Sunday Flora

Now I got cantaloupe vines growing all over my garden but only had one cantaloupe growing...was a lot of tiny ones but they kept disappearing and this morning the one big one was gone. I had some suspects but I had to ask Tommy Tree rat to be sure...he allowed to ask the armored possum that sneaks around out there at night! I had that pretty well figured. I think the mother of all armadillo wars is about to commence! I'll put up with them grubbing in my grass but it do piss me off to lose my one and only melon!





Okra in bloom is pretty as any flower. Should have put some in the front flower bed with the tomatoes....but then that snooty yankee snowbird has already gone home and what the hell...she wouldn't know an okra bloom anyway so she couldn't bitch about rednecks planting vegetables in a flower bed. There's a handful on the stalks now to be gathered but I'm gonna wait another day or so. Should be able to get a double handful then....and may be a mess of black eyed peas also.





The directions on the box said to cut this pretty flower off that red plant if I wanted it to grow taller...naaa...well maybe in a day or so. It is kinda pretty.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

I am late getting up and aropund this morning again...seems like the older I get the more I want to stay up late...must be reverting to my teenage years when I slept in snatches for days at a time. The rest was spent on school, girls, cars, and work....not necessarily in that order. Now I sleep in snatches because the time is spent on moaning about first one ache or another, sitting on the porcelain throne, or standing by it trying to figure out if I need to use it or not. Heh. There ain't but one thing bad about getting old and that is getting old.

Nothing much to say so I reckon that I want say nothing. Y'all come back, heah? I might read the news and get pissed as usual and do a rant or two...then again I might just go up to see my horticulturin' buddy at the local flee market and see what kinda summer time project I can think about...naaaa its too damn hot to work.

Rainy day

We had one hell of a rain this morning...about three inches in as many hours and an electrical storm to go with it. We didn't lose power as we usually do but the lights did dim a bunch of times. The rain coming off the roof beat hell out of these Mexican Daisies...and would have beat my tomatoes down but I have them sturdy in cages or else staked and tied.

Just saw on the news that gasoline is predicted to hit four bucks a gallon and higher this summer. Hell, with one out of every six abled bodied people in the country out of work who the hell is gonna be buying much gasoline anyway. One thing about it....it damn shore ain't demand this time that is pushing the price...this is what ya get when you have a government that spends trillions of dollars they ain't got and can't get...a de-evaluated dollar that takes a hell of a lot more of to buy a barrel of oil. That mule team is sounding better and better.

Heh...right now I have enough grass and weeds on sweetthing's half acre to feed a twenty mule team! It is knee high in places and too damn wet to cut...when I do cut it I might just take the spreader off the tractor and windrow it...make some good compost/mulch later on...but then it has gone to seed and I do need some reseeding in a couple of spots....

Good Morning Blog World

Let 'em plead guilty? Seems that five of the ragheads locked up at Gitmo want to plead guilty in hopes that they will then be executed and they can go down in the raghead history books as martyrs. Problem is that under military law they are not allowed to plead guilty and all evidence against them has to be used at the trial. And the emperor is thinking about changing the law to let them plead guilty? Works for me except I don't want to see them executed. How about life in the Gitmo Slammer? On a diet of bacon and eggs with the eggs fried in hawg lard. Maybe a pork balona sammich at lunch time and a pork chop for supper twice a week...the rest of the time feed 'em chitlins. And if they insist on being martyrs then strap them with plastic explosives and kick them out of an airplane flying over Tehran Iran....or N. Korea.
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Spies have been around forever I reckon....and the US of A has spies in foreign governments just as they have spies in the American government. But it takes some twisted minds to spy for Cuba and the Castros out of love and not money. DAMN! This is the kind of behavior that calls for a tall limb and a short rope...
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The fucking commies are taking this land!
Ask me again why I think unions have outgrown their usefulness!

Most of the direct contributions have gone to Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee whose long-standing ties to national unions appear to be paying off. McAuliffe has collected $733,000 from unions, including an unprecedented $600,000 from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. He has also racked up a half-dozen labor endorsements.

The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees should be banned...outlawed....and its leaders dragged off and shot! Talk about biting the hand that feeds them! These sumbitches have killed the Golden Goose in California and now they want to do the same in Virginia? GOOD GAWD GIRTY WHAT A GASH!
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Now folks, THIS is how ya spin the bad news to make it sound like it is good news. Yeah, we are still losing jobs but at a measured pace so that means that the economy is not gonna collapse, huh? Yeah right...but how about this in the same article:

As of last month, one in six American workers -- 16.4 percent -- were unemployed, based on a broader measure of joblessness that includes those working part time who want full-time jobs and people who want a job but have given up looking.

One in six out of work and the economy is not in danger of collapse? And the fucking emperor is pushing a medical program that will cost trillions knowing full well that the country is busted? Talk about killing the golden goose...business is already leaving the country and those that have money are doing their gotdamest to get it out of the country or convert it to something tangible...and the American dollar damn shore ain't tangible. The way things are going it will be worthless...the stuff is too slick to even be worth a damn as ass wipe and it smokes like hell when burnt so it is no good for the fireplace.

What we need is a UNION! Yeah, a union of those of us who are sick of the gotdam politicians and judges and commie unions such as the government employees unions and the UAW. We could call it POP...yeah, PISSED OFF PEOPLE. The PC crowd and the left wing cry babies git where they are by crying in the streets until we gave in just to get them to shut the fuck up. Now what we have to do to take this country back is do the same thing! SCREAM! The old adage is the squeaky wheel gets the grease...the left wing had proved that and now we have to use their tactics against them.
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On a brighter side there ain't no bright side. I looked out the front door and the behind door and it is raining in both places. Looks like one more day where I ain't gonna get to cut the grass...too bad so sad, huh? At least sweetthing ain't talking about goin' to Wally World. Y'all come, heah?

Another Rainy Day

I just came in from the porch rocker. It is raining softly and the thuinder is rumbling in the west...the weather quacks allow that there is a storm in the gulf that may or may not make it to shore. I went out with the intention of cutting some grass before the rains hit...should have went out earlier I reckon...but what the hell...rain is an excuse to laze around another day.

So far we have had the much needed rain without the electrical storms we usually get with the rain. Florida is the lightning capital of the earth! There is a better chance of getting hit by lightning here than there is of hitting the redneck retirement fund...also known as the LOTTO....but I did get three numbers the other day...paid $5.50 but I had five buckets worth of tickets...ain't gonna make that bucket list trip back to Alaska that way...

Kittens and Peas

Kittens are cute...but I wouldn't stick my hand in this cage to try to get one to purr for me! They are wild cats and this cage is the closest they have ever been to a human. The county animal control people will be out to get the kittens later today...and my black eyed pea bed will be protected again. Maybe the smell of cat piss will disappear after a while.






I gathered a handful of okra this morning..enough to put in with some stewed tomatoes lunch...a side dish with some grilled fish. This bed of black eyed peas is in bloom! I hope to start gathering them in a few days. Probably could get a mess of snaps now but I like them half snaps and half shelled.

Good Morning Blog World

Late getting here this morning...not my fault...my cable connection was down. Just as well..ain't got nothin' much to say anyway.

I have been on one of those gotdam rabbit food starvation diets for the past couple of days and will have to stay on it for a while. These kind of diets don't make me hungry as much as weak..carbs are extremely limited...like a slice of rye bread per day. But, I have dropped four pounds of shit and blubber in two days and already brought my blood sugar level back into range. But to keep the blood sugar in range I am gonna have to shed at least 25 more pounds. Oh well, did it before and felt better but I sure do like grits and gravy!

Last night my neighbor trapped all four of the kittens that were living under my work shop...the Momma Cat was outside the trap this morning...maybe we can get her without having to shoot her. She looks like a Persian...pretty cat but wild! I don't enjoy shooting a damn thing but I will if I have to...feral cats are pests. I would rather participate in the tar and feathering of who ever turned them loose in the wild.

I have not looked at the news this morning...maybe that's why my blood pressure is okay right now. But I can never resist for long...I'll take a look after while and probably work up a rant. Right now I'm gonna get me some more jumpstart...and tomorrow morning I might even get to eat a cackleberry with my dry rye. Y'all come, heah?

Marco Rubio

If Marco Rubio would run for the senate as an independent or as something other than a republican I would throw my support to him.
Figure he is the best I have heard so far but I am sticking to my vow never again to vote the party line...and damn if I am gonna contribute one red cent to the GOP...maybe to Rubio later on if it appears he is not doing the usual politician thing such as telling me what I want to hear and doing what he wants to do.

But in any event I do encourage you Florida readers to take a listen to what he has to say...beats hell out of the stuff RINO Crist is peddling.

rain, rain, and more rain

Took a stoll with my camera in between the rains. I was hoping to get a video of a family of feral cats that has decided that the space underneath my work shop is the idea living spot for the...looks like a momma cat and four kittens. My neighbor and I plan to trap them in a live trap and call animal control...I just hate to shoot them...especially the kittens which are cute little pests. But they are wild and wild cats are a nuisance. We have an age old problem with people who get tired of their pets and take them to a rural area and turn them loose figuring some one of us will take pity on the animals and feed them. These kind should just be tarred and feathered and rode out of the country on a gotdam rail.


The sweetthing's half acre pole bean project is looking good. These vines are laod with blooms and small beans. The first bed is blooming again also and I hope to make use of canning jars in a couple of weeks.






The cooler nights and plenty of rain has been good for the potted plants. I like the impatients...nearly maintenance free provided they get water.

Good Morning Blog World

The emperor is calling for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims". Hmmmm....does that mean the emperor figures all those Americans who got their heads cut off by the ragheads will be able to start all over? People, Islam has one basic tenet and that is conversion by the sword. The kiddy didler prophet swept out of the Arabian desert with thirty or so followers with sharp Damascus blades and gave those weaker than him litle choice...convert and follow him or lose their heads. As he gained strength he converted or killed thousands until by the time he died (probably of a venereal disease contacted from fucking sheep) the message of Islam had been forced on hundreds of thousands. And that message has not changed...convert or die. So, is that what Obama wants? To convert us to the religion of sheep fuckers and kiddy didlers...or die? Fuck him and the camel he rode in on.

Obama reminds me of the hawkers of that bottled water Evian...what they are selling is worthless and to add insult to injury they named it naive spelled backwards. Obama thinks that the rest of this world is naive...or else he is the epitomy of naive. The raghead leaders see any attempt to negotiate a sign of weakness to be exploited...they always have. The only time Islam has asked for peace is when they are getting their asses kicked and then they will be peaceful just long enough to regroup and start the conversion by the sword again. People, this war between Islam and the rest of the world has been going on since Mohammed...it is what he taught and what the ragheads believe. Probably the best we can hope for is to contain them where they are at....but that will be impossible as long as we have the left wing one world government multiculturists who think that if we all jsut sing Kum Ba Ya we can all get along. Well, maybe....but keep in mind that the ragheads are not content to convert just the world...they also want to convert each other...so if you decide you had rather be a raghead than headless you had best decide on what kinda raghead ya want to be...Shiites don't like the Sunnis and vice versa. And then there are many who just like to wield the sword and see how many heads they can get.
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TOO GOTDAM LITTLE TOO GOTDAM LATE! There ain't a damn thing the republicans can do to restore my confidence that they are a party of fiscal responsibility. I would rather have a sister in a whore house than vote for a democrat and I am beginning to feel the same way about the republicans. From where I sit every fucking one of them in congress should step down come election time and throw their support to some new blood...new blood that can run on the promise of fiscal responsibility. Damn few in congress now have any kind of such record and they have gave me no reason other than being scared of their jobs that they have changed. Talk about closing the barn door after the mule got out! My vote next time is going to those who run for congress as independents, neo-libertarians,or American conservatives/constitutionists. damn the two party system...look where it has gotten us...a morally and fiscally bankrupt government.
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It is raining on sweetthing's half acre again..and we needed it....again. Water doesn't last long in this sand...what doesn't go on down through it gets picked up by the afternoon sun. If we didn't have the summer monsoons this would be a damn desert.

Sweetthing and I went out early and re-staked a bunch of tomato plants. The heavy rain last night broke off a few plant limbs...a couple with nice fruit on them...looks like some more green tomato relish coming up.

The weather quacks allow this is gonna be a rainy day....all day. Works for me...I have an excuse to laze around with my nose in a book...as if I needed one. Y'all come, heah?

Black Eyed Peas and Dick Heads and Stuff

Had an appointment with my primary care quack this morning...sorta kinda routine but mostly because my blood sugar count the past couple of months has been as erratic as the Obama administration's position on Gitmo...flipfloppin'. Figured I would have to go on insulin..finally...but dodged it for at least another month. I am going to try an extra pill per day and a gotdam rabbit food diet again...the diet saps my energy but hell...I ain't planning on doing anything more strenuous than bedroom acrobatics once in a while and banging on this piece of junk. If I can get the blood sugar under control it beats hell out of a needle stuck in my gut every day of the week!

After I got home I did my morning hobble around sweetthing's half acre. I did see something that stuck me as odd...and went back for my trusty Kodak.

Now,I know the creator has a weird sense of humor and as such has put some weird stuff on this earth...ya know? Like democrats and elephants and two bit hustler presidents with strange looking ears. But this? Hmmmm. I wonder if she is trying to tell me something...I hope it is not that I should start raising dick heads! We have enough of them voting already...but then with this current administration I might be able to get a farm subsidy on them. I wonder how many dick heads per acre I could raise?




It will not be long now...black-eyed peas and okra...makes my mouth water to think about 'em! This bed is starting to bloom now and some of the pea vines are putting on peas. I probably could get enough okra now for a taste but I'm gonna wait at least another couple of days before I go to the bed with my pocket knife and bucket.










Last fall I dug up the gladiola bulbs front the front flower beds and was gonna shit can them. But sweetthing decided to plant them on the south end next to the fence...I ignored the damn things....maybe that is what they need instead of TLC, huh?





Did I ever tell ya that I like roses? Looks like tis time the buds are all yellow...these two plants have three different colors of roses grafted to a single root stock...amazing to an amateur horticulter like me.

Just For Glee

My friend Martin in Germany sent me these news snips from Europe:


Police in London have found a bomb outside a mosque. They've told the public not to panic as they've managed to push it inside.

Two Asian heroin addicts have injected themselves with curry powder by mistake - both are in intensive care... One has a dodgy tikka and the other one is in a korma.

During last night's high winds an African family were killed by a falling tree. A spokesman for the Birmingham Council said 'We didn't even know they were living up there'.

Asian Minorities in the UK have complained that there is not enough television shows with minorities in mind, so Crimewatch is being shown 5 times a week now.

The emperor, a one time Muslim who claims to have converted to Christianity is posed to try to open a new way of doing business with the ragheads...which I figure means he is going to try to appease the camel fuckers. Damn, what ever happened to the idea of walking softly and carrying a big stick? Hmmmm. Do you folks understand the term "apostasy"? And what the ragheads figure about apostasy?

Well, according to what I read about the religion of perverts who convert by the sword once a raghead always a raghead and they do get pissed if once converted one crawfishes...

"In Islam, apostasy is called "ridda" ("turning back") and is considered to be a profound insult to God. A person born of Muslim parents that rejects Islam is called a "murtad fitri" (natural apostate), and a person that converted to Islam and later rejects the religion is called a "murtad milli" (apostate from the community).[citation needed]

According to most scholars, if a Muslim consciously and without coercion declares their rejection of Islam and does not change their mind after the time given to him/her by a judge for research, then the penalty for male apostates is death..."

Now this is not a new thought...Christians had the same ideas for centuries...in fact up until the event of the Constitution of the USA Christian apostates and heritics were severely chastised sometimes to the point of being burnt while tied to a stake. Ragheads generally are more civilized than that...they just cut off the heads of apostates. Heck of a note..losing ones head over a religion...

"GUYK, GOTDAMIT! You are rambling again. What's your point?"

Just this my friends, neighbors, countrymen and country women, and what few weak witted dim-a-crits that stumble on here. If, in fact, the raghead world accepts anything that the apostate emperor Obama has to say then that tells me that he is not, in fact, and apostate. Now, if he is not an apostate the sumbitch has lied to us about being a Christian...why? And if he is an apostate is it not dangerous for him to go among the Islamic world to give a speech? Or, is Islam as phony as is Obama?....I don't think so...I mean I figure Islam is phony but to be as phony as the emperor...naaaaa

One thing that can be said about Islam is that it does not deviate from its tenets such as they are. It doesn't take much to be a Muslim...just tell the world five times a day that there is just one god and that be Allah and the kiddy diddler Mohammed was his prophet. Yeah, Muslims are not supposed to use alcohol and such...yeah..right? And there are some provisions against theft and murder and such..and we all know that Muslims pay about as much attention to these laws as do Christians...no wait..when was the last time a Christian strapped on explosives and blew up himself and a school bus load of children...gotdam...get back to the point GUYK....

The point is Barack Hassan Obama is a Muslim...or a Muslim apostate. The first means he lied which is not unusual for a politician...especially a democrat politician. The second means that there ain't no gotdam way that Islam is going to accept what he has to say...and if they do that means they figure he is not an Apostate which means that Obama lied...damn I am going around in circles here....

But in any event you can look for the sumbitch to try to sell out Israel...hell, he is already trying to sell out Israel...it is the only card in the deck he has to play to get anything of value from the ragheads. Will the American people stand for it? Yeah, why not...they are already on their knees for the emperor...anything for free bread and a fucking circus.

You that have followed this bit of shit and wit know that I refuse to accept and follow ANY organized religion as much because of the hypocrisy of such religions as because of the circular logic of the founders of the religions. People, Obama is the epitome of a hypocrite...whether he be Christian or raghead and I damn sure ain't gonna follow him.

GM To Sell China A Hummer

So, it looks like Government Motors is gonna sell off the HUMMER to the Chinese. But the word is that Government Motors will continue to make the vehicle for the Chinese for a while anyway.

Now, if I remember right the Hummer is a civilan spin-off of the military vehicle. Hmmmm. This has got me to thinking...which is dangerous to my health as well as anyone around me...surely China doesn't need these military vehicles to use when they foreclose on the USA...do they?

I was doing some e-mailing back and forth with Jack tonight about this and the debt that China holds...I told him my idea...

well, Jack, the way I got it figured that one of these days China is gonna call the debt...hmmmmm...wonder if they would take California and call it even? Hell, all the politicians and over half the public there are commies anyway...and maybe we could work a deal to give the good folks time to leave...but prohibit any member of an employee union....hell ANY UNION, illegal Mexican, or dim-a-crit politician from leaving the area...EVER


Jack allowed he liked the way I think....heh.

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"Investing experts now worry that inflation in the United States will approach that in Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will be reluctant to raise interest rates when it should."

I ain't no expert but I don't reckon one has to be a waste disposal expert to know that shit smells...and our economy is currently shit and it stinks!

Big Tomato

If this Florida Beef Steak Tomato has as big of taste as it does size this will be one hell of a tomato! The plant has only put on three tomatoes so far but maybe that's good...it is devoting all of its energy to these three maters instead of having to spread it out to a brood of them. Heh, good parenting skills, huh?

Relish

Sweetthing is sterilizing the fruit jars and in a few minutes I will fill them with a conglomeration I am gonna call "Sweetthing's half Acre Dare Ya To Eat It Relish" which I actually believe is gonna be pretty good.

I have never been one to leave a good enough recipe alone. I like to tweek it just a it with an extra spice or delete a spice and add another. This one I added some burn your throat green peppers, lots of fresh garlic, and dried sweet basil to chopped onions, green and a couple of red bell peppers, and a shit load of green tomatoes....and a couple of cups of sweet apple cider and two cups of Splenda. The mess is at a slow boil right now and should be ready to strain in a couple of minutes. I estimate three quarts but might be overestimating...but in any event it already tastes pretty good even if it does look like it has already been ate!

Good Morning Blog World

People, do you REALLY want socialized medicine? Yeah, medical care is expensive but why not concentrate on bringing down the costs instead of just bankrupting the country to socialize medicine. I have a few ideas on how to do that....the first deals with tort lawyers. Maybe an open season on them? Seriously, the way to stop the blood sucking ambulance chasers is by just passing one new law...if the sumbitch sues and loses then he pays all legal fees and court costs of the one sued. Then the insurance companies would start going to court instead of just settling out of court because it is cheaper than fighting a bottom feeder.

Maybe a change in patent laws would help. How long does a drug manufacturer have now to rip off Americans (while they sell the same product off shore at a fraction of the price) on a new drug? 20 years? Make it five. Then Wally World can sell a generic for four bucks.

How about some 'hard love'? You know...the kind that says we know you had rather have that SUV than insurance but it was your decision...you are gonna have to live ...or die...with it and seeing as how the new SUV was so fucking important to you we will see that you are buried in it....save your family...or the county... the cost of a pine box.

Have you been to your local emergency room lately? A couple of years ago my back door neighbor got down bad and his wife called 9-11 who sent a meat wagon that hauled him to the hospital emergency room. Because it was a suspected heart attack he was seen immediately. I followed the meat wagon with the man's wife to the emergency room...and STOOD with her in the waiting room for a couple of hours because the place was full of what I suspect were illegal aliens...all speaking Spanish. The point? Some more tough love....send the sumbitches home. It is cheaper to round them up and put them on buses headed south of the border than it is to provide free medical care and other social services...coldhearted? DAMN RIGHT! But I am also a realist. The country is BUSTED! We don't have the money to play Santa Claus to the world's poor.

Maybe I should explain something about medical care and the emperor's position on it. YOU DO NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO MEDICAL CARE! You do have a right to purchase the best you can afford but I as a taxpayer have NO CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE IT TO YOU! Now about the emperor's position? He could care less about the constitution...so get on your knees and give your soul to your creator because it looks like your ass is gonna belong to Obama and the Kool ade drinkers....unless you have bought lots of precious metal and understand that freedom comes at a higher price than free medical care.

So, that's my rant for the day. The state of the nation reminds me of this song...sick, sober, and sorry...but look at the fun we had.

Y'all come, heah?

He Hit A Mile Stone

How about going by and saying howdy to Hoosier Boy...he just hit the 100,000 mile stone on his site meter. Congratulations Hoosier Boy...keep up the good work.

Going Fishing

Sweetthing and I have another trip to Bow and Arrow country planned for this fall. If everything goes as planned we will be spending about five weeks camped on Waurika Lake... a 10,000 acre flood control reservoir near the Texas/Oklahoma border. We plan to do one hell of a lot of fishing. We plan to leave sweetthing's half acre on/about the 9th of September and start back this way on/about the 14th of October.

Lake Waurika has some of if not the best cat fishing water in Oklahoma as well as several other species of good eatin' fish such as large mouth bass and striped bass...lots of crappie and other pan fish and the occasional Walleye. We fish primarily for cat fish...and primarily for the Blue Cats although there are plenty of Flathead Cats and Channel Cats in the lake.

About this time two years ago my brother-in-law and I were sacking them up...catching forty and fifty a day. I filled to five cubic ft freezers with boneless fillets during that trip and hope to do it again this fall.

There is only one problem with fishing Lake Waurika and that is the weather. It is located in an area where the only thing between it and the north pole is a bob wire fence and that is somewhere up in the Dakotas....and the wind does blow. Of course a 10 to 15 mph wind every day is normal there but it is that 30mph west or north wind that will blow ya off the lake. But the fishing is worth putting up with the wind.

If any of ya within driving distance get the chance you are welcome to come spend a weekend with us...might have to sleep on the floor but I'll provide a pillow and a blanket and all the fish ya can eat....and might even give some free lessons on how to catch a big one...

Good Morning Blog World

Why do I have it in my head that Obama and his socialist advisers contrived this deal in order for the government to take over General Motors? Remember that first big bail out 'loan' that had the strings attached? Yeah, where if GM couldn't come up with a plan that 'bail out loan' had to be paid before anyone else? And remember the people who said it was bullshit? I was one who advocated GM taking chapter 11 protection...but not like this. Closing down plants is not going to help them...the only thing that will help them is busting the UAW and the way this looks the UAW in concert with the socialist government will be running the company...no doubt into the ground burning up tax payer dollars.

Well, I have not bought a GM product in years...the pickups didn't pickup...under pressure they folded up. The damn car doors sounded like a tin can when they closed and GM engineering was always a couple of years behind Ford. And now? Anyone who would buy any product produced by a socialist government oughta have their fucking heads examined....by a government shrink....

Maybe the emperor figures that GM will make a lot of money and help him take over the health industry....GOTDAM that's a scary thought.
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If I trusted the federal government then maybe I could agree with a national standard for K-12 education. But I just don't trust the socialist sumbitches to design a standard that would require teaching the three 'rs'...reading riting and rithmatic...I fear that the standards would be socialist brainwashing and emphasis put on little Mary's two mothers and it takes a village to raise a child.

American K-12 education has been going downhill for decades...every since the feds decided we needed a department of education. The most successful K-12 schools are the private ones...schools that operate on less money per student and concentrate on education instead of on social engineering and and student self esteem. The public education system would do well to emulate the private system. The facts speak for themselves...everything the federal government touches gets fucked up and the Obama Kool ade drinkers want to touch every gotdam thing.

This country needs teachers...good teachers. But good teachers are hard to come by...and I know why. Yeah, I know I am an egotistical sumbitch but people I AM a good teacher. I had several years of classroom experience while serving in the USAF and my formal education was geared to either law school or teach...my parents were legally married...to each other which kept me out of law school. I didn't teach after I retired for two reasons...one was of course that they would not pay me what I thought I was worth. But the primary reason was that I refused to teach out of a canned lesson plan. I have met many in the past twenty years who felt about the 'canned lesson plans' as I do. Academic freedom is a thing of the past even in colleges now and damn sure is not in the history and political science classes in our high schools. It is all about the socialist's version of civil rights with an emphasis on how terrible the USA was to drop a nuke on Japan to end WW Two. Damn. No wonder a majority voted for the two bit hustler from Chicago..

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The weather quacks allow that it will be sunny and mild here today...mild being upper 80sF and the humidity about the same. Hard to figure that after all that rain I had to water some of the flora yesterday evening. What the sand doesn't soak up the sun picks up and there is three inches of powder on top of dry sand.

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I gotta get around and get out of here soon. I have some financial business to take care of this morning...I want to see if the Feds will sell me a dimes worth of 10 dollar bills as well as reimburse me for this marina I plan on building here on sweetthing's half acre in preparation for the high water we was gonna get when the polar ice caps melt. It is all the emperor's fault that the ice caps ain't gonna melt...see, now that it is Government Motors they will be building cars powered by "hope and change" and there won't be any greenhouse gases and the ice caps ain't gonna melt. Sweetthing's half acre will remain high and dry and 10 miles from the Gulf and that thirteen dollars and 98 cents I paid for the paper and plans to build that Marina is wasted...I WANT MY MONEY BACK! It just ain't right to build a mans hopes and then pull them out from under him. It might take a village to raise a child but it takes a nation who raised a majority of ignorant fucking children to elect a two bit hustler to lead it.

And that is what ya get people when I got to have an extra mug of jumpstart before I even sit down here to bang on this piece of "you have committed a fatal fucking error". Y'all come back, heah?