It’s working….

“We cannot expect Americans to jump from Capitalism to Communism…But we can assist their leaders in giving them small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have communism”

Nikita Kruschev
1959

And again…

Happy Birthday to my youngest brother.

He too isn’t any smaller than me (actually he is bigger).

But there was a day, long ago, when I could pick on him as well.

Those day are past.

Time to contact yer congrescriters again.

If THIS is true, then we need to ramp up the contacts with our senators/

Call em, write em/ email em. fax em.

Carrier pigeons work too.

Me, I think that to make sure you get the message across you should consider wrapping your letter in a brick or large stone and…..well, you know.

just sayin’

ETA: Apparently his executive order has accomplished the same thing.

Interesting perspective

So yesterday, Had a customer ask where she could get a bottle of water. (east coaster)

“Vending machine at the end of the hall. $1.75 each.”

“Or there is a sink right there and cups to your left. “

“You drink your tap water?” She asks with a wide eyed face….

“That is unsafe! Who knows how many chemicals there are in there!”

Now the well we have is tested by the state quarterly for nitrates and coliforms and I pay yearly to have it tested for nearly anything else except radionucleides and such, and it is better than most bottled water. 

I explained that to her, and she still wasn’t convinced. In the city where she lives, tap water is barely clean enough for bathing and flushing (so she claims). Therefore, in her mind, all tap water is unsuitable for consumption.But bottled water is safe…….

I waited until after she had finished her bottle of water to show her (on the label) that the bottle had been filled from a municipal water supply…..

Why would you live in an area where you (believe) cannot drink the water from your tap?

File this under “duh!”

Seems that the news media and (but I repeat myself) liberals have just figured out that many business es will cut hours to help defray costs of Obamacare.

Really?

Just figured that out did you?


Thought that all those business owners were stupid?

They aren’t. They (actually having some “skin” in the game) planned ahead. They have to. They don’t have unlimited budgets.

Deal with the mess you have made. Hope that your constiuents can deal with it as well.

Assholes

Disturbing…..Very disturbing

If it is true.

Watch this video:

Now: I cannot find out if this is true or someone ginning up fear and conspiracy theories.

But it isn’t outside the realm of possibility…And I have seen other examples from the ’70 s that were real.

Decide for yourself.
Found HERE

Not just a conversation about race….But an *HONEST* conversation.

Here is a start.

Until the truth is faced, distasteful though it might be for some folks, there will be no fix.

Until the truth is admitted, that the culture is damaged, there can be no change for the better.

Until we stop making excuses for, and hiding from, the truth…..

Until anyone who posts something like this isn’t immediately attacked as a racist….

And lest I forget:

Happy Birthday to my brother.

Seems like such a short time ago I was beating you up because I could (because I was bigger).

Not so much for the past 35 years or so.

Yer as big as me now, and you have become a good guy and have many accomplishments to be proud of.

Another turn around our star for you.

May you have many more.

Schmoo 8/13/12

So it has been a year..

A long year.
A year without my friend of 16 years.
A year without a dog in my life.

A year of reflections, of memories, of hurt and loss and grief and pain,
Of smiles at those memories, and yes, a tear or two.

A year that has taught me a bit, when I have taken the time to think, and learn.
A year of tending the tree that I planted over her grave.

I miss my dog.

I miss my friend.

I don’t know if I will ever get another dog. I have 4 (nearly 4 1/2!) cats.
They love me, and I, them.

But they aren’t a dog, and they love in a different way…

She led the way…..I am sure we will meet again….

Someday.

Kipling had it right:

 

The Power of the Dog
by
Rudyard Kipling

There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to
fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why
do we always arrange for more?

Brothers and sisters, I bid you
beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.


Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot
lie–
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or
a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your
heart to a dog to tear.


When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in
asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet’s unspoken prescription
runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find–it’s
your own affair–
But … you’ve given your heart to a dog to
tear. 


When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper
of welcome, is stilled (how still!)
When the spirit that answered
your every mood
Is gone–wherever it goes–for good,
You will
discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to
tear. 


We’ve sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to
burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At
compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the
case, I believe,
That the longer we’ve kept ‘em, the more do
we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A
short-term loan is as bad as a long–
So why in–Heaven (before
we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?

And yet…..
I wouldn’t trade our time together for the world.

The gift that a dog gives us is to see us as we would like to be seen, rather than as we are.”