my huge health insurance rebate check!
Got an envelope in the mail today from my insurance company. My natural reaction was to expect bad news. Imagine my surprise to find a large check enclised and a letter of explanation!
View ArticlePat Tilman Day
Tomorrow, November 6th is not only election day, but also Pat Tilmans birthday. In case you have forgotten, he gave up a lucrative football career to serve his country. He was also an atheist (I am...
View ArticleA Very Faux Election night.
I had predicted, on Facebook, that the President would get 323 electoral votes. (Didn't hit it dead on but was close). I don't have a crystal ball. I simply payed attention to Current TV and MSNBC. I...
View ArticleLet's target Boehner now
I saw the orangeman on tv this morning saying how he intended to compromise. Yeah, and I am going to win a gold medal in Olympic basketball just as soon as I drop 50 pounds and become forty years younger.
View Articlehow much money for police in schools
This isn't much of a diary. It's more of a question. As many are calling for full time police to be assigned to all schools, I am wondering exactly how much this will cost, for the police salaries and...
View ArticleA question for Senator Louis Gohmert
Senator Louis Gohmert said yesterday that we should be in more(!) wars and that we should have stayed in Viet Nam longer and we could have achieved victory. We have seen over and over and over what...
View ArticleNow a trial over Trayvon's civil rights?
Many are pushing for the Justice Department to proceed with a trial over Trayvon's civil rights as was done in the 60's in Mississppi.
View ArticleOn parenting
Let me begin this by saying that I have learned a few things along the way about parenting but that I don't consider myself an expert nor do I consider any one else an expert in parenting.
View Articlecamping with the wingnuts
In a few short weeks, my wife and I will be heading to the Adirondack mountains of New York for a little "camping". We have been going there for thirty years, most often taking a canoe and dipping it...
View ArticleThe part of Obamacare no one is discussing
OK, I know I should have said the "ACA" instead of Obamacare, but if I had, far fewer people would have read this. And, if I'm not writing to be heard, then what's the point?
View ArticleThe last agnostic
I went to the funeral of a friend last night. "Bob" (not his real name) was a great guy and we got along very well. We didn't speak religion but I am certain he must have known or heard of my...
View ArticleShinseki will go
I am filled with dread and outrage this morning. The signs are all there, Shinseki's head is on the block. I fear it is way to late to save it.
View ArticleHelp . .grammy's turning 100 ! !
My grandmother never cease's to amaze me. She is turning 100 and is such a lovely person, still changing and still growing!
View ArticleDemocratic National Committee
Look, I am a very committed Democrat but there is one thing I cannot stand ! . . .Please continue after the fuming orange smoke coming out of my ears !
View ArticleA FACEBOOK LIE!
I made a post on Facebook. My posts are sometimes controversial to the Tea bagger crowd, the ones that believe in every word that Faux "News" spews forth.I have gotten used to that. But someone...
View ArticleRick Santorum tossed in his hat
It was so hard to listen to, his speech today. For one thing, he talked at length about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the USA without once mentioning his own parties guilt in the matter. Mitch...
View ArticleHave to vent about religion
So, I am coming home this morning and some fool has taken out the entire stop light. The pole is on the ground, severed cleanly and there is debris everywhere. The minivan is far from the scene, in a...
View ArticleChange for the sake of change
So, I knew that the DailyKos was changing to a new format. I wasn’t worried about it.Stopped by this morning and saw that today is the day. First off the bat, I noticed that I did not like the...
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