Ron Paul???

Ran into a bunch of Ron Paul supporters yesterday.  The guy wants to kill off the Federal Reserve and the IRS among his other goals to save our nation.  What the fuck is this idiot thinking????  The Federal Reserve is the organization that controls our money.  The IRS funds the entire federal government and much of the states income.  So does he want us to all live on barter, soybeans and roadkill while the rest of the world has cell phones, ham sandwiches and ways to save for the future.  What an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!

The sky is not falling

Ok, I read a blog entry today by someone whom I do admire and respect but he was going on and on about the fall of socialism in Europe and that apparently he thought it would take down the U.S. as well.  Come on folks!  Socialism is not really the primary political force in Europe.  Even it it were true, which I doubt, it takes more than a moment for things to collapse.   

Sorry, but the end of the world has been delayed.  It will get here eventually but we'll all be very dead by that time!  Until then, we'll just keep on keeping on; maybe one leg in the grave like me but....!

Holidays

Every year the holidays come around and people just go nuts!  People drive around like total idiots.  Let someone into traffic, hell no!  You might be 20 seconds late to buy that toy that your kid thinks he needs.  You might not get the exact turkey you want.  And this all seems to start just before Thanksgiving here in the states.  By Christmas it will be scary!  And all that is happening out here in the back-of-beyond.  The city is going to just be worse.  Makes me want to hibernate!

Girl Friend!

I spent my working life in corporate America.  That means I've learned more political correctness than is right for anyone who is actually a thinking human being.  It is honestly difficult to describe some one as other than an asshole when there are so many other terms that might suit better.  I mean I can't even type the terms in this blog!

Anyway, one of my special pet peeves has to do with the term 'girl friend'.  After a female is about 20 in our society (or maybe 14!) it's highly unlikely that they are actually a 'girl' - that is to say virginal.  So what can one say about someone who is nearly 40, in an committed relationship and not married.  Grrrr!  'Girl friend' is clearly wrong, 'significant other' stinks, 'wife' is not right, grrrr again, there just isn't anything!  Maybe I need to create a word.  Fuckpartner - at least that has some truth.   Grrr!

Undress....

We went out for breakfast this a.m.  Now understand that we live in a fairly rural community.  People don't dress up a lot here.  I usually wear jeans and a polo shirt and I'm more dressed up than about 80% of the folks you see.  HOWEVER, here's a guy wearing something that sure looked a lot like pajama bottoms, a sweatshirt and flip-flops.  Jeez, I mean some people have NO standards.

Got song?

You ever have a song going around in your head for days at a time?  I sure do!  Almost all the time in fact though happily it isn't always the same song. Lately it's been this, there are lots of versions but who can resist Gene Autry?  Here's a bit of the audio.  I just had to share my disability!  Have a good one.

Unhappy?

Why is it that some people are never happy?  I'm not talking about people who have a legitimate problem, I'm talking about the ones who have never had 'a glass half full'.  It's always 'half empty'.  Everyone gets some rain on their parade from time to time but you'd think some people are like the old Peanuts character 'Pigpen' who had his own private cloud following him around. 

Hmmmm

Met a nice woman today, a friend of our daughter, who came over to check us out.  She has a husband and late-teenaged daughter but came over from Vegas to visit us.  She has blue-red-black hair.  WTF???  I mean who leaves their family to visit a friend's parents?  Not that we didn't like her; she was fine.  It's just; weird.

What is the F*^king Deal???

Why do Yahoo & Google always want you to stay logged in?  J*s*s-F-Chr*st; all it can to is tie up their equipment.  Well, maybe they are tracking us.  Maybe they are the 'Big Brother' that our government is too dumb to actually implement.  Hmmm.  Yet another reason to be sure to log off every time.

Stock Market Jitters

I get so tired of all the talking heads who come up with reasons for the market to either go up or go down.  People are always coming up with this reason or that - today it happens to be "rising concerns about the euro zone's debt crisis".  Like that just happened!  Grrrr!  It's been going on for years and will continue to be problematic for many more. 

The conundrum

The conundrum of influencing our legislators is really bothering me and I imagine many others.  We have legally registered lobbyists who are spokespersons for various points of view.  That's better than not having them registered but they can certainly influence legislation that is contrary to the common good.  For example, Medicare cannot, by law, get discounted prices from drug companies.  This is one of the reasons some prescription drugs are cheaper in Canada than in the U.S.  Apparently 'we the people' have less influence then lobbyists.  Grrrr!

Oh for the good old days!

My wife and I were watching an old movie, "Trading Places", with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.  One of the scenes is a wild party given by the Eddie Murphy character.  A couple of the women pull off their tops while dancing - gratuitous boobie it's true.  We both noted at the same instant that this movie was made before boob jobs were a requirement for a job in Hollywood.  What happened?  Another example of our screwed up world.

What happened?

I was at breakfast the other day when a woman and her two teen aged children entered.  The kids were older teens, maybe 16 & 17, a boy and a girl.  The boy was wearing a tee shirt and shorts.  The girl had a tight shirt with quite a lot of cleavage showing and long pants.  When did teen aged girls get cleavage?  Where was I?  When I grew up we knew theoretically that girls grew into women and women had breasts but to actually show their cleavage?  No way.  Maybe Saturday night after a party you might get a private viewing but....  What happened?

Inanities

I'm starting a new blog - inanities-by-don - to share some of the random, weird thoughts that bounce around it the rock I call my head.  Maybe some will be of interest; maybe you'll be convinced I should be locked up.  Regardless, here we go!

Shopping

I went shopping with my wife the other day.  As I followed her around I imagine I looked like a beaten dog following it's master.  Make that a tired beaten dog.  As we walked through one of the stores, I saw another guy, gray mustache, following a much younger woman.  Same look.  Yep, that's how I'd look if I were shopping with my daughter.  No way that was his 'trophy wife'.