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Because I have some things to say to you. First, let's hit up Roger Goodel and the NFL. In case you haven't noticed, the quality of refereeing after three weeks is flat Awful. Even the good crews have struggled, and they were led by the bunch that called the season's opening Thursday. Perhaps if they weren't being distracted by A) trying to accomplish the NFL's moronic edict of removing every trace of celebration from the end zone; B) trying to cover for the Umpire, who has been moved for "safety reasons" and is now hopelessly out of position and a good deal less than useful; or C) trying to guess whether they will be called by the review booth who now "reviews" every scoring play- or I should put that, reviews "every scoring play"- and let me just say who was the intelligence challenged individual who decided to take this out of the COACH'S hands, where it belongs? It might work better if the booth was actually paying attention to the scoring play. Y'know, Mike Vick had a point about bitching that they never throw flags when he gets hit. However, the reason isn't the NFL's more than obvious bias for quarterbacks named Manning and Brady- it's just that they BLOW this year.
Next, Morgan Freeman. Sir, I do not want Obama out of the White House because he's black. In fact, if you were less biased and more open, you'd see that probably 75% of Tea Partiers would LOVE to have Herman Cain in his place. I want Barack Obama out because he is:
1) A Chicago mobster style politician;
2) A closet bigot and a fairly open Socialist;
3) A man with no idea what he is trying to accomplish;
4) A typical liberal elitist with their liquid definition of what is true and what isn't;
5) All of the above. (Hint: take #5.)
Next, and speaking of Obama, I have now a collection of replies to my letters to AttackWatch.com- all of them involving me either sending them money, volunteering time, or putting a stylish magnetic sticker on my car. Imagine that- a campaign fundraiser in the guise of a snitch-site! I'd have NEVER expected THAT from a liberal political group! I expressed my disappointment in them thusly (after the latest attempt to get money from me, citing that 11,000 of my Indiana neighbors have done so):
Dude, you really should LOOK at what I sent you. You've just gone a long way to proving that for liberals, politics is just a way to make money. I sent you the most dipshit complaints I felt like coming up with, and you're only response is to panhandle for "change you can use". I wouldn't give your cause bus fare outta town, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. No wonder the raccoons think Obama's a dick!
Now, and finally, the listing of sports sites. I would like to know how your live scoreboards work- and I'll give you 3 examples of why I ask.
Saturday, I am keeping rapt attention on the FCS scores on CBSSports.com. Now, over the years I have often written CBS about the quality of marijuana their scoreboard people smoke. Thus I was not surprised that the game between JMU and William AND Mary had an anomaly. The box score showed that JMU was up 10-0 at half, then W&M put up 10 in the third and 7 in the fourth to take the lead. Just before time ran out, though, something funny happened- the 7 in the fourth quarter spontaneously added itself to the third quarter, disappearing from the fourth, while there was just a blank spot for JMU's fourth quarter, and a total score of 20-14 (which was a trick with W&M having 17 of those 14 in the third). So with a sigh, I switched over to ESPN.com. Their top of the page list had the 20-14 score as a final. So I clicked on the box score, and when it came up, it was showing a 10-7 FINAL! (All together now, WTF?) So I reversed back to the ESPN main page, which was now showing 10-7, but NOT final. Back to CBS, where it was now posted as a 20-17 final! After trying to learn what happened from news sources without any success, I returned to ESPN, which was now back to the 20-14 final, though the box score didn't add up and none of the scoring plays were posted. Giving one last try, I went to Rivals.com- Yahoo's sports site- where they confirmed (or so I thought) the CBS 20-17 final.
Next morning, all three had the TRUE score of 20-14. Not only did W&M not score 17 in the third quarter, or even 10 for that matter, but they didn't even get TO 14 until after JMU had them down 17-7. So back to the original question. Obviously either the all get the info from the same source (whose credibility really reflects well on their own), or they each crib off the other, and when one screws up, you get a train wreck. Can it really be SO HARD to get this thing right? Somewhere, sometime, someone is actually AT the game, I'm assuming, and their boss REALLY needs to get them to put down the Milwaukee's Best and pay attention.
And I almost forgot- CBS went above and beynd the call Sunday. Their score crawler during the NFL games had at one point Matt Hasselbeck being 20-for-20 passing, a trick considering A) no one was trumpeting his historic performance; B) we'd already seen about three dropped balls and an INT by his team; and C) C'mon, it's Matt Hasselbeck! They followed that about 20 minutes later with another QB, I think Andy Dalton going 12-for-10. Quite a trick, to throw ten passes and complete twelve of them, but I'll bet Hasselbeck could do it.
Oh, and here's one for the Henry for Mayor people. I think I've got enough "How can we trust Paula Hughes" flyers to get your point, even if I just throw them away. You can beat the next dead horse for a while now.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
One disclaimer-filled post
Forgive any boo-boos, please, but blurry eyes do not cancel the need to post! We have a lot to cover tonight, so hang on tight!
ITEM: For you out-of-towners, this weekend was the best event in Fort Wayne- the Johnny Appleseed Festival. KC and I walked on over, and in perusing the antique junk and miscellaneous knick-knack booths, I found me a couple of treasures.
No, I'm not collecting old bottles as a habit. But I had some reasons for these. That little guy is a Grolsch beer with a ceramic swing-top cap-
Now then, which of my posts are;
1. Most Beautiful- First I thought of one of the many sad memorials I've had to do this year- the one for Clarence Clemons (Goodbye, Big Man) comes to mind. But I'll go with an anguished poem I posted Back in February- I Know There Is A Healing.
2. Most Helpful- I really hope that would be one of my sermonettes, like He Who Has Ears To Hear. I may bother, borew or alienate a lot of people with my faith and the posts that come from it- but if one person learns, hears, is encouraged, the whole rest of the blogs are worth it.
3.Most controversial- Hands down, What Government Is For. This started out as a response to someone who saw our government as there to serve the minorities, and morphed into a knock-down, drag-out on atheism and evolution. It would take the next category as well, were it not for Europeans who love Silver Convention and people who want to know why the world will end in May of next year.
4. Most Popular- #1 is The Day Of Judgement According to wecanknow.com; #2 is Time Machine Week Thirty, the infamous "picture of Silver Convention" post. Apparently the most searched non-porn picture of all time.
5. Most Underrated- My all time favorite, Once Upon A Time In The Forest..., a fairy tale in real life, or vice-versa, featuring Scrappy.
6. Most Surprisingly Successful- Rikuzen Takata, the original post on the Japanese disaster which spawned 7 updates so far. #4 on the pageview list.
7. Most Pride worthy- Hey, I'm the Humble Author, capeesh? No pride here.
There, that only took me half the night! Check 'em out and see what you think. Thanks again, C.A.- for the award and the exercise in reflection.
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Here's clips from a story I just had to share- a real WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??
ABOARD THE MANGYONGBONG, off North Korea — It was billed as a cruise ship, but the creaking, nearly-40-year-old vessel that set sail from the remote North Korean town of Rajin had more of the trappings of a tramp steamer. With its cramped cabins, cut-rate cuisine and foul, water-deprived bathrooms, it was not about to compete anytime soon with Cunard or Carnival in the leisure industry.
Then again, it does not have to. As North Korea’s latest venture into the tourism business, it need not concern itself with rivals. The trick, as its operators conceded, will be to attract enough vacationers.
Desperate for foreign currency, officials in secretive North Korea are trying to lure tourists to holiday cruises along the length of the impoverished country’s east coast. Earlier this month, a trial run by the rusty Mangyongbong was completed in 43 trying hours at sea. More than 200 people were packed into dim and musty cabins, sometimes eight to a room with floor mattresses. Chinese tourists and business people shared quarters with North Korean officials and foreign journalists.
The inaugural cruise presumably had support at the highest levels in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. The organizer, Taepung International Investment Group, falls under the National Defense Commission, which answers directly to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il.
“I love peace and the Korean Peninsula,” said Park Chol-su, president of Taepung, as he sat on the deck of the Mangyongbong. “Our company symbolizes peace. We can even hire Americans.”
The trial run began on Aug. 29, when Mr. Park led scores of foreigners across the border from northeast China to Rajin, the port town that North Korea has designated a free economic and trade zone. Some of the visitors had paid about $470 for the five-day trip, which included several days on land. Others were traveling free of charge because they were friends of Mr. Park, who is a Chinese citizen. Many of the Chinese ran tour agencies, and Mr. Park and North Korean officials were trying to encourage them to promote North Korea tourism.
Bilingual government guides had been assigned to the tour buses. An affable 25-year-old, Mun Ho-yong, spouted off some facts in English about his country: “In 1950, there was a war, the Korean War, started by the United States.” Now, he said, Korea had entered the phase of “universal socialist construction.”
In Rajin, a town of dirt roads and occasional blackouts, the guides stuck to the program, first taking their guests to a towering portrait of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, for photographs and then ushering them into a theater to watch children perform patriotic numbers. That night, the visitors attended a banquet where the vice mayor, Hwang Chol-nam, toasted Mr. Park for organizing the cruise.
Confetti flew and about 500 students and workers in uniforms waved flags and plastic flowers as the boat lurched from the dock in Rajin.
“It has not been easy,” Mr. Hwang said. The two then belted out a karaoke song glorifying Kim Il-sung.
But it was at noon the next day that the real festivities got under way. At the harbor, where ships bearing coal depart for Shanghai, officials in dark suits lined up along a red carpet to give speeches. Then came the blaring of music dedicated to — whom else? — Kim Il-sung (“The Marshal Rides a Galloping White Horse”). Confetti flew and about 500 students and workers in uniforms waved flags and plastic flowers as the boat lurched from the dock.
The Mangyongbong had been used as a cargo ship since 1992, but before that had served as a passenger ferry mostly for North Koreans living in Japan.
The North Korean coastline disappeared from view for much of the 21-hour journey south. There was no shuffleboard. Chinese passengers broke out decks of cards. Mr. Hwang, the vice mayor, changed from a navy suit into a green polo shirt and drank beers with foreigners on the top deck. An American asked him whether there was any chance the ship might stray into international waters and encounter foreign naval vessels.
“You’re in North Korea here,” Mr. Hwang said. “You’re completely safe. The North Korean military is protecting you.”
Dinner that night resembled a mess hall at an American Army base in Iraq: metal trays, fluorescent lights, diced chicken and cucumbers ladled from self-serve communal bowls. Waitresses threw leftovers overboard. The wind blew bits of trash back onto the deck.
The next morning, the boat pulled into the harbor of the nature park at Mount Kumgang, not far from the border with South Korea. The day and night spent there involved hiking, an acrobatics show and a video pitch for the Chinese businesspeople on investing in the park. The South Korean government has barred its citizens from traveling there since a fatal shooting in 2008, and the park’s South Korean developer has suspended its operations. “Now we’re in a military zone; if you stay behind, you get shot,” Mr. Mun said, apparently jokingly, as the buses pulled up to a rocky beach.
The hotel had a tennis court and a bar, and the visitors were taken to a well-trimmed golf course. There was even a North Korean-style duty-free shop offering, among other things, a homegrown version of Viagra (main ingredient: antler).
The return trip took 22 hours. After a lunch of instant noodles, the harbor at Rajin loomed in the distance. “We admit that we have a lot of shortcomings to overcome,” Mr. Park said.
The passengers stared at the buses waiting to take them back to China. “One trip is enough for a lifetime,” someone said. The ship slowly approached the dock.
Then there was a great crashing sound, and the Mangyongbong shuddered. “It’s like the Titanic,” a Chinese man yelled. People pointed at the concrete pier — the ship had rammed straight into it, denting the front of the hull and reducing a corner of the structure into a pile of rubble. The captain, it seemed, was just as eager as everyone else to get back to shore.
'Nuff said. Thank God I get seasick.
ITEM: For you out-of-towners, this weekend was the best event in Fort Wayne- the Johnny Appleseed Festival. KC and I walked on over, and in perusing the antique junk and miscellaneous knick-knack booths, I found me a couple of treasures.
And thus becomes my second stay-on-the-bottle cap. (Yeah, this is more properly for the caps blog, and I'll put it over there later.) The big boy is a bit older. I know you can't make out what it says on my camera, so I tried a pencil-rub for you:
"Berghoff Brewing Co. Ft. Wayne, Ind." I did some digging on this bottle. It seems the fact that it doesn't say "H. Berghoff Brewing Co." tells us it was made after 1889, and the fact that it says "Co," rather than "Association", or whatever abbreviation for that they used, tells us that it was made prior to 1910. Either way, a bottle in excess of 100 years old! Value: about the $5 I payed for it, but if you've seen the cap blog, you know I love the hometown breweries and their stories, so for me, priceless.
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Second, my friend Chocolate Angel over at The Cat and the Coffee Cup passed on her recently received 7X7 award. Now this is one of those "Pass It On" awards in which you let out some of your deep dark secrets and then pass it on to the next deserving soul. Only in this case, it involves picking the posts that best fit seven categories, and then pass it on to seven others. Now me, I'm not one much for passing on things (it gives me that low esteem feeling of being a pest) and when you consider of my 29 followers, there are several MIAs, a couple of doubles, one is KC's ex-gf and may not be around hereabouts any more (?), and several others who might be candidates have already either gotten the award from C.A. or will get it passed to them by the ones she passed it to, I'm just going to leave it up for grabs- if you want to play, just grab the award and answer the categories!
1. Most Beautiful- First I thought of one of the many sad memorials I've had to do this year- the one for Clarence Clemons (Goodbye, Big Man) comes to mind. But I'll go with an anguished poem I posted Back in February- I Know There Is A Healing.
2. Most Helpful- I really hope that would be one of my sermonettes, like He Who Has Ears To Hear. I may bother, borew or alienate a lot of people with my faith and the posts that come from it- but if one person learns, hears, is encouraged, the whole rest of the blogs are worth it.
3.Most controversial- Hands down, What Government Is For. This started out as a response to someone who saw our government as there to serve the minorities, and morphed into a knock-down, drag-out on atheism and evolution. It would take the next category as well, were it not for Europeans who love Silver Convention and people who want to know why the world will end in May of next year.
4. Most Popular- #1 is The Day Of Judgement According to wecanknow.com; #2 is Time Machine Week Thirty, the infamous "picture of Silver Convention" post. Apparently the most searched non-porn picture of all time.
5. Most Underrated- My all time favorite, Once Upon A Time In The Forest..., a fairy tale in real life, or vice-versa, featuring Scrappy.
6. Most Surprisingly Successful- Rikuzen Takata, the original post on the Japanese disaster which spawned 7 updates so far. #4 on the pageview list.
7. Most Pride worthy- Hey, I'm the Humble Author, capeesh? No pride here.
There, that only took me half the night! Check 'em out and see what you think. Thanks again, C.A.- for the award and the exercise in reflection.
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Here's clips from a story I just had to share- a real WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??
ABOARD THE MANGYONGBONG, off North Korea — It was billed as a cruise ship, but the creaking, nearly-40-year-old vessel that set sail from the remote North Korean town of Rajin had more of the trappings of a tramp steamer. With its cramped cabins, cut-rate cuisine and foul, water-deprived bathrooms, it was not about to compete anytime soon with Cunard or Carnival in the leisure industry.
Then again, it does not have to. As North Korea’s latest venture into the tourism business, it need not concern itself with rivals. The trick, as its operators conceded, will be to attract enough vacationers.
Desperate for foreign currency, officials in secretive North Korea are trying to lure tourists to holiday cruises along the length of the impoverished country’s east coast. Earlier this month, a trial run by the rusty Mangyongbong was completed in 43 trying hours at sea. More than 200 people were packed into dim and musty cabins, sometimes eight to a room with floor mattresses. Chinese tourists and business people shared quarters with North Korean officials and foreign journalists.
The inaugural cruise presumably had support at the highest levels in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. The organizer, Taepung International Investment Group, falls under the National Defense Commission, which answers directly to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il.
“I love peace and the Korean Peninsula,” said Park Chol-su, president of Taepung, as he sat on the deck of the Mangyongbong. “Our company symbolizes peace. We can even hire Americans.”
The trial run began on Aug. 29, when Mr. Park led scores of foreigners across the border from northeast China to Rajin, the port town that North Korea has designated a free economic and trade zone. Some of the visitors had paid about $470 for the five-day trip, which included several days on land. Others were traveling free of charge because they were friends of Mr. Park, who is a Chinese citizen. Many of the Chinese ran tour agencies, and Mr. Park and North Korean officials were trying to encourage them to promote North Korea tourism.
Bilingual government guides had been assigned to the tour buses. An affable 25-year-old, Mun Ho-yong, spouted off some facts in English about his country: “In 1950, there was a war, the Korean War, started by the United States.” Now, he said, Korea had entered the phase of “universal socialist construction.”
In Rajin, a town of dirt roads and occasional blackouts, the guides stuck to the program, first taking their guests to a towering portrait of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, for photographs and then ushering them into a theater to watch children perform patriotic numbers. That night, the visitors attended a banquet where the vice mayor, Hwang Chol-nam, toasted Mr. Park for organizing the cruise.
Confetti flew and about 500 students and workers in uniforms waved flags and plastic flowers as the boat lurched from the dock in Rajin.
“It has not been easy,” Mr. Hwang said. The two then belted out a karaoke song glorifying Kim Il-sung.
But it was at noon the next day that the real festivities got under way. At the harbor, where ships bearing coal depart for Shanghai, officials in dark suits lined up along a red carpet to give speeches. Then came the blaring of music dedicated to — whom else? — Kim Il-sung (“The Marshal Rides a Galloping White Horse”). Confetti flew and about 500 students and workers in uniforms waved flags and plastic flowers as the boat lurched from the dock.
The Mangyongbong had been used as a cargo ship since 1992, but before that had served as a passenger ferry mostly for North Koreans living in Japan.
The North Korean coastline disappeared from view for much of the 21-hour journey south. There was no shuffleboard. Chinese passengers broke out decks of cards. Mr. Hwang, the vice mayor, changed from a navy suit into a green polo shirt and drank beers with foreigners on the top deck. An American asked him whether there was any chance the ship might stray into international waters and encounter foreign naval vessels.
“You’re in North Korea here,” Mr. Hwang said. “You’re completely safe. The North Korean military is protecting you.”
Dinner that night resembled a mess hall at an American Army base in Iraq: metal trays, fluorescent lights, diced chicken and cucumbers ladled from self-serve communal bowls. Waitresses threw leftovers overboard. The wind blew bits of trash back onto the deck.
The next morning, the boat pulled into the harbor of the nature park at Mount Kumgang, not far from the border with South Korea. The day and night spent there involved hiking, an acrobatics show and a video pitch for the Chinese businesspeople on investing in the park. The South Korean government has barred its citizens from traveling there since a fatal shooting in 2008, and the park’s South Korean developer has suspended its operations. “Now we’re in a military zone; if you stay behind, you get shot,” Mr. Mun said, apparently jokingly, as the buses pulled up to a rocky beach.
The hotel had a tennis court and a bar, and the visitors were taken to a well-trimmed golf course. There was even a North Korean-style duty-free shop offering, among other things, a homegrown version of Viagra (main ingredient: antler).
The return trip took 22 hours. After a lunch of instant noodles, the harbor at Rajin loomed in the distance. “We admit that we have a lot of shortcomings to overcome,” Mr. Park said.
The passengers stared at the buses waiting to take them back to China. “One trip is enough for a lifetime,” someone said. The ship slowly approached the dock.
Then there was a great crashing sound, and the Mangyongbong shuddered. “It’s like the Titanic,” a Chinese man yelled. People pointed at the concrete pier — the ship had rammed straight into it, denting the front of the hull and reducing a corner of the structure into a pile of rubble. The captain, it seemed, was just as eager as everyone else to get back to shore.
'Nuff said. Thank God I get seasick.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Happy New Years Eve
Today ends my first year as a blogger. A time to take stock, count up, and reflect on all the joys and sorrows of the year, and look forward to the next year.
First, let's go by the numbers. I am closing on 260 posts, and at the time I'm writing it has been viewed 3,015 times. While the vast majority of these viewers have been from the good ol' USA (2,244), we've also saw a steady stream of occasional viewers and semi-regular followers from Denmark (363), Germany (59), Jolly Ol' (53), Russia (51), Canada (43), Slovenia (26), the Netherlands (12), Australia (11), and China (8). Along the way, I looked into sports, politics, religion, and the stupid nature of humanity. I kept track of "uncommon" animal sightings ( tally as of right now: 62 deer, 19 rabbits, 8 fox, 7 bats, 7 raccoons, 5 groundhogs, 4 black (or as Tina says, "Mexican") squirrels, 2 opossums, 2 meadowlarks, 1 each pheasant, longhorn steers, and 2 unidentified weasel-like creatures.
I explored the woodland and waters near home, and took journeys to Toledo and Cincinnati that were far more exciting than just saying "we went to Toledo and Cincinnati" can express. And people actually read some of this stuff. Here are the top ten posts by view this year:
#10 - Time Machine week 33- Lorne Greene and Ringo; That's The Way I like It at #1.
#9- TM week 23- my look at the R&RHOF nominees, the side story of dropping frozen rats with cardboard wings into Guam, and Run Joey Run at #1.
#8-TM week 31- the Thanksgiving episode, with Batdorf and Rodney and KC and the Sunshine Band at #1 again.
#7- TM week 35- the Fly Away story, and Christmas.
#6-The Time Machine Christmas Special. My own mashing together of the Cashbox and Billboard year end charts.
#5- TM week 19- What "tush" means in Texican, and Falling In Love at #1.
#4- TM week 29- the wrap up of my best songs of the seventies, and the "Superstar" controversy that followed.
#3- The Day Of Judgement According To wecanknow.com- Combine decent scholarship with Dan Brown on steroids and you get that the world will end in October of next year.
#2- TM week 30- Neil Young says "Turn up the barn"; Fly Robin Fly at #1.
annnnnd #1 by a Vaaaaaaaast margin:
#1 What Government Is For- where my attempt to denounce tyranny of the minority evolved into World War III between creationists and atheists.
Among the most fun posts were my "who's dumber" columns. Here's my personal top ten of idiocy:
#10 New York city councilman Michael Wolfensohn putting a lemonade stand out of business because they hadn't spent in access of a million bucks to purchase a vendor's licence. Typical democratic support of small Business.
#9-5 guys on the Kankakee river who couldn't manage to hang onto 1 oar with ten hands and end up drifting and lost until the cops saved them from themselves.
#8- Cleveland proving themselves a sports Mecca yet again when a drunken Browns fan tackled and knocked down an 8-yr-old boy in a Jets jersey and ran away. And they wonder what's wrong with the Cavs, Browns, and Tribe.
#7- The attorney for Brett Favre's picture recipient Jenn Sterger claiming they presented more than enough evidence to get the NFL to punish Favre- though apparently that evidence was not enough to get him to file charges in an ACTUAL court o' law.
#6- the many amusing e-mails I've received from Nigerian scammers, especially the acronym-filled notice from the "FBI".
#5- the delightful Helen Thomas rising up off her stone-age ass and telling the Jews to move out of Israel. The living (or at least well preserved) symbol of all that is good in liberal media.
#4- a combo entry for the Westboro Baptist "church" with their campaign against good taste and common sense at funerals, and the Dove World Outreach Center and their threatened Koran-burning. Congratulations for setting the world's perception of Christianity back 3,000 years. Who needs Michael Neadow when you got these guys?
#3- The women in New Jersey who went to a back alley "doctor" to have their butts augmented with a mixture that proved to be less Botox and more industrial grade caulk. I would think this would be more the line of depends undergarments than plastic surgery.
#2- the governor in Russia who believes he was abducted by aliens, and the member of the state Duma who wants an investigation into what he may have told the aliens. You can't make this stuff up.
Annnnd finally:
#1- the robber who dressed up in fake tits and clown pants, walked into several businesses, finally robbed the first bank he went into (when the second bank told him they couldn't accept a robbery note written on a deposit slip from the first bank), blew the dye pack up all over himself, and was apprehended by cops sitting in a car that he tried to car jack (but failed when the owner fled with the keys). Was there ever a doubt?
Do I have any resolutions? Like Bob G., I resolved years ago to make no more resolutions, and have kept it ever since. But there are things I'd like to see.
I'd like to see a world where a traitor who puts innocents in danger for his own self-glorification (read: Julian Ass ange) is treated as a traitor, and not a hero by left wing bozos like Michael Moore and dipshit bureaucrats like the lady at the UN who's concerned about his free speech rights.
I'd like to see the African-American community spend less time persecuting cops who are forced to arrest/chase/shoot lazy amoral thugs, and more time taking their young people to task for wasting their lives in such a way.
I'd like to see an education system that stopped fighting over money, stopped playing politics with their union, stopped worrying how our kids compare to those in the EU, and started caring whether the kids are actually learning.
I'd like to see a government that ceased believing that every partisan battle was all or nothing and started working at compromises that put the good of the people back at the paramount position that they are SUPPOSED to be in.
I'd like to see my daughter wake up one morning realizing that she is wasting the best years of her life avoiding education, and settle down and study at least enough to get her stinkin' learner's permit.
And finally, I'd like to see us all safe and sound here next year. May God bless and keep you all.
First, let's go by the numbers. I am closing on 260 posts, and at the time I'm writing it has been viewed 3,015 times. While the vast majority of these viewers have been from the good ol' USA (2,244), we've also saw a steady stream of occasional viewers and semi-regular followers from Denmark (363), Germany (59), Jolly Ol' (53), Russia (51), Canada (43), Slovenia (26), the Netherlands (12), Australia (11), and China (8). Along the way, I looked into sports, politics, religion, and the stupid nature of humanity. I kept track of "uncommon" animal sightings ( tally as of right now: 62 deer, 19 rabbits, 8 fox, 7 bats, 7 raccoons, 5 groundhogs, 4 black (or as Tina says, "Mexican") squirrels, 2 opossums, 2 meadowlarks, 1 each pheasant, longhorn steers, and 2 unidentified weasel-like creatures.
I explored the woodland and waters near home, and took journeys to Toledo and Cincinnati that were far more exciting than just saying "we went to Toledo and Cincinnati" can express. And people actually read some of this stuff. Here are the top ten posts by view this year:
#10 - Time Machine week 33- Lorne Greene and Ringo; That's The Way I like It at #1.
#9- TM week 23- my look at the R&RHOF nominees, the side story of dropping frozen rats with cardboard wings into Guam, and Run Joey Run at #1.
#8-TM week 31- the Thanksgiving episode, with Batdorf and Rodney and KC and the Sunshine Band at #1 again.
#7- TM week 35- the Fly Away story, and Christmas.
#6-The Time Machine Christmas Special. My own mashing together of the Cashbox and Billboard year end charts.
#5- TM week 19- What "tush" means in Texican, and Falling In Love at #1.
#4- TM week 29- the wrap up of my best songs of the seventies, and the "Superstar" controversy that followed.
#3- The Day Of Judgement According To wecanknow.com- Combine decent scholarship with Dan Brown on steroids and you get that the world will end in October of next year.
#2- TM week 30- Neil Young says "Turn up the barn"; Fly Robin Fly at #1.
annnnnd #1 by a Vaaaaaaaast margin:
#1 What Government Is For- where my attempt to denounce tyranny of the minority evolved into World War III between creationists and atheists.
Among the most fun posts were my "who's dumber" columns. Here's my personal top ten of idiocy:
#10 New York city councilman Michael Wolfensohn putting a lemonade stand out of business because they hadn't spent in access of a million bucks to purchase a vendor's licence. Typical democratic support of small Business.
#9-5 guys on the Kankakee river who couldn't manage to hang onto 1 oar with ten hands and end up drifting and lost until the cops saved them from themselves.
#8- Cleveland proving themselves a sports Mecca yet again when a drunken Browns fan tackled and knocked down an 8-yr-old boy in a Jets jersey and ran away. And they wonder what's wrong with the Cavs, Browns, and Tribe.
#7- The attorney for Brett Favre's picture recipient Jenn Sterger claiming they presented more than enough evidence to get the NFL to punish Favre- though apparently that evidence was not enough to get him to file charges in an ACTUAL court o' law.
#6- the many amusing e-mails I've received from Nigerian scammers, especially the acronym-filled notice from the "FBI".
#5- the delightful Helen Thomas rising up off her stone-age ass and telling the Jews to move out of Israel. The living (or at least well preserved) symbol of all that is good in liberal media.
#4- a combo entry for the Westboro Baptist "church" with their campaign against good taste and common sense at funerals, and the Dove World Outreach Center and their threatened Koran-burning. Congratulations for setting the world's perception of Christianity back 3,000 years. Who needs Michael Neadow when you got these guys?
#3- The women in New Jersey who went to a back alley "doctor" to have their butts augmented with a mixture that proved to be less Botox and more industrial grade caulk. I would think this would be more the line of depends undergarments than plastic surgery.
#2- the governor in Russia who believes he was abducted by aliens, and the member of the state Duma who wants an investigation into what he may have told the aliens. You can't make this stuff up.
Annnnd finally:
#1- the robber who dressed up in fake tits and clown pants, walked into several businesses, finally robbed the first bank he went into (when the second bank told him they couldn't accept a robbery note written on a deposit slip from the first bank), blew the dye pack up all over himself, and was apprehended by cops sitting in a car that he tried to car jack (but failed when the owner fled with the keys). Was there ever a doubt?
Do I have any resolutions? Like Bob G., I resolved years ago to make no more resolutions, and have kept it ever since. But there are things I'd like to see.
I'd like to see a world where a traitor who puts innocents in danger for his own self-glorification (read: Julian Ass ange) is treated as a traitor, and not a hero by left wing bozos like Michael Moore and dipshit bureaucrats like the lady at the UN who's concerned about his free speech rights.
I'd like to see the African-American community spend less time persecuting cops who are forced to arrest/chase/shoot lazy amoral thugs, and more time taking their young people to task for wasting their lives in such a way.
I'd like to see an education system that stopped fighting over money, stopped playing politics with their union, stopped worrying how our kids compare to those in the EU, and started caring whether the kids are actually learning.
I'd like to see a government that ceased believing that every partisan battle was all or nothing and started working at compromises that put the good of the people back at the paramount position that they are SUPPOSED to be in.
I'd like to see my daughter wake up one morning realizing that she is wasting the best years of her life avoiding education, and settle down and study at least enough to get her stinkin' learner's permit.
And finally, I'd like to see us all safe and sound here next year. May God bless and keep you all.
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