Hot in MA

You know it will be a bad day when it is 7AM, the temp is already 77F and when you get out of the car and the AC you glasses fog up so you can't see. . . . .

Katie Perry on Sesame Street

I must admit I am already sick of the Katie Perry with Elmo on Sesame Street. Folks want to blame her for the outfit and PBS has tossed her under the bus.

Sorry folks, I don’t see it. You are going to tell me that no one at PBS can say no to the outfit before they did the shoot? I don’t buy it. Someone at Sesame Street said OK lets film it.

So let it go folks. Get mad at the right folks, the one who OK’s the filming not Katie.

And no, I am not a fan of hers I am just sick of PBS and NPR getting away with this crap and tossing other folks under the bus for their decisions. . . . .

I am now OLD

Well, I was going to post something last night but I had my yearly eye doc appointment and they did the test with the eye drops so I could not see anything close up the rest of the night. . . .

I am now officially old.  I was told that yes, you can read at 20 20 but we really suggest bi-focals for you.  And I had to admit that they did seem to make things up close a lot clearer.  And since I am getting back into building my models which as you can imagine is a lot of small up close work I am going to go for it. . . .

Whomever came up with the getting old idea sucked. . . . but on the other side the guy that came up with progressive lenses so your bi-focals don't show was a genius!

Haiti

I am sitting here watching TV on Haiti and all I can think is I wish I could go there and help dig. Then I think about all the things that they need down there and my first thought is “where are the US Marines?”
Think about it. You send down a carrier group and a few of the amphibious assaut ships full of Sea Bees and they could do much to fix things. The Navy and Maries could bring:

• Clean water
• Hospital beds
• Heavy equipment and folks to run it
• Helicopters to move stuff
• Ospreys to move stuff
• LCACs that can get stuff ashore without ports, just need a beach to land on.

This is the time for us to step up and be seen and be counted. We have what is needed, they are close to us, and we should do what is right. We should also make sure the world can see that we do while the UN talks. We can do much more than anyone else, let them know it by showing them!

Blogger Dinner tonight!

Can't wait to see all the folks at the blogger dinner tonight. Wish I had the time and cash for the shoot beforehand but to tell the truth I don't want to have my guns in the car while eating. If I went and rented a gun at the range I probably would end up wanting to buy it and that would not be good either. . . . = )

Anyway, should be a great time, have not seen most of the folks since the summer blogger shoot!

Now if I can just find out how much snow we are supposed to get and when it will stop I will be all set. . . ..

I hope dinner can get me re energized to blog more. Work has been real busy but fun -but leaves little time to blog.

Happy Thanksgiving All

Hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving!

Lots to be thankful for this year. . .

the family is healthy, including the monsters, er tax breaks, er I mean the kids.

I have met lots of new friends in the Masonic Lodge

I have caught up with many friends on line and at blogger shoots

And I have a good job in a growing company. . . of course the down side is I have less blogging time but. . . . .

Have a great day folks, eat, drink and be merry!

Only in Cali

Can someone please tell me if it is in the water or what. . . . over lunch we were watching a high/low speed chase with the helicopter news coverage and lots of cop cars and all. . . .

Why is it that whenever you see these they are always in California????

Just wondering

Clark Rockefeller

Please, someone, tell me why the news folks think anyone cares about this nut?

They run him as the top news story. They cut in to tell us about him. . . .

WHO CARES????!!!!!!

He had his day in court, all done. MOVE ON ALREADY!

okthx. . .

David Carradine found dead

May Sifu Carradine rest in peace.

Thank you for all you gave us Grasshopper. . . .

Not a good day

OK, I think it is time for bed before something else goes wrong. . .

Got home, my son Jack who is two had put my younger daughters Ipod in water, soaked good, could even see water in the screen. . . . DOA IPOD yep. . .

Went to karate and on the way home my trucks master break cylinder blew. . . break fluid all over engine. . . more $$$

Don't know when I will fix/replace either since cash is a bit tight right now.

I hate Thursdays, it is official!!!!

Just when things started to look up and we booked a vacation too. . . .

ARRRRGGGHHHHHHHHH

May 1st

Happy May Day all. . . Or Beltaine as the case may be. . . .

= )

Things Look Good

Folks I have a great weekend coming up!

Thanks to JayG we have a blogger meet for diner on Sunday, a shoot on Monday and I just accepted a great position at a new company!

WOO HOO

Come on 5 o'clock!

Here's hoping you all have a good weekend too!

Dow UP today?

Wow, the Dow is actually going up today. . . UP like 160 points. . . Now if it would go up another 2200 we would be back to where we were on 1/1/09. . . .

The Dems better wake up and realize they are killing this country soon. . .

We won't even talk about the fact that since the Dems took over Congress the Dow is down 50% folks. . . .

Octo Mom won't go away

Film on CNN

I love the lady explaining the offer from Angel something - if she takes our offer and the public chips in she won't need to have the government pay for her. . . .

Nice

Blackmail? You will pay for her and the kids, either by choice or by tax money. . . .

Thanks, we get it. . .

BROKE 10K HITS!

WOW

I know I have only a little blog with a few readers but I guess I hit the right topic today! Someone pushed the meter over 10K! Than you for the link CNN. . . .

WOO HOO!

ok, my two normal readers can go back to whatever you were doing now. . .

You know you are in trouble when. . .

you get up at 6 for work and your daughter and her friends at the "sleep" over are still up and surfing the net. . . .

Cop Problems

What do you do when the cops can't even protect themselves?

More HERE

From the Gunslinger

Kicked over the Bees Nest

What is it with folks on the left today? See the post below on the nut that wanted to see Obama and had a gun. . . .

I expected a bit of flack but wow, I got the mother load.

Now I am not the best writer but I don’t know how I came across as supporting the nut. I am no English Major or Author like other bloggers. I am an Engineer who also holds degrees in Psychology and Business along with Engineering so I am not stupid.

Folks, I don’t support any attack on our POTUS no matter who he or she is and what party they are from. What I tried to say is that things are a mess and I can understand how that will push folks to do things that most would think are nuts. The only support I will give this man is that I hope he gets the help he needs. Now I have a warped sense of humor as anyone can tell you and that is where my comments looking at the time it took for the first attack on Obama came from. Folks will always strike out at what they see as the cause of the problem. If you have a problem with our government then they tend to go after the POTUS since he/she is in many ways the living symbol of our country. Anyway it is easy for someone to focus on one person (the POTUS) instead of a group like Congress.

For someone to reach the point of trying to get to Obama ( or Bush, or Ford, or Reagan, or . . . ) they have to be nuts. Something has pushed them over the edge. I had one comment saying it was because Obama was black. . . I have not seen anything to support this in the news YET.

What I do expect to see come out is that we are looking at a single guy. No big plot, no cover up. I expect he probably just lost his job, maybe his home or family over things. He is probably in debt up to his eyes and can’t pay it off. He is against the wall and lost everything in this downturn. He broke. He wants to get his life back and he thinks the government can do it for him so he goes to the head of the government – Obama at this point. Did he want to talk or hurt him? I don’t know.

Folks, If I was the nut case right winger that some of you commenter’s think I am then why did I publish your comments? Even the ones that swear at me? Not a good debate tactic, not a way to win your case but I still published them. I love a good argument between intelligent folks. It is a great way to learn how the other side sees things and sometimes you learn a bit. If you want an example then scroll down to the post where I comment on Obama backing Abortion Choice. Those comments got a bit intense but stay civil and respectful for both sides.

Where did we loose this ability to talk to each other with civility and respect? Maybe that is where we need to start to fix this country. I am an independent that support the Constitution that I see our government pissing on. (both parties by the way)

Folks have gone so far right and left that we got Obama for POTUS and have no good choice on the right either. To top it off both sides don’t want to talk or understand what the other side thinks or why. Any attempt at a discussion seems to degrade into name calling rather quickly. Folks on both sides get too into the emotions and too far away from the facts.

Lets look at Guns – the left wants control and the right does not. Folks, get rid of the emotion and look at the facts. The Second Amendment says “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” OK,
Well regulated – in that time period meant well trained, not controlled by the government
Militia – the militia is every able bodied American between 16 (or so) and 40 as defined by the Founding Fathers – remember they don’t like standing a army. The national guard did not exist for another 100 years or so so that is not what they meant
The People – In all the other parts of the bill of rights the People is you and me.
Keep and Bear – we can own and carry arms

OK, now lets look where they have taken away guns. To be fair we will look at countries like us – Say the UK and Australia. In both places as the guns went away crime went UP. It is actually safer in the US than in Briton when you look at crime per 100000 folks.

Lets look inside the US. In most major cities where guns are outlawed we have higher crime and violence. Areas that have more guns have been shown to have less crime per 100,000 folks again.

Gun control does not work. Education, and respect does. An armed society is a polite society because you know you have to back up your words and actions – possibly with your life – You are held responsible for your actions. That tends to get folks to keep a cooler head. Most gun owners I know and especially those that carry a gun with them go out of their way to avoid any kind of conflict. It just is not worth it.

So, I don’t know where I am going with this. You want to disagree with me – GREAT that is the point of debating any issue. If you keep it civil I may even learn a few things from you. If I am good you may learn from me too then we both win. If all you want to do is call me names then do us both a favor and go read someone else’s blog. . .

Feb 2

Happy Ground Hog Day all or Happy Imbolc. . . .

Seems the ground hog did see his shadow so we have six more weeks of winter coming. . . . I also hear they have raised the limit on ground hogs so good hunting out there. . . .

Writers block

OK, show of hands. . . How many of you come up with great blog ideas on the ride home or into work but forget about them before you can write them?


Ya me too. . . .