I have a neighbor who is a devout Yellowdog Democrat....He told me yest’iday that he wished they could change the Constitution so Bill Clinton could run for Prez again....sed, he’d win in a heartbeat...
I pointed out that Bill Clinton was a self-confessed liar ‘n cheat but he didn’t remember that; I asked him if he recalled that Clinton staffers were such sore losers that they behaved like rowdy frat boys ‘n trashed the White House after Clinton had to leave but he didn’t remember that either; then he went on to complain that he just found out that he was expected to tip 20% or more at restaurants. I explained that restaurant workers had a much smaller minimum wage than unemployed plumbers who haven’t worked in more than two years ‘n he was astounded to hear that ‘n refused to believe me....’Course, he also believes that the rich should pay a lot more tax than he does ‘n that unemployment should be extended at least until he’s able to finish his ‘technical education’ so that he can get a higher paying job than unemployed plumber...which led to the short conversation about higher tuition costs which is a major irritant to him at the present time....at that point, I tried to get ‘da boyz’ to bite him but intelligent dogs that they are, refused so I just came home ‘n took a nap....
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
O dem Pols....gotta love 'em....
On the ‘Whatever!’ side, I just read in the SacBee that Assemblyman Gil Cedillo believes that the 18% cut to fringe benefits ‘n salaries for the California Legislature (90% disapproval rating) were Draconian in nature ‘n should be repealed. “can’t put legislators in the volatile position of worrying that if they make a decision, it could put thei families in a difficult situation.” Hello! Ain’t it their ‘job’ to make decisions? I know a lot of people who would jump at the chance to get 95K a year plus some of those ‘fringe’ benefits to sit on their duff in the legislature ‘n whine about how tough it is to make a buck today. ‘Course, he prob’ly believes it isn’t himself that the ‘great unwashed’ disapprove of but his colleagues instead. Narcissism seems to run deep in politicians!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
A quiet Sunday.....
Sunday morning ‘n the race is on.....began eleven minutes ago ‘n I wonder how long it’ll be before some of the runners come thru the village....I’m not quite curious enuff to ackshully walk around the corner to check it out...the sun is coming up over the Sierra ‘n after a rainy, rainy nite it looks like they’ll have a dry ‘n beautiful morning for this marathon which I’m not going to watch...
Okay, so channel 3 sez the guy what won the marathon is from Canada ‘n he did it in 2 hours ‘n 11 minutes....pish-tush, I c’d drive it in my little car in 40 or 50 minutes...
I use’ta be able to drive anywhere in Sac county in about 30 minutes but we got a teensy bit more traffic now....I think this guy was running 5 minute miles....that’s a lot faster than people can drive on a normal commute day when it c’n take an hour just to cover 2 or 3 miles of Sunrise Blvd....
So instead of or rather than strolling around the corner to watch the runner, I opted instead to give da boyz a bath since they were becoming positively ripe...Willie recovers pretty fast but Rusty the Poodle-dogger is still a little traumatized...it takes a long time to get him reasonably dry ‘n that’s using at least two towels ‘n a hair dryer ‘n even after all that, it takes him a couple hours of sulking to get dry enuff that I don’t smell wet dog ev’ry time I pass by....’n of course, ev’ry time I pass by he looks up at me with those sad, sad eyes...
I think maybe poodles invented guilt trips...
I’m just sayin’......
Okay, so channel 3 sez the guy what won the marathon is from Canada ‘n he did it in 2 hours ‘n 11 minutes....pish-tush, I c’d drive it in my little car in 40 or 50 minutes...
I use’ta be able to drive anywhere in Sac county in about 30 minutes but we got a teensy bit more traffic now....I think this guy was running 5 minute miles....that’s a lot faster than people can drive on a normal commute day when it c’n take an hour just to cover 2 or 3 miles of Sunrise Blvd....
So instead of or rather than strolling around the corner to watch the runner, I opted instead to give da boyz a bath since they were becoming positively ripe...Willie recovers pretty fast but Rusty the Poodle-dogger is still a little traumatized...it takes a long time to get him reasonably dry ‘n that’s using at least two towels ‘n a hair dryer ‘n even after all that, it takes him a couple hours of sulking to get dry enuff that I don’t smell wet dog ev’ry time I pass by....’n of course, ev’ry time I pass by he looks up at me with those sad, sad eyes...
I think maybe poodles invented guilt trips...
I’m just sayin’......
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Other stuff 'n nonsense.....
Satiday ‘n the calm before the storm...sort of a ‘balmy’ cool on a grey, cloudy day...
Got the 1st Christmas card of the season in this mornings mail...the Post Office keeps talking about cancelling Saturday delivery but my guess is that it’s a lot like other entitlements ‘n a handful of people don’t want to give it up so we’ll have it as long as the money holds out.....
If you go wand’ring thru the various ‘n sundry channels, you’ll find a myriad of sappy Holiday movies...y’need to TIVO them however so’s you c’n fast forward thru the interminable commercials....of course, some of ‘em are so bad you might want to fast forward thru the movie to watch the commercials....that’s like saying “I like my coffee with cream ‘n sugar but the caffeine keeps me awake ‘n I don’t need the fat from the cream so I’ll just eat a spoonful of sugar.”
And just one other little bitty thing re: SacBee who just gets one thing after another so wrong: T’other day in a totally forgettable column, a reader had written in stating that she had both grey ‘n red squirrels in her yard ‘n that one of them was an endangered specie but she didn’t know which one...the ‘expert’ from SacBee told her that ‘one doesn’t find red squirrels west of the Rockies ‘n she was prob’ly confusing ground squirrels ‘n tree squirrels’...well, as an old country boy ‘n onetime avid squirrel hunter (tho’ to my mortification as a youth, never actually a squirrel killer) I do know the difference between a ground squirrel (chipmonk) ‘n a tree squirrel, I, too, have both grey squirrels ‘n red squirrels in my yard (grey in front ‘n red in back...or visa versa) ‘n the ‘expert’ from the SacBee don’t know his...well, y’know what I mean....
I’m just sayin’.....
Got the 1st Christmas card of the season in this mornings mail...the Post Office keeps talking about cancelling Saturday delivery but my guess is that it’s a lot like other entitlements ‘n a handful of people don’t want to give it up so we’ll have it as long as the money holds out.....
If you go wand’ring thru the various ‘n sundry channels, you’ll find a myriad of sappy Holiday movies...y’need to TIVO them however so’s you c’n fast forward thru the interminable commercials....of course, some of ‘em are so bad you might want to fast forward thru the movie to watch the commercials....that’s like saying “I like my coffee with cream ‘n sugar but the caffeine keeps me awake ‘n I don’t need the fat from the cream so I’ll just eat a spoonful of sugar.”
And just one other little bitty thing re: SacBee who just gets one thing after another so wrong: T’other day in a totally forgettable column, a reader had written in stating that she had both grey ‘n red squirrels in her yard ‘n that one of them was an endangered specie but she didn’t know which one...the ‘expert’ from SacBee told her that ‘one doesn’t find red squirrels west of the Rockies ‘n she was prob’ly confusing ground squirrels ‘n tree squirrels’...well, as an old country boy ‘n onetime avid squirrel hunter (tho’ to my mortification as a youth, never actually a squirrel killer) I do know the difference between a ground squirrel (chipmonk) ‘n a tree squirrel, I, too, have both grey squirrels ‘n red squirrels in my yard (grey in front ‘n red in back...or visa versa) ‘n the ‘expert’ from the SacBee don’t know his...well, y’know what I mean....
I’m just sayin’.....
Friday, December 3, 2010
Baby steps for mankind.....
Well, it’s another small step for mankind with the scientific discovery that life exists where science said it couldn’t possibly....
Well, of course you know that I’m talking about Mono Lake which has long thought to be deader’n a doornail ever since Los Angeles siphoned all the Owens Valley water so that 20 million people could live in the desert year-round surrounded by golf courses ‘n mini-malls.....
You know how L.A. came t’be, don’cha?....The Spanish came, saw a bunch of Indians living in a green ‘n fertile land, made the same mistake that most newcomers to California make ‘n assumed that the Indians lived there year-round 'n the weather stayed perfect all the year.....
I ‘member when I first passed thru California back in ‘56....I spent a month or so in the Santa Clara valley in the fall....warm days, cool nights ‘n tho’t it was as near to perfect as I’d ever seen...I didn’t know that California had a different climate every few miles....
What I’m saying, of course, is that it’s easy to think you’re right when you know what you know but most of the time, if you live long enough, you’ll find out that life ain’t just one hand of poker, it’s a lot of ‘em ‘n every hand is just a little different ‘n what was what in one hand is totally different in another...in other words, what you don’t know is a lot more than what you do know...or think you know...facts change!
Every generation comes to the world all brand new ‘n trusting in themselves...out with the old ‘n in with the new....faith based religion might have been all right back in the old days, before the internet, before science really got a grip on things.... Science is become the ‘new religion’...fact, not fancy....immutable, provable, factual.
Proponents of this neo-religion call themselves secularists ‘n their belief is based in fact as opposed to the unprovable statements of those old-time faith-based religions...
Of course, secularists overlook the ‘fact’ that early scientists were certain that the sun revolved around the earth...I recall reading as a child that science was convinced that in the early twentieth century, everything that could be invented had been invented ‘n there was nothing left to discover....
And today, the internet informs us that life has been discovered where science told us life could not exist....it has also informed us that the universe is six trillion times larger that science thought it was....’n science has just found a few bones that tells us that humans were walking around this old earth four million years ago...why, it’s getting so a body just can’t be sure what to believe anymore.....
I’m just sayin’.....
Well, of course you know that I’m talking about Mono Lake which has long thought to be deader’n a doornail ever since Los Angeles siphoned all the Owens Valley water so that 20 million people could live in the desert year-round surrounded by golf courses ‘n mini-malls.....
You know how L.A. came t’be, don’cha?....The Spanish came, saw a bunch of Indians living in a green ‘n fertile land, made the same mistake that most newcomers to California make ‘n assumed that the Indians lived there year-round 'n the weather stayed perfect all the year.....
I ‘member when I first passed thru California back in ‘56....I spent a month or so in the Santa Clara valley in the fall....warm days, cool nights ‘n tho’t it was as near to perfect as I’d ever seen...I didn’t know that California had a different climate every few miles....
What I’m saying, of course, is that it’s easy to think you’re right when you know what you know but most of the time, if you live long enough, you’ll find out that life ain’t just one hand of poker, it’s a lot of ‘em ‘n every hand is just a little different ‘n what was what in one hand is totally different in another...in other words, what you don’t know is a lot more than what you do know...or think you know...facts change!
Every generation comes to the world all brand new ‘n trusting in themselves...out with the old ‘n in with the new....faith based religion might have been all right back in the old days, before the internet, before science really got a grip on things.... Science is become the ‘new religion’...fact, not fancy....immutable, provable, factual.
Proponents of this neo-religion call themselves secularists ‘n their belief is based in fact as opposed to the unprovable statements of those old-time faith-based religions...
Of course, secularists overlook the ‘fact’ that early scientists were certain that the sun revolved around the earth...I recall reading as a child that science was convinced that in the early twentieth century, everything that could be invented had been invented ‘n there was nothing left to discover....
And today, the internet informs us that life has been discovered where science told us life could not exist....it has also informed us that the universe is six trillion times larger that science thought it was....’n science has just found a few bones that tells us that humans were walking around this old earth four million years ago...why, it’s getting so a body just can’t be sure what to believe anymore.....
I’m just sayin’.....
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Old Grey Mare ain't what she use'ta be....
T’other day I made the statement that ‘nostalgia ain’t what it use’ta be’....that’s just an opinion, of course, nostalgia being primarily a personal option that is open to discussion...
At any rate, back in the hinterland from whence I sprang, a good ol’ boy named Joe, posted a picture of the once upon a time McKell High School gymnasium looking abandoned ‘n bereft prior to the demolition of said high school...
McKell, along with many other small schools was deemed inadequate for the job of educating the youth of the nation ‘n was thereby abandoned in favor of a larger, more modern, more progressive Federated School System...Ackshully, what was accomplished was that we replaced an inadequate system with an incompetent system for after lo, these many years, we’re seeing proof across the length ‘n breadth of this country that throwing money at the school system is a failing proposition; the unions ‘n the administration have siphoned off the cream, so to speak, leaving only blue john to pay the teachers ‘n maintain an increasingly expensive factory that is falling apart due to neglect....
Like big government, big schools are not the answer...the bureaucracy of the government ‘n the bureaucracy of the schools view their own survival as paramount while the student, like the citizenry, must suffer the results....
I’m just sayin’....nostalgia sure ain’t what it use’ta be.....
At any rate, back in the hinterland from whence I sprang, a good ol’ boy named Joe, posted a picture of the once upon a time McKell High School gymnasium looking abandoned ‘n bereft prior to the demolition of said high school...
McKell, along with many other small schools was deemed inadequate for the job of educating the youth of the nation ‘n was thereby abandoned in favor of a larger, more modern, more progressive Federated School System...Ackshully, what was accomplished was that we replaced an inadequate system with an incompetent system for after lo, these many years, we’re seeing proof across the length ‘n breadth of this country that throwing money at the school system is a failing proposition; the unions ‘n the administration have siphoned off the cream, so to speak, leaving only blue john to pay the teachers ‘n maintain an increasingly expensive factory that is falling apart due to neglect....
Like big government, big schools are not the answer...the bureaucracy of the government ‘n the bureaucracy of the schools view their own survival as paramount while the student, like the citizenry, must suffer the results....
I’m just sayin’....nostalgia sure ain’t what it use’ta be.....
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
T'is the season....almost.......
Well, it’s beginning to feel a lot like....well, not perzackly Christmas but more like the end of November...I dunno if November is anybody’s fav’rite month seeing as how it’s usually grey ‘n cold....still, it’s better’n February, what with Thanksgiving ‘n all ‘n of course, it kicks off what has become known as THE HOLIDAY SEASON....
In my way back when time, the holiday season was different than it is t’day ....Thanksgiving, of course, was big but then there was a long lapse of time before the Christmas season began...seems t’me that I always remember Halloween as a harvest festival thing that kind’a kickstarted Thanksgiving ‘n then there was this long, cold, dreary, grey November that dragged on ‘n on until the magical Christmas suddenly appeared in a rush....a Christmas vacation from school, streets ‘n stores were decorated almost overnite ‘n package-laden people thronged....there were Christmas songs ‘n Christmas cheer ‘n ev’ry day the children looked for snow....’course, the snow almost never came....white Christmas’s seemed to exist only in the movies ‘n stories ‘n the minds ‘n mem’ries of old people...it took me 70 years but I finally figured out how that happened....
It’s still a magical time for children ‘n old people ‘n for at least a few moments, maybe for all the unbelieving inbetweeners also...at least, the lucky ones.....
The talking heads are bemoaning the stuck in a rut Congress ‘n the enormity of the deficit ‘n all the dire things of the world but when I was a small boy the USA was caught in the grip of what came t’be known as ‘The Great Depression’...we survived that ‘n some of my fondest mem’ries come from the Christmas’ of that era...the world seems caught up in another great depression but the world will survive ‘n some day this will be somebodys memory ..
I’m just sayin.....
In my way back when time, the holiday season was different than it is t’day ....Thanksgiving, of course, was big but then there was a long lapse of time before the Christmas season began...seems t’me that I always remember Halloween as a harvest festival thing that kind’a kickstarted Thanksgiving ‘n then there was this long, cold, dreary, grey November that dragged on ‘n on until the magical Christmas suddenly appeared in a rush....a Christmas vacation from school, streets ‘n stores were decorated almost overnite ‘n package-laden people thronged....there were Christmas songs ‘n Christmas cheer ‘n ev’ry day the children looked for snow....’course, the snow almost never came....white Christmas’s seemed to exist only in the movies ‘n stories ‘n the minds ‘n mem’ries of old people...it took me 70 years but I finally figured out how that happened....
It’s still a magical time for children ‘n old people ‘n for at least a few moments, maybe for all the unbelieving inbetweeners also...at least, the lucky ones.....
The talking heads are bemoaning the stuck in a rut Congress ‘n the enormity of the deficit ‘n all the dire things of the world but when I was a small boy the USA was caught in the grip of what came t’be known as ‘The Great Depression’...we survived that ‘n some of my fondest mem’ries come from the Christmas’ of that era...the world seems caught up in another great depression but the world will survive ‘n some day this will be somebodys memory ..
I’m just sayin.....
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