Found on Tumblr

Connections

I posted the picture on the left on Tumblr.  A German fan of my Tumblr blog spotted it and recognized it because he lives a block or two from it.  He notified his local paper in Germany and they did a 'Then and Now' piece on it.

How cool is that?  I love how the internet brings us closer together.

Quick thoughts

• Every Secret Service employee who was on duty last week in the White House when those guys broke in by scaling the fence need to be fired.  They need to be fired and barred from working for the government for life.
• If you get beat on the playing field, like Cary Williams of the Philadelphia Eagles did this past Sunday, don't fucking blame your coach for making you practice too much.  Own up to the fact you got beat by a better player and admit that you need more practice so it doesn't happen again. 
• Happy first day of Fall.  Now, go pumpkin spice something.  

Worst game ever

I 'played' this piece of shit game once in college.  My hatred for it still burns bright all these years after.

Random shots

Alive and kicking

I had a cardio stress test this morning in Knoxville. After the test we wandered and drove around and among the photos I snapped were these:





I'm awaiting the results of the test but the fact that they didn't whisk me into surgery whilst taking the test is a heartening development.

Hibernation

No ladies and gentlemen, I am not going into hibernation nor is the blog. It seems however that my usual barrage of political posts are for some reason, perhaps it's because of the holidays and all the good cheer that they bring me.

This year is especially good cheery because I don't have to deal with any of my crazy family who live near by and I have not had any contact with my crazy aunt and her offspring. They all bring a huge amount of stress into my life and I'm sooooooo much better off without them (if any of them read this they'll be dialing their mother to tell her I said that and just as soon as she hangs up the phone she'll take me out of her last will and testament and I have but one thing to say about that and it is, "Hooray!").

Another reason for my good cheer this week is the post holiday party glow at our place, we're both so happy so many folks came over this past Saturday and that they got to share in our first holiday in our new to us house. Sparky and I both could not be happier to be out of our old condo and in our new house, and considering we did it all while the economy was melting down is nothing short of a Christmas miracle.

But fear not my peeps, all this good cheer will only last for so long and soon I'll be back to doing political posts and sharing my opinions with you, which will piss off more than one or two of my trolls. Speaking of which, one of my trolls left me a comment, which I deleted, telling me that I should back up my opinionated political posts with facts and links. It seems that this troll has no concept of what a blog is for, especially this one. So if you're reading this Mr. Troll, and I know you are, this blog is not some term paper or academic treatise where I have to put footnotes or links in my political posts, it is however a place where I can and do make my opinions known and if that pisses you off then, well, that's just icing on the cake.

Yes, boys and girls after Christmas I'll be doing posts on the "riots" in Greece, the out going criminals who currently occupy the White House, the incoming Obama administration, and of course there'll be more anti corporate posts to coincide with the crash of our faltering free market economy. I'll be there to sift through the pieces and to interpret what happened and to speculate on what is going to happens as we watch the death throes of the conservative movement and conservative free market economics.

This burst of good cheer won't last forever, it will pass like a shoe that's been whipped at the head of our Idiot in Chief, and then I'll get back to my mix of the political and the pop cultural with a dish of silliness on the side.

I'm crushing your head

I'm not a curmudgeon but...

• if one more teenager or 20 something gives me "the look" for not thanking them for doing their job then I may snap their necks. I'll thank you people when you do something special.
• it's pronounced "App-uh-latch-uh" not "App-uh-lay-cha."
• if five cars pass you on the right side of the highway then it's time you got your slow ass out of the left hand lane.
• if I never have any one pray for me or try to tell me about the "good news" about Jesus H. Fucking Christ again it'll be too soon. I've heard your spiels before and nothing you can say will make me believe in your stone age religion.
• I wish I could equip deer with high powered rifles so they could shoot back at the idiots who go out and shoot at them.
• when it's 90 degrees Fahrenheit and the sun is shining so brightly that it almost burns your retinas, it's still not a good idea to give your children under the age of 10 that 24 ounce bottle of Pepsi to chug down. Try giving that kid some water instead.
• I can make fun of the south and southern people, if you don't live here then you can't. Your jokes about us being inbred or just getting indoor plumbing aren't funny any more, in fact, they make you look like an ignorant reactionary who clings to regional stereotypes because you don't know any better.
• I'm adding Gary Sinse to the list of actors whose movies I'll never rent or pay to see again. And I'm adding Jon Voight to that list as well.
• I don't "do" Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or any of those other social networking sites. I just don't and I won't, so don't bother asking. And I don't text either. And I'll never ever give out my cell #. I blog, I surf the net, I do email and I do telephone, but I'm at my best when I'm face to face with you.