MIND GAMES …. Had to spend $600.00 on this house this week, dishwasher, garbage disposal, bathroom sink thing … You don’t own a house, a house owns you. Maybe that is why all the Desperate Housewives live on “Hysteria Lane.” Just thinkin’ outside the box.
POP UPS! … If that knot-head in the Green Suit with the yellow flowers and bow-tie runs across my screen one more time I am gonna scream! What good is a pop up blocker if it will NOT block the pop-ups! My very own personal favorite, “MSN — Take The Stupid Test” yeah, sign me up.
NOW THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG … Last month I posted a story about the Gray Wolf in Idaho (3-21-08), being pursued by sheep ranchers and cattle ranchers on Public Land. The animal recently taken off the endangered list which made it a prime suspect for these profit motivated individuals living in that area of the country.
This week I read where state wildlife biologists in that state, are investigating the shooting deaths of two wolves by a private landowner who said the “wolves were roaming too close to his twenty horses.”
It appears that if you are a wolf in Idaho, you don’t actually have to kill anything to get shot, all you have to be is in the area. One week after they are released off the list, it is curtains for them. That is pretty sad.
On a related note. In Wyoming Demar Hill, 48, pleaded guilty to three counts of taking a trophy game animal(s) without a license. He was coyote hunting with his sons, when he came across three mountain lion cubs. At that point in time, he did the “natural manly thing” he shot the animals. He was assessed more than $10,000 in fines and restricted from hunting and/or fishing for three years.
One more and I will move on … A mountain lion having lived his entire life in the mountains of North Carolina, decided one day that he would go down into the valley and see what that was like. So he came down off the mountain and discovered that life was good in the valley.
He got hungry, saw an old bull, so he jumped him, killed him, and then consumed the beast. Having been sated, he then started to roar and roar, which in turn attracted the attention of a nearby farmer. The farmer having seen what had transpired rushed to his pickup, got his rifle off the gun rack and shot the mountain lion dead.
Moral of the story …… When you are full of bull, keep yo’ mouth shut!
ABSOLUTE WORST QUOTE OF THE WEEK: The Presidents “stupefying pronouncement that the tide has turned in Iraq” shows the depths of his delusion. Time to head back to Crawford, and play with your chainsaw Dub-ya.
DECLARE YOURSELF A NATION … That to me seems the way to do it. Declare yourself a sovereign nation and then apply for foreign aid. France will receive hundreds of millions in U.S. Taxpayer research money for study of the fruit flies from the U.S. Government earmarked pork belly spending this year.
This week the Department Of Homeland Security announced that all permits, and environmental restrictions on the wall being built at the border between Mexico and the U.S. are suspended.
WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT … Haven’t you heard?
Politicians are so stupid. The Great Wall of China was built at a cost of some $3 billion dollars, over 80,000 Chinese died building this monument of man that can be observed from space. The first Army to approach the wall bribed a gate keeper, he opened the doors, and they marched right thru.
This fence isn’t going to stop determined, starving, desperate people. It will stop animals … But the rest are coming on thru.
PHOTO OP ….. I don’t understand this one at all. Someone enlighten me. Why is it when some scumbag politician is caught in an adulterous affair or some other socially embarrassing position, the wife is required to stand next to him when he announces to the world that he is a no good dirty egg sucking dog. I just don’t get that, doesn’t seem fair to the wife to me.
CRÈME DE LA CRUD … In the late 1960’s, Mattel introduced a series of friends for Barbie, and even a family for her, including Barbie’s teenage sister, Skipper (a strange name for a sister, wouldn’t you agree?). Then in ’75, Skipper morphed into a doll that would change from adolescent to adult and then back again ..
Which also was a personality trait that I assumed during the same period of time. Living better thru Chemistry and all that. I certainly had a great time and coincidentally my Union Rep was awfully busy during this period too.
With the pull of an arm, Skipper grew an inch taller, her waist got smaller, and her bust-line expanded. Another arm pump returned Skipper to her more modest, less curvy dimensions.
And they wonder why our children grew up to be kind of screwed up in the eighties?
GOOD READS …. Adventures in Tornado Alley, Mike Hollinghead, amazing spectacular photography on the America plains. You can find it at Amazon.com for about $20. Want to know how long you are going to live? Which direction are you going and for how long. Visit Bluezone.com and take the vitality test.
The Blue Zone is a book written by Dan Buettner, a journalist/researcher who has explored much of the world on a bike, seeking out places where people live the longest (Blue Zones).
A very interesting site. One thing else … Be prepared for some heavy duty depression after taking the test (You can however, take the test over, lie like you would not believe, and add 15 years to your life! I discovered that will make you feel better.)
SEARCH THE HEAVENS … This week scientists, in Spain, I believe that is where it was, discovered ten new planets outside of our solar system, and at the same time, the smallest black hole in space, some 15 miles across and 3.6 times more dense than our sun. Which amazes me, because most of the time, I cannot find the television remote or my car keys.
BY THE NUMBERS … Big Oil was called to Washington DC this week on April Fools Day to be exact, how appropriate is that? Which I find kind of stooooopid, beating up on Big Oil executives is about as effective as sending Vice President Cheney to Saudi Arabia to beg for more of the black oily substance.
Roughing up oil executives does make for good press and all that, but it doesn’t do a thing for our energy dependence (addiction as Bush calls it) in the long run. Our basic problem besides our apparent appetite for oil, is that we “traditionally send the wrong people over sea’s to negotiate for us.”
Condoleeesa …. Oh, please?
So here is how it works out: 2003, $58.2 billion, 2004, $82.4 billion, 2005, $111.4 billion, 2006, $119.6 billion, 2007, $123.4 billion oil company profits. What they are NOT telling you. During the same time, the U.S. Government collected over $135 billion in taxes from these same folks … So who is the biggest pig at the consumer trough, you make the call.
IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK .. IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK, THEN IT IS MORE THAN LIKELY A DUCK … This week in Grand Island Nebraska city officials say there is no proof that the sewage plant is responsible for a massive fish kill directly below the sewage plant on the Platt River. What killed the fish is still being investigated, but they might consider that there are NO dead fish above the plant. This might give them a clue.
I mean …… Duh?
OKIE-HOMA … A state representative announced this week that he is going to vote NO on a “Speak English Only” bill currently in the political process “because he feels it infringes upon the RIGHTS of illegals” under the free speech amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
What rights?
I don’t know what these people are smoking, but I would like to get some of it for the weekend.
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