The boy is not happy. He came home in the wee hours of the night, long after the wife and I went to bed. This morning, just before eight o'clock, a crew armed with a Bobcat-mounted jackhammer started tearing the concrete in front of the house. It looks like it is our cul-de-sac's time for pavement repair. The boy's bedroom is in the front of the house.he is not happy.
So, I put in a load of laundry very early this morning. I was standing at the washer, waiting on the spin cycle to end when I felt something creeping along my arm. I looked down and the tickle was a trickle of bright red blood. My blood. It was oozing from a long scratch on my arm that had not been there a few moments before. How do you get scratched deep enough to bleed when standing still? How can a person not feel that scratch? Am I turning into one of those paper-thin skinned old men you see tottering through the grocery? Where do I buy one of those fishing hats anyway? I suppose I need me some high-waisted double-knit slacks.
Saturday I helped a friend roof his garage. It has been a long time since I spent a day swinging a hammer. Yesterday and today I am feeling the ache of seldom used muscles. Not so much in the arm, but the back of my thighs, buttocks and lower back. Getting up and down are a chore.
When did I turn into an old man?
May 20, 2013
May 18, 2013
Your freedom is at stake
If the IRS is willing to target groups and individuals based on their their political beliefs, will that same agency target conservatives under the ObamaCare enforcement policies? Will the Government deny health care to individuals who voice disagreement with the political philosophies of the administration?
When the government embarks in tyranny, there is no end.
When the government embarks in tyranny, there is no end.
May 17, 2013
I don't wanna go
We have to go to the funeral home this evening. A friend of ours lost her mother. This same friend's father died just 42 days ago.
What words of comfort can one offer that are not mere shallow platitudes at best? .
What words of comfort can one offer that are not mere shallow platitudes at best? .
Hmmm
Think back on the various bosses you have had over the years. Was there any worse manager than the one who blamed his workers when things went wrong and took all of the credit when things went right?
The current occupier of the White House sure seems to be a lot like that boss, doesn't he?
The current occupier of the White House sure seems to be a lot like that boss, doesn't he?
May 16, 2013
'Xactly
Read this
She is as right as rain.
I especially love this passage:
She is as right as rain.
I especially love this passage:
Mostly, they reject values so that they won’t later have to answer to them. It’s sort of pre-paid hypocrisy credits. If I maintain that everything is normal, nothing is abnormal, everyone is okay and no one is a monster, then I can like myself better and sleep smugly, if not soundly, at night.Does anything better capture the liberal mindset than those 52 words? She is talking about the MSM here, but it captures your average progressive in its essence. If you have a sliding scale of standards, or lack morals, then you can not be held to that standard or that morality. The linked post is nothing short of brilliance.
Living in the Past
I was once told I have an old soul. I do not know what that means. I know I like to listen to my baseball on the radio. The pace and tempo seem best suited for an audio experience. A good radio announcer will tell you if the infield is in or if a shift is on. The TV shows only the pitcher and hitter.
There is something about listening to baseball on the radio that brings a nostalgia for days I never lived. I am not so old-fashioned I try to tune in a static-filled weak signal from far off WGN in Chicago to catch the Cub games. I do have the MLB At Bat app for my iPhone. The crystal clear digital signal is far better for my modern sensibilities.
On the other hand, you can't get the full flavor of this on the radio. You can't get it on TV either, after all, Harry is dead.
There is something about listening to baseball on the radio that brings a nostalgia for days I never lived. I am not so old-fashioned I try to tune in a static-filled weak signal from far off WGN in Chicago to catch the Cub games. I do have the MLB At Bat app for my iPhone. The crystal clear digital signal is far better for my modern sensibilities.
On the other hand, you can't get the full flavor of this on the radio. You can't get it on TV either, after all, Harry is dead.
May 14, 2013
I guess the buck really did stop with Harry Truman
As near as I can tell, this guy
is in charge of things over at the White House. So far, according to Jay Carney, the White House knows nothing about Fast and Furious, who arranged the Benghazi cover-up, who at the IRS is targeting and leaking information about conservative groups, who ran the ad calling Mitt Romney a murderer, who is investigating the AP and anything else that might come up.
Is anyone in charge? Perhaps The Obama should take a break from golf and basketball and vacation and look into actually being President?
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is in charge of things over at the White House. So far, according to Jay Carney, the White House knows nothing about Fast and Furious, who arranged the Benghazi cover-up, who at the IRS is targeting and leaking information about conservative groups, who ran the ad calling Mitt Romney a murderer, who is investigating the AP and anything else that might come up.
Is anyone in charge? Perhaps The Obama should take a break from golf and basketball and vacation and look into actually being President?
Lapdogs
No matter how loyal your dog is it will turn on you if you treat it badly. Come home and give it a kick, a random beating or three and that little puppy who wagged its tail with pure joy and love will become a slinking growling beast baring its fangs in your direction.
The media have long been Democrat lapdogs. They have jumped and wagged their tail every time The Obama glanced in their direction. The media has ignored the unemployment and economic issues that plague the nation. They turned a blind eye to Fast and Furious and gleefully attacked the Republicans at every turn.They have ignored gaffs and policy disasters far worse than those committed by George W. Bush.
Now the usual second term scandals have descended on the Administration and the media is growling around the edges. Could it be the media dog pack is starting to turn on the Administration?
The Associated Press has long been one of the Administration's favorite lapdogs. Now we discover Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department has been grabbing the AP's phone records. Digging into who called whom and such. Will this attack on the press be the final kick? Will the AP puppy try and make nice with the Master or will it turn into a biting Hound of Hell, snarling and growling like Buck from The Call of the Wild? Will the AP and its pack of media dogs finally turn on the Regime, biting and nipping or will it slink off into the corner, tail between the legs like whipped cur?
The media have long been Democrat lapdogs. They have jumped and wagged their tail every time The Obama glanced in their direction. The media has ignored the unemployment and economic issues that plague the nation. They turned a blind eye to Fast and Furious and gleefully attacked the Republicans at every turn.They have ignored gaffs and policy disasters far worse than those committed by George W. Bush.
Now the usual second term scandals have descended on the Administration and the media is growling around the edges. Could it be the media dog pack is starting to turn on the Administration?
The Associated Press has long been one of the Administration's favorite lapdogs. Now we discover Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department has been grabbing the AP's phone records. Digging into who called whom and such. Will this attack on the press be the final kick? Will the AP puppy try and make nice with the Master or will it turn into a biting Hound of Hell, snarling and growling like Buck from The Call of the Wild? Will the AP and its pack of media dogs finally turn on the Regime, biting and nipping or will it slink off into the corner, tail between the legs like whipped cur?
May 13, 2013
Why hasn't someone been fired?
Someone in the IRS decided to use the taxing agency to focus on President Obama's political adversaries.
I do not care where you lie on the political spectrum, the idea the IRS could use the powers of taxation to target "political enemies" is repugnant. This is the stuff of third world dictators and banana republics. It is thug politics and it makes me sick.
It went on, the IRS admits it went on. Tea Party and conservative groups were singled out by the IRS, perhaps as early as 2010. The head of the IRS claims it was done by low-level employees. Have they been fired? In the end, The head of the agency is responsible for what happens within the IRS. Some people need to be canned.
Now.
Today.
read and be sickened
The concept of "The Buck Stops Here" sure does not permeate this Administration. The finger-pointer-in-chief clearly will take no responsibility.
I am not sure what I expect when a significant number of the Obama regime are admitted tax cheats.
I do not care where you lie on the political spectrum, the idea the IRS could use the powers of taxation to target "political enemies" is repugnant. This is the stuff of third world dictators and banana republics. It is thug politics and it makes me sick.
It went on, the IRS admits it went on. Tea Party and conservative groups were singled out by the IRS, perhaps as early as 2010. The head of the IRS claims it was done by low-level employees. Have they been fired? In the end, The head of the agency is responsible for what happens within the IRS. Some people need to be canned.
Now.
Today.
read and be sickened
The concept of "The Buck Stops Here" sure does not permeate this Administration. The finger-pointer-in-chief clearly will take no responsibility.
I am not sure what I expect when a significant number of the Obama regime are admitted tax cheats.
Does typing "yawn" make you want to?
March12.
That was the last date I turned in expense reports. Today is catch-up day. I have two months of receipts for gas, food, hotel, airlines, office supplies and company car repair to sort by date and enter into the laborious forms required by my company. I traveled extensively in April. May has been equally as busy. For example, I have 29 separate receipts to enter for the period of April 15 through April 30. Every receipt requires a separate line item and explanation on the form. If the receipt is for a business meal, I have to detail who, what, where, and why for the expense.
It is my own fault I have such a pile of receipts. If I would stay on top of the task, it would not be so overwhelming. I promise myself every time I do my expenses to keep up on a bi-weekly basis. I have vowed to do so going forward as well.
I know I will sit here in early July, bitching about how many expenses I have to report. Some of those will be in foreign currency too. That is a real headache. I can't read tic tac toe board, house, swirl worth a damn.
That was the last date I turned in expense reports. Today is catch-up day. I have two months of receipts for gas, food, hotel, airlines, office supplies and company car repair to sort by date and enter into the laborious forms required by my company. I traveled extensively in April. May has been equally as busy. For example, I have 29 separate receipts to enter for the period of April 15 through April 30. Every receipt requires a separate line item and explanation on the form. If the receipt is for a business meal, I have to detail who, what, where, and why for the expense.
It is my own fault I have such a pile of receipts. If I would stay on top of the task, it would not be so overwhelming. I promise myself every time I do my expenses to keep up on a bi-weekly basis. I have vowed to do so going forward as well.
I know I will sit here in early July, bitching about how many expenses I have to report. Some of those will be in foreign currency too. That is a real headache. I can't read tic tac toe board, house, swirl worth a damn.
May 12, 2013
May 11, 2013
And the award goes to
This guy gets credit for writing the most creative spam comment on the interwebz:
Do you have a spam problem on this website; I also am a blogger, and I was curious about your situation; many of us have developed some nice methods and we are looking to swap strategies with others, why not shoot me an e-mail if interested. Also visit my site...Not so many kudos that I will give him his link, but still, one has to love the balls behind that spam.
May 10, 2013
Friday Music
You are welcome. Now that can rattle around in your skull for a while.
Big News -- the ABBA Museum opens this week! The next first time I am in Sweden I am there.
As a 13 year old bag of raging hormones in 1975, that spandex about did me in. And what teenaged boy did not have fantasies about those white mini skirts and knee high boots? I still remember their performance on SNL.
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May 8, 2013
What difference does it make?
At the height of Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, individuals broke in the Democratic Party headquarters located in the Watergate complex in Washington DC and planted listening devices. They copied documents. The burglars got away with the break-in for weeks. It was only after they made a mistake while retrieving the bugs that they were caught.
Over time, the caper was discovered and the ensuing cover-up resulted in the resignation of the President of the United States. Several of Nixon's top aides, including the Attorney General, head of the Committee to re-elect the President, The President's Chief of Staff, the President's Counsel, and a whole gaggle of assistants, advisers, and aides were convicted of crimes.
Nixon won the 1972 election handily. There is no evidence the information gleaned from the break-in contributed to the election results. By the time the cover-up and scandal hit the press, the event was long past.
Hillary Clinton was an aide in the subsequent Congressional investigation of Richard Nixon and the Watergate affair. Do you think at any time Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party would have accepted a terse "It is over, what difference does it make?" from Mitchell, Haldeman, Erlichman, Liddy, Hunt, Colson, Dean, or Nixon?
Watergate was a botched, third rate burglary. No one was hurt, no one died. Mrs. Clinton and President Obama can not make the same claim about Benghazi.
Over time, the caper was discovered and the ensuing cover-up resulted in the resignation of the President of the United States. Several of Nixon's top aides, including the Attorney General, head of the Committee to re-elect the President, The President's Chief of Staff, the President's Counsel, and a whole gaggle of assistants, advisers, and aides were convicted of crimes.
Nixon won the 1972 election handily. There is no evidence the information gleaned from the break-in contributed to the election results. By the time the cover-up and scandal hit the press, the event was long past.
Hillary Clinton was an aide in the subsequent Congressional investigation of Richard Nixon and the Watergate affair. Do you think at any time Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party would have accepted a terse "It is over, what difference does it make?" from Mitchell, Haldeman, Erlichman, Liddy, Hunt, Colson, Dean, or Nixon?
Watergate was a botched, third rate burglary. No one was hurt, no one died. Mrs. Clinton and President Obama can not make the same claim about Benghazi.
May 7, 2013
Twenty Million Dollars and a Free 14 Day Cruise
...will contribute greatly to my pursuit of happiness, and by implication, is a guaranteed Constitutional Right.
I don't think leading Democrats could disagree. A nice new car in my driveway is also my Constitutional prerogative.
Hell, if the rich could just pay their fair share, we would all have a chicken in every pot and a mule in the backyard.
Is there even one Democrat alive who is not economically illiterate, Constitutionally challenged, and historically ignorant?
I don't think leading Democrats could disagree. A nice new car in my driveway is also my Constitutional prerogative.
Hell, if the rich could just pay their fair share, we would all have a chicken in every pot and a mule in the backyard.
Is there even one Democrat alive who is not economically illiterate, Constitutionally challenged, and historically ignorant?
May 6, 2013
I'm Going to be Sick
Read this.
Is there a more despicable human in the US?
I thought I was through with this piece of shit blog, but this kind of stuff makes me so ill, I have to vent.
Want some more?:
h/t Weasel Zipper via Doug Ross
Is there a more despicable human in the US?
...But what did happen is, on that same day John McCain murdered civilians. Do we have any responsibility for that? Should there be any reconciliation for that? Should he tell the truth about it?”John McCain was being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison the day a Weather Undergound bomb destined for a dance at Fort Dix blew up the bomb builders in New York, but why let facts get in the way of a good lie?
I thought I was through with this piece of shit blog, but this kind of stuff makes me so ill, I have to vent.
Want some more?:
“To conflate a group of fundamentalist people [in Boston] who are nihilistic in some way with a group of people who spent their lives trying to oppose the murder of 6,000 people a week … and still the killing went on. And still the killing went on. What would you have done?” Ayers said. “There’s no equivalence [with Boston]. Property damage. That’s what we did.”That, and kill a few cops. This logic makes as much sense as the dumb fucks who bomb abortion clinics to save babies. This is the guy who helped kick off Obama's political career. The good news is the living Boston Bomber can be a "respected" college professor in 30 years. As long as he is a Democrat anyway.
h/t Weasel Zipper via Doug Ross
May 3, 2013
May 2, 2013
Right Wing Terror
Check out reports of the violence in Seatle yesterday. Now explain why our government and the media are so concerned about non-existent "tea party" violence.
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