WTF?

I find it sad that more people are angry over a doctor killing a lion than a doctor harvesting and selling baby body parts.

What the fuck is wrong with you America?

Friday at last

Is it just me or has this been the longest week ever? Seriously, did the managers of the Matrix sneak in an extra day?

Sing along if you know the words

One of the few songs to which I know all of the lyrics

Not today, Donnie

Do not screw with me today. I am completely out of coffee. Not a stray K-cup to be found.

Dear Tom Brady

You should have paid more attention in history class. Watergate was a trivial crime that exploded because of a bumbling cover-up too.

BTW if you take it to court, the NFL and its lawyers WILL then have supoena power, do you think those former Patriots employees have any incentive to keep quiet now that they have been fired?

Not like the GoGos

I'm on vacation today. Just today. Not at the beach, or Vegas, or the Grand Canyon (still never been there, Otter).  I'm off to move the boy to a different apartment down at the university. Four years, four different abodes. He always claims he has packed, then we find half the stuff is lying lose. Thus more trips when stuff does not go into the car efficiently. Blah, blah. Such is life. Anyway that is how I'm going to spend my summer vacation.

In and around the lake

Really Chicago Cubs? Did that just happen? How can you get swept by the Phillies, clearly the worst team in baseball (unless they are playing at Wrigley). You are now responsible in the course of a weekend for more than 20% of Philadelpphia's road wins.  This was the stretch you were going to solidify your wild card run. Must you break my heart every year?

After last evening's heavy rains this July has now become the wettest month ever in Indy. The average July sees a little over 4 inches of rain and we have topped 13 with more rain on tap this week. I suspect some are going to blame it on global warming/climate change/aardvark farts but he previous wettest month was in the 1870s. How do the AlGorites explain that? Do you know how I account  for the rainy summer? Weather.

I have my monthly expense report to do today, one of my least favorite job tasks. It always has been. But when you travel on someone else's dime they want an accounting and rightly so.

Have a great Monday.

It is like one of those 500 pound fatties on TLC lecturing us on overeating

Multimillionaire Hillary Clinton says capitalism needs a reset. She is complaining that  we need controls on those who are quick turnaround investors on Wall Street. I can only guess she is talking about the kind of investor who tales $1000 and magically turns it into $100,000 in cattle futures?

Say, isn't Hillary's son-in-law a Wall Street type? I bet those Wall Street makes too much money and anti-capitalism rants make for great entertainment when she and Bill have the "kids" over for dinner.

What next, is Bill Clinton going to lecture us on fidelity in marriage?

I dunno

"Quick Timmy, go get help. Lassie has fallen into a well".

I think we know how that would have worked out. Timmy was an idiot.

Back in the 80s

Most Friday music selections are whatever pops up on my iPhone. This is no exception.

If you were at a bar in the Midwest in the late 1970s or 1980s you probably saw Henry Lee Summer. After he signed with Epic Records Summer had a few modest hits, but the label tried turn him into a ballad singer a la Michael Bolton. Anyone who ever experienced the frantic energy of Ol' Henry Lee knows that is not who he is as a performer. I will argue that Henry Lee Summer is quite possibly one of the best entertainers I have seen live. He is right up there with Springateen for sheer entertainment. I think this video shows what I mean.  The first time I saw him Henry started the show by leaping from a tower speaker. I think that was in Lafayette, IN in a bar near Purdue University, maybe; it was more than 30 years ago for Pete's sake.

This tune was his biggest hit, but he did do some film vocals as well.

Yesterday and Today

For those of you playing along with the Home Version, here are the numbers in order:

38,47,231,74,80,380,20,29...29,229,29,680,80

It is not much of a mystery. I suspect just about any atlas could put you on he road to victory.

What I see

The sky is pale blue and splattered with dirty white clouds. The twin ribbons of the highway stretch westward into the distance, the long straight sections broken by occasional gentle curves. Dotless dashes mark the center line in an endless Morse O O O O. Beside the road, files and columns of straight tall green corn stocks tipped in gold stand sentinel beside fields of low,lush, humble soy beans.  The speakers blare music and talk and sports and music and baseball and music again.  A half finished bottle of water sits warm in the door. Occasional clumps of cattle stare at the horizon, chewing earnestly. Overpasses and underpasses recede in my rear view mirror as the odometer and dash clock mark the miles and minutes.  The tires hum. The soft leather of the seat becomes hard torture on my rump. I realize, had I headed south, I could be at the beach, instead of gazing at windswept uncompromising prairie. Exit and entrance ramps offer sincere untaken opportunities to explore, to change the destination, to extend an already interminable trip. I drive on, into the evening.

Being Willie Loman

According to the television the overnight rains have made this July the 4th wettest month ever. Add in a rainy June and it has not been a great summer weather wise. On the other hand, the lawn is green and he flowers have flourished.

The perpetually aggrieved continue to try and destroy Stone Mountain in Georgia. The quest to create a perfect world continues. Soon we will have to all wear matching smocks and paint our identical houses beige so that no one is ever offended by anything again. Hey, a guy named Richie McDonald once bullied me in elementary school, I want all McDonald's closed.

I'm about to plant my butt into my VW and head west to charm a gaggle of customers. I will get to share the road with bad drivers, distracted drivers, and idiots who can't understand the left lane is for passing.  Eleven plus hours of I states (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa) does not make for scenic excitement. While I find a certain beauty in the flat farmland, the green corn topped with golden tassels, the tall elevators dotting the distant horizon and the quaint towns with once vibrant shopping, a few hours is enough. But I have a good job and once again I will be privileged to see the America many don't even know exists.

Have a great Tuesday.

Stuff

Summer finally made a brief appearance Saturday along with his companions heat and humidity. We climbed into the car to head to a picnic/ family reunion.  Now this is not a reunion in the sense you picture. The family is so small we can meet in my mom's living room. Thee were 11 people there and an additional ten or so would encompass every living member of my mother's family counting first and second cousins. all three of my kids made it, along with my granddaughter. My SIL had a company function to attend. The youngest spent the weekend at home. On Sunday I watched the granddaughter for a few hours.

A good weekend for me, a boring post for you

The Donald

So long and good riddance to the Trump campaign. No matter your feelings on John McCain's politics, he was a hero. Few of us could have survived physically or mentally what he experienced in the Hanoi Hilton.

Trump had no chance anyway, but his inability to filter his words has become a liability the campaign can not overcome.

Reality hurts

After reading most of the blogs over there on the right, along with countless others that are dead and closed, it occurs to me I am not very good at this hobby. Syntax, spelling and editing prove my case almost daily.

Quality trumps quantity every time.

Quick hits

Once again we see efficacy of gun free zones

I am willing to bet the Koran had as much, if not more, to do with he the Chattanooga murders as the Confederate battle flag was responsible for the killings in Charleston

I say we bring back dot-to-dot books. Current news readers seem unable to connect dots any more.

The sooner they fry that SOB from Denver the better.

I always said Barack was the next Jimmah Carter. The Iranians just proved it. This is two Presidential suckers they have humiliated.

If, as liberals screamed in the wake of Arizona passing strict immigration laws, the Federal law is superior to local or state law, how can so-called Sanctuary Cities thwart Federal Immigration Law?

Sorry, so much for a no politics Friday

About perfect for this Friday

Paging Dr Mengele

No matter where you stand on the abortion issue, harvesting of baby organs for sale is sick and disgusting - not to mention illegal. This practice has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with a woman's reproductive rights. It is tantamount to grave robbing for human experiments.

Those of you who support Planned Parenthood should do a little research into Margaret Sanger and her goals for the organization she helped found. Funny, many of the same liberals chanting "black lives matter" also support Planned Parenthood.

In this case I am one to judge. If you support the harvest and sale of fetal body parts you are sick, twisted, and evil. Your very existence is repugnant and I resent you wasting good oxygen.

More coal, less ethanol

Scientist have warned that sun activity and cycles will cause a mini ice age to hit the Northern hemisphere in the next 15-20 years. I think there are forces of nature we puny humans can not even fathom. What if the buildup of greenhouse gases that leaves the "we are all gonna die" climate change believers in a tizzy is just Earth's way of protecting itself from another ice age? In any case, the massive heating that should have started years ago (waiting, waiting, tapping my foot impatiently) just could offset the cold spell planned by old Sol. 

Look, warm is better than cold. Plants grow better. Food is more abundant. Plus being cold sucks, just ask anyone who has not yet moved south for the winter. I say we fire up those coal plants, drive the heck out of your SUVs, bring back Freon.  Each of us should strive to have a carbon footprint the size of Bigfoot. We all know what happens if it gets too cold. Santa will have to cancel Christmas and Ted Koppel, the elf who wants to be a dentist, just might not save Rudolf and thus Christmas this time.