Just For Glee

Having shot a moose during their first hunt in Alaska the two Georgia
rednecks began dragging it by the tail to their pick-up.
On the way they were stopped
by a game warden. "Let me see your hunting licenses boys,"
he said. When he saw that everything was in order he
asked if he could give them some advice. "Sure!" the
hunters agreed. "Well boys, I think that you would find
it a lot easier to drag that moose by the horns and not
the tail." "Aye, O.K. and thanks," said the lads. After
about five minutes one said to the other, "Boy, dragging
by the horns is sure a lot easier, eh?" "Aye, you're
right," said his friend, "but have you noticed that we
are getting further away from the truck?

Good Morning Blog World

Do you really know what the United Nations climate change conference is all about? Here's a clue:

"Representatives of several African officials demanded that the rich countries sign a binding treaty that included a large transfer of wealth to the developing world. They brought the public sessions of the meeting to a halt at midday, but delegates began returning to the large conference hall as evening fell, and the talks resumed in desultory fashion."

Junk science supporting a junk political and economic theory...enough of the population of the industrial world has been brainwashed to support this scam and now they want to stick it up the ass of those of us who see through it....without the aid of a lubricant.
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The world of Islamic politics has always been of deceit and maybe worse in Pakistan than any where else. Now is the time to tell Obama and the NATO allies to back out of the area before they are bogged down in the double dealing they cannot get out without tremendous loss of allied life...or else make a commitment to win regardless of the costs. Half stepping into this is just WRONG! And I believe that if there is going be be a lot of killing just do it with cruise missiles and high altitude bombing to minimize the risk to allied forces. And while we are at it go ahead and take out the Pakistani Taliban leader Siraj Haqqani...and if the Pakistani government and generals don't like it take them out too. This is one of those times when Pakistan has to realize they they are either with us or against us...there can be no waffling in between.
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All is well on the home front. I have my head back on straight again...damn I hate it when my brain is twisted up...and when I shuffle the thought patterns they come up blank. Life is good my friends and even better when someone loves you. And I thank my creator for my angel of the morning. Y'all come back, heah?

DAMN

Seems that MSM and the Obama ass kissers cannot grasp that the allied forces had the Taliban on the run until Obama was elected and then changed the rules of engagement. And now he has decided to order the troops to go after the Taliban....

"Obama ordered the American troop surge to try to curb the burgeoning Taliban insurgency as the bloodiest year of the Afghan war draws to a close"

Yeah, but has he changed the rules of engagement? If he has it has not made the news. I have said before and I say again to Obama...shit or get off the pot! Sending in another 30,000 troops without changing the rules is only giving the Taliban more targets to shoot at.

The way to stop the Taliban is to kill them where they live..and the allied forces know where they live. Yeah, it might take out a lot of women and children...but I will tell you something...when you are cleaning up a nest of rattlesnakes you clean up all of them...baby snakes grow up to bite you and the female snakes will not hesitate to bite you. Killing until they give up is the only way to win. That is what war is about...killing people as the result of failed diplomacy and there is no diplomacy when dealing with Islam...

These people see any attempts to negotiate as a weakness to be exploited just as the Taliban is exploiting Obama's rule of engagement. And it is going to get worse before it can possibly get better when we have some one like Obama as the CINC. DAMN

Good Morning Blog World

Looks like Omama is reluctant to turn loose of his control over CitiGroup. See, once all the bailed out banks return the bailout money Obama loses control and will have to figure some other way to socialize the banks...but not to worry...he will if we give him time. There is an important message from Obama to us that we best not overlook...

"Mr. Obama will address the size of salaries and bonuses, an official said, as he seeks to impress upon bankers that they have a “special responsibility” to consumers."

In other words Obama is going to tell the bankers the same thing as he has told you before...share your wealth. Obama sincerely believes in the basic premise of socialism...'receive according to need and contribute according to ability' with him being the one who determines need and ability. The biggest problem with this is that it curbs what freedom you had left. Socialism is not in any way compatible with liberty nor the American constitution as written...and all it will take is a few more years of left wing judges and politicians and the constitution will be gone forever.

I was against the big bail outs although if Bank American had crashed it probably would have cost me money. I believe in the free market system and do not believe that ANY bank or company is too big to let fail. The market place will regulate itself if government stays out of it but every attempt that government makes to regulate business just costs YOU the consumer more money. And when government bails out business then government thinks it has the right to tell business that business has a “special responsibility” to consumers. This is total bull shit of course...business has on responsibility and one only...and that is to make a profit for the ones who own the company...
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It is a balmy 70F here on sweetthing's half acre this morning...feels like it is going to rain. Just one of those winter days that pulled all those New Yorkers to Florida.

Speaking of New Yorkers... got to go to Home Depot later this morning and price some flooring..got to put a new floor in the double wide. I have been putting it off for too long hoping it would fix itself. But there is a bad spot that I am gonna fall through if I don't replace it. Anyway, this is the time of year I dread going to any retail business...Home Depot included. Not only will it be crowded but crowded with rude people who had just as soon run over you with a cart of 2X4s as look at you. I am thinking about taking a gun....

The jumpstart is hot and strong and activated the darvocet fast this morning. I washed down a hand full of pills with it and got my first dip of Skoal. Now I feel up to facing another day. I have a lot to do if I can generate the enthusiasm to do it...y'all come, heah?

Another Sunday gone

Another Sunday shot down..and I made it though sober...well at least dry...and maybe tomorrow will be a better day...at least I know it will be a dry one and I am on my way again for it to be a sober one. Just got to lock up some memories of the long ago past again...damn I thought they were locked up forever but somehow they came out haunting me again.

Thanks all for the kind words on the post below. Your encouragement and friendship makes writing here worthwhile. I will be back I hope tomorrow with my usual shit and wit...that is unless once again I shuffle my mind and come up with a blank....

Damn. I used to be able to put together a 10 minute briefing in two minutes and stand before room full of top brass and never stutter or say 'ya know' one time...and here I am the past few days struggling to write a readable post. The bumper sticker was right.."SHIT HAPPENS" But what that bumper sticker should have added was "SO JUST WIPE" Take care and y'all come, heah?

A Poem

This was sent to me via e mail this morning...please read and pass it on.

A Poem Worth Reading

He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.

Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.

And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.

But we'll hear his tales no longer,
For ol' Bob has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.

He won't be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.


He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won't note his passing,
'Tho a Soldier died today.

When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.


Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?

Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?

The politician's stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.

While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.


It's so easy to forget them,
For it is so many times
That our Bobs and Jims and Johnnys,
Went to battle, but we know,

It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.


Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?


Or would you want a Soldier--
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.

He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his like again.


For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor
While he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage
At the ending of his days.

Perhaps just a simply headline
In the paper that might say:
"OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A SOLDIER DIED TODAY."


Pass On The Patriotism!
YOU can make a difference

Sunday Morning Coming Down

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time."

Damn! I just looked and not only is it another Sunday, Friday the 13th came on a Sunday this month. I knew I should a stayed in bed.

I reckon that you that have read this bit of shit and wit on Sunday's know that Sunday is not my favorite day of the week...just too many memories from the past connected with Sundays from fights with parents over attending Sunday School and church to bad hangovers from a Saturday night drunk to later Sundays wondering what I had done after I blacked out on Saturday afternoon.

But there are also happy memories connected to Sundays and it is those I try to concentrate on when I wake moody as I did this morning. Memories of when I was a lad in the woods with my rifle and dog and memories of waking up on a Sunday morning in a fishing camp and hitting the water at daylight after the big ones. Memories...they will both sadden or make one happy...and I try to keep the sad ones locked away in the dark closet at the back of my mind...sometimes I just wish I could put a lock on those bad ones...a combination lock and then forget the damn combination. Seems that those bad memories are getting out of the closet more and more lately...

I do have a good memory to share today though if you happen to be interested...it was on a Sunday in December about 20 years or so ago that I begin to get sober.

See, I had quit drinking but I was what some call a dry drunk. The only behavior that had changed was that I was not drinking...the demons or whatever one wants to call the drive to drink were still there and I was fight them hard. But that Sunday I remember instead of walking the floor until a bar opened I walked the woods instead...and started a conversation with my creator..."please, I need some help here, okay?"

A couple of times in the past I had tried to get off the booze via AA...I know about the 12 step program but AA just didn't help me...I am not knocking it at all but it wasn't for me. Maybe I am not just a good team player I don't know. But that morning I remembered an important part of the 12 step program...and that is take a hard look at yourself...

I found the strength to do that on that cold Florida Sunday morning. Somehow I was able to just stroll along thinking about what I had done...and not done in the past. The things about me that I liked and the things I didn't like and resolved to do my best to change what I didn't like and just keep on with what I did like.

That morning started me on my way to sobriety...and I have been there now for many years.

Why am I writing this today? Because over the past month I have had the sinking feeling a couple of times that used to drive me over the edge after I had been dry for a few months. But I fought that urge and won this time...and I know that I can and will fight it and win again if it comes back. It might take a walk in the woods and asking for some help from my creator but I know now that I can do it...

Hell of a post for a Sunday morning, huh? Mostly just rambling and thinking out loud...it happens in these winter years of life they say...one of these day I would like to meet ole 'They' and ask him how he got so gotdam smart...always hearing that he say sumthin...

Life is good my friends and take it from someone who had been there...life is what you make of it...and the most important thing is to be able to get up and look in the mirror and like what you see. I did that this morning and yeah, I liked what I saw. My angel of the morning loves me and all is well...y'all come back, heah?

Meat Loaf

1 pound of lean hamburger
1 pound of mild Italian sausage
2 eggs
3/4 of oat meal
1 medium onion
1 red bell pepper
2 large cloves of garlic
ketchup
salt to taste
ground hot red pepper to taste

dice and saute onion, pepper and garlic until soft

mix all ingredients except ketchup and put in baking pan or iron skillet

put ketchup on top of the mess

bake at 350 degrees F for one hour

mmmmmmmmmm GOOD!

Good Morning Blog World

I shuffled the thought deck in my head this morning and drew a blank.











Yep...

But the jumpstart is good and hot. Y'all come, heah?

Good Morning Blog World

Just two more weeks until Christmas! And seeing as how Christmas is a time of giving I am giving a big two handed middle finger to some people this year....

Do you really want government determining salaries..anywhere anytime excepting the compensation of government employees? Well,when you allow government to step into private enterprise to save those that are too big to let fail you are opening the door for the government to regulate salaries in private business....but the if the government bails out a company and becomes a part owner then it is no longer private enterprise?

There were several things that led to the crash of so many financial institutions..and I really don't believe executive compensation was one of them. If fingers are going to be pointed...and middle fingers should be pointed...they should be pointed at congress and the odorous Community Reinvestment Act first. This is what started the housing boom to begin with...an act that forced lenders to make housing loans to people who could not afford them. Then you might point a middle finger at such organizations as ACORN and Jessie Jackson's PUSH ...groups who pressured banks into making sub-standard loans by threatening to demonstrate in front of the banks. And don't forget Fanny and Freddy...congress's pet lending institutions that they refused for years to oversee and then blamed Bush when the institutions failed. The executives of the failed institutions do get a
middle finger from me also...but I have an idea they knew they were fucked and were just gonna get all the pleasure out of it while it lasted.

But in any event the problem was compounded when we as a society stood by and let the government intervene and take control of the failing institutions instead of letting them go bust. And now the Federal government thinks it has the right to dictate executive compensation in the organizations it bailed out. But the bigger problem is that regulating these salaries opens the door for the government to regulate all salaries...and not only those of high paid CEOs. In fact, congress does that now with a tax code that is the most complicated of any country on earth. And eventually the confiscatory tax rates will filter down to YOU..the middle class producer who built this country and has been its backbone since the beginning.

Some will tell you this will never happen. It will. If the Cap and Trade legislation and the Health care bill passes you are going to PAY! Not in taxes per se but you will pay none the less and the Federal government will be the collector in the long run. Some how congress is going to have to be convinced that business is not in business to support the government and that ALL business taxes are paid by the consumer...but then I learn years back that I could always tell a politician...but I could never tell them very much.

There ya got it....my rant against the socialist sumbitches running this country now.
There is only one bright spot that I see in the big bail out...

"Mr. Feinberg’s domain, meantime, is shrinking rapidly. Bank of America paid back its bailout money on Wednesday and only its top 25 workers whose pay Mr. Feinberg ruled on in October will be subject to his mandates this year. In recent days, Citigroup, too, has been trying to cut its lifeline to Washington in part to protect its workers from Mr. Feinberg’s rulings on Friday."

I especially like the part about Feinberg's domain shrinking...
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But all is well on the home front...little wet and chilly this morning but then it is that time of year here on the central Florida Gulf Coast...the kind of weather to be expected. No freezes ye and maybe we will have one of those winters without a killing frost..hey! Global warming!

I did take heart again after hearing what was said at the big global warming conference. I may have some waterfront property after all as soon as Greenland melts and becomes about the size of Guam and covered with Palm trees. All these pilings I got to build a dock won't go to waste after all...just need the gulf to get 13 more feet deeper...

The jump start is good and hot and the cackleberry tasted like a cackleberry...I betcha that half of ya would never eat an egg if you saw it being produced. My angel of the morning has told me she loves me and life is great. Y'all come, heah?