful whether you just want to gain higher education or switch up your skill set for a new line of work, NOW is the time!!

I would highly encourage ANY and ALL my readers to consider sharpening your minds (as well as your bodies) and to THINK about returning to college. I personally LOVE the medical field and have chosen NURSING as my vocation of choice. If this in demand field is NOT for you, then there are hundreds of other options... hell, they'd probably let you major in Playstation if you knew how to bullshit your way through it. Regardless of what path you chose, be it an engineer, nurse, photographer, artist, musician, computer programmer, or whatever you decide on, I firmly believe that it is IN YOUR HANDS and within your grasp to not only have a job that pays well, but also to have a CAREER and a VOCATION that you LOVE to do.

Wouldn't it be great to go to work every morning and ENJOY being there? Wouldn't it be great to LOVE your work so much that it didn't really FEEL like you were working at all?
All this IS possible. As I said before, it DOES take effort and determination, but is well worth it!

I hope that maybe this blog has inspired you to reach for the stars and find your own personal greatness!! I LOVE COLLEGE! I LOVE TO LEARN! I LOVE TO INSPIRE OTHERS!
This has been the Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Knowledge. Truth. Education. Empathy. Honesty.