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3-20-11 : Because it is pressing news and I have opinions on Libya, Sudan, and the Congo, I am sharing this. But this is more upsetting in my opinion.

3-19-11 : People have been critical of my posting links, but some things are so important they have to be distributed. This is such an item. I saw this ad running today in Japan’s local QJKD TV.

3-17-11 : Because I am Irish, I woke up drunk yesterday and didn’t recover until tomorrow. Maybe because real estate values are going down. Although that shouldn’t matter. I know in Japan many homeowners are losing out because they are “under water” and I’ve been dry all day, but as Japan is learning, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. And here’s what happens when people try to leave.

3-16-11 : Kadafi tried to send his air forces to Japan to assist in providing aid, but Japan introduced a “No Fly Zone” so the Libyan air forces remained in their homeland. But instead of looking backward at Libya, let’s look forward to the future and let the past remain in the past. Compartmentalize if you must. But remember that we can’t change history of things that already happened in history, so let’s not dwell on the past and get on with living today.

Hillary is packing on the lbs lately, n’est pas? 

3-15-11: Yes, I know it should be Nukleilele but that doesn’t sound so good. 

Did you read Gilbert Gotleib got fired as the goose voice for AFLAC ??? Seriously.

3-12-11 : Live coverage of the Tsunami. Voices are obviously in Japanese, but you can get the general sense of terror.

I still think nuke-ulele-er power makes the most sense. There will be injury to people regardless of the source of power, because there will always be mistakes and inadvertent events will occur. Although Japan has been prone to nuclear problems since the 40s it seems. Oh well . . .

I don’t play guitar. I play the nukulele.

Just looked. Seems like USA (Alaska) is still ahead (in violent earthquakes)! U. S. A.   U.  S.  A.

3-9-11 : No excuses here. I was undergoing treatment. For cancer. Of the hair. Metastasized. I had chemotherapy of something called lanolin, and expect to lose hair. Hopefully caught in time.

I keep forgetting to mention the similarity of Libya to Chicago when the hippies attacked. The famous quote of Mayor Dailey. “The police are not there to cause disorder. The police are there to preserve the disorder.”

Speaking of being caught, I was also arrested for a letter I sent to Cathy Lee Gifford. It seems, if you can believe it, that I had confused the past tense of not remembering, and wrote a letter to her that I dismember her. Well, I guess that is not “politically correct” and my words have come back to bite me on that letter.

2-28-11 : How time flies. Because I think creating Handy Quacks or whatever it is is cute, there is ... this.

  and Taylor’s family is appreciative!

Proper Waterboarding Technique

2-26-11 : France came out with some impressive numbers today: 874,000 of France’s 277,000 Gypsies took compensation and moved out of France.

Today I was reminiscing about Greg that I had a chance to sit and recall some of the more interesting cases I did. First, I did at one time represent Junior Beebe, although I can’t recall for what. Now, getting back . . . In the summer of 1977 I interned for a prosecutor’s office and prosecuted a woman for assisting Butch Davis to escape from jail. I got the conviction, but the funny thing of it was that Butch was on like day 88 of a 90-day sentence when he escaped.

Apparently this “Butch” fellow went on to murderous activities. “Didn’t realize that.” “I know.” “Hmmm.”

The next year I had a client who ran a furniture store in Benton Harbor that applied for and got a “Going out of business” license without ever asserting or affirming that they did in fact intend to go out of business. So, after the “Going Out of Business” sign goes up, their sales go up and there is no longer a reason to go out of business. The Circuit Court (Hughes) found for the state. The Court of Appeals got my argument that if the store had asked for and gotten a “Fire Sale” license the state would be demanding that they burn down the store. So, I won that one on appeal.

I had a case where a plastic surgeon during reconstructive surgery placed one breast significantly higher than the other. In closing, I said that if medicine were an art, the doctor defendant was a Picasso. That case got picked up by the World Weekly News - the Batboy rag.

2-25-11 : Some people didn’t think my class reunion message (below) was nice.  Google killer greg teron california and see what you get. Or Bing it. Or Lycos it. Can one “Lycos” something? Is there a Lycos? What is this “Lycos” I have heard of? Is Lycos a verb? Sometimes I feel like the internet has raised more questions than it has created.

Speaking of morals and Lycos, I don’t Lycos it is immoral. And wrong. To lie, that is. It is. Immoral. So I don’t do it.

On the current Arizona legislative scene, Arizona has decided to meet the challenge Utah set out when it set the Browning Automatic pistol the State Weapon. So Arizona has taken on the Colt .45 as the state gun. Oh, and we don’t need no stinkin’ badges because concealed weapons are AK-OK here.

2-23-11 : I sent out this in an email.

2-21-11 : Got my invite. You?

and again for the illiterate who like pictures, here you go.

“Family Reunion”

Can you give me the intitials for Blackjack?

Waffle House - when you’re too tired to get dressed up for Denny’s.

2-20-11 : Just to update you all on my former classmate Greg, here is a current pic:

 Greg Teron will not make the class reunion this summer. Sigh...

GREG TERON contemplating the meaning of “life”.

Now, being that he is a former classmate, I think it is incumbent on me to suggest that if he has legal problems in the future he should get a lawyer and not represent himself. Not that he isn’t fully trained in law or anything. Just because he won’t get all emotionally involved in the legal issues.

Since the majority of readers here can’t read, here are some pics on how to care for babies.

And here is a feeling I am sure we have all shared in the past.

2-19-11 : I just watched a Frontline program on a Canadial Air Force Hero who over years broke into homes, spied on people, stole 50 pairs of one girl’s underwear, then someone’s sex toys. With 100 pairs of her underwear. He is leaving gobs of his DNA all over the place, over several towns in Canadia. Around the town that is now the capital of Canadia. I believe they call it “Ottawa”. How quaint! So anyhow this man was out and about for years and years, and ultimately committed rapes and then murders. Takes photos or videos things. No one knew about what this man was doing. Not the police. Not the Air Force. Not the Queen of English People. That may make her the Canadial Queen too. She didn’t know. Not even his wife knew about what was happening. And this leaves me with a question: Who has 50 pairs of underwear???

Moreover am I wrong in thinking that if I brought home for my wife several hundred pairs of various sized women’s’ underwear, nothing would be said?

Oh, I found a web page discussing an old classmate of mine. I think it is important to keep connected to our roots. And so here is a link to the most current information I could get on my good friend Greg Teron from high school. His older sister married Turtle. Who I believe was in the front lines of AIDS awareness.

I included info on the killer of the daughter of a client I inherited from an Italian Ambassador. Here is another I mentioned a few days ago.

Speaking of Killer News! Lindsay. And Charlie. Giving one another advice. Sweet. Here’s her “Goin’ to Court. Again.” dress:

The LA Times said, and I quote, “Lohan is a tousle-haired train wreck from Long Island who rose to fame making Disney movies and, lately, court appearances. On Wednesday, she strode into the courthouse wearing a white dress ("This old thing? I've had it in the closet forever; I just shrink-wrapped it on this morning.") but luckily not the necklace she's accused of pilfering.”

Here is a webpage I had once called Webdivorce.

2-15-11 : The other day Italian women took to walking the streets of Italy demanding the resignation of their Prime Minister for soliciting women who walk the streets of Italy. How ironic is that?

2-14-11 : Happy Valentine’s Day!

In other sad news, K.L. Gifford was diagnosed as being left without proper adverbials, saying “I’m good”. Poor thing. She also had a chat with her astronaut-in-law.

If she went to the ER today in Arizona, she might have to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. But, on the other hand, she could carry semi-automatic pistols with 20-shot clips as concealed weapons without that silly “permit” thing some states apparently require.

2-12-11 : I did not realize I had not posted in so long. There has been so much going on! First of all, I allowed the voices of the nation to arise before my voice was heard, as Lindsay Lohan and Kim Kardashian have already spoken, but from what I can gather, Octomom’s dad was elected king or replaced Sadat or whatever the intricate details. But the point of it in terms of international political events and significant matters of state between the many foreign nations and the United States is is this : Lindsay and Kim have spoke.

Then Congresspersonofthepopulace Kathy Lee Gifford spoke and asked for toast after her husband said he was going to outer space. Having seen Contact, I am wondering if she would not do better up in space??? And again the competition for the trial of the year next year will be hot and heavy. Tucson could really use the money. They would tax motel rates more to pay for the added security. Oh, speaking of cheap motel rates, Jon Kyl has decided to hang up the holster, which I think is good. There is talk that if Kathy Lee can speak more than the word “toast” she may run for that office. Really. That’s the scuttlebutt around these parts. But in these parts these days, we can’t hardly even pass a bill allowing students to carry guns, because more guns are going to reduce injuries from guns. It isn’t rocket science. So now McCane will have to figure out whether he should hang up the old (and we do mean “old”) shingle too. Or take the shingle down. Or get shingles. Shingles has something to do with it.

2-2-11 : Groundog day - the little bitch saw her shadow or didn’t, and accordingly we are going to have weather whether we want it or not.  Speaking of which, today was one of those days when you know you are blessed. Today I received an e-mail. It was from a country in Africa. This country, in the course of an investigation of scams from Africa, found my name. They notified me of this fact. Plus, they made me aware that i was entitled to compensation. Quite a lot, actually. Many millions.  THEN  I got an e-mail just in time, telling me it was my last opportunity to get some prescription meds really cheap. Otherwise I might have missed that final chance. 

1-30-11 : Today I have decided to focus my discussion on murderers I have known. Or people who were murdered. You know, involving the crime of murder and usually a body to go along with that.

When I was in high school, a friend of mine had a brother who went out with or married or some such this girl, and her brother was in my class, although not particularly memorable for much of anything. Apparently he had had issues involving small animals and shopping carts being pushed with motor vehicles. So anyhow then I’m in law school, working as an intern at the prosecutor’s office, and there is Killer Greg, being held in Berrien County for a murder there, apparently having been involved in a string of murders, and Killer Greg convinces some guy who has been pulled in for drunk driving that the guy’s life is over and he should just kill himself. Which the guy tries to do. But is apparently not going to be successful at. Killer Greg, despite the massive problems he faced, decided in a moment of clarity that he was not going to let the man fail, not on Killer Greg’s watch, and Killer Greg goes and hoists the guy back up and lets the drunk end his life in a blaze of successfulness. So, that is one.

I had a client once who was trying to stay in a house they had not paid rent on for months, to stay long enough so the kid could complete the school year in the district. This was accomplished. About a week later, someone duct-taped him into a chair in the garage, put a bucket over his head, and shot him. According to the wife, it was some of the contractors who had done work on the house.

There is this guy from Newago ways who took this girl out with her infant, and raped and killed the girl and sold the kid to someone. He also killed some other folks. Well, the infant was my client’s grandchild, and it was much ado about this murderous rampage. I heard about the missing people before the law.

Now there is this guy named Junior Beebe. I know this name. Because of being a lawyer. Although I didn’t recognize him from his picture, but he would have been 10+ years younger also. 

In a brief pause, I note that this week the Notverie’s of Notverie Farms, bought Safeway, which are now the Notverie Safeway Stores. In a related vein, most people always usually ask me my opinion about getting old Latin books and the like off PD - Public Domain - and here is what I point out to them:  

so now you know . . .  I also think you minimize exposure if you don’t permit others to receive files from your computer, which is dissemination which I think is where problems arise. To avoid problems, always follow the lead of former Presidents, like:

When I smoked those, they were regular cigarette length straights. Nice! Like Pall Malls. Not like Camel or L&M or whatever the other short straights was. As the Beatles said, “Let it Be”     

1-29-11 : I have learned much this week. For example, did you know that the last Saw movie was in 3-D? I didn’t but do now. Then there was the State of the Union which I found dull and uninspiring. I did not wait around for the Republican or Fox candidates to rebut.

I learned that a nice tree outside my window is dying but maybe can be saved. I learned that The Iron Cross and Cross of Iron are the same movie, sort of like TCSM (Texas Chain Saw Murderer) class of movies are all covers of one another.

Everyone should applaud  Utah for its common-sense approach to life. For example, if you have someone who did or invented something really significant, you could make the product a state-sponsored product. So, in this vein, Browning invented the .45 automatic pistol, which is now the state weapon of Utah. Isn’t that special?

Crystal Meth Palin will NOT be speaking in St. Louis to impart her expansive knowledge to the college-folk of that town. I am hoping that Jamie Lee Curtis or Spears or whatever it is will offer to speak for a less lucrative amount.Her sister tied the former Sony star, who was ain Precious, in number one hit sales or some such. Harry Carey Junior, I believe.

Speaking of lucre, did you know that when I was sworn into a bar I had to disaffirm pursuit of it? It’s a fact, and it is true. 

Another truism - Obama’s pictures are not as good quality as McCane and Palin’s, or even G. Wallace Bush’s. See?

  Compared to this? No comparison.

Bad day? How about this?

 Where I am right now 85718

1-27-11 : Tucson is in on the bidding war for the Kathy Lee Gifford shooting trial! It will bring in so much visiting traffic, sales are projected to be massive! Seats for the trial will be bid on Ebay so keep your eyes peeled there.

Fluffs was going out but jumped onto the wall and threatened to go over to the neighbor’s and see if she couldn’t pick off a bird over there. She’s currently grounded :( 

It has been bitterly cold here. Apparently much of the nation is getting hammered like we are. Today it was only 71. I know. Can you believe it? Me neither.

1-24-11 : Ok, cranial nerve check done, cubital tunnel syndrome is what I have. Here are the areas affected:

  so typing and playing guitar are much more difficult currently.

Cubital tunnel  == Funny bone 

I love the guy with the deep voice from Starwars and Denzel and Will Smith. Here is a tribute.

1-23-11 : Football today. Teams won, teams lost.

In the last few days, the MIHSOA has really advanced. Want to help? Make it happen (at top).

I have been having symptoms of carpal or cubital syndrome, but am too lazy to look up my cranial nerve chart. I wonder if that would be on the internet - a lot of stuff is - maybe I’ll look soon.

Because today was Super Pre-Ball Sunday, I watched family TV. Specifically Rob Zombie’s Halloween. Hey, tip for Rob - Jamie Lee Curtis already did that movie! But anyway I like the way he copies the Coen brothers by using the same people in his movies. I also watched Blind Eli’s Book where the Australian from The Other Guys plays the boyfriend of Meg from Family Guy.

Today I learned that the eastern coast states all are on the ocean. States like Maine and Boston. On the sea. Yep. On the sea.

1-19-11 : Well, damned if the scan of Lindsay below was not taken while she was flying to her doctor in Philadelphia.

The other day I was test-driving a car for a magazine, and when I got pictures I figured it was from that. Man, was I wrong - Picture 2 will explain what the problem was...

People like pictures. A picture tells a thousand words. People are addicted to staring at stupid talk on TV. So here you go.

A secret message to the Tucson Shooter who, remarkably, is being charged with a crime. Yeah, shoot the bearer, not the news.

Xtina reportedly passed out at someone’s house during a party. 

and to remind you of where my roots were,

   and      and 

1-15-11 : Urethra Franklin denied today she had cancer of some body object. Meanwhile we carry more updates on the ‘revised’ TSA “pat-down” in airports these days:

    Isn’t this ridiculous? I think it is, yes.  But it does have ‘finds’ :

    (here is ultrasound)  

   The Governator

We learned more today on the Tucson Shooter - seems he got his new currency thoughts from his mom:

   What a loving mom - pistol-feeding her child !

Then there is the tale of how he was conceived :  

 Arizona’s State Lizard may be endangered as of last week.

    I can’t tell you how many of these I have scooted out of the garage.

The United States is using drones

SPOT THE DIFFERENCES 

1-13-11 : Fluffs McGee’s Birthday today !!

    Bombshell    Fluffs    

In a blast from the racist, bigoted past, South Carolina has ordered sterilization due to the color of one’s skin.

According to congressional aides, the Tucson shooter dated a girl who looks a lot like Crystal Meth Palin. Speaking of Palin, it is possible she apologized for her responsibility for the Tucson shootings. Her language is at times difficult to comprehend. Her article in a magazine is illuminating, however.

Our thanks to Maggie for forwarding this instructional demonstration of French Flagmaking skills:

Please keep the cautions about sharp objects in mind if you try this at home.

I’m putting up a bunch of pictures becaues I just learned that most of the readers here can’t read anyhow. They need flowcharts and can’t even read them. For those who have trouble with flow charts, here is an explanation of how they work.

This is the proof I need to back up all my statements.

Exclusive : Photo of Obamabigbuilding in Tucson yesterday:  

Michelle was there too.

You can see the pain in his eyes there. He cares!!!

More Obamabigbuilding news report-worthy of this website:

  and this   

Since I am so obviously going through pics now, here is one that “stands out” if you catch my drift.

Fluff’s and my birthday cake:  

For those who want to argue with me about anything, remember that

Did you know that the National Geographic has named the penguin the most aggressive mammal on the planet?

I am putting this here so no one will see it.

1-12-11 : Now that 11,1111 is over, I can get back to it! Snookster wants to lose her nickname. Should we now call her “Ookie”?

At the “Together We Thrive, even if we don’t drive, whether dead or alive” thing from Tucson, the Mexican Indian (Indexican?) told the joke about a priest, a rabbi and a grasshopper go into a bar and the bartender says they named a drink after you and the grasshopper says “There’s a drink named Gene?” and it got a lot of laughs. Here is a pic of him:

  Gene, Gene, Indexican Machine.

Apparently the jets are out of the base and into the sky, although why sort of escapes me. Would they fly down Speedway toward the U of A if something happened? Can a jet land on a football field? Will the University of Arizona give him an honorary degree, which ASU refused to do when Obamabigbuilding was there. But that is why Arizona is still #1!

Even the Mexican President says so: !Hola! I say SO!

Today’s headlines - and what is wrong with this picture????

Ask Bret Favre about meth dealers today and see what you get for an answer.

Maureen’s brother Jerry and his wife June and their son Joe and wife Kim know Dallas Greene, who’s granddaughter was the child killed in the mass shooting in Tucson.

Tomorrow is my 63rd birthday and to celebrate, here’s a pic of me as a kid and now:

       I’ve aged quite well.

So, today all the news organizations continued their constant barrage, including this over the print medium of newspaper:

Someday I will just post all the pics I get sent in a day. Lots.

1-11-11 : Big day what with all those numbers there, eh?

Tomorrow Obama and spouse are headed this way. I’m thinking they may shoot down to Mexico to pick up meds and junk. But maybe not. You have to have a passport to get back into the U.S. and we all know that Obama was born in like Yemen or Kenya or something like that. What with the Minutemen and all, I’m figuring they won’t cross the border. Oh yeah, plus that cartel violence thing. Although it isn’t so much in the town south of here. Here being Tucson right now.

Reconsidering the statement “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” I guess under that logic Al Quaeda doesn’t kill people, people kill people. The Klan didn’t hang blacks, people did. Nazis didn’t hurt Jews, people did. I’m not totally sure I can go along with that logic.

Arizona is trying to prevent protected speech. This will be unusual to watch. This is unusual, but demonstrates the Arizona Spirit.

A day or so, to lighten up my spirits, I watched back to back Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with the same cop family in both, but JS in each, where JS is either Jordana or Jessica. Brewster or Biel. I prefer the earlier one with JB in it.

1-10-11 : Today on NPR’s Talk of the Nation we got to hear a former Arizona State Legislator remind us that guns don’t kill people, people do. So I guess it is OK for Iran to have nuclear bombs because bombs don’t kill people, people do. Why do we make it unlawful to dump mercury into water but lawful to get items specifically created to cause death? How many people actually ‘kill dinner’? What sense is there that hand-crossbows are considered more dangerous than handguns? This doesn’t make sense to me.

As for the 2nd Amendment issue, I guess that maybe people should be able to bear the arms that were around when the Constitution was drafted - Original Intent or whatever ... Ask Jim Brady what he thinks. I simply think it is ridiculous to believe that guns, particularly handguns and assault rifles, are lawfully carried around. If guns are illegal, only people who break the law will have them. Perhaps if they are illegal fewer people will have them, just because it is illegal.

1-8-11 : I can’t joke about the Tucson shootings beyond mentioning that Cheney was Bush’s guarantee against assassins.

On a much brighter note, a woman was being investigated for sexually assaulting a teen with whom she had carried on a ‘texting’ relationship. She is charged. Her husband files for divorce. The investigation of the woman leads police to arrest the daughter of the woman, who is around 22 and had also sexually assaulted the youth. This was in Arizona.

Back to shootings in general . . .  There are those who want to keep track of who is buying what ammunition for large caliber rifles. And there are those opposed. Those opposed note that it isn’t the government’s business. Right to bear arms. Dead cold hands. If guns are outlawed. Etc. Those in favor point out that it might assist in following bullets/shell casings, to a gun used in a crime.

So, the kid who shot the representative was 22 years old and exited his car and walked up to a grocery store, with a semiautomatic pistol with cartridge apparently sufficient to hit 16 people and kill 6 off the bat. Pistols, we have to hope, are registered no thanks to Ronald Regan and his staff. Right to bear arms - well, I guess it does say that, but it doesn’t say ‘free from regulation’

Now, one mighty think it unusual to simply walk around with a pistol, but regular readers will recall that in Arizona that isn’t a concealed weapon. Although anyone can conceal one lawfully. But at the courthouse, well, that is a different story. There, at the courthouse, they have little lockers so people can lock up their weapons. Of course, you have to consider my sources - KGUN TV.

When I first came to Arizona in 1972, I had longer hair. At that time there were lots of occupied rifle racks on trucks. There were rednecks. One weekend some friends and I were camping in an old, abandoned ghost town which had been a silver mine during the civil war, closed down during the civil war. Our second day there some yahoos drove up, pulled a derringer, shot at something so we were sure they had a bullet or two, sort of intimidated, laughed and left. That was in a small town between Tucson and Nogales. Oh yeah, “The Federalies” shot and killed, over and through the border, a kid who had been throwing rocks. Who may allegedly have crossed into the US and then retreated to Mexico before being killed.  What I knew as INS may be ICE now. Another ICEman last year claimed he had been ambushed, although investigators never found any shell casings near the scene of the attack. Then months later the guy tells some TV newsguy that he had been approached by some Cartel. He had apparently forgotten that earlier.  So, ICE may not have an unblemished record. But they do have to put up with having rocks chucked at them. They have a big job here. McCain says “For Pete’s sake, let’s get the wall built” and he has ICEmen by his side. The Minutemen are not popular, and in fact were once accused of war crimes for making one illegal put on a T-shirt that said “I got busted by the Minutemen and all I got to show was a T-shirt” because that may be worse than waterboarding.

Speaking of surfing, Obama is the first president to get pictured wearing swimming fins. Here is a current pic to remind you what our president looks like:    Obama does Weekend Address from Whitehouse.

1-7-11 : Jeez, almost a month since the last entry. Well, in the meantime I have added 2 videos to Youtube, so there are three there now.

Today on NPR there was a “Storycourt” about a gay man wondering what his classmates were up to - the classmates who cut off the end of one of his fingers, classmates whom he contemplates very often. The classmates were bullies, and he wondered what their kids sexuality might mean to the classmates now. He wondered this aloud, several times. As I listened, I thought one thing repeatedly - Classmates.com - that is where he could go to try to find out what his old classmates are up to. I may send an email to him if I can figure out who it is and where he is.

Some old friends had dogs die over the holidays. Don’t have kids? Get a dog! But remember that they live in dog years.

Speaking of years, several things to note. 1st: A girl from Canadia discovered a new solar system. If I heard correctly it is 10 years old. Then, we learn that Cretans were dumb and simple folk who traveled by boat some 250,000 years earlier than previously thought. And of course we have the new string of our ancestors in our DNA beyond Homo Sapiens and Neanderthal.

Then there are the rains of the midwest, which include naturally thousands of birds, and flows amongst thousands of dead fish, all of which is normal, usual, expected, natural, customary, and perhaps even good.

I am not sure if Lindsay Lohan is up for her remarkable role, but I have just watched a powerful and moving movie on par with the Mel Gibson “Freedom” Scotland or wherever the hell it was movie where he has his guts removed by some weird torture guy in England. The movie is of course Machete, which if you haven’t seen it you must immediately, it is that important. For starters, it has Deniro, who you may remember from Scarface although I don’t, because he was a taxi driver in Taxi Driver, and has a version of Alec Baldwin playing some huge karate expert or some such, and Jessical Alba is almost naked. Anyhow, it is a very important movie and I don’t know how many academy awards it is up for, but it couldn’t be too few if it tried. I think it is a more important movie than Spun is, and that is saying a mouthful there. And Lindsay is ... “As good as she gets” which is something to say, but anything is. It is sad that we will not get to see her portraying Linda Lovelace, but that is Hollywood. It is a tough, fickle town.

I am filing suit against this      because it is way too similar to mine, which is here.

McMaggie :

McCaitlin :

McMolly :

12-14-10 : Ghandi’s bong is up for auction in India. Seriously. He starred in a movie called Ghandi years ago.

Did you realize dentistry has come a long way in the last 800 years? It is true. For example, although he had no teeth of his own, George Lincoln Washington was able to look like this:

  Image provided by National Library of Congress, Copr. 2009.

Last night there was a meteor shower in Tucson, but I forgot and went to sleep. Sigh...

   Betsy Smart was pleased at the verdict.

     The Nutcracker is playing.   The NAACP was protesting GW.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Puppets has been signaling its dislike for W for years.

  Today the King of Somalia was at the United Nations pleading to get relief from attacks against his navy vessels. He denies involvement in apparent wrongful takings of international maritime traffic.

12-12-10 : Mol and Osama both graduated yesterday. I was not able to attend, which I regret, but have some pics I will post shortly.

Our ad campaign (seen below) is really making it happen on TV. Isn’t it time for you to make it happen? Click the applicable spot at the top of this page for all the important info. Don’t be the last one to make it happen - be among the tens of thousands who have already made it happen, and be super cool and very interesting by doing so.

12-11-10 : Our new professionally designed ad campaign kicks off this week on CNN, HBO, CBS, and FOX. Here it is!!! 

We moved it there so people wouldn’t have to download the 47 gigs to view the commercial. 

In brighter news, apparently mass killings are now against the law.

12-10-10 : A few pics to brighten up any day, even a Friday...

12-8-10 : For some reason my computer wouldn’t start and then I had to restore to a prior date and accordingly locally I lost some day or so, which is here:

And while I am here, I may as well address a claim that my PETA pic was altered, phonyfied, or worse. It was not. It is the actual picture as I have on my drive. Period. End of discussion.

Onto loftier discussions, science has finally created a robot that can perfectly match humans in terms of communication, action, and whatever else way you would want something to match you. Here is what over 23 Billion Dollars can get you today.

ALSO, science has finally figured out what killed the race of hobbits that sprung up all over some time ago. It is a big, stupid bird. Here is an actual hand to god scientific drawing of it in comparison to the guys it killed:     Hobbit is the one on right.

12-1-10 : Finally, a primer on how to shoot cats has been published by the Univ. of Nebraska. I just wonder what took so long, considering the 18 billion dollars these cats are costing our birds every year.

My photoshoot for PETA is done - here are the results!

It came out. OK. Just OK, though.

11-30-10 : We want to congratulate our readership for making October/November the biggest growth period for our Make It Happen Foundation. As a result, we plan on adding an additional 8 servers to serve our foreign readership. Unfortunately due to Comcast outages many may not get our service in a timely manner anyhow. I may even get a new oughttoemoebeil.

There are three ways Facebook can be harmful. Be careful not to make these mistakes!

Our parenting coverage has lots to talk about today. We’ll post in What’s New.

Following the lead Arizona provided, Amtrak is going to allow all passengers to carry weapons on trains. Finally! The Subway Vigilante has been vindicated. Perhaps those guns can be used to kill grizzly bears in Jellystone.

Heidi Fleiss had a fire but being the bird-brain she is she was not injured. Unlike a lady in Florida who didn’t even realize she had died.

11-29-10 : I almost forgot to mention that over the weekend Willie Nelson was arrested for not smoking pot in Texas - imagine that! Hopefully he will get around prosecution for such a silly crime.

Speaking of crimes, the Kim Kardashian Kard, or KKK as it is called in international commerce, is going to go off-line if several states have their way.

On another great front, Lady Gaga is finally gone from Facebook and Twitter. Hopefully forever but don’t count your turtles before they are hatched.

11-28-10 : When Darwin looked at animals, why did he go to Jalopy Joes? Did he need better transportation than the dog boat he was in? And why were turtles at JJs?

11-27-10 : Several things today. Let’s start with this, since it will be out in all the blogs within a day:

Now that that’s covered... Some readers have questioned my thinking process on why we should look to polar bears for our future energy demands. So, here goes. First of all, there is only 1 sun. For everybody on the planet. Which is billions. So, we get like a billionth of the sun per capita (to use official terms). Yet there are literally hundreds, maybe thousands, who knows how many (there are so many it is hard to count, unlike our sun, which is easy to count since it is 1 out of 1). So, per capita we get much more bang for our buck (or yew or whatever you want to call them) which is a good thing. PLUS - we can make new polar bears (heck, they do it themselves without our having to train them), but we can’t make a decent sun yet and maybe never will be able to.

So, that is the thinking that went behind that one.

Speaking of nature, the Worldwide Tiger Foundation today spoke of the need to protect tigers. WTF in fact suggests tigers may go the way of the dino or dodo or whatever that thing is that apparently couldn’t make it in the real world. So send your unwanted money to WTF. Or Make It Happen.

Speaking of making things happen, Arizona has taken a step forward.

11-26-10 : Today’s “pet peeve’ is that today on NPR there was a long segment about kids who are artistic. From someone who can’t even pronounce ‘artistic’ properly no less. They couldn’t even spell it properly. And then there was some report from some “official’ who wasn’t an official. Officials look like this:   

So, don’t be pushing some ‘official’ on me who’s suited up for a night on the town.

11-25-10 : Seeing as it is Thankgiving I decided to investigate Stark Industries. It isn’t like shown in the movies - here is what it is.

11-22-10 : The head of TSA said, in response to a citizen complainint that his ostemy bag had leaked, tell him to “go piss on himself” which is in fact pretty much just what happened anyhow. Then the TSA head said the passenger should have been relieved at the steps taken to protect him, again pretty much what happened. Small price for the safety of those who could use trains, which run on dolphins, and not planes, which burn polar bear for fuel.

How can they make you subject yourself to a search at an airport? I guess because you agree to the terms and conditions when you purchase, and no one makes you purchase. Take a boat. Until the government figures that boats are subject to such search because a dirty bomb via scud might be on some little fishing trawler outside New Jersey’s shores.

Kanye is using one of my favorite groups as a sound-back for one of his new songs -  King Crimson of all groups. NPR played parts today so that is how I know.

11-21-10 : Noting that the little choir boys are pretty dirty, the Pope today said it was OK for priests to don condoms before practicing safe sex with dirty little boys. Better that than the portal to sin of Facebook, though. You be the judge. If I were a voter, I’d vote for this. But I can’t.

Speaking of the Pope, who is apparently an avid ornithologist, he discovered and named 24 new subspecies of cardinals this week. Kudos to the big guy of the Vatican for this brave step.

A correction is due. We posted photos of people who had undergone body scans at airports. We credited the FAA for the pics -  TSA was the apparent source. My mistake, due in part to the ranking of UofM well behind ND these days.

11-19-10 : Crystal Palin and her sister are homophobes which is surprising considering Crystal has been photographed making out with another lady - like this:

which is surprising given Palin’s campaign buttons such as:

And that is why you should buy this:       and remember.

but I digress. I have indigrestion I guess. Speaking of being sick to my stomach, here is proof that one of the Kardashians is truly a fox:

See those things on top of her head? Those are ears. What a classy fox, too! At least she isn’t a momma polar bear or whatever Palin claims she is.

In a man’s life there are certain “opportunities” in terms of how we look. For example, this. Others are like this. Here are some others.   

 3 of my favs:          

He’s tomryanfromegrandtucson on skype. EGR is East Grand Rapids. Tucson is in Arizona. Go figure.

Update : Crystal (Meth) Palin may have changed her name to Bristol. We will check and get back to you on this one.

Gayfish apologized for calling the racist Bush. Wonder why.

Some people have concern about the full-body scans at airports, so the FAA released these photos of passengers to show how safe it is:

So now we know it is safe, harmless, non-invasive, and fun! Thanks, FAA, for reducing our fear.

11-18-10 : Today I watched a movie “A Beautiful Mind” and found so many problems with it. Here are just a few: In the first place, they act like Princeton is in New Jersey. We all know where Princeton is. In the second place, they diagnose the math guy with schizophrenia, which neither of me believes even exists. Then there is this girl who is allegedly good at math, which if you ask any man you will find is just not so. And finally the movie never ‘grabbed’ me - it isn’t an interesting movie, and I don’t care what the so-called critics say if they don’t say what I say. There is no chemistry between caterpillar-eyebrows and Romper Stomper. Mathew Mahowineighey or whatever his name is from the Baby in a Bar movie is OK in it, but otherwise no one does a good job. And finally when Romper talks about cloaking devices he should know that Star Trek hadn’t even been written by then so there were no cloaking devices at that time. And the stuttering lawyer from My Cousin Vinny has been cured apparently as he no longer stutters. The movie just isn’t convincing to me.

11-17-10 : Toast went down and broke my crown. Oh well.

Most of my readers don’t have computers so they are unaware of youtube, so I am posting some roadrunner info: Here is what they sound like, and here is what happens when they see another roadrunner.

11-16-10 : Today I became royalty -  I got a CROWN!!! And I thought I was just going to the dentist... To celebrate the coronation I got a new haircut. What do you think?

      I think it is quite handsome. And long, too. Too Cool!

As I was driving today I saw all sorts of road names, like Desert Vista, or Mountain Shade, or The Girl who lived in the trailer who gave it out to everyone Lane. I wonder how they get these names.

I don’t get it. Axe is advertising for some instrument to use to clean up footballs, basketballs, etc. What is with that. I thought it was deodorant and the like.

11-15-10 : I have decided that I have too much real news here, so I am going to make up a page to hold news. Any suggestions where on this site it should be? Not that I am going to listen, but ...

How do we keep bears from becoming Communists? Here is how we keep bears from becoming Communists. What happens when we protect ourselves from the animals? Here’s what happens when we protect ourselves from animals. But where should we look to protect ourselves? Here is where to look to protect ourselves. But what could happen if we are not careful? Here is what might happen if we are not careful.

Who are these killers and why do they do what they do? Maybe this will help explain it. In their spare time they act like this.

Yesterday I pointed out how the Navajo Indians won the 2nd world war. Here is what they got to remember it by.

Speaking of the Navajo lands in Arizona, today a dead man’s dead body was discovered dead in northwestern Arizona. You know, hit the Grand Canyon, and go northwest from there. The dead person was killed by a man who died in 1994 or some such. Killer Story!

Talking about illegal aliens, here is why they are leaving Arizona to move to California (hint - it isn’t medical marijuana). Michigan, meanwhile, has its own problems.  Like trying to figure out if you commit a crime by pourlng scalding water over the deceased. But Florida has to deal with real to god vampires biting necks of prey.

11-14-10 : Today PBS ran a Veterans’ Day show about the Navajo Indian Code Talkers. All they did, literally, was speak their language into a machine, or listen to a machine to what some other Navajo was saying. And now it’s like they are claiming they individually won W.W.II. So, anyhow, I learned something about languages. The Navajo did not refer to alcohol as “fire water”. That was just a translation from Navajo to the Queen’s English.

ND - Shame on YOU! Making fun of little Irish dwarfs or whatever is just wrong.

Speaking of wrong, should this Catanooga Choo choo replace this?

I added or created (actually updated)  a page about my St Joe MI school experience here.

11-13-10 : AZ vote results are changing - looks like Prop 203 may be a winner after all. Now I wonder if old people will go to Mexico to get their drugs at reduced cost.

The Momsens :

Why can’t light escape from African-American holes? Ask the physicists for chrisake.

11-12-10 : OK. Time for educating you on some stuff.

In 1905 Einstein generated his Theory of Relativity. Thereafter, having the physics basics down, in 1918, physicists were able to change time. This is where daylight savings comes from. Thank physics.

To keep your education going, here is how to say “hush” if you are a Paki - like this. I HOPE EVERYONE CLICKS THAT TO BE BLESSED WITH NICE NOISE. Try it. It won’t hurt.

Have you looked on Youtube for Popa Chubby yet? He does Backdoor Man really well.

To keep your election results updated, in the state of Arizona, which has over 120,000 people including Phoenix, those voting against medical marijuana are prevailing by by 724 votes. But here’s the thing: Arizona’s election laws require all votes in by today. But they haven’t counted them all. They are still counting. There will be a lawsuit.

Say. Do you know why squirrels swim on their backs? So their food doesn’t get wet and soggy.

There is so much bizarre news out there. Sometimes it just does whatever that guy said in that movie where the bag swirls around for minutes and minutes. National Lampoon’s American the Beauty or some such. Anyhow, there is a LOT of it out there. Six dying from eating a turtle. A house in PA a foot deep in rats. Someone in Russia keeping a rare tiger as a house pet. Mexican battles over Cancun Tiger. China’s proposed one-dog rule. Dinosaur embryo found in old egg. 400 year old turtles. But surely you are more up to date on all those things than I could ever be - heck, I just heard about some of them here myself.

Did you know solar energy is not infinite. Every particle of light you take you are taking away from someone else or something else. Are you trying to freeze out the universe?. So we know solar isn’t the future. I figure the future will be built on polar bear as a renewable energy source. Because they are more like we are than you may think. Before you gret all hot and bothered about that, cool off for a minute.

11-11-10 : Did you know that the date 11-11-10 only happens once this year? It’s true. Interesting? Not as interesting as this.

Onto Parenting 101 : This. This. This. Not this.

Continuing our incessant coverage of the war of animals vs humans, there is this, this, this, this, this, and perhaps this. I am fearful of radioactive animals, to be sure.

Today a large online retail bookseller took off line its instruction kit on how to be a law-abiding pedophile. Now where are they supposed to get their training - the Catholic Church?

Here’s some hair-raising news to cogitate upon. And this striking lady was arrested - shocking! But this story is just as fishy as this one, don’t you think?

11-10-10 : Got prediabetes? They’ve got crap for that now. Need a car? Consider optional payment methods for it. Or eat less for more money if that’s your choice.

Back to animals for a moment, it seems whales have figured out how to attack. Why would they do this? but doesn’t this sound nuts? What can we do to reverse this trend? And what might they do in response?

11-09-10 : Apparently the Mich Ass’t AG got fired for picking on a gay fellow. How gay is that? Speaking of which, here is something from the CDC to ponder:

In similar news,here are some things to ponder: Are animals on the prowl? Should they be? Where would they prowl? What should we do? Who should we protect? What should we use? What would we look for? Would they look out for one another? How might they respond? What would we say? Where would we hide? Can’t we just move them? Can we make use of them?  Well, you get the general drift - we aren’t safe anywhere, they are attacking everywhere, and it is all because of GW Bush no doubt. Why else indeed? At lease we can help clean up our own messes, eh?

I remembered the reason NPR says not everything on the net is public domain - seems a cooking magazine ripped off verbatim many recipes from some lady who complained. The mag laughed at her complaints and said everything on the web is free to use - public domain. Apparently there are some who don’t agree with this. Isn’t that silly? But not as silly as this. Time to help them out? Maybe not.

Wow. That was heavy.

Speaking of proud parents, I bet the black guy who was in the Matrix is very proud that his daughter got into movies without his help, all on her own, and still he bitches about it. What a poor father. Another proud parent set must be of the girl who dresses like a raccoon all the time - Taylor Momsen or whatever her name is.

11-08-10 : The hawk tried to capture 2 birds out of a tree this weekend. Cool to see; he didn’t succeed though. I continue to feed the ‘baid’ (cardinals, cactus wrens, morning (mourning?) doves, and some sparrows, plus 2 chipmunks or as I call them, Suguaro Bears) to keep the hawk coming.

So, I spent hours and hours reinstalling programs, killing dupes, trying to organize my files. It is quite a job, but I may be up to it.

Arizona still doesn’t know if it is for or against medical marijuana - seems the poll counters must have been smoking some ‘whacky tabacci’ and can’t count well.

LiLo was released from rehab to shop just in time to find out SamRo is hitting it with Xtina. Wow, what a complex, complicated mess that sounds like. 

Today on NPR they said that it isn’t public domain just because it is on the web. Oh contrair, mon frair. Not sure you are actually right on that - much legal research to be done. But speaking of PD etc, check out Ares, www.aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net for a nice program to get PD programs, or to use as a bittorrent program. Whatever all those are.

As a kid, I knew a kid, Johnny Bojack, who had polio. Anyone seen him lately? Butch Davis I saw dealing LSD around when I graduated from high school. Haven’t kept up with him either.

Watching a light humor movie tonight  - The Girl Next Door. Not sure if it is written by the guy(s) who wrote The Hangover or not. We’ll see.

11-06-10 : Just got nearly completed with an upgrade from Win XP to Win 7. I hate figuring out where all my programs are to reinstall; I hate reinstalling programs too. Thought it was an upgrade. But anyhow it looks like even this software may work.

One astute reader noticed the pic of the roadrunner isn’t very good. 5.1 megapixel crap phone! But on the other hand, our African Animal Issues Reporters have provided some good info which I will try to include shortly. 

I will also update on some really terrible movies I have watched lately.

11-04-10 : Ever have one of those nights you can’t sleep? Neither have I, and I think anyone who has must have some moral weakness. Likewise with being hungry, tired, anxious, afraid, happy, glad, sad, bad, or even a tad giddy.

So, I was watching, like I am sure most of you were, White Zombie. I think it gives Haiti a bad name. Or maybe adds to the bad name. Although it is an older movie, perhaps the first Zombie movie of all time! What did you think the 1st time you saw it? Were you frightened? Scared? Terrified? Sickened? Constipated? Tell me, please.

11-03-10 : The voters have spoken. They are conservative, so they don’t want change. So they vote to keep the status quo. Quo figure. Since it was only elderly people voting for Sarah Palin, they defeated marijuana reform in California and Arizona. And Russ Fiengold out - can you believe it? My predictions? Guess. Guess I’m glad I didn’t invest in some Humbolt County Grow Farm last week. Property values had been going up - maybe the real estate “issues” will hit there too.

Speaking of real estate, if someone is “under water” what does it really matter if they can afford the payments? They must have thought the house was worth whatever it cost. Like a car, expect some depreciation and expect maintenance costs. Over time property values seem to keep going up. Like bread. Or cereal. It’s just like eating a million boxes of Frosted Flakes. I almost said the cereal Kellogg invented for insane asylum patients to eat in lieu of masturbating, but I’m sure you already knew that. So anyhow, if someone can afford something, the mere fact that it isn’t worth as much as they owe on it shouldn’t mean much, using the car thing as a similar situation.

Winter is moving in like a lion. Next week the temperatures are going to drop to the low 80s. Imagine. Time to get the mukluks out. Ever been ice fishing? It’s like that, but without the ice. And a little warmer. And not wet. And with the sun. But otherwise, basically exactly like ice fishing.

11-2-10: Election Day. Vote and vote often. Or exercise your right to say “None of the above” or say nothing. That’s what liberty is all about.

There haven’t been entries in a couple days. Let me explain. I was subject to a home invasion last week and am frankly still recovering from it. It is hard to express the feelings of fear, rage, terror, anger, frustration, exhaustion, intimidation, bitterness, sadness, despondence, helplessness, hopelessness, homelessness, pantlessness, and yes, even concern. But enough about me.

This last week was potentially the best our Make It Happen Campaign has had yet! That is so awesome. We want to thank the many, many, many, many, many people who have taken advantage of Tom’s Annual  “Recession Rate Reduction” Program. It is like TARP, but with more Rs.

So, last week I read this review in I think MSNBC about the top 10 horror movies, so today I viewed Phantasm, so you don’t have to. How some expert on nuclear fusion got to review a movie is beyond me, but here I go anyhow. The movie is bad. Like the MJ song. It has some great scenes, such as when 2 occupants in a car are being followed by a hearse and one says “There’s no one driving” and then about 4 minutes later the other notes “There’s no one driving.” It can’t figure out what it is - is it ghosts, or ghouls,  or outer spacemen, or naked girls, or just stupid people. For example, this girl is riding shotgun and outside her door there is something growling and trying to open the door. So the girl opens the door to see what it is. Educated, well-reasoned and considered decisions such as you or I might make, I am sure.

Then they picked Videodrome. As scary. Yeah. Right. Right on.

Some they apparently hadn’t seen would in my book include : Haloween; Room 1408; Nightmare on Elm Street. The Birds, for chrissake. So, they’re the experts, I’m just a hack hacking around playing haki-sak in Hakinstak, New Jersey.

I am not sure if I mentioned specifically that a road runner came into the condo the other day!! It was so cool, and here is a small pic of it: Sorry about the quality - my 5.1 megapixel phone camera works worth crap but my little handheld wasn’t available in the time I had.

It does sort of resemble a bird out of Geriatric Park. From the Mesozoic period, I would say.

Some current pics here:

My pages here are getting too long. In the next several (periods of time inserted here) I will be figuring out if I should only go back X (number of days or weeks) periods of time on the “current” page and then reduce the remainder to a menu on the next page or some such. So in the meantime if you are wondering why there isn’t a pic of me up there, here it is.

During the power outage I was able to collect some interesting tidbits about the war animals are currently waging on America. And by animals, I mean animals. Plus insects. And maybe some vegetation. I will post some info in a bit, don’t you worry. Like this. Or this. Well, those are more holiday related clips, but you get the general drift.

Today I learned a valuable lesson. It seems the Roman representation for thirty also signifies “big boy stuff”. Didn’t know that; learn something new every day.

10-26-10 : Today I was looking around on the Internet and learned some disturbing things. It appears that the ancient Greeks were Nazis, as were early Jews, Buddists, and of course cave men. They all used the same kinds of symbols, like these:

I learned this because I took Greek in college and wanted to delve into architectural theory and art history tonight. And all I got was sick thinking about how the Buddists must want to kill Jews, and how caveman was a bigot, and things like that. If caveman weren’t a bigot, where is Neanderthal then? Then I read that there used to be a whole nation dedicated to my clan - a Ryan nation! I’m serial. Or is that cereal? But seriously, history really looks at stuff that already happened, so it’s sort of like re-reading a story or watching a rerun for the nth time, where n can be anything from 0 to Infinity plus Lexus.

Politics? 

Today I saw a road runner running on the road. Isn’t that ironic, don’t you think? Yesterday he was on my wall. And no, he doesn’t say “meep meep” although I really don’t know that because I have never heard him so maybe he does . . .

Classmates (St Joe High, ‘71) are reminiscing about being kids. I’m not sure what I think about that.

Did you know movies are almost 100 years old? It’s true. How far we have come, and how great the early Winchester films stood up to time. It is sort of like my first hard drive, which was called a Winchester because it had 2 five meg drives, and a 8 1/2” floppy, and you had to build a bios for it so your hardware could see your hardware. By “build” I mean basically tell the software specifically what is there for it to look for and see and communicate with. This was in a software that the owner/writer of which chose to go flying when IBM came to discuss DR-DOS and since he wasn’t there to keep his meeting, IBM went to a little company called Microsoft. So there you have it - the rest of the story. And Cpm was pretty cool. Then MS-DOS was neat too and ran the same stuff (Wordstar, Supercalc or Visicalc) as CPM. And remember the 1st “linking” (like html links) program Lucid 3-D and then a Microsoft program Multiplan or MultiMate that also did the “linking” thing.  PC-DOS. 2.x, 3.1, 3.2 and “call” added to 3.3 so batch files could do stuff much more easily. When a program was like 89k and did really what you needed to get done. DESQview, which I thought was the absolute coolest thing on 4 feet.

10-25-10 : When Helen Hunt and the kid from Harry Potter get married in “Deep Impact” and then she can’t “go over” and he leaves and then he goes back for Helen Hunt, I wonder if it is really right for her to be married to a kid. And that movie angered me on so many levels. First off, the space craft had a graphic showing if the craft were “level”. Although level to what? Florida? Then the comet was listed by what it weighed, but if it “weighed” it would fall, so it is in what is called a waitless state while in a state of weightlessness.

10-20-10 : Our cat Black Bud died yesterday. He may have been poisoned. How could someone sleep at night after poisoning a neighbor’s cat? I don’t get it. Anyhow, he was the coolest cat I have ever seen - he played “fetch”, he barked like a dog, he was friendly to everyone he met, and he had goofy fangs. Here is his page here.

The new code in the military is apparently “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”.

I wish there were a foolproof test to see if that lady is a witch. Do witches float?

I want to put a political sign in my yard declaring of some candidate “Like Hitler. But mean.” That would be a memorable slogan.

This is one of those weeks when nothing seems to be going right. No “gel” in my life right now. But hopefully things will pick up my mood soon. Send me an email - that always cheers me up!

10-16-10 : Power was out so I missed a few days...

I am not running a “safe house” for illegals from south of the border. Besides, I thought heading for the border just meant I was going to Taco Bell.

I mentioned somewhere else, but ponder this sentence sometime, speaking with your greatest BBC inner voice: “The Schemers schedule their schemes in school.” Be consistent. You know how they say “schedule” so say it properly. Shedule. Shool? Sheemers? Sheesh. It’s enough to make mey glad I don’t speak Brittish. How to the Indians say that? I don’t know. So Sioux me.

6-12-10 : Because there are some trying to start rumours, I cannot claim full and sole ownership of the Kalamazoo Endowment guarantying 4 years paid college tuition, because to be honest, it is a bit more than just the effort of one who, like I, hope to make it happen. That was on a button up top there.

I am officially pretty much off the hook for that Aruba thing, and I hear the Italian thing was really a mob job. So much out there in “reality”, isn’t there?

Today we learned that Africa is Great Britain’s Bitch. Since Great Britain is America’s Bitch, I guess that sort of puts South Africa into perspective. And yes, I do believe that those horns actually sound like, and probably are, kazoos, which are stable and pretty easy to use.

Aren’t you glad that they didn’t name America after Columbus, because Columbia has serious problems which frankly I would not want to have.

Yesterday I accidentally refered to “Bristol” as “Crystal or ‘Meth’. Apparently it is claimed to be believed to be Bristol or Bristal or some such. And earlier references to tea baggers were intended to reflect upon her former mate (as technically I think would be the proper term) and his posing for PlayGirl, Hustled, and MILF Monthly, in the nude. I did not intend to suggest that Crystal had a problem with “The Black Dragon Tea”. That may have been Anjolie Jolie or Jolie Foster or whatever. I merely mentioned that there seemed to be a lot of carbohydrates for just 2 people, and one of them was just like a year or so old . . .  And to be honest, I thought it looked like a mobile home. I didn’t realize that homes were made like that currently I guess. Alaska Culture Chic I guess.

6-11-10 : Well, in case you didn’t realize, I made the page “initially invisible” whatever that means beyond I couldn’t see anything... Anyhow, you are reading so therefore it is fixed.

Ok. I like this. Therefore (?) I like this.

I am glad that I live in a country where anyone can make money for nothing. It is important.

On a totally separate and distinct note, did you see that Crystal (Meth?) Palin or whatever the young unwed mother of an illegitimate bastard is named, is making between 20 and 40 thousand dollars per speaking engagement? She speaks. They listen. She walks away with buckets of money for sharing the obviously important family values of a usual momma grizzly with her boot on the neck of the wolf she just shot and field dressed. Because it is important, you owe it to yourself to make it happen.

His Royal Highness has summoned from his vast kingdom the head honky of British Petroleum to meet arms at theMexican Gulf at high noon to celebrate his Royal Highness. And with the vigour of a Prince like Harry, he will then walk away, a better man for the experience.

6-10-10 : Sorry for the redundancy but it comes with the date.

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama spoke at Kalamazoo Central High School. Did I mention that I got to close the Latin Program down at Kalamazoo Central High School? Did you know I have a Latin Book that was signed out by Darek Jeter or whatever his name is? Did Candidate Barack Obama speak while I was at Kalamazoo Central? No. Coincidinky? I think not.

It is fun to watch the military gear up for something. I remember our family driving north from San Diego and seeing these bizarre vehicles racing over the desert in California. Hum Vs they were.

I remember a friend joking about how the government was getting rid of all sorts of Gulf War crap in the Balklands, not to be confused with the Falklands which was home to the largest Brittish navel invasion since D-Day itself. Lately I have seen a lot of helicopters and jets with missles attached to them. Perhaps the next Iron Man is filming here. I don’t know. I’m not intelligence, much less military. So don’t ask me, ok?

It has really cooled off the last couple days. 101 today, they say. I can hear them. Outside. I have no idea who they are, but they say it is 101. Tomorrow, an even cooler 100 with like 15 nautical knots per hour gusts of hot air over the daytime desert. Maybe more knots than that. I am not knowing.

I really would like it if people would sign the guest book because that will help prove to my family that they are not the oonly non-readers. In other words, by seeing your names they will be reminded of the names not yours out there whom they may join to not read and not have their names listed but be rather incorporated by not being listed.

6-8-10 : If I have the AC at 85, it is 20 degrees cooler than outside.

Fairey Angel Wings are glowing in the Gulf of Mexico. In olden times some called these plumes. But they are Fairey Angel Wings and are beautiful to behold. We are lucky to have them.

When Brittish Petroleum was asked about what BP stood for, they announced “Barack’s Problem.”

Mexicans continued mining humans today. They have everything in Mexico. Man.

Speaking of Mexicants I am getting ready to take over the Mexican Cartel.

Speaking of Breaking Bad, I guess you don’t really know what Walt has been through until you have been there. By which I of course mean lung surgery. Of which he had a lot. He had a tumor removed from his left lung. “Like, wow.” Did they go through his clavicle? It looks like they went from behind. Because as one who has no clue what he is talking about, it seems to me if he had a lot of tissue removed he wouldn’t be jumping around, or having falls on his chest, or things like that. But again, I haven’t had a small amount of tissue removed have I? So who am I to question these things....

Ok. Here is the current skorekard - (see how “hip” I am???)

 Molly is married to Osama.

Caitlin is engaged to Arie.

Maggie is living life in Istambul.

Maureen and I are in Tucson or Grand Rapids or somewhere.

I think each of my kids has made good choices in life. I think all things considered, so did I.

6-7-10 : Today the US accepted BP’s check for 69,000,000.00 dollars. Unfortunately it had written right at the endorsement spot the following “Complete payment for any/all claims from Event Horizon Oil Disaster 2010 - endorser agrees to indemnify BP for any/all claims above and beyond this amount.” and William Gueitner signed it and deposited it, so now the US is on the hook for everything out there, which is too bad because BP made more money than the US did last year and will this year also. On a brighter note, resorts around the gulf will be able to make much needed repairs to their empty facilities this summer.

A desert Boomer Bird has been showing up lately. Related to the bird known for its stilted and diminutive size, the Retarded Fred Bird, the Boomer Bird shows a most nasty disposition.

Today, shortly after completing financial matters related to the Gulf of Mexico, President Barak Obama announced that he had signed regulations which now require what were formerly called oil balls to be called instead Princess Angel Footprints. Children are being asked to alert authorities to parents who are not following regulations, for “updating procedures”. All in all, it seems to have worked itself out already, as reservations are moving from “Disney World” to “The World of Princess Angel Footprints”. It is no contest. Oh how the children love those footprints, usually carefully packaging them and transporting them up north to Baton Rouge and other northern towns.

6-1-10 : In a stunning turn-around in international relations, Iran today offered to provide the nuclear technology to blast the oil leak in the Gulf. North Korea then offered the submarine technology to make it possible. Fearless Leader praised them both for their kind offers, and indicated that he has the buck(s) to transport the needed items but noted concern that Isreal might step up pirate tactics to prevent the flotilla from reaching Louisiana’s shores. Somalian boaters offered their help in getting the shipments through. Talk about dramatic changes in the world’s political face. Then Japan’s Prime Minister quit because he would not assist an imperialistic country’s attack on mammals in the Gulf just because there was a small oil leak. .

To be honest, I had not realized that Isreal’s crack military team was facing the Ys of some sling-shots. That makes everything ok. Even if they were only wooden sling-shots, or even just big sticks.

5-30-10 : Here is something I am certain you don’t have...

but then again, you don’t look like this actual picture of ... ME!!!:

A  R Y A N

Tom Ryan, that is... There is A Ryan named Maureen, or Mag, or Caitlin, or Molly. Here is our window decal in our car:

and hopefully you don’t look like our First “Lady” Gaga Obama working on tennis with kids in Chicago in her “Don’t overeat but be proud of the body Gosh gave you” look.

Arizona has determined to boycott everything California because California kills bounty without specific legal authority, which is basically murder or manslaughter or something like that.

 AZPD found these real Canadians.

Accordingly, don’t ask, don’t let go is working here in Arizona. Yea!

Somalian pirates took over another ship today. Here is a pic of one of them.

   Pesky Pirates, if I do say so myself.

On a better note, Halle Barry was out and about in Hollywood today sexy as ever.

5-28-10 : Today I would like to remember those who had a draft number too high to allow them to enlist in the Armed Services during Viet Nam. They will never know what Victory smells like.

When World War II ended in 1949 the United States became the leader of the world, free or otherwise. Since then we have been at the lead in industry, particularly military-related industry, or as Ike called it the Military-Industrial Complex, because we are complex. Like carbohydrates. We are carbohydrates. Therefore we are complex, and complave at the same time. It is a dilemma.

Also today, Japan’s Ministra of Science noted that the Gulf of Mexico difficulties are likely to be traced directly to whales, and Japan has offered to assist in eradication procedures to clear the oceans of whales who pollute our seas and coastlands. Here she is.

SuperStar Gary Coleman was married to his 4th wife today in Utah, Gilda Radner. For more info, see here.

5-27-10 : I was contacted by the EPA today and asked to reconsider my computations on oil spilled near Louiseville, and I did so. So there.

Fearless Leader had a press conference today where he announced that because of his extensive oil well experience he is asking Former Presidential Hopeful and In Fact GW Bush for help. Figures. Bush Light is what some are calling him. Next he’ll be claiming to be from America and try to thwart Arizona police from arresting him.

5-26-10 : The head of BP announced today from his villa in Jamaica that BP has decided no one is really satisfied with them so far, so they are kicking in the 75 million bux admiralty law requires, and leaving to whomever wants the job of cleaning up the hundreds of gallons of oil, and also noted that it is the intention of BP to charge each state for the amount of oil BP has delivered to them. President Barack Obombabigbuilding expressed the gratitude of the American people and wished BP the best in future deep water oil explorations.

I found out yesterday that what I say here could be used against me. Accordingly, I want it known that I did not have anything to do with any deaths in the mid-west the last few days, because I wasn’t there.

In related news, the Pope today mentioned that if God hadn’t intended for priests to rape little boys “God wouldn’t have made them so god damned good looking.” The Pope also noted that if God had intended for women to be priests, he “would have given them external genitalia”. He then suggested that Catholics begin referring to female genital mutilation as “Female Genital Enhancement Proceedure”. He then issued a fatua against the woman who became a priest in Italy last week.

As someone who was drafted between 1978-1983 and served those 8 years inVietnam and Cambodia and Peking looking for an escaped Captain named Willard, it sickens me to have politicians pretend like they were in “Nam” when humans like me were on the front-lines in Pyong Nam Penn, Sacro Illy Ack, Seoul, and many other Vietnam communities getting shot at, around, or out of cannons. I will not vote for anyone from Connecticut who pretends to have a service record like I do. Because it makes me physically ill. And the bad physical ill, not like where if a female feels sick to her stomach so she throws up or drops a bunch of pounds where that is a good physical ill like being bulimic or having the throwing up disease or whatever it is called these days around your part of the neck of the woods. But the bad physically ill like where you want to smoke but don’t want to because you want to quit and not have the urge but you did quit and still have the urge so what is that all about anyway? Remember something like that?

Speaking of remembering, remember that John Wayne couldn’t get into the armed services because he only had 1 testicle.

And on a related note, did you know that you can’t libel a dead person? Speaking of which, did you realize that John Wayne died???? It is a fact and it is true. Hear that, Jack Ruby, you Jew-hating mongrel???

5-25-10 :  I have been working the last few days computing the amount of oil released into the Golf of Mecsicko, and my computations are as follow:

5 gal/day X 30 days = 150 gal of oil released in the last month.

This is based on what I have heard about films showing the oil escaping from the bottom of the sea. I did not want to see the film and become somehow biased. That is how honest we are here.

Now, why is everyone making a big deal out of 150 galons? Ecspeshully when the Atlantic Ocean contains, by my most accurate calculations, some 1,500,000 gallons (Imperial) of water. Therefore, based upon my personal calculations, there is absolutely nothing to worry about - every thing is good or better. Could I say it if it weren’t true?

I just heard something on the radio today, and I am strongly suggesting that you do as I am going to do, and watch “24” and “Lost” because I have heard a lot about both of them the last few hours, and it seems to me that if the radio is saying so much about them they must be good. So I am going to watch and never miss a show. That is my personal pledge to you and me.

5-22-10 : AZ cops have put out this pic of an illegal alien:

5-21-10 : Today the State of Arizona published a report of an illegal alien caught illegally crossing the national borders of the US of A. Here is the scoop. Photos of others are as follows:

It is not currently known if these are French Canadial peoples, as is strongly suggested by their headwear, or if they are, as has been reported by ICE, Cubans disguised as French Canadials. . We will work hard to figure this one out. But we can definitively report that they are not Mexicans, who more closely resemble these photos of actual illegals, aliens, or, as I like to think of them, bounty.

Today’s internal links (2 of them) are here and there. Oh, btw and on the qt if you click on the eyes of some of the people pictures of illegals you will note that I am keeping you on your toes to make sure that you are really looking at the pages you are looking at.

Do you want to know a couple scientific facts? The Salt Barrier Reef Duck can hold 100 times its weight in oil? I am thinking I may see a solution to some problems currently existing. And when full (of oil) the birds go to the bottom of the reef to return the oil “from whence it came.” Now that is what I call recycling, and eco-friendly because it only uses existing technologies and organic ducks or duck organs or something like all that. I remember as a kid Lake Michigan and St. Joe had oil wash up on the shore and it was there seemingly (to little me) about 2 years. “No big woof.”

Also, if Mexico doesn’t want assault rifles being imported into Mexico, Mexico should beef up its own security. They are responsible for what goes into their country. Otherwise Mexico should have to pay for all the border guard activity in sunny AZ. Because if you exchange “illegal alien” for “assault rifles” and “Mexico” with “the U.S.” and “AZ” with “McSicko” then you will see the logic and truth in this.

Speaking of foreign languages like Mexican, I was wondering earlier today what language they speak in Indian land. It sounds like Apache, but it could possibly be Sioux with a Choctaugh accent.

Illegal Immigration Alert (IIA) : Grand Rapids was the scene of one of the largest “busts” of Mexicans wrongfully in the US. Here is the article. Our reliable sources have suggested that they traveled by boat either around the Cape of Good Horns, or through the Suez Canal in Panama, from there up past Florida, and on up to Canadia, where they traveled by rail to Montreal, Toronto, and on to Detroit, where they traveled by rail to Lansing and then to Grand Rapids. Since Mexicans are currently afraid to set foot in Arizona, that would seem to be the most direct way without going through Juarez.

Speaking of countries in the southwest, did you remember that Texas is refusing to teach about Thomas Jefferson but is teaching that NATO may threaten the existence of America, and that taxes are detrimental to capitalism. But you know what? If no one pays any taxes, who is going to fix potholes in the highways and roads and avenues all over every state? I mean, I could maybe help with or work on 1 or 2 a year, but since time is money that would be the equivalent to a tax anyway. Unless you or someone else wants to pay me. If you do, make sure to make it happen by clicking this little word here.

5-19-10 : Why is it that in terms of sex scandals, the Republicants are always hooking up with members of the same sex, whereas Democrats generally hook up with members of the opposite sex?

Today I am watching a Kubrick family movie. The one starrring Scatman Corothers and Robert Duvall’s wife and that big old resort in Colorado. My sister-in-law let 2 of her kids be in it - here they are:

      Aren’t they just so precious? That’s Peggy and Margie.

Today’s internal links (which I have already missed several days) :

5-18-10 : You know what a marine mathematician says? Semper Pi. Ok, now, guess who says these things: Semper Fry;  Semper Die;  Semper Cry;  Semper Try;   Semper Fi;   Semper High;   Semper Buy;    Semper Semper Lie;   Semper My;     Semper Why?   

If you could get 3 or more of those, that means you’re a gay fish.  HAHAHAHA!!!!!!  

It seems that there is some oil in the Golf of the Mexicans. I wonder if Tiger will be there. What about you - what do you wonder?

Ok, was watching Kubrick movies like Paths of Glory, etc. etc. and discovered that Kubrick did not write or direct Miss Congeniality. Hmmmph. I do get surprised every now and then.

In searching the legislative history of Arizona’s new law on proving you are legally in the U.S.A., it seems that the following words have been too often overlooked :  “Inasmuch as the State of Arizona has determined that there exists a real and probable danger that Canadians and Cubans will cross the border illegally, NOW THEREFORE we establish it as law that the police shall be required to investigate and determine where someone is from, because otherwise Canadians and Cubans will slip through the cracks and lead us to Communism or Socialized Medicine.”  Having read that, I must insist that the law is NOT TO GO AFTER A SPECIFIC NATIONALITY because clearly they are looking at two different nationalities, not one specific one. Thank God that has been cleared up now...

5-15-10 : You know how in college you wrote a paper for a psych class comparing the stories of A Clockwork Orange and Jesus (born, died, reborn)? Isn’t that weird??? Do you know what else you remembered? Let us know! I say that because I am going thru Kubrick movies now that I am done with the extensive Sharon Tate collection by whatshisname who California wants to sentence in person.

Apparently a psychological analysis of A Clockwork Orange would look more at the Pavlovian aspects of the conditional training young Alex gets or something like that. I still compare it to the tale of Jesus H. Christ.

 cool mid-90s today.

5-14-10 : Today I saw what road runners try to catch - small sparrows! And the road runner is quite quick off the old wall if I do say so myself, but not quick enough to catch one of the sparrows.

Today Barack Obombabigbuilding was tripping over himself to blame Halliburton and PPG or GE or BP or whatever for the “gusher” in “The Sea” or “The Golf” or whatever they may call it these days. Speaking of which, I am a bit disappointed that I wasn’t nominated for the Supreme Court, although I do recognize that I have been under the weather and am not really up to the “vetting” process right now. So, if nominated, I shall refuse to serve.

5-13-10 :

O  M  G 

If anyone asks I’ll post the info om why I was in the World News Weekly (you remember Batboy, right?)

Whew, missed a close one there. I was just about to enter the navy to work on a submarine, and now they make smoking off limits and women on limits?  “There ain’t no smokes and they ain’t all blokes” the Prime Minister of ShippyStuffery was overheard to say to his mate at the sub, quoting President Obombabigbuilding, Ruler of the Free World.  Speaking of which (?) FREE I believe was the name of the group that got blown up and burned up in that building by the Philadelphia police. Like 25 years ago or some such. It seems so yesterday to me. Who was the Janet Reno of that Waco? And speaking of which also and in addition, is our fearless leader smoking now or is he a quitter?

I hate it when someone who obviously does not show an ability to communicate in the English language tries to do so. I first met this ilk in law school (did you forget that?) in The Internal Revenue Code, through a very nice Vietnamese woman. And I am sure - positive - that she knew it inside out, but she couldn’t communicate it. Or Ricky Ricardo, the nice South American (Mexico?) who taught the Uniform Commercial Code. Which if you haven’t ever looked at it, might seem and be overwhelming to some. He taught us about charch cards. I personally found it difficult to get past the inability to fully understand, or the intense attention and focus I might try to give to make sure I didn’t miss something.

In some statistics class at TGVSU which was one of those classes that I absolutely knew I was never going to invest the time to learn proper analysis of results, making sure of validity and blah blah blah. He was recently from China, having stopped at Northern Arizona University first.

I did a lot of research on the movie Eyes Wide Closed, and found out that Thom Cruz was married to his wife in that movie, and she is from Austria I believe and she weighed 103 pounds in the movie. She is 5”10’ so she WAS a bit overwate (overwait?). It is not Nicole Sheridan as earlier reported; it is Nicole ... somethingorother --- did a lot of searching, but found it - Anna Nicole Kidman from Australia. She doesn’t even speak English - she speaks Australian, Bloke. 

I said that because when I am wrong I am man enough to admit it.

5-11-10 : Did you hear about the oil spill in the Gulf?      That means you’re a gay fish.

Speaking of which, do you remember the Gay 90s?   Because that also means you’re a gay fish.

Speaking of which, is it just me or doesn’t Nicole Sheridan or whatever from the movie Eyes Wide Closed with Tom Cruz, is a bit on the overweight side in that movie? I thought she was a bit lighter in The Translation. Because Kubrick’s films are usually always pretty swell, I am re-watching it. Maybe I’ll watch that Colorado Resort Movie or the kid living sort of robot movie later on. Or not. Although I think using the word ‘maybe’ sort of implies ‘or not’, don’t you? Of course we do. And of course if you haven’t already done it, you must make it happen. Because you know what you are if you don’t? Gay. And quite probably in the fish family there somewhere as well...

I guess “yes?” is the answer? 

Speaking of which, isn’t fish oil good? So, why not   fish, oil ? 

5-10-10 : I forgot something yesterday, so 2 today. (1) I ran a BBS   (2) Something Something. I am lazy and tired today but I did complete yesterday’s postings.

I am reading some Roman histories right now. How exciting.

5-9-10 : Watched a bad movie today - The Fearless Vampire Killers. Frankly, if Manson hadn’t done it, this film would have been the end of Sharon Tate. It was directed by her boyfriend.

    (CAN’T RETURN TO US)  Roman “Rosemary’s Baby” Polanski

Sharon (here)  

was killed by some of Manson’s crew...   

whom Squeaky aka “Little Red Riding Hood” cared for much ...

O M G ! Happy Mother’s Day! 

My mom always smoked. Here she is as usual...

To help celebrate, here is one of my favorite recipes which I hope you copy down and duplicate because it is so great!  

And because it is so important. Now, here’s a story about a wanna-be-mom’s hopes, aspirations, and attempts: 

And today is also VD day, celebrating the diseases US soldiers got in WWII in Europe.

5-8-01 : Hit the Home button and then each bottom button and this is what you get... Did you know that already? Probably. Tell me about this stuff so I can share in the knowledge,.

The birds do these adorable dances to woo their potential mates. The males generally raise up their shoulders, spread their wings some, and some of them hop and some of them rapidly move their wings. The grackles look like Count Chocula.

In all my years in and about Arizona I have seen one (1) snake, and that was on the highway in the middle of the day. I have never seen, nor do I completely believe in those things with long curved tails with a stinger on the end. Scorpions. That’s what they are. Or would be if they were. And I have never seen a sign around a cemetary saying “If you lived here, you’d be dead by now.” And there are reasons for this. Like maybe no one ever thought of it until I did in the preceding sentence. Now you will think of it when you go by a cemetary.

Speaking of which (clever sayings, not cemetaries) did you here this about your toilet? “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.”  There. I said it. I got it off Michigan Radio’s Environmental Report about 7 months ago, and committed it to memory so I could post it here ASAP because it is important for you to know. So is this internal link.

5-7-10 : Normally this would be under “what’s new” (above) but it has to do with this page. If you can see the menu way over there <====  on the left, at the bottom v of the menus, it says “Guest Book.” That has been there way over a month, like years, right out in public. Use the menus!! If you are totally lame use your “browse back” button. Why do I say “If”?

The hawk was back yesterday twice - 6a and 9am.

I am for a few days going to point out some special features of this website. For example, did you know that we have covered killers and mass murderers? It is true. 100% fact. Here’s the proof.

E-Coli 0145 from Arizona is getting flack now. Is there no relief for this tired, dusty state? I think maybe succession is in order here. Succession - not just for Texans anymore.

5-5-10 - Happy Sink-O Maria. Jon Kyl today voted to shelf something, just in case there were some democrat or republican who wasn’t there but wanted to shelf it. He is protecting his fellow man, I guess. I swear to God that was his story.

Here are pics of the kind of car I have - mine is light blue/convertible!

Charleton Heston was in Tucson today together with Palin to support the apparently controversial law that places a $5.00 bounty DOA on those who are not able to prove they are lawfully whereever they are. I am thinking that if I get any more “coyotes” I may have him/them do some work around the place. There is some gardening (cutting and removal). Moreover, that would give a sense of accomplishment and self-worth so perhaps the coyote could pay more than the bounty and be let go?

Maureen went home today. It is very quiet here. And warm. Mid to high 90s today. I sat out in the sun for a brief moment today. I threw some food at birds. I am just over 2 weeks post release and hope I continue on the right path toward better health. I have never  been so sick, I’m telling you. I threw up like 22 or 32 times, and was taken by ambulance to the hospital where the staff was informed that I had not had a urine movement or taken a pee or waterin’ the corn as they say in that one place for like 14 hours. Armed with that knowledge, no one asked if I wanted anything to drink. No one offered the use of a bathroom facility. That continued for about 12 hours until there was a room available for me.

Now, the throwing up, I think it has to do with my waiting in an emergency department receiving room for like 11 hours before anyone got around to seeing me. I think I got a hospital-(jason)bourne disease. Anyhow, just over 2 weeks. I have O2 or Oxy as I cotton to say, which I have been using, and now I’m taking anti-anxiety partly to help with the shaking that the steroids cause.

5-4-10 : John McCane and Jon Kyl (dangerous nut there) are advertising on TV that they are going to get an additional 50,000,000 federal troops, AND build “The Fence”. Meanwhile, the legislature here had to clear up some questions concerning the new law, and passed an amendment giving immunity to anyone claiming a bounty on someone who actually was a citizen and not an illegal alien. Because otherwise apparently the liberals think it could or would be considered killing or murder or some such. Anyhooo ...

2 weeks out of the hospital today, and I am still really whiped out.

5-3-10 : Today I began my marathon practice. I have chosen to do the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 26 miles or whatever it is, so I should be up to it shortly. Currently I run the mile in 6:35 over the long haul. Not too bad considering how hard it is to go to the mailbox sometimes.

5-2-10 : This was up until this moment ... (wait for it...) NOW! here but I did a system restore and lost yesterday. Oh well, it was a lame posting anyhow. I will add the 1 significant thought soon.
 

Paul Revere :      vs      Pat Benatar

5-1-10 : May Day :

Today Arizona’s new set of laws kicked in. For starters, Arizona citizens can carry any gun anywhere, anytime, because it is in the 2nd Amendment. And then it is now illegal to look illegal without proof of legality, because if the federal government won’t aid, we’ll take the ball. And of course the bounty on illegals of $5.00 is strongly supported by the Minute Men Orange Juice. So it basically looks like it is going to be a great spring.

Our Fearless Leader spoke in Ann Arbor today. He never did that when I graduated there. Neither did Bush. But then again, it isn’t Bush that Arizona State University wouldn’t give a degree to, is it? I think Barack is either boycotting Arizona or he is just afraid to show up because it is prety clear to some that he isn’t an American but from Rhodesia or Mumbai or somewhere like that.

4-30-10 :

Lost a couple days of the blog yesterday so will rebuild shortly. Don’t forget - older entries are on Page Two. The page got unmanageably long. ...

So, haven’t really been following news lately but I did hear that Obombabigbuilding did open up some offshore drilling recently, and just in time because I sort of gather there is some oil. shortage coming on down the line soon. The similarities between what W did and OBABB does amaze me.

35 years ago today the US declared victory over North Vietnam and immediately left the country.

Margaret Mary Ryan passed the New York Bar Exam! Michigan last summer. Works in Istanbul. Congrats, Mag.

Molly did an incredible paper on mink getting sick from common Michigan pollutants. Way to go Mol!

Caitlin is excelling at Michigan learing how to manage water resourcesd. Apparently U of A here has a good program and she may continue here. Caitlin, we are SO PROUD of you!

And Maureen keeps approaching getting her doctorate. She has worked so hard our entire life, greatly improving the quality of my life, and I thank her so much.. Between the two of us, we make a powerful entity. Awesome!

A week ago I posted some pictures of my accordians here. I will post some pics of the stringed instruments here probably on Science Friday as they call it here in the colonies. I ordered a knock-off Telecaster today and 4 Roman histories. Fun stuff!!!  I have been sort of ‘kicking back’ the last week, since the photo of me below was taken.

Obama is clearly afraid of Arizona. In the first place, if he shows up here, the police are required to arrest him because he was born somewhere but if he can’t produce a birth certificate he won’t be running in this state. Gratefully the state budget is fixing itself without user intervention.

4-23-10 :

I was recently in the hospital. Here is a pic of me there:

but this is cuter :  

That is Blackbud II. He is great and we are proud of him.

4-21-10 :

Two steps forward, three back lately. Another period gone gone gone. I think I now have more oxygen tanks than accordions. I am not a whiner or chronic complainer, and I don’t take self-pity as a virtue, but after time it all sort of wears me down a bit...

As many already know, I have been a long-term advocate of not throwing babies away. Now it seems that perhaps my blog should be mandatory reading. Why? You tell me... Yesterday there was another one in the local press of a similar vein.

Apparently there was a ratttler here yesterday, but I wasn’t here to see it. Skewered rattlesnake stew is really good for you, though. I was tonld that onec by “Bert”, a jerk I went on a fly-in fishing trip in Manitoba years ago.

My personal “today” playlist but ignore the Argent dupes.