Oil On The Water

Politics on the coast is truly amazing. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that fact since this place did host the Dixie Mafia, has a history of past dirty politics and as recently as last year had the May of Gulfport charged with fraud for accepting Katrina money. They will do anything to try to prompt tourism, including hiding their heads in the sand or up their butts. Since the oil rig explosion in the Gulf experts have been saying get ready for an oil spill or for the very real possibility of one. The pipes under the collapsed rig has two leaks. It's dumping oil in the water. BP despite talking a big game is doing virtually nothing. At last report they had two ships out there and are talking about drilling another well to divert the oil. That will take months. Meanwhile there is a spill that seen from the air goes as far as the eye can see. Accu Weather says that it will be near shore by late in the week, and that the area to be affected will reach from Pensacola to South Louisiana. AP reported that the spill is comparable to the 1979 disastrous spill. But the Director of the Sand Beach Authority said yesterday the he didn't think we would be affected. The coast seems to believe their officials. I realize that there is not a lot anyone can do here to prevent this from happening, but at least don't appear so ignorant. At least acknowledge that the giant oily mess is bearing down on us and the sea creatures and birds who live in the waters. At least pull your head out of you butt and stop worrying about the golf tournament that is starting here on Fri. It should stard just in time to greet the oil on the beach. Bet the national media notices.

me and weather

I am starting to see some similarities between myself and the weather here. I woke up at five this morning and the sun was on the horizon, the sky clear and it looked like a nice day was coming. I stayed awake about an hour, feeling pretty good and then dozed back off. I woke up at eight and felt like a big truck hit me and it was raining outside. Every day is like that. You never know what's coming. Each day can bring a new ailment or reactivate an old one. But I guess that's the price for being around a long time and it's better to be here to complain that not.

New Ant and Grasshopper

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building hishouse and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances andplays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances andplays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference anddemands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fedwhile he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of theshivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortablehome with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poorgrasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybodycries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where thenews stations film the group singing,'We shall overcome.' Rev.Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for thegrasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, PresidentReagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper'splight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King thatthe ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both callfor an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Actretroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of greenbugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his homeis confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friendsfinishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the governmenthouse he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's oldhouse, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintainit.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again..
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and thehouse, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang ofspiders who terrorizethe ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Rio (the thief)

Instead of hunting Easter eggs, Rio was looking for Milkbones...

After eating all the milkbones he took some time to relax...

TO THINK THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THIS VOTE AND MAY HAVE REPRODUCED!!!

OLD

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today.The people who are starting college this fall were born in 1991.They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.Their lifetime has always included AIDS.The CD was introduced two years before they were born.They have always had an answering machine.They have always had cable.Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show. (until recently)Popcorn has always been micro waved.They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.They never heard: 'Where's the Beef?', 'I'd walk a mile for a Camel ', or 'de plane Boss, de plane'. McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter
P.S. Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.