March 9, 2012

  • Back at the keyboard and spouting....

    Back at the keyboard after a couple of days of being under the weather and under the covers.  It's common knowledge among my crowd that I make a lousy patient.....

    Having said that, I'm back pounding the keyboard and spouting off about this, that and the other.

    Rush Limbaugh.  Ugh.  Mouth in gear, brain in park.  Spewing stupid once again and then a half-hearted apology when his advertisers began to bail.  Still thinks he was right.  Probably gave the world a real insight to his entertainment choices when he suggested that women needing contraception put those videos online for all to enjoy.  And yet, all around this country are the nodding heads of the dittos.  Autoprogramed to believe anything they hear.  Sad, isn't it?

     

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    The mass of tsunami debris which is slowly making its way across the Pacific to Hawaii.  It's been a year since the earthquake and tsunami, the horrible disaster at the nuclear plant and the slow comeback of the Japanese people.  It is not their fault that their lives became detrius and is floating eastward across the Pacific.  But someone will have a big mess to clean up.  Paradise might get a bit messy.

     

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    Super Tuesday.  Well, that's finally over.  The campaigns will go on.  The endless sound bites will dominate the airwaves, followed by the heaving and groaning of the pundits and "newscasters" who try to spin it this way or that way.  It rather makes you wonder.....how on earth could any of our "great" presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt or FDR, have ever survived this kind of information scrutiny? 

    Can't you picture it now?  Fox would create a plastic surgery show around how to fix the Prez's face (Lincoln)....DiscoverHealth would have to run a special on "Dental Care and Surgery: Saving the Prez's face" (Washington, TR and FDR)....Dr. Phil would need to run a series on "Loves and Lives in the Finest Homes"  (Jefferson).  I am sure you can think of others.  Surely in history there were more attractive faces, what, for example about Stephen Douglas?  How would history have been changed?  Gives you pause, doesn't it?

                          

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    Astronomers announced this week that in 2040 that an asteroid may have a near Earth pass on it's orbit through our part of the universe.  The size is substantial and could be catastrophic if it hits.  But then, if the Mayan 2012 prophecy comes true, then we won't have to worry about it.

     

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    Peyton Manning was released by the Indianapolis Colts this week.  There's been a lot of breast beating over that.  Funny how people are thrilled when athletes make the "big deal" in terms of money and then conveniently forget when money causes those same athletes to be put out to pasture due to age or injury or just to make room on the roster.  It's business, plain and simple. 

     

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    Yesterday, the temperature here was in the upper 60s.  Today it snowed.  March is like that person who dibbles over the menu....what should I have today? 

     

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    Ok, that's enough effort.  Back to the couch and covers for me.....