Me 'n the boyz........

Rusty had a traumatic day yesterday....
starting at midnite when he got too close to a skunk which got him locked out of the bedroom.....then, I left them both at home when I went to Kellye’s.....only partly becuz of the odor.....he & Willy have found mud at Kellye’s and it’s too much trubble early in the morn to hose ‘em off.....besides which, Willy is short and the mud gets up to his belly.....finally, yesterday afternoon, I gave Rusty a bath which pretty much took care of the odor but seemed to traumatize him futher.....I must’a hurt his leg ‘cuz he gimped around the rest of the evening and into this morning....Pore soul.....it’s hard to explain to a dog why he’s being pushed aside.....I mean, he duzn’t understand the ‘hull skunk odor thing in the 1st place.....
Nuthin’ new on the political front.....Obama’s still the annointed one....’sfunny, I don’t profess to understand why people believe he’s a Muslim just becuz’ he’s got a Muslim name......’Course, I also don’t understand why other people see him a candidate for change and why that’s s’pozed to be a good thing..if age teaches anything, it's that change for the sake of change is dumb.....His platitudinal speeches remind me of high school valedictories .... I don’t think there’s any there, there!......’n I don’t understand why anyone capable of tho’t would want him as President.....I mean, I don’t like Hillary....Heck! I don’t like either one of the Clintons but, I c’n understand why a lot of people do like them....I saw Hillary sipping on a beer and doing a little dance...so what? I bet a ‘burger ‘n beer with Bill ‘ud be fun....I wudn’t believe anything he said, but it ‘ud be fun....
On that proverbial other hand that I’m so fond of, ‘burgers ‘n beer are always better than wine ‘n caviar.
Well, in my world anyway......Justin Other Smith
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Midnite encounter.........

T’is the middle of the nite.....Rusty wants out......not unusual so I get up and Willy and I accompany the intrepid poodle out the door.....but wait.....sumthing lurks in the dark.......No! Yes! It’s a (GASP)........SKUNK!....../
So, here I are at three minutes after midnite.......Poor Willy didn’t get close.....well, not too close.....and I ain’t ‘zackly sure that Rusty akshully got a direct hit.....on t’other hand, we weren’t twenty feet from the side door so the skunk smell is with us......I think the dogs are gonna have to be locked out of the bedroom, at least for the nite.......Millyrose just walked thru the room, put a hand on a hip and said, “I think he got him.” And disappeared into the bedroom, closing the door behind her......it's maybe gonna be a long nite.....Justin Other Smith

'N the allternative is........

"I yam what I yam" Popeye
“I reminisce about the days of old with that old time rock ‘n roll........” Bob Seger
Back in the ‘way back when’ time, life seemed so much simpler....In the here ‘n now, life is sooooo complicated....
I wuz talkin’ to an old friend who complained that he wuz just sittin’ around gettin’ fatter, that he cudn’t do what he used to do an’ didn’t p’tickly want to do what he was able to do t’day.....seems he never planned on living so long.......I had to agree with him as I never, ever pictured myself as growing old.......I knew that aging is inevitable, a part of the process of life.....but, what you know intellectually doesn’t always compute emotionally...
When you’re young, you’re young forever.....it’s hard to look ahead and your only reference about what’s to come is what has been and there ain’t that much what has been behind you......, at least, near as I c’n figure out, what I’m saying is that foresight is based on hindsight....

Keep your ear to the ground, your nose to the grindstone and your eye on the prize....win, lose, or draw, you’re gonna be uncomfortable. Justin Other Smith

Fortyniners........

Well, Millyrose and I are ‘fortyniners now.....Oh! Not the kind that trekked out here in search of gold...Nah! We’re the real deal t’day.......Married for fortynine years.....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY US........

What do the simple folk do?.......

Is Obama leading or being led; is a trip down the garden path anything like stepping thru the looking glass;.........

“What do the simple folk do,
to help them escape when they’re blue?” Lerner & Loew

Obama was at a Chrysler plant, appealing to the simple folk when he was asked a question by one of those snotty news persons, y’know the type.....big hair, microphone in your face.......just another pushy female, y’know what I mean......
”How are you going to save their jobs?” she asked.
“Hold on, Sweetie......” said Barack to the blonde newswoman.....who later stated, and I quote........
“This Sweetie never did get her question answered.”

I’ve never been wha’cha might call a big fan of Geo Bush, but y’can’t blame him for ever’thing....even a stopped clock is right twice a day....He made a speech in Israel t’other day where he referred to Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, and said that appeasement doesn’t work. Becuz...(surprise-surprise)... you can’t really trust the bad guys. Most of us simple folk learn that in Grade School but Obama supporters immediately cried “FOUL!”.....as did several bigtime Democrat politicians.....Pelosi, Reid, the baleful Kerry,......Even Hillary took a shot but a very quiet one given the howls of anguish emitted by her colleagues...
Ain’t it funny how Hillary turned into a (gasp) conservative......I wuz tryin’ to figger out how she got that way......I mean, according to true conservatives, John McCain ain’t....and Hillary is way to the left of him....
I’m thinkin’ that the Liberal Elite of the Democrat Party must be in a parallel universe if they actually believe that most people in this country are like a flock of sheep blinded by the Guiding Light of Liberalism and just waiting t’be sheared......
On the ‘that was then, this is now’ front, if you’ve been watching NBC (no news is good news).....Ya just gotta wonder what’s going on in the collective mind in the ivory tower.....
Brian Williams, whose credentials far outweigh his performance, seems to have bought into the Obama (annointed by God and NBC......) Camp, and that’s just sad...I’ve been watching NBC news for ‘most as long as I c’n remember and f’r the life o’ me, I can’t recall any previous anchors being so wimpy....I mean, anyone who gets to be the boss anchor on NBC just has to have an ego so large that they wudn’t take guff from anyone....
I read a columnist who said, “this election will prove how smart, or dumb, American voters are.” ‘Course, almost ever’ newspaper columnist in the ‘hull country thinks that means ‘smart’ Americans will cast their vote for the very first African American to run for the office of the President. Only problem is, Obama ain’t the first African American to run......and given the genetic makeup of this diverse country of ours, it’s entirely possible that at least one of our former Prez’s has had a modicum of ‘colored’ blood, least that’s what the ubiquitous ‘they’ used to call it....I dunno if it wuz ever a law or not, but they used to say that it only took one drop of Negro blood to classify a person as a Negro. The Broadway musical, ‘Showboat’ had a character who commingled his blood with that of his mix’t race wife and wuz declared Negro and had his ‘white’ rights taken away.....wudn’t surprise me if there weren’t some people who still think that way....America, the United States of, at any rate, ain’t such an old county but we’ve done a lot of very dumb things in our short history......God willin’ an’ the crick don’t rise, we’ll do a lot more....... ‘Course, in the here and now, Obama seems to be a thoroughly nice fellow.....smart and personable, ambitious and upwardly mobile....a pleasant kind ‘a guy.....can’t bowl, but what the heck? Neither c’n I.....

Would'ja?.......

"Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies......"
If you had the chance to do it all over again, would’ja?
I mean, if you c’d do it over, maybe erase some of those itty-bitty little mistakes that’cha made......would’ja?
Maybe make just some minor changes so that you wouldn’t have to relive some of those more embarrassing moments......would’ja?
If life came with do-overs? How many do-overs would you like to have? How many would you need?
‘Cause if you made changes, would you still end up in the same place? Would you even want to end up in the same place?
If you made the changes and ended up in a different place, would you like the chance to maybe live that life over? Would’ja?
Prob’ly a good thing that life don’t come with do-overs...
we’d be tripping over ourselves all the time, criss-crossing time, so to speak, changing our lives to make us better....better looking, more heroic, more successful, richer, thinner......Why, we could change our lives so much that we’d probably be somebody different altogether.....or p’haps......that’s what life is........maybe? What d’ya think?

A bold new concept........

“to boldly go where no man has gone before....”Gene Roddenberry

I’ve been attempting to spend myself out of debt but it doesn’t seem to be working. I’ve contacted the prospective employers of my children and explained that I need an advance on their future wages in order to balance my deficit budget but none of them seem willing to cooperate.
I figure I must be doing something wrong because the concept of a deficit budget seems to work so well for our Legislators. Perhaps one of them could take the time to sit down with me and point out just where I’m going wrong. Maybe we could co-author a bill that would force all the prospective employers of my children (and maybe my grandchildren) to each contribute a small amount to help reduce my personal deficit.
I’m sure that if every working person could balance their personal budgets in this fashion, none of us would complain about paying increased taxes.
Justin Other Smith