John F. Harris wrote the following article. I liked it and decided to put it on my blog.
"Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds. No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering. As Washington returns to work from the Thanksgiving holiday, there are several anti-Obama storylines gaining momentum.
Here are six storylines Obama needs to worry about:
1) He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money
He misjudged the anger in middle America about bailouts with weak and sporadic public explanations of why he believed they were necessary.
2) Too much Leonard Nimoy
People used to make fun of Bill Clinton’s misty-eyed, raspy-voiced claims that, “I feel your pain.” Both Maureen Dowd in The New York Times and Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post have likened Obama to Star Trek’s Mr. Spock. The Spock imagery has been especially strong during the extended review Obama has undertaken of Afghanistan policy. He’ll announce the results on Tuesday. The speech’s success will be judged not only on the logic of the presentation but on whether Obama communicates in a more visceral way what progress looks like and why it is worth achieving. No soldier wants to take a bullet in the name of nuance.
3)That’s the Chicago Way
This is a storyline that’s likely taken root more firmly in Washington than around the country. The rap is that his West Wing is dominated by brass-knuckled pols. The examples of Chicago-style politics include their delight in public battles with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The lesson that many Washington insiders have drawn is that Obama wants to buy off the people he can and bowl over those he can’t.
4) He’s a pushover
It seems a bit contradictory, to be sure. But it’s a perception that began when Obama several times laid down lines — then let people cross them with seeming impunity. He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.
That line belonged to George H.W. Bush, excoriating Democrat Michael Dukakis in 1988. It would be hugely unwelcome for Obama if the perception took root that he is comfortable with a relative decline in U.S. influence or position in the world. The reviews of Obama’s recent Asia trip were harsh. His peculiar bow to the emperor of Japan, and his lots-of-velvet, not-much-iron approach to China had substantive implications.
He wants to be President of the World than President of the United States, a critique that will be heard more in December as he stops in Oslo to pick up his Nobel Prize.
5) President Pelosi
No figure in Obama’s Washington, including Obama, has had more success in advancing his will than the speaker of the House, despite public approval ratings that hover in the range of Dick Cheney’s. The great hazard for Obama is if Republicans or journalists conclude that Pelosi’s achievements are more impressive than Obama’s or come at his expense. Obama has allowed the speaker to become more nearly an equal — and far from a subordinate.
6) He’s in love with the man in the mirror
Does Obama have more than his share of self-regard? It’s a common theme of Washington buzz that Obama is over-exposed. He gives interviews on his sports obsessions to ESPN, cracks wise with Leno and Letterman, discusses his fitness with Men’s Health, discusses his marriage in a joint interview with first lady Michelle Obama for The New York Times. A photo the other day caught him leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ featuring himself.
Obama’s best hope of nipping bad storylines is to replace them with good ones rooted in public perceptions of his effectiveness.
11/29/09
Tiger Woods is a Country Music Song!
A bunch of us were talking about the Tiger Woods so called accident. All the women agreed on exactly what happened to ole Tiger. His wife got pissed off because of all the gossip about him having an affair with some woman in Washington. The National Enquirer ran a story about it a week or so ago. And you can say what you want about the NE, but they are usually right about their stories. And are usually early in getting their stories in print. Anyway all the women in the group agree that Mrs. Tiger got pissed with him about the affair, things got hot and heavy and she pulled out one of his golf clubs and whacked him a couple of good ones. Tiger realized that golf clubs are really clubs and it really hurt and if she got the right spot and the right angle she could kill him. SO he did what any self respecting adulterer does . . . he ran. He jumped in the car and all the while Mrs. Tiger is bashing the hell out of the car. He backs out, and starts up the street and is so busy looking behind him to see if she's still chasing him with that club that he smashes into a tree. And when she sees him all banged up from both her and the car she decides she better not kill him cause after all he is a pretty good meal ticket. So both of them keep quiet about the whole thing. And by keeping quiet they think that the press is just going to ignore the whole thing? I don't think so. A married man. A tabloid mistress. A potentially scorned wife smashing the windows of his car. Tiger Woods is a country music song. But regardless, all of the women who have discuss it think that Mrs. Tiger beat the shit out of Tiger. And she probably did get his attention on the subject of screwing around on her. And if he was screwing around on her he deserved what he got. I guess a golf club is as good as a skillet in a case like this.
11/28/09
11/26/09
Wal-Mart Lied
I wandered into the Ocean Springs Wal-Mart the day before Thanksgiving. There was a near riot going on back in the meat department. Not being one to miss a disturbance I hurried back to check it out. Standing in the middle of a crowd of tired looking women was a tall muscular man dressed as if he just left a construction site. He was holding a turkey in one hand and pointing his finger in the face of the store manager. The conversation went something like this.
"What is this shit? You advertised these turkeys for fifty cents a pound and these are 98 cents a pound! Where are the 50 cent ones?" the shopped said loudly.
"Well, we adjusted the price somewhat," the manager whispered.
"Adjusted my ass! You upped the price after you lured all these people in here with that 'feed a family of eight for $20.' bull shit! That's false advertising. Now remark these turkeys! I want my 50 cent a pound bird. Now!"
The manager really wanted to be somewhere else. He kept motioning for the man to lower his voice. That backfired when the construction worked got a little louder. By now there was a good crowd gathered.
"Well sir. We will be happy to sell you a turkey at 50 cents a pound if you will just come to the front check out," the manager said.
"No, that's not going to shut me up. All these people want their turkey for that price. Wal-Mart should be ashamed of itself. Now mark them down like they suppose to be!"
And he did. I don't know for how long they stayed at 50 cents after the group left. Wal-Mart should be ashamed. Bunch of cheaters. I don't know if this was just the Ocean Springs store or all Wal-Marts. It was an example of holiday greed and was disgusting. Just served to remind me of why I hate that store.
"What is this shit? You advertised these turkeys for fifty cents a pound and these are 98 cents a pound! Where are the 50 cent ones?" the shopped said loudly.
"Well, we adjusted the price somewhat," the manager whispered.
"Adjusted my ass! You upped the price after you lured all these people in here with that 'feed a family of eight for $20.' bull shit! That's false advertising. Now remark these turkeys! I want my 50 cent a pound bird. Now!"
The manager really wanted to be somewhere else. He kept motioning for the man to lower his voice. That backfired when the construction worked got a little louder. By now there was a good crowd gathered.
"Well sir. We will be happy to sell you a turkey at 50 cents a pound if you will just come to the front check out," the manager said.
"No, that's not going to shut me up. All these people want their turkey for that price. Wal-Mart should be ashamed of itself. Now mark them down like they suppose to be!"
And he did. I don't know for how long they stayed at 50 cents after the group left. Wal-Mart should be ashamed. Bunch of cheaters. I don't know if this was just the Ocean Springs store or all Wal-Marts. It was an example of holiday greed and was disgusting. Just served to remind me of why I hate that store.
11/24/09
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SANTA ROSA ISLAND/PENSACOLA
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Being a BItch. . . and enjoying it!
Yeah, I know of several folks here who are probably referring to me as the crazy, old MEAN bitch who lives in THAT building. They are right. What they see as mean I see as standing up for myself. There was the woman who was banging on the door across from us on a Sunday morning at 6 am. I ask what the hell was her problem to which she answered, 'they won't open the door'. I told her that she was waking up the entire building. She said I should close my door. I said she should close her mouth, before I came out in my thin nylon gown and closed it for her. She shut up and stopped knocking at least for a while. Then there is Pretty Boy that I always make fun off. Now there are the six boys between age 8 and 13 who played football on the little strip of grass between buildings from noon until dark yesterday. That puts them within about 12 feet of my patio. Playing wasn't the problem. All the screaming, yelling and bouncing the football off the building was the problem. And the fact that the dogs did not stop barking at them for 5 hours. I had the daughter call the office. They workers told them to go to the huge playground in the complex. They were leaving then anyway so they left. They were back today. So I didn't call the office. I told them what the guy said, and suggested they do it. One said they were told to be quiet not go to the playground. SO I told him that they were not being quiet and I could just call the office and check. They left. Then There is the guy who comes out with his lab and half breed mutt and chases the ducks, never picks up poop and allows his dog to come up to my dogs who are on their patio. (And that lab can shit like a horse.) SO Stretch (who thinks he can take that lab down) and I go out and Stretch raises hell. The stupid lab pops over to the fence and the guy strolls up grinning. He always looks either sleepy or high. I look him and his dogs and ask if they aren't suppose to be on a leash. His smile fades and he ambles off to his building. Yeah, I'm getting a reputation. AND you know what? I don't give a shit!
11/23/09
11/22/09
If left unattended. . .
Hunting season opened on Saturaday. And any man who had to be in a store with a woman was probably out of sorts. And women probably didn't enjoy it either. It's sort of like the shirt I saw the other day that said, "Shopping with a man is like hunting with a game warden." This is a list of some of the things bored men have been known to do when wondering alone around a store.
1) Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people's carts when they weren' looking.
2) Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3) Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, 'Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away'. This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted with a union grievance, causing management to lose time and costing the company money.
4) Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&Ms on layaway.
5) Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
6)Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers they could use the tent if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department to which twenty children obliged.
7) When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?' EMTs were called.
8) Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose.
9) While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were.
10) Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the 'Mission Impossible' theme. 9) In the auto department, he practiced his 'Madonna look' by using different sizes of funnels as boobs.
11) Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled 'PICK ME! PICK ME!'
12)When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!'
13) Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here.'
11/19/09
Who's Minding The Back Door?
The boom that rattled windows in Pascagoula and Moss Point, swamped police phone lines and brought entire neighborhoods of people out of their homes to see what was happening remains a mystery. Keesler Air Force base told city police around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday the boom was caused by military jets on a training exercise in the Gulf, but that the jets were not from Keesler.
On Wednesday security at the base reconfirmed the jets had contacted the tower Tuesday night and were told there was a training exercise. But what jets, and whose jets were flying at supersonic speeds over the Gulf at night? Keesler didn’t know. Pensacola Naval Air Station’s Air Operations on the base said they weren’t flying anything fast enough to cause a sonic boom at present and suggested only the Air Force would have the
F-15 or fighter jets that could fit that bill. They said Eglin AFB in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., was the best bet. As it turns out, Eglin is the base that controls military training ranges — airspace over the Gulf of Mexico used for military maneuvers in this part of the Gulf. (Photo shows the cone formed when a plane breaks the sound barrier.)
Sgt. Brian Jones with Eglin’s public relations office looked at the schedule for Tuesday night and said, “In our air space at those times all we had in the area were A-10s, and they’re not fast enough to break the sound barrier.”
He said the A-10s were firing guns, but did not discharge any heavy explosives during the maneuver. Jones said he had no way of knowing if there had been a jet outside Eglin’s airspace.
There were four booms on Tuesday. One at 8 p.m. rattled the east side of Jackson County all the way up to the rural northern regions, according to reports. Then there was a series of three booms about 9 p.m., felt and heard in parts of Ocean Springs and Gautier to the west and in central Jackson County, as well as Pascagoula and Moss Point in the east. Then on Wednesday evening at about 8 p.m. at least one boom was felt in Ocean Springs, Vancleave and Pascagoula. In Ocean Springs Road near Interstate 10 the 9 p.m. event on Tuesday shook walls and made roofs rattle. It moved pictures on walls and caused dogs to bark. In Pascagoula whole neighborhoods came out of their houses and looked toward the Chevron Refinery. The boom set off home security alarms. And Capt. Shannon Broom with Pascagoula police said so many calls came in to the department it overwhelmed the phone lines and caused them to temporarily shut down.
Broom said Wednesday if training exercises were planned in the Gulf with jets that might create sonic booms, he’d like to have been warned ahead of time.
“They’re the federal government, I guess they don’t have to notify us, but it would have been nice,” Broom said.
The U.S. is at war, so could there have been a super-secret maneuver?
Jones at Eglin said, “I’d tell you if there was something, and then I’d tell you we couldn’t talk about it.”
So that would be a “no.”
The Air National Guard in Gulfport wasn’t flying.
All the industry in Jackson County, including the refinery, reported in to the state Department of Environmental Quality and the city of Pascagoula that they were all clear, no incidents.
Pascagoula police checked with the U.S. Coast Guard. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County said sometimes, with the right atmospheric conditions, rocket testing can bounce off cloud cover and travel a great distance. But there was no rocket testing Tuesday night. That’s scheduled for Friday. NASA at the Houston Center, which also controls airspace over the western part of the Gulf, said it had nothing going on. And the U.S. Geological Survey said although there had been 750 earthquakes in the United States in the past week, none was in or around the Gulf.
Earthquake? Isn’t that a little far-fetched? Well, a spokesman for the National Earthquake Information Center in Denver said earthquakes can cause noise when they hit.
But after listening to a description of the noise as a boom, he said the earthquake noise usually comes from the rattling rather than before the shaking. So two Air Force Bases, One Naval Station, NASA in Houston, the US Geological Survey group and other agencies have no idea who is flying at supersonic speeds out over the Gulf? The rest of us are all waiting to see what happens tonight.(Some info from The Sun Herald)
On Wednesday security at the base reconfirmed the jets had contacted the tower Tuesday night and were told there was a training exercise. But what jets, and whose jets were flying at supersonic speeds over the Gulf at night? Keesler didn’t know. Pensacola Naval Air Station’s Air Operations on the base said they weren’t flying anything fast enough to cause a sonic boom at present and suggested only the Air Force would have the
F-15 or fighter jets that could fit that bill. They said Eglin AFB in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., was the best bet. As it turns out, Eglin is the base that controls military training ranges — airspace over the Gulf of Mexico used for military maneuvers in this part of the Gulf. (Photo shows the cone formed when a plane breaks the sound barrier.)Sgt. Brian Jones with Eglin’s public relations office looked at the schedule for Tuesday night and said, “In our air space at those times all we had in the area were A-10s, and they’re not fast enough to break the sound barrier.”
He said the A-10s were firing guns, but did not discharge any heavy explosives during the maneuver. Jones said he had no way of knowing if there had been a jet outside Eglin’s airspace.
There were four booms on Tuesday. One at 8 p.m. rattled the east side of Jackson County all the way up to the rural northern regions, according to reports. Then there was a series of three booms about 9 p.m., felt and heard in parts of Ocean Springs and Gautier to the west and in central Jackson County, as well as Pascagoula and Moss Point in the east. Then on Wednesday evening at about 8 p.m. at least one boom was felt in Ocean Springs, Vancleave and Pascagoula. In Ocean Springs Road near Interstate 10 the 9 p.m. event on Tuesday shook walls and made roofs rattle. It moved pictures on walls and caused dogs to bark. In Pascagoula whole neighborhoods came out of their houses and looked toward the Chevron Refinery. The boom set off home security alarms. And Capt. Shannon Broom with Pascagoula police said so many calls came in to the department it overwhelmed the phone lines and caused them to temporarily shut down.
Broom said Wednesday if training exercises were planned in the Gulf with jets that might create sonic booms, he’d like to have been warned ahead of time.
“They’re the federal government, I guess they don’t have to notify us, but it would have been nice,” Broom said.
The U.S. is at war, so could there have been a super-secret maneuver?
Jones at Eglin said, “I’d tell you if there was something, and then I’d tell you we couldn’t talk about it.”
So that would be a “no.”
The Air National Guard in Gulfport wasn’t flying.
All the industry in Jackson County, including the refinery, reported in to the state Department of Environmental Quality and the city of Pascagoula that they were all clear, no incidents.
Pascagoula police checked with the U.S. Coast Guard. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County said sometimes, with the right atmospheric conditions, rocket testing can bounce off cloud cover and travel a great distance. But there was no rocket testing Tuesday night. That’s scheduled for Friday. NASA at the Houston Center, which also controls airspace over the western part of the Gulf, said it had nothing going on. And the U.S. Geological Survey said although there had been 750 earthquakes in the United States in the past week, none was in or around the Gulf.
Earthquake? Isn’t that a little far-fetched? Well, a spokesman for the National Earthquake Information Center in Denver said earthquakes can cause noise when they hit.
But after listening to a description of the noise as a boom, he said the earthquake noise usually comes from the rattling rather than before the shaking. So two Air Force Bases, One Naval Station, NASA in Houston, the US Geological Survey group and other agencies have no idea who is flying at supersonic speeds out over the Gulf? The rest of us are all waiting to see what happens tonight.(Some info from The Sun Herald)
11/18/09
Just a strolling
I usually watch the Fox news network because I get queasy when I watch the other networks kissing Obama's ass. Tonight I was too lazy to pick up the remote and I watched ABC with Charles Gibson. I steeled myself for the usual sugar coated dose of bullshit. To my surprise I watched nearly all the reports showing the negative side of government events.
There was the one about the group reporting that women should stop doing self breast exams and that they should wait until age 50 for their first mammogram. The government was rapidity trying to back pedal out of that one. The reporter questioned if the reason for the suggestions was to delay detection and save money. After all if your die from breast cancer you can't spend money on treatment and meds. All the medical people who were interviewed were very strongly opposed to the recommendations and the government moved away from it.
The next story was about the government website that had reported an increase in jobs. However the site had evidently fabricated jobs and had even faked the zip codes of the none existent districts where the jobs were suppose to be. The Democrats said it was simply a matter of a few mistakes. Yeah, there have been mistakes all right. Back at the election.
In the next report there was information that 43% of Americans are overweight. Then it went on and on about the cost of caring for the plus sized citizens. It seemed that if you get rid of the fat folks the government can save a lot of money. (Beginning death panels??) Us fatties spend on average $8,315 on health care. Of course they were lumping in all kinds of illnesses into the study including heart disease, diabetics etc. According to them being fat is the root of all evil. (And here I was thinking it was smoking!) Don't be surprised if the Government herds all us fat folks onto a fat farm complete with wire fences and cattle prods and control our food. I suppose they will make us exercise too. Or they might just tax us more. Maybe a certain amount of money per pound. The Obama bunch does like that tax money. Following this report came the news that test on Egyptian mummies detected the presence of heart disease and high blood pressure. I wonder how much their health care cost?
There was the usual stuff about the terrorist trial in NYC as the Obama bunch bull doze over what the people want. Could it be that the dog and pony show will result in the terrorist not being found guilty? Is that what this blockhead administration wants?
There was one report on Sarah Palin. (I hope she gives Katie Couric a back eye sometime.) She was discussing profiling. She said if we had profiled the killer at Fort Hood and not been so concerned about being politically correct those 13 people might still be alive. I think the old word for 'profiling' was 'common sense'. If a person is innocent then who cares if they are profiled? If 62 year old, fat women, with short grey hair and green eyes were blowing up building I would expect to be singled out or profiled. And if I was innocent I wouldn't give a shit if I was.
And where was our great leader while all this was happening in the United States? Well, since he never saw a jet plane he didn't want to climb on he was in Asia looking for someone to bow to. The last piece of news showed Obama taking a stroll on top of the Great Wall of China.
HOT MEN
The star of the "Twilight" vampire flick was beat out by Johnny Depp to win People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" honors. It was the second time Depp, the edgy actor who plays Captain Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, got the nod from People.
And senior editor Kate Coyne predicted it won't be the last time for "the king of cool with the killer cheekbones." "Johnny Depp was someone who was sexy 10 years ago," Coyne said on CBS's "Early Show." "He'll be sexy 10 years from now. He's someone who appeals to multiple generations of women." And YES HE DOES!!!! He is one fine looking man. Just cause I'm old doesn't mean I can't enjoy looking. Depp was a dark horse to win this year. His biggest movie was "Public Enemies," which did okay at the box office.
And senior editor Kate Coyne predicted it won't be the last time for "the king of cool with the killer cheekbones." "Johnny Depp was someone who was sexy 10 years ago," Coyne said on CBS's "Early Show." "He'll be sexy 10 years from now. He's someone who appeals to multiple generations of women." And YES HE DOES!!!! He is one fine looking man. Just cause I'm old doesn't mean I can't enjoy looking. Depp was a dark horse to win this year. His biggest movie was "Public Enemies," which did okay at the box office. Matt Bomer the actor from Houston Texas who stars on White Collar was named Sexiest Rising Star. 
I agree. That's another good looker. I like the show he is on. It's different and somewhat intelligent and he makes the watching easy.
I agree. That's another good looker. I like the show he is on. It's different and somewhat intelligent and he makes the watching easy.The British actor who stars in the Twilight movies was wanted by some of the younger set but he was hit by a string of rumours earlier this year (09) which suggested the cast and crew on the vampire films were offended by the star's stinky body odour. And now the heart-throb has confirmed the stories - admitting he rarely washes his clothes because he is constantly living out of a suitcase. He said, "It gets to the point where even I can't stand the air around me. My personal hygiene - it's so disgusting! 
Really, it's that I have very few clothes that I like and I'm travelling all the time so I can't really get any more. And when I shake my head there is the cloud of dandruff that I just tell them to brush off." UGH!! I like good looking CLEAN men. So 'Edward' go take a shower! Oh yeah, we could have gotten this on the front of People.
Really, it's that I have very few clothes that I like and I'm travelling all the time so I can't really get any more. And when I shake my head there is the cloud of dandruff that I just tell them to brush off." UGH!! I like good looking CLEAN men. So 'Edward' go take a shower! Oh yeah, we could have gotten this on the front of People.
11/17/09
#@*$&*!!
Nothing else needs to be said.
This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. (AP Photo)
These folks play solitaire, get on Facebook check baseball scores on the tax payers dime.
AND HERE IS ONE TO TWIST YOUR TWINKIE -- if you don't know how to curse yet, " I am certain you will after you read this one " !
According to the Trustees for the Social Security Administration,
"THERE WILL NOT BE A COST OF LIVING INCREASE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. ADDITIONALLY THEY WILL RAISE YOUR CO-PAY FOR YOUR RX MEDICARE BENEFITS"!
They, the Congress (BOTH "REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS TOGETHER") say no increase is warranted because of the losses in gross national product and other cute things..
NOW HERE SPORTS FANS THIS IS THE ONE THAT WILL FLIP YOU OUT!! --
THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS FUNDING TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS-- LET ME REPEAT THAT AMOUNT.. SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT... $24,000,000.00 DOLLARS FOR NEW ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS PROCESSING FOR OUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS!!
THEY ARE OBTAINING THESE FUNDS andI QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM THE SOCIAL SECURITY WEBSITE...............
"THIS MONEY WILL BE COME FROM THE SAVINGS TO BE GENERATED FROM WITHHOLDING"COST OF LIVING INCREASES FOR 2010 & 2011 in SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THE ELDERLY AND A $2.00 INCREASE ON ALL MEDICARE RX BENEFIT CO-PAY"
Please excuse my FRENCH, But do the words "S.O.B. M.F." ring a bell ?
Please pass this to ALL your friends and have them "PROTEST TO THE IDIOTS WE ELECTED TO CONGRESS" who by the way, have just voted themselves ANOTHER 3% SALARY INCREASE!!!
We must put a stop to this outright thievery! It is THE CONGRESS AND THE SENATE, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS, WE CAN'T FIRE THEM, BUT WE SURE AS HECK CAN NOT RE-ELECT THEM, and WE CAN IMPEACH THEM or DEMAND RECALL ELECTIONS!!! HOW ABOUT WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND DUMP THESE CLOWNS.
Wally World
A turkey dinner for eight as low as $20? When I saw that ad I thought it was just some more of the stores' hype. But it seems that they are actually offering the meal's ingredients for twenty dollars. Of course a lot of cooks are going to want to make homemade dressing, but I'm not one of them. I like to use stove top stuffing and dress it up to suit my taste. And I like the three cans of veggies. Yeah! I cook out of a can too. The only item on the list that I don't like is the pumpkin roll cake. I'm not a big fan of pumpkin . Plus I have got to have a spiral cut ham. Anyway it looks like Wal-mart is actually offering a pretty good deal. According to a survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation, last year’s average cost of a turkey was roughly $1.19 per pound. Beginning today, select Grade A turkeys are available for 40 cents per pound at Wal-mart. A turkey for about five bucks is a pretty good deal if one can tear themselves away from the Butterball aisle. These gobblers are part of Wal-mart’s $20 Thanksgiving menu guaranteeing family favorites will be on the dinner table this holiday season. Walmart’s $20 Thanksgiving feast includes:One 12-pound Grade A turkey
Three 11 to 15.5-ounce cans Green Giant vegetables
Two 14-ounce cans Ocean Spray cranberry sauce
Three 6-ounce boxes of Stove Top stuffing
One 5-pound bag of red potatoes
One 12-count package of Sara Lee dinner rolls
One 22-ounce pumpkin roll cake
11/16/09
Crafty??
The family has decided to give homemade gifts this year. Now that is fine if I could think of something to make. I have not come up with much of anything. I looked on-line and see a lot of stuff that just looks like dust collectors. There are members of the family who have the talent to do this without much trouble. Then there are those of us who haven't got a clue. I found so called bath salts made with Epson Salts and then there was a section on gifts made from ladies' personal products. There were the Maxi-Pad Slippers:
Materials Needed:
4 Maxi-Pads
Tape or Glue
Items to Embellish
Now aren't those cute.
Materials Needed:4 Maxi-Pads
Tape or Glue
Items to Embellish
Now aren't those cute.
But I really liked the Tampon Wind Flute. Check out the materials below. I don't have a picture so you can use your imigiination.
Tampon Wind Flute
Materials
3 Tampax cardboard vending tubes
5 Tampax tampon cardboard applicators (unused)
Thin cardboard
Fine-point marker
Utility knife
Hot glue gun
16 tampon strings
Pitch pipe, piano or electronic tuner
3 Tampax cardboard vending tubes
5 Tampax tampon cardboard applicators (unused)
Thin cardboard
Fine-point marker
Utility knife
Hot glue gun
16 tampon strings
Pitch pipe, piano or electronic tuner
Cut the applicators to various lengths, put together side by side with the string and glue. Tune and play.
How isn't that unique?
The gifts for guys are few and far between. But I did find this one. It's a necktie made from Duct Tape. Pretty sharp, huh?
SO! You all get ready for some interesting gifts this year. There is no telling what you will find hiding under the tree.
SO! You all get ready for some interesting gifts this year. There is no telling what you will find hiding under the tree.11/15/09
O-bow-ma
Obama is back to his old bowing games, shaming the nation with his obsessive stooping. Here he is with Japan's Emperor Akihito, bowing almost to the ground like a shogun-era peasant before a guy whose dad bombed Pearl Harbor. Then he followed up the deep bow by jigglin' his noggin' like a drunken bobble-head to the Empress. My dad fought the Japs in the South Pacific in WWII. He never had any use for the Japs and never forgot that they wanted him and his shipmates dead! I don't intend to forget either. It makes me sick to see the scarecrow looking ass kisser bow to them. It should make all Americans sick to their stomachs whether they are an Obama supporter or not. Why can't he stop bowing. Damn! Hey O-bow-ma, pat them on the ass, lock lips with them, give them a gang sign, give them a thumbs up, head butt them or do that terrorist looking fist thing you do with Michelle, but STOP BOWING!!!! I know he's stupid, and the country is (hopefully) beginning to see what a dub Obama is and you would think someone would tell him that bowing to all these people is not CORRECT for the leader of the greatest country on earth (if he doesn't fuck that up). When they see him coming I can hear them snickering and other leaders saying, "here come the groveller-in-chief of the USA".11/14/09
Two magazines, Country Living and
Ebony /Jet did surveys on ......
"WHAT DO PEOPLE FEAR MOST?" The results were interesting, to say the least.. Country Living magazine's top three answers were:
1. Nuclear war / terrorist attack in U.S. .
2. Child/ spouse dying of terminal illness.
3. Terminal illness affecting self. Ebony / Jet magazine's top three answers were:
1. Ghosts
2. Dogs
3. Registered mail
No Kidding! These are the people who elected Obama, what would you expect !!!! AND TO GO ALONG WITH THIS, 2 QUOTES: ONE PITIFUL, ONE GREAT!
"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me, as we try to change it.." -- Barack Obama
''Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' -- John Wayne
11/13/09
WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?
What is with all the blogs writers!!!?? You all wrote good stuff, got us all addicted to reading the blogs with morning our coffee and then you just stopped. It's a little like being broke and out of cigarettes. You start to really need one. I realize that all you folks are busy (blag, blag, blag), but damn this is just not fucking right!!! I write on this silly thing that no one reads. I know this since I have not had a comment on this dribble in 6 damned months. You good writers with something good to say and the skill to say it just throw up your hands and walk away. Three of these blogs are from the Houston area, but I won't call any names. It is really starting to get on my last nerve. Maybe blogs have gone out of style and I missed it. Since I hate Facebook I am sort of left in the dark. You guys are like Hollywood actors who wanted a fan base and then when you get it you sneak away whispering 'I vont to be alone.' Like I say I'm starting to get really pissed about it.
11/8/09
IDA
Talk about mixed messages! The Weather Channel says that Hurricane Ida is a small tight storm and it not going to amount to much. They say this as they run all the preparation notices on the bottom of the screen. They are seriously scared. Scared to make a prediction of any kind. They are also experts at scary reporting. They like to show past hurricane damage and predict dire events. Looks like it's going to be a lot of rain and some wind, but not a lot else. After all they didn't send Jim C. That's a sure thing that it's all gonna be OK. Local weather says lot of rain, 55 mph winds and seas 8 feet above normal. I check in with the local guys and then watch Weather Channel for more exciting if unrealistic updates. My favorite quote from the Weather Channel guy so far is "It's going to come in somewhere." Ya think??I Wouldn't Be Surprised
I would not be surprised to read this in a paper soon.
Obama abruptly cancelled the November holiday of Thanksgiving Day for all Americans. Calling the November holiday 'really sick' and 'twisted', he said it 'was part of the past, like capitalism, and needs to be left behind.' All federal, state and local employees are expected to report to work as usual. Obama says he never celebrated Thanksgiving growing up."Why would I? I was in Indonesia," he explained. "Besides, I know a turkey when I see one. I know that Thanksgiving was all about stealing land from Native Americans. I think it's a disgrace." said the egoist. The president plans to make a quick tour of several Native American Reservations in Montana and Arizona on the fourth Thursday in November. He plans to bow and ask forgiveness for past grievances and smoke a few peace pipes just for fun.
"If anyone wants to still mark the day, go right ahead." said the president. "Do community work. Work off some of that guilt. Be thankful you have me." he smirked.
11/5/09
A perfect stocking stuffer for active women, GoGirl allows the simple convenience of taking bathroom breaks standing up in situations where restrooms are unfit or nonexistent. You just hold in place and you can spritz all over the lid of a commode just like a man. No more hovering over a john or pee dribbling down your leg. Or you can go out in the bushes and see if you can out distance that big hunk of a guy with the 4 inch thing-a-mi-gig. It's got to be a rush to pee standing up! This useful device will put us woman in the same superior position that men have had for years. And we can just shake it off when we're done. No more penis envy for us girls, we got a GGirl!
11/4/09
PRETTY BOY
I have written about a couple of the characters who live in this apt complex. That is an endless supply of material for anyone wishing to expound on the subject. There was the crazy kid who threw himself into the prickly shrubs chasing baby ducks and who ran around in nothing but a tee shirt while his business flopped in the breeze. He was a good subject. I have decided to write about a couple of the other. This morning while drinking my coffee I spotted a blond man who was walking his dog. At first I thought he was new here and then realized that it was PRETTY BOY. All summer PRETTY BOY has displayed himself for all the women that he thought were drooling over him. He's about 55 to 65, flabby, wrinkled, has thinning hair and false teeth and is filled with himself. Every morning PRETTY BOY always walked to the office, got a paper and strutted back to the apt. And of course he was waaay to good to pick up the piles of stinking dog shit his animal left along the way. He dresses like the younger men who live here, and fancies himself a real lady killer. About 10 am he would head to the pool to tan that droopy body and the we all got to see his pretentious self as he strutted back yet again. On all his struts he refused to smile or speak to anyone. I'm sure that was to add to his mysterious hotness! I guess he's just so far above all us peons that he can't be bothered with the regular folks. Just when I thought the ugly, conceited, bastard couldn't get any sillier, he dyed his hair beach-boy blond. I mean real blond. I suppose it's to hang onto this persona through the winter. Somebody need to tell him it ain't working. He's old and it shows. Worse he's a silly man who is being laughed at behind his back and he's too stupid to get it. Of course I did my part to make him aware of it this am when I burst into gales of laughter and yell to Elle to. "Come look at PRETTY BOY! He's dyed his hair blond!" He scowled at me and stomped up the stairs. Silly shit!11/2/09
Cedar Point
Photos of Eagles which have taken up residence in
Cedar Point which is on Biloxi Back Bay.
Cedar Point which is on Biloxi Back Bay.
11/1/09
GH Halloween Show
After settling on the sofa with a big bag of chips and a coke I was disappointed with the TAPS Halloween show. It was boring and not LIVE. There were live cameras on a few of the places in the location with the big "panic" button for viewers to hit if a ghost was spotted.
They got about half a million hits. Now come on! That's a joke, right? Steve and Tango were suppose to check out the hits on the button. I think they checked about 3 out of the half million. Jason and Grant opted to spend Halloween with their family. Come on guys, Your show is about ghosts, it was Halloween and you were off with the kiddies. Huge let down for loyal fans. All the show covered was the supposed top five shows of the series which the viewers voted on. Those included, the lighthouse in Fla., The Birdcage, and the prison one with the swishing ghost. So five of the six hours were spend watching re-runs. Jason and Grant were taped answering lame questions such as "Why does Jason always drive?" DUH!! Who gives a shit? They were reading from prompters and looked stiff and uncomfortable. They introduced the picks for GH Academy. They were all young, cute, an peppy. What? Older people can't hunt a damn ghost? The TAPS members who bothered to be there were suppose to answer question that were sent on line. About the best part of the show was poor Josh Gates who carried the load for TAPS and when hackers took over the questions that appeared online before SyFy could regain control. I took a shot ofpart of the hackers comments and added below. I wish I had it all. It was pretty funny. I'm still a GH fan and will continue to watch the show. But hope they get their shit together and do better than this.
They got about half a million hits. Now come on! That's a joke, right? Steve and Tango were suppose to check out the hits on the button. I think they checked about 3 out of the half million. Jason and Grant opted to spend Halloween with their family. Come on guys, Your show is about ghosts, it was Halloween and you were off with the kiddies. Huge let down for loyal fans. All the show covered was the supposed top five shows of the series which the viewers voted on. Those included, the lighthouse in Fla., The Birdcage, and the prison one with the swishing ghost. So five of the six hours were spend watching re-runs. Jason and Grant were taped answering lame questions such as "Why does Jason always drive?" DUH!! Who gives a shit? They were reading from prompters and looked stiff and uncomfortable. They introduced the picks for GH Academy. They were all young, cute, an peppy. What? Older people can't hunt a damn ghost? The TAPS members who bothered to be there were suppose to answer question that were sent on line. About the best part of the show was poor Josh Gates who carried the load for TAPS and when hackers took over the questions that appeared online before SyFy could regain control. I took a shot ofpart of the hackers comments and added below. I wish I had it all. It was pretty funny. I'm still a GH fan and will continue to watch the show. But hope they get their shit together and do better than this.
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