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RANDOM THOUGHTS: I occasionally entertain thoughts that I think are worth sharing but in themselves are not worth a column. So I decided to create this page for just such random flashes of meaningless rambling, mediocrity, and hopefully a rare something that approaches a dim brilliance. As always, comments are welcome.
Today I thought I'd gone backwards in a time warp. I bought three bags of crackers and canned goods at the Dollar General store and the total bill was just over $19. Please tell me it wasn't a mistake!!! March 4, 2010
I'm sitting here eating a microwave can of beenie-weenies. The weenies are just Vienna sausages and I've decide that if you put enough brown sugar on Vienna sausages, even they can be made to taste good. Man cannot live by bread alone, he must have brown sugar! February 26, 2010
I find it interesting that John McCain, on several occasions, stated he would defer to the military leadership regarding "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Yesterday, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told McCain that emphatically, the time had come. The same was stated by the Secretary of Defense. McCain shot both of them down and turned his back on creating greater equality and freedom in these United States. Shame! February 3, 2010.
I was in a grocery the other evening and noticed a pack of small steaks in the meat cooler. They were labeled "mock tender steaks." My question is, are they fake steak or fake tender? Where the hell does a name like that come from? January 18, 2010
I've never tasted urine but I'm pretty sure that if I did the taste would be pretty close to Miller Genuine Draft 64 beer. Yuck, stuff is horrible! January 13, 2010
Resent visitors to the website include folks from the United Arab Republics, Hawaii, Philippines, South Korea, Russia, Poland, Germany, India, Afghanistan and about half of the US mainland. December 21, 2009
Observing the frantic state that many female Facebookers have gotten themselves into regarding Christmas preparations
could explain the increasing levels of insanity in
In the past week this site has had visitors from
This first serious blast of Arctic air has everyone on Facebook talking about soup. So, I currently have a big pot of ham, bean and rice soup brewing on the stove. Some skillet cornbread later and let the chilly winds howl! December 11, 2009
If you're going to appear on national TV exposing how the recession has you and your family on the edge of economic ruin, don't be taped eating an expensive order-in pizza. Go for homemade or a cheap frozen Tony's! December 10, 2009
Forever Jimmy Buffett's music has been associated
with days spent close to warm water, white sandy beaches and clear blue
tropical skies. While in
Don't know where this came from but, do women, like men, participate in decorating restroom walls with graffiti? December 4, 2009
I've decided that
Hopefully you figured out that I was on the road
partaking in my bi-annual fishing excursion to warmer climates. Spent
two weeks along the mid-Atlantic coast of
I've been two days now being toyed with by my medical insurance provider. Short version is, they have run up more in administrative cost trying to wear me out than what it would have cost them if they had just let my doctor of 25 years administer the Rx he prescribed. Don't tell me the system isn't broken. October 28, 2009
Yesterday must have been let's visit
Recently I read that as people age their noses and ears get bigger. It's because they are constructed of cartilage and cartilage doesn't cease growing. Yesterday my daughter took some photos of me and after looking them over I find truth in what I read! October 26, 2009
I'm roasting a pork shoulder infused with garlic, sea salt and a blend of spices. The aroma is filling the house and driving me crazy. Unable to have random thoughts. October 14, 2009
Getting an unusual number of hits from
Please don't oppose a public health care system if you are getting yours from the VA or from Medicare. Don't deny to others what you are being provided with. October 12, 2009
Last night at mid-night the
Have any of you ever been asked during a job interview how well you did on the state's standardized testing? Have you ever been asked to provide proof of having graduated from high school? October 6, 2009
I don't know if financially it was worth what they
put into it, but I really appreciate all those vendors who helped make
the 3rd. History Day such a great time. Thanks to all, you're what helps
small town
I see where Sarah Palin is coming out with her first book. I wonder if she ever read one? October 4, 2009
Well, now that fall has arrived and the house is closed up against the chill, I've begun fulfilling my main cold weather function. I'm the doorman. I seem to spend lots of time opening the back door for the 1 dog and 5 cats. If I could only get them on the same schedule. October 2, 2009
Consider this, the weather turns chilly, we close up the house and put a pot of bean soup on the stove. Why don't we reserve our intake of beans for when there's a nice breeze flowing through the house? October 1, 2009
The experts say that 1 out of every 4 drivers on the nation's highways today is driving while distracted. We are either eating something from the drive-thru, talking on our cell phone, punching data into our GPS, jammin' to the iPod, or texting our best friend forever. Scary, huh? September 30, 2009
I've written about Amazing Grace several times mentioning how surprised I was as to how many performers had recorded this classic hymn. I just discovered that the Library of Congress has something called the Chasanoff/Elozua Amazing Grace Collection which contains a list of over 3,000 published recorded performances of Amazing Grace by different artist and groups. Now Grace, that is amazing! September 28, 2009
In the presence of a statistical reality known as the political "bell" curve, why do groups on either extreme think they represent the majority? September 25, 2009
How insane is a person who nurses a teenage grudge for over thirty years? September 23, 2009
Disconnect; here's an example. A women gets on Social Security and receives Medicare and home health care. Every three weeks she receives a medical treatment costing the taxpayers $10,000. While the health care nurse delivers the treatment the woman rails against the evils of socialized medicine. September 21, 2009
Turns out our insurance premium is going up 13.9%. Started out at 31% but when another company entered a competing bid the number suddenly took a substantial dip. That is could go from 31 to 14 so quickly says something about the profit margin insurance companies work with. To me it is just one more piece of evidence indicating that our system is broke and screaming for reform. September 17, 2009
How much of a man's cranial capacity must be empty before he says yes to having breast implants inserted behind the boobs of a naked woman's body tattooed on their leg? September 17, 2009
The question isn't if you have health insurance today but will you have it tomorrow. It is rumored that my wife's premium share is going to rise by 31%. I hope this is just a rumor. At the current rate of premium inflation will any employer be able to provide health insurance for their workers? September 16, 2009
Probably has something to do with life emerging from the primordial seas but there just isn't a vacation like a beach vacation (unless it's a cruise vacation). September 14, 2009
Getting old, in itself, isn't funny. But occasionally you do something funny because you are getting old. This morning I arose and went to the bathroom only to discover that I had slept with my PJ bottoms on backwards. That took some hurried figuring out! September 4, 2009
Too many people lack an ability to discern the difference between satire and hate. For a caricaturist to draw a cartoon exaggerating the size of Bill Clinton's nose or a comedian making a joke about 43's intellectual short comings is satire. To celebrate the death of a beloved American politician is hate. There is a great difference between the two. Love and satire may easily be one in the same while hatred stands alone and can never include love or command respect. September 3, 2009
A person can take five days off from watching the news, reading newspapers, etc. But, when they remerge into the world nothing has changed. You step right back into the crud without any sense of loss of continuity. Makes you wonder why you turn the TV back on! September 2, 2009
It may someday be decided that fishing is the one
thing that can unite the world. This past week I sat on several
Chesapeake Bay piers with white guys from
NOTE: David Zoldak emailed me an article that relates to my thought about fishing. I'll include only that part, "My first time there he put his arm around my shoulder and talked about my Louisiana hometown during his days on the Civil Rights Commission and how he brought the other commissioners here to Land O’Lakes to fish and argue and hammer out the historic report that helped end apartheid in America. When he was asked by President Eisenhower how he had gotten agreement so quickly from Democrats and Republicans, Southerners and Northerners, Hesburgh said everyone on the commission was a fisherman, and he made sure they all fished together for a few days before talking business." The complete article may be read at; http://magazine.nd.edu/news/9896.
Well, that didn't take long. One day later my wife informed me that I'd said two things to people during the day that could have been hurtful. Life can be difficult! August 26, 2009
I don't think I'll ever adjust to learning how much your words and actions can mean in the lives of other people. I only hope the consequences are more often positive than negative. Twice this past weekend I experienced someone telling me how much something I had said helped them in their lives. Any day now someone could walk up and say how much something I said screwed them up. Oh well, stuff happens! August 25, 2009
Yesterday the site had visitors from most of the
continental US plus
Saw a person pay $130 for a small cast iron frog that opens up to hold matches. I don't think I'll ever spend $130 on any frog. August 20, 2009
I mentioned on Facebook that I had recently eaten a Twinkie. A friend noted noted that Twinkies never go bad. I offered my explanation; Twinkies last forever because they are not made from natural substances. There is nothing in a Twinkie but unnatural sweet, unnatural deliciously excellent flavor, and unnatural calories. Possibly they are synthesized from coal which is mainly carbon and carbon is what diamonds are made of and everyone knows that, "Diamonds are Forever." August 20, 2009
Yesterday this site was visited by people in the
A columnist for a national magazine recently wrote that if Sarah Palin was to ever get elected to the presidency, she could do as much damage by accident as Nixon did on purpose. It is conceivable that she has already done as much to further polarization in this Nation as Nixon did, and she has yet to make it to the White House. August 19, 2009
Winston Churchill once said that, "Americans will always do the right thing but only after exhausting all other possibilities." Sure explains the reluctance to reform our health care system. August 18, 2009
I ask my wife how she felt about Michael Vick being permitted a return to the NFL and her response was, "I don't have a dog in that fight." Is this woman a punster or not? August 16, 2009
I recently witnessed yet another local ranting about people on welfare and the food stamp program. When I ask him a couple of questions it became obvious he didn't possess any factual or accurate knowledge about the "welfare system" or the food stamp program. Makes you wonder, how much of our being pissed off is driven by things we know nothing about and aren't going to take the time to learn? Are we really at the top of the food chain? August 16, 2009
Raise your hand if you have a living will. When you signed that document did you know you were putting your name on the government's hit list? Suckers, you'll be the first to go! August 15, 2009
When are public figures going to figure out that in this age of ubiquitous audio and video recording devices, whatever you do or say will become part of the public record and can come back to bite you on your arse. Eighteen months ago Glen Beck was ranting about the poor quality of American health care. Today he claims it to be the best in the world. Just one of countless such examples. August 15, 2009
I notice that occasionally the ad feed on this site is for one of Ann Coulter's books. I think Ann Coulter is a serpent. No, really, I think she is a snake! She is long, tall, slender, she hisses, she is venomous, and I think if you ever French kissed her you'd feel a forked tongue flickering on the roof of your mouth. August 13, 2009
When I lived in CA that state built a major
expressway to
I wonder how many people who are ranting about their Constitutional rights on my TV have ever read and/or understand the Constitution. How ironic is a photo of a guy protesting the denial of his Constitutional rights at Obama's town hall meeting in NH while holding above his head a sign calling for bloody revolution in America and legally displaying a loaded automatic pistol strapped to his leg? August 13, 2009
How can match.com guarantee you will find "someone special" within six months? August 13, 2009
I don't know if
The cellular crowd has been all agog over the new Apple IPhone G3S. I've never had my hands on any IPhone but yesterday I got to play with the one my niece just purchased and this little thing is quite a package. I know calling it "neato" severely dates me but that's what it is, neato. It has an "ap" that when pointed towards the heavens will show you the location of all the major stars in that direction. Like I said, Neato! What's not so neato is how small your finger pad has to be to manipulate it accurately. If I owned one I'd have to have my left index finger tip surgically reshaped into a point. August 10, 2009
I went to the Mennonite-Amish produce auction south of Bainbridge today and saw a group of five watermelons on a wagon that ranged in weight from 60 to 98 pounds each. I decided you would have to take one to a saw mill to have it sliced! They averaged bringing $25 each. August 10, 2009
Every 5 minutes in
I love this quotation, "Belligerence is the
currency of the intellectually bankrupt." It says all that can be said
regarding the level of ignorance present in today's
It appears that the political right isn't ever going to give the president credit for anything he has or may accomplish. With that in mind I've decided that if Obama was to lay a golden egg Glen Beck would criticize him for cutting in on the goose's territory. August 9, 2009
Rush Limbaugh prides himself as being an extreme conservative. Conservatives are on the right side of the political spectrum. To to the far right of the spectrum is where you'll find the political ideology of fascism. Adolph was a fascist. Nazism was Hitler's brand of fascism. Limbaugh, out of the left side of his mouth labels Barack Obama an extreme left-wing liberal. Out of the right side of his mouth he, yesterday, claimed that Obama is a Nazi. It appears that Limbaugh doesn't know his left from his right. I wonder if the same is true regarding his ass from a hole in the ground? August 8, 2009
It struck me that writing down these random thoughts must be akin to tweeting on Twitter. But, since I've often been called a twit possibly I should refer to these postings as twits. So, for the immediate future I'll be twitting on Tweeter. August 8, 2009
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Several times yesterday I entertained the wish that Obama and the Democrats were out of office. Not that I disagree with what they are trying to accomplish, I just want the right-wing pundits to shut the f..k up! If I had a guarantee in writing, with a penalty clause, that Fox News would go off the air if the Republican Party regained control of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government I would probably vote a straight Republican ticket in 2012. August 7, 2009
Yesterday this site had visitors from over thirty
states,
My wife made the comment this morning that living
in Southern Ohio this summer is what owning a time share in
Someone recently ask me who should be put in charge of deciding military procurement policies. I thought it over and decided it should be a committee made up of non-commissioned officers of E-5 and above, mid-level commissioned officers, and at least 51% devout members of the Quaker religion. Maybe the people who actually have their boots on the ground and those people who don't believe in war can reach better decisions than buying 12 more F-22 fighters that the Pentagon doesn't want. That's 12 more in addition to the 187 we already have and don't know how to use. August 6, 2009
I was talking about health care with a pharmacist I know and the specific topic was The Scooter Store. He told me that a week didn't go by that he didn't receive at least one phone call from someone who had received a "free" scooter and wasn't going to use it. "Do you want to buy it," was the typical question asked? Just one more scam or loop hole the government is being victimized by. August 6, 2009
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