now on the lighter side...

Just a little Monday entertainment! This one is possibly one of the more “sick making” things I have seen from him.




Could not resist...


Not that he is the second coming, but perhaps Jesus was a great illusionist?

Im going straight to hell in a handbasket as my grandmother would say.

dumb is as dumb believes

I almost hate to post this. I also hate to admit that not only the person who sent me this believes it to be true, but people that I know quite well think it to be true.

The majority of my peer group is fairly intelligent so if some of them believe, what does that say about the general populous who still think the Russians are marching on Atlanta?

I am so embarrassed to be an American sometimes. We are regressing from a nation of people who strive to understand and be enlightened to a nation of fricking idiots.

What a wonderful world Pt 2

What a wonderful world...we live in.

Poland and the US just signed an agreement on placing 10 interceptor missiles capable of destroying incoming long-range ballistic missiles in Poland. The official Washington line is that the missiles are being placed in Poland to: “protect the US and its allies from "rogue states" such as Iran.” Moscow, however, does not agree with the party line and says that:” the missile shield makes Russia a target of the United States.”



Russian General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said that any new US assets in Europe could come under Russian nuclear attack with his forces targeting "the allies of countries having nuclear weapons." By hosting the missiles, Poland was making itself a target. As quoted: “This is 100 per cent certain. It becomes a target for attack. Such targets are destroyed as a first priority."

Medvedev says that the missiles are going to be used as a deterrent against “rogue states” is just a “Fairy tale”. He feels that the: "The deployment of new missile defense facilities in Europe is aimed against the Russian Federation."

I cannot help but think that the Russian response is a direct result of Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Georgia where she reiterated GW’s demands that Russian forces leave at once.


The situation is becoming a very dangerous pissing match. We can be wary of Iran, but they do not have nuclear weapons. Russia on the other hand does and I have a sense that they will not think twice about using them. The cold war atmosphere is resurrecting. The Russians do not want to be told what to do, and the US is involving themselves in an area that is once again delicate and dictating policy. NATO, especially folks like Gordon Brown are keeping mum on the whole situation. Guess I can not blame GB after seeing what happened to Tony Blair when he got involved with GW. However the point is that we are sending in Rice and once again trying to police without the backup of our supposed allies. It is, not in the US’s best interest to start picking a potential war with The Russians. We already have enough going on in the debacle called post war Iraq.

Saakashvili added fuel to the fire when standing next to Miss Rice by stating: "We were screaming to the world that Russia was going to do this...We are looking evil directly in the eye - this evil is very dangerous not only for us but for everybody."

“Even as he was speaking a convoy of 17 Russian armored personnel carriers was spotted advancing along the main highway to within 34 miles of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, their deepest move yet inside the country. “



I have to add this as I never stated my opinion on the subject: placing missiles in Poland is crazy! The Polish nationals do not want them. And should anyone be confused by the Russian Stance: I give you three words to reflect on:

Cuban Missile Crisis


JFK took a dim light on it all in the 60's and I guess the Russians feel the same way.

Be informed; don’t bow your head to ignorance. We are living in a scary world.

ben's brother

One of my favorite bands, love the song:

Please cross your fingers and toes that my attempted fix on self tanning makes me look less like Michael Jackson before my first date/second meeting with an unnamed guy tomorrow. You can ask but truth be told I really tried to understand when he first told me his name and listen when he called me today; but still with no certainty can tell you what his name is. Any good thought would be welcome about how to ask him his name with out letting on I don't know it: French guy who speaks duhh French but also Spanish unfortunately very little English but is teaching at Loyola U , NOLA – (why I did not catch the name ? too busy thinking how to converse in French.)
I like a challenge I have not been fluent in French for 20 years. Maybe I will get some practice; ...whatever: please listen to Ben's Brother:

A question of political correctness?

Is the photo offensive?

In of itself I personally do not find it offensive. Inappropriate perhaps given the photo was taken in Beijing at the insistence of the courier company sponsoring the Spanish basketball team.

I have sort of “slanty” eyes and remember when I was a kid having school mates ask me which one of my parents was Asian. I was actually quite complimented as I think Asian woman are very beautiful.

Now if all my school mates had mocked me by following me around and making “slanty” eyes as a way of excluding me, that would be offensive as the intent would be to offend.

I highly doubt that the courier company or the Spanish team meant to offend. I think the Ad was likely more of a confirmation for the courier company that YES here is the team and YES we sponsored them during the Beijing Olympics; see their “slanty eyes” … supposedly humorous as an intended reaction.

It would seem that along with eating McDonalds, there is nothing that one can do anymore without the media or the government or a special interest group getting all over us, condemning and never even questioning the source or intent.

“Politically correct” is, in my opinion, “Politically Incorrect” by definition.

chicken shit post :) funny though

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MCCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure - right from Day One! - that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is ha ving problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad?Yes, the chicken crossed the road, b ut why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side'. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.'That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road.Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or reboot...

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken ?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

Ron Kelley: New Orleans photographer

These are new photographs by one of my gallery artists, Ron Kelley.

I would appreciate your feedback!

Paris takes McCain and Wins!

McCain’s campaign team came out with this Ad; basically saying Obama’s appeal to voters was only because we as voters are celebrity struck. As McCain’ people decided to use Paris Hilton and Britney Spears as their point of comparison “Celebrities” the ad was in my opinion not only insulting to Obama, but insulting to anyone, such as me, who plans to vote for Obama.





Mitt Romney and other Republicans said they thought the ad well done and humorous; they did not see the stupidity or the insult. I have always wondered if Republicans have a sense of humor and now that question is answered.

I have always wondered if Paris Hilton has a brain; and once again, question answered in her rebuttal ad to McCain:

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

I am sure she did not write it, but she “approves it” and that is enough for me to say “Good Job” Paris.

"You can't trust women"

No matter how old I get it still amazes me how this type of humor makes me laugh; then laugh again.

My "bloody" little tale from Sunday

I can not tell you how many people have advised me over the years not to try to open things with my teeth. These are the same people that have told me when you are cutting cut away from yourself.

Well I do occasionally listen to good advice so yesterday evening when I was attempting to get the plastic stuff off the top of my new bottle of contact lens solution I did not use my teeth. Instead I used a very sharp knife and slid the blade underneath the wrapping and cut away from my body.

Unfortunately cutting away from one’s torso is then cutting towards one’s hand. The knife cut through the plastic then continued its way through to my hand. Basically I stabbed myself.

I have done a lot of stupid things, that have often left spectacular bruises or lumps or bumps, but I have to say I out did myself with this one stupid, fluid motion.

Blood shot up and out spraying all over the kitchen sink, the backsplash, the under hang of the cabinet the floor and all over me. I think I went into a slight state of shock like WTF did I just do? I could not have just done that. Then I thought Oh shit I better stop the bleeding now. So I put my right hand over the stab wound (it was a stab not a cut as the knife when almost ¼ centimeter into the muscle between my thumb and index finger) and put pressure on it.

I was feeling quite proud until I slowly took my right hand off and blood squirted me in the face. Now this may sound odd, but I was in my pink Winnie the Poo Eeyore PJ’s, I had no under clothes on and here I was holding my right had over my left hand so I had no hands, and I’m thinking there is no way in the world that I am going to call 911 and have the paramedics see me dressed like this. I have decided that my nightwear needs a severe overhaul in case this ever happens again. Anyhoo, I could not change my clothes as I really did not have any hands - I could not drive to the emergency room as I did not have any hands this whole no hands thing was becoming a problem.

So I’m standing there in my kitchen surrounded by all this blood wondering what my next step should be. My next literal step was to slip in the blood so now it was on my ass as well because when I slipped I let go of my hand to break my fall and more blood squirted out.

I was getting a little concerned at this point so I tried to call my friend Denise and her fiancé using the index finger on my right hand still placing pressure on my left; no one answered the phone. I called 5 other people and no one answered their phones. I kept wishing that my friend Robert was in town, because he is always good about answering the phone and lives really close to me. It would have been pay back for the night he went boink on his head, but that is another story all together.

Finally I was considering calling 911 when my friend Denise called back. She came over with John and he was like Jesus Christ it looks like some one was murdered in here which for some reason I thought was really funny, so I started to laugh. Denise kind of stepped back from me I guess she thought I was losing my mind along with my blood, but John was like okay let me see it. I felt so bad about the next thing that happened. They were both dressed up and she was wearing a pretty white skirt and he a really nice white shirt and jacket; when I uncovered my hand because he was holding it by his chest I got blood all over his shirt cuff and jacket. He stepped back a bit, covered my hand then told Denise to get a towel – when she did he got blood on her skirt. I kept saying I don’t have HIV so please don’t worry and they keep assuring me that was the last thing they were thinking about.

Long bloody story short, the cut finally congealed so I decided not to go to the emergency room. There is only 1 emergency room in New Orleans – except for the one that they take gun shot victims , crazy people and people without insurance so I felt pretty sure that my wait would be so long that by the time the Dr. would see me it would be too late to get stitches anyway. John and Denise went to Walgreen’s and got me butterfly bandages. I always wondered how they worked so I guess I actually learned something.

The moral of this story is: Umm I not sure there is a moral, but perhaps it can be that accidents do happen, and when they do it is very important to have friends who will help you out.

Thanks Denise & John!

Mary mary quite contrary

Ut-oh another Virgin Mary Sighing in California.

I really do not see this one; but you can decide for youself…



Just for the fun of it.

down doobie down down down

Dump your lover directly on voice mail

"New phone service makes it easier to get through life's awkward moments
Slydial lets you connect directly with another person's cell phone voice mail, bypassing the traditional ringing process that often results — sometimes disastrously — with someone picking up on the other end."

I don’t think I would take care of a breakup via voicemail, too easy for someone to pretend they did not get your message. I am in favor of the direct approach: “Fuck –off Asshole.” Then perhaps a dramatic finger gesture mixed with a mean stoney stare that I have finally perfected. A little tear trickle so you don't look like a bitch is a good effect when doing the breakup in public; though in all fairness I think it is more appropriate as a private act. Just depends on why you are breaking up.

Of course sometimes it happens kind of like this in my experience:

Alternate breakup version

or

like Neil says:

weird wednesday "shits & giggles"

Yes I know this is stupid; but it is stupid in a funny "cood" way.


Far away in the tropical waters of the Caribbean, two prawns were swimming around in the sea - one called Justin and the other called Christian.

The prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks that patrolled the area.
Finally one day Justin said to Christian, "I'm bored and frustrated at being a prawn; I wish I was a shark, and then I wouldn't have any worries about being eaten..."

As Justin had his mind firmly on becoming a predator, a mysterious cod appears and says, "Your wish is granted", and lo and behold, Justin turned into a shark. Horrified, Christian immediately swam away, Afraid of being eaten by his old mate.

Time went on (as it invariably does...) and Justin found himself becoming bored and lonely as a shark. All his old mates simply swam away whenever he came close to them. Justin didn't realize that his new menacing appearance was the cause of his sad plight. While out swimming alone one day he sees the mysterious cod again and can't believe his luck. Justin figured that the fish could change him back into a prawn. He begs the cod to change him back so, lo and behold; he is turned back into a prawn.

With tears of joy in his tiny little eyes, Justin swam back to his friends and bought them all a cocktail. (The punch line does not involve a prawn cocktail - it's much worse). Looking around the gathering at the reef, he searched for his old pal. "Where's Christian?", he asked.
"He's at home, distraught that his best friend changed sides to the enemy and became a shark", came the reply.

Eager to put things right again and end the mutual pain and torture, he set off to Christian's house. As he opened the coral gate the memories came flooding back. He banged on the door and shouted, "It's me, Justin, your old friend, come out and see me again."
"Christian replied, "No way man, you'll eat me. You're a shark; the enemy and I'll not be tricked. "Justin cried back
"No, I'm not. That was the old me I've changed...... (wait for it)
...
...
...
...
"I've found Cod... I'm a prawn again Christian!!"

Alternative pedicure anyone?

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - Ready for the latest in spa pampering? Prepare to dunk your feet in a tank of water and let tiny carp nibble away.

I dunno there is just something that seems a bit fishy to me about all this :)

PETA

"This is a way to get the message into the mainstream," she said. "It’s irresponsible to let your children have unprotected sex and it’s irresponsible to not spay and neuter your animals when we’re in an animal overpopulation crisis in the United States."

Interestingly enough PETA decided to debut the ad in Kentwood, LA home of Britney and her sister Jamie Lynn – think that was part of their tongue and cheek effort to get animals fixed?

Wow I would be more than just a tad insulted if I were the Spears Sisters.

Raspootin is amused and approves of this ad :) hee hee Jamie and Britney should get fixed Ha - ookay another thought is did Mrs. Spears perhaps give her daughters this advice and they took it seriously?

Sunny Afternoon

This is a picture of my friend’s twin daughters. I was really impressed with daddy’s idea for a creative sunny afternoon. He purchased a long roll of paper from Home Depot price $3.00. Some paint: $10.00 some spay bottles in which to put the paint $5.00 and gave them to his children to create their very special one of a kind art master piece: Priceless :)

The Catholic Church gone wild

A college student attending a Catholic University in FL took a wafer out of the church without swallowing it.

If this is what the Archdiocese terms “a hate crime” then they as an organization are even more profoundly hypercritical than I initially thought. Pedophile Priests, controlling people through the threat of eternal damnation, Nuns swatting young children with rulers, well these seem more like “acts of hate” that should not be tolerated in my limited opinion on the subject.

The following is what ensued.


"Webster gave the wafer back, but the Catholic League, a national watchdog organization for Catholic rights claims that is not enough. “We don’t know 100% what Mr. Cooks motivation was,” said Susan Fani a spokesperson with the local Catholic diocese. “However, if anything were to qualify as a hate crime, to us this seems like this might be it.”

We just expect the University to take this seriously,” she added “To send a message to not just Mr. Cook but the whole community that this kind of really complete sacrilege will not be tolerated"

supply & demand gone amuck

You might remember when this accident happened...8 years ago this March. This Southwest Airlines flight from Vegas overshot the runway at Burbank. The plane smashed past the airport fence, careened across the street and ended up with a collapsed landing gear, right next to a gas station.But that's not the amazing part...look at the picture below!!!

a Saturday giggle

Pictured above the offending furniture O_0

My friend Al recently moved into his mother’s house with his partner to help care for her. In the move they found they had too much furniture. So he tried yard sales and listing the items on Craig’s List. Below is a comment from someone who did not even purchase the furniture. I could not help but laugh as it was such a rude comment from someone who apparently did not even know him. Meredith Lancaster must be a very angry lady with way too much time on her hands!

April 5th
8 a.m.
3319 Chestnut Street

We're having a huge multi-family garage sale. Lots of cool stuff: furniture, clothes (including plus-sizes), shoes, knick-knacks, art supplies, books, DVDs, jewelry, artwork and tons more. Seriously, we are selling a lot of great stuff. Come buy it!

Yard Sale tomorrow

Saturday, May 17th

8AM - 1PM

Driveway between 3315-3317 Chestnut Street, half block off Louisiana Avenue

Lots of fun stuff! Tell your friends....

Anybody need furniture? If so email me back and let me know your needs. We have lots of excess furniture! Thanks.

"I found this both disturbing and amusing, especially since my sale has been doing so well. I have sold a half dozen pieces already in the $200-$300 range to very nice folks. I did not satiate her with a reply. Talk about bitter bitch with too much time on her hands...." Al

--- On Thu, 6/12/08, Meredith Lancaster <merrycaster@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Meredith Lancaster
Subject: Nasty wingback chairs and couch
To: sale-712376820@craigslist.org
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 10:50 AM

** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY

** Avoid:  wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home

** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping

** More Info:  http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

Okay really?!?

Particle board bookshelves that are used and dusty,

maybe warped for $160! 

Wow, lucky me.  Why would I go to Lowe's and buy them

new in a box for less money?  Instead, I'll have you

deliver them for an exorbitant price.

Orange, sweat-stained, missing their filling,

farted on, maybe cummed-on,

loveseat and wingback chairs for

 $400! Boy Oh Boy!

Honestly, these prices for used furniture
indicate that you are on crack.  You

only need $20 to buy a rock.

Sincerely,

the shocked and

appalled craigslist community.

just in case

You have not been watching the weather channel

GOLDENTRIANGLE

305 Educational

I wish I knew a highschool kid. I'm going to have to try this one out.

NOw this is an intelligent design :)

Evidently the subject of Intelligent Design is not very provoking, so moving right along, thanks Woozie; I caught George Washington on The Tome and could not resist this one about Jesus Christ.

Is Intelligent design taught in school - an intelligent idea?

A friend of mine and I were talking about THIS bill which was just introduced in to the Louisiana State Legislature. In a nut shell it is mandating that intelligent design be taught as part of the science curriculum in public schools.

To be very honest, I am not sure what type of materials the school board would use to teach intelligent design, nor exactly what basis they would place the teaching on, given that I would assume THE BIBLE should not be used as a reference book.

To this end I sent an email to my friend Stephen who is a Physics teacher in a charter School here in New Orleans and asked him for his opinion. I wanted to know how he would feel, if forced to teach intelligent design. I assume once again that intelligent design might be taught by the biology teacher under the topic of Human Genome using Sanford’s book. The premise of his book states:

" The conclusion is that we were created perfect, have been headed downhill ever since and the human race cannot be a thousand generation old yet. Solutions are not in better technology but a relationship with God who will take us out of this decaying creation at the proper time."


Well Stephen took a very proactive approach and wrote the following letter to Governor Jindal:

Governor Jindal-
I write to you today in reference to SB 733, a misguided attempt to suggest specific alterations to the teaching of Science in Louisiana schools. Legislation of this type is an inappropriate tool for improving education, if that were indeed its true intention. Since that is how it has been presented, it is worthy of being confronted on just such a level. I believe that my position on the subject is an informed one, and I hope that you have the time to consider it fully.

I am a Physics teacher at Lusher Charter School here in New Orleans, though I have taught at Catholic schools in the 12 preceding years. During that time, I have been awarded two national teaching awards, and spoken to groups on the subject of science teaching. Like all good teachers of science, I labor to demonstrate to my students how a theory is constructed from evidence, and the principle that any theory may be discarded if contradictory evidence is discovered. As most well educated individuals understand, these principles are foundational to science.

History has no shortage of scientific theories which have been discarded. New facts sometimes come to light, and a new, more comprehensive theory must be developed to incorporate all available evidence. The study of this process in science classes reveals the true strength of the scientific method and encourages students to be critical thinkers. For that reason, it is an intrinsic part of a well-rounded science education. On its surface, SB 733 may appear to promote teaching about this process, but the specific topics named represent inappropriate choices.
For example, SB 733 suggests critical analysis of evolution. One can only assume that additional materials to provide for critical discussion of evolution would rely heavily on the recent challenges to the theory of evolution posed by William Dembski and others. These challenges involved computational methods that are complex enough to be debated among experts – hence, a genuine scientific debate that has been dubbed “Intelligent Design” by the popular media. However, the evidence that was used to support Dembski’s conjecture is beyond the mathematical abilities of secondary students, as is the evidence that refutes his claim. Primary and secondary students do not have the capacity to think critically about different experts’ evaluation of the statistical probability of the random assembly of amino acids. As a result, the debate is inaccessible as a topic for a secondary science class. This fact points directly to the inappropriate nature of this type of legislation.

Despite language that clearly shows an understanding of good scientific education pedagogy, SB 733 suggests a course of action that is pedagogically suspect. This is not surprising, as Senators Nevers, Crowe, Riser, and Thompson are not and never have been science educators. Decisions about the proper context within which to teach inquiry content standards are best left to the professionals that have successfully taught them, not those elected by popular majority. For this reason, as an educator, I urge you to veto this bill should it reach your desk.

Stephen Collins

P.S.
I have been led to believe that you are a man of faith, and may be one of the many who are sometimes troubled by the ideas of science. If this is indeed the case, consider the words of Guy Consulmagno, who has this to say about the official position of the Catholic church on matters of science: "[the Vatican] wants to make a strong statement that truth doesn't contradict truth; that if you have faith, you're never going to be afraid of what science comes up with.", (Quoted in issue 2624 of New Scientist magazine, 06 October 2007, page 12).

I would be interested in people’s comments or thoughts about intelligent design as part of a public school curriculum.

weird wednesday

Just seeing how many of my Republican friends I can offend today!

WTF?

http://www.wdsu.com/news/16634012/detail.html

I would like to know what The Army Corps of Engineers has been doing for the past 3 years?

Hello even before Katrina the corps was saying that the levees would hold in a Cat 3-4 storm. So where has the Federal money been spent?

I have to believe that the people who rebuilt their homes after flooding during Katrina felt that they were being assured that the levees would withstand at least a category 2 hurricane. If New Orleans floods again, you can kiss this city goodbye. Folks are not going to go through it twice. I feel like once again I have been lied to by the Federal Government (who is in charge of the Corps of Engineers), the Mayor and the State.

Dream Interpretation please?

I had a rather off putting dream last night. It kind of made me question what I would do in reality if this situation arose. Of course as it was a dream, well I doubt that reality will ever have anything to do with it.

I was in my friend Melissa’s playroom. Mind you Melissa was my childhood best friend and I have not been in her play room for over 25 years. Evidently she was supplying the venue as she never showed up in the dream. Sitting on her sofa is a person, who I’m not going to name as I don’t want to freak them out. So I shall just call “the person” “Max” as that can go for a man or a woman. The person is someone I know well.

So Max is sitting on the sofa and all of a sudden turns pale. I ask what is wrong and Max replies that Max does not feel well. Max of clutches his/her chest then dies.

Okay, I am once again sitting in the playroom, this time I am in there with Max and my friends Leah and Eric. The difference is that this time around it is the day before Max dies. Leah and Eric and I know that Max is going to die the next day, but we don’t want to tell Max.

When Max has a shortness of breath we all look at each other expectantly, knowingly and I ask Eric if I should give Max one of my clonazepam pills to calm Max down. Eric looks at me like duhhh Raspootin give Max a pill; ya know Max is going to die anyway.

So Max leaves the room and Leah says, we have to tell Max that Max is going to die. I’m like no way, if Max is going to die anyway we should just give Max the best last day of Max’s life. Eric interjects that perhaps Max has a second chance, and if we tell Max he/she is going to die that maybe Max could do something about it. We all looked at each other for a while and I said, but what if there is nothing that Max can do about dying? Instead of having the best last day ever, all Max will be doing is worrying about dying.

Max, Eric, Leah and I are then all on a merry go round. It is spinning and spinning really fast and we are all hysterically laughing.

Then I woke up.

I realize that this was just a dream, but what would you do if you knew that someone had only one day to live; or maybe not… my dream did not tell me what I would do. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe in free will, so would telling the person change the outcome, or just make their last day the worst in their life.

Here I go again

I know that most of the United States thinks that Katrina is like a dead horse that we all keep kicking. I am over Katrina, forgive, forget no, but move on yes.

However, when I see videos like this, the anger with FEMA and the Louisiana State Government all comes back.

WTF do bureaucrats all live in a bubble? Do they even bother checking out what a situation is before making stupid decisions? And, most importantly why were all these donated items sitting in a warehouse for 2-3 years after the event that they were specifically earmarked for.

I still, have yet to understand what happened to the Millions of dollars that people gave to help New Orleans and The Gulf Coast? Well, at least now I understand what happened to some of it.

I’ll just plug as an ending comment that Kathleen Blanco saw fit to give a $700 million contract ( road home money) to a VA based company to administer the Federal dollars that were suppose to go to homeowners that were under insured. I think the State got around $1.5 billion, I’m no super wiz, but even I can see that with 200,000 homes destroyed that the contract amount was going to leave a short fall for most folks.

I will stop, because I can go on and on and on at nausea on the miss- management subject.

Any way this is the CNN report that got me pissed off:

The second video is the one, that really upset me.

Video

YoU Go Girl

Hopefully he was doing this for private amusement and never thought it would become public.

I have no idea why I found this so funny, I must need different medication.

Happy frickin Monday, and if you ever feel depressed on Mondays just think about this guy and your depression will be put in perspective.

Christian soldiers?

Whenever I watch this clip I end up absolutely appalled. What makes it even worse is that when I tell my friends about Jesus Camp, they all think it’s not true. Get a grip! It is true and it is scary! That lady is a crazy bitch and no one seems to care that she is indoctrinating these children. If she is the “teacher” imagine what the parents are like?



Jesus Camp always makes me think of this song. In fact, truth be told, I was trying to find a youtube spoof of it when I can across the Jesus Camp clip. Needless to say, I could not find anyone that dared to make fun of it.

Spanked: Hillary & Obama play nice!

Goodness, “goodness” sounds like something my grandmother would have said, but I really am astounded after hearing Hillary’s non- and Obama’s yea.

This is to say, Hillary did not give it up, but gave the best speech of her campaign.

This is to say Obama gave a great speech that did not doctorate as being the Democratic Nomination winner.

This is to say Obama is going to announce his win when he announces Ms. Clinton as his running mate.

I never imagined that this would happen. I never thought Hillary would be afforded the chance to address her constituents with such an amazing speech.

I think the Democratic Party has told them both: YOU will get along and you will run as the super ticket. “ or you will be spanked ya bad children: play nice”

Like I said, I am surprised. Perhaps, according to the people that I watched both speeches with, I am wrong.

I feel very confident that I am correct. I will be glad to have the Super Ticket to vote for.

And as my other thoughts about McCain go, if this Obama / Clinton ticket is introduced, McCain will give the nod to Bobby Jindal.

Hell what do I know: just stating an educated guess?

2 guys for Tuesday

This gave me a laugh, so I'm sharing the too politically incorrect, correct giggle factor.

Raspootin and the Beast

I have to defrost my refrigerator. I hate defrosting it, but no big deal I'll leave the door open over night and it will be ready to go in the morning.




OMG there is something in there besides my V8.
Gross it's still alive.
Well I'm not dealing with this NOW. It will be dead by the time I get home from work.





Eweweee It's still wiggling around! What should I do now? Call my dad he knows best.






Dad there is a roach in my refrigerator what should I do?
Step on it
I can't step on it in my refrigerator
Well Squish it and flush it
I can't Squish it, it's still alive
It's a damn Roach
I know but It's HUMONGOUS and its alive. Its the biggest roach I ever saw
Spray raid on it
I can't spray poison in my refrigerator
***deep Breath*** You are not my daughter if you can't kill that thing, stop being a baby
Ok dad thanks for the good advise I'll take care of it.
**** Deeper sigh**** on my end.




COURAGE




PROCRASTINATION

More courage

one more procrastination and I'll do it

okay maybe a little bit more courage...


ahhhhhhhhhhhhh run outside to dispose of it. Everyone knows if you flush them in the toilet they come back to life, swim up the drain and bite you on the butt so it must definitely go outside in my neighbor's garbage can.



What a wonderful way to spend Friday evening.

Patriotic Art?

I am not sure I agree that this is a Patriotic photo if indeed many of the soldiers were passing out from heat exhaustion. However, it certainly is an interesting and amazingly well staged piece of art.

It kind of puts Spencer Tunic to shame.

This link will give you some more insight to Mole and Thomas along with an explanation of this photo.

Can you afford to get milk?

Milk price are way up. New Orleans has the most expensive milk in the nation at $4.38 per gallon, according to the USDA.

I wonder why?

The article did not mention anything about other dairy products just milk. I am puzzled.

The LSU Ag Center is suggesting people combat the record high milk prices by buying some powered milk and mixing it up with water then mixing that with regular milk. "It will taste closer to normal milk, and you'll get it for a much lower price," says Dr. Heli Roy.

Yuck - the only thing nastier than milk would be powdered milk.

Insecurities?

"Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it."

- Jodie Foster tells Britain's Daily Mail

This is how I feel about my weaknesses.

Jindal for VP?

How shallow am I?
Evidently quite shallow mixed with very fickle.

I am leaning towards voting for McCain if he gives the VP nomination to Bobby Jindal. You may ask why a staunch Democrat who did not even vote for Jindal either time he ran for Governor, would change party affiliation at this point in time.

Frankly I do not see much difference in any of the Presidential candidate’s rhetoric when it comes down to what they are going to do to pull us out of the shit hole created by the Bush administration.

Politics mandates each candidate say what he or she think the people want to hear. It does not mandate that they will ever follow through with their campaign promises. It is very easy to blow off promises and explain the lack of resolution on Congress or The Senate.

So, Why Bobby Jindal and McCain? I think this is a good combination of age and experience melded with youth and new ideas. I did not vote for Jindal as I said, but I have been very impressed with his initial performance as Governor. He has actually followed through on all of his campaign promises and immediately tackled the Political Ethics issue, something that is long over due in Louisiana.

I also think that it definitely could not hurt this State to have one of our own as Vice President. Who knows, given McCain’s age and health issues we just might have ourselves a President.

Will I vote McCain if he does not give Bobby Jindal the job, No – back to Obama. Like I said see how fickle I am?

castration anyone?

BATON ROUGE -- A proposal to impose chemical castration on rapists and other sex offenders has moved to the Louisiana House.
Senate Bill 144 by Sen. Nick Gautreaux, D-Abbeville, won approval Wednesday from the House Criminal Justice Committee.
The panel narrowed the bill with an amendment that would allow judges to impose chemical castration on males convicted of just five sex crimes: aggravated rape, forcible rape, second-degree sexual battery, aggravated incest and aggravated crime against nature.
In an earlier version, the bill also included crimes such as kidnapping that did not involve sex.


I am not sure if I agree that chemical castration is the way to go. For one thing, it is only effective if the injections are given in a conscientious manner and consistently monitored.

Once the injection of Depo –Provera wears off, it leaves the sexual offender at a higher level of testosterone with a renewed predatory sexual drive.

I guess as a woman it would be easy for me to advocate castration; as I would never be in the position to have my balls chopped off. The only hesitation that I have with permanent castration is what if there is a mistake? There is not much that can be done to repair that type of error.

I am just wondering; if Chemical Castration does not keep a rapist from fantasizing about rape, and will render the pedophile, rapist etc. even more violent in his tendencies if he is able to surpass the system and avoid the injections, well is it worth administering the drug in the first place?

Beavis and Butthead

This is so stupid that ya have to love it!

sexy texty???

Well umm ***sort of blushing*** I can relate to this. There I said it and will say no more. Have a great weekend and be sure to text!

mouths over matter

“WTF is wrong with talking George? Perhaps if you had an iota of political polish, you would have been able to negotiate The United States out of a war based on false information. Talking, Fact and Common ground Finding are Good things you stupid little man with squinty eyes”

Now ask me how I really feel about GW…




Obama, Obama, Obama: “Sweetie” is only acceptable when your Grandmother is addressing you. It is particularly offensive to women in professional situations. What were you thinking “Darlin”?


Obama apologizes for 'sweetie' remark

Puddle of Mud: Psycho

Video

Puddle of Mud is fast becoming one of my favorite bands. I guess they have been around for quite some time. The lead singer Wes Scantlin has definitely been around the block a couple of times playing with Alice in Chains and Chris Cornell and other notable artists.

This video surprised me because as much as I liked the song, it really captured my imaginings of the lyrics. Not only did it hit the spot, but it is also very entertaining.

I do fail to understand why the band makes it so hard access their information; everything even on Youtube has the embedding disabled. On their website the information is scanty and even lacks biographical information. This does not seem like a good promotional approach, but then again I am not their manager so what the hell do I know.

I do know Wes Scantlin is HOT!!! Guess that is good promotion all in of itself.

hAppY MoNdAY?

“Be afraid of what you wish for etc”
“Grass Greener etc”

Whatever this is one of my favorites

and God said keep pushin them out

I know that is not my place to judge, but judge I will. Someone, please send these people to Planned Parenthood for birth control; lots of birth contol, lots of counseling.

My Blog. Ergo my opinion: It is freaking/fucking (word choice appropriate) obscene to have 17 children and be happy about the impending birthing of an 18th.

The thing that makes this all particularly disgusting to me is that the family, Eldest 20 youngest just born, are all part of a Discovery Channel program that chronicles their lives. The lives of people who breed like rats. They are no doubt ecstatic about the new bundle of joy in the oven as it will definitely keep the ratings up and the show providing them with the income to justify their over usage of our nation’s resources.

Also just to verify, the parents who are both 41 are the actual biological creator and incubator of their brood of offspring.


"The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated," Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."
The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

afternoon numbness and nickel exploration

My Co Worker and I were experiencing that feeling of extreme lethargy that one gets around 2:00 when you know that there are still 3 hours to go and your lunch is making you sleepy.

So after discussing why water does not give you energy, contemplating drinking a Coke and opting to take vitamins instead we moved along to looking at our change. How we happened to start looking at our change is just one of the inexplicable turns in the road that life throws us on occasion. I think there must have been some sort of Freudian thing looking at change when board. Dunno:not that deep…

Yes I know, work is really demanding. Anyway I noticed 2 different nickels in my pile of change. I’m like geeze when did they change the nickels? I never noticed that before. Luckily for my intelligence esteem she had never noticed either.

This discovery led her to the following SITE , which even though it is set up for kids, is really interesting.

Check it out!

just monkeying around

I could not resist this as a small Wednesday pick me up.

blushing :(

I have decided that cluster maps can be sort of embarrassing...

Thanks for being my one red dot Kali!

amazing Grace?

I have never watched this show as I think it would be rather boring as a whole. HOWEVER, condensed within these 5 videos it really is quite amazing what this guy can do. My singing voice sucks even when my mouth is open, how he does it with him mouth closed AND impersonates...well watch for yourself; very entertaining.

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Semi Finals if you are so inclined to watch

Finals to see who won .

And she saw the light!

I know; no posts for 10 days and this is all I can come up with? Well for the first time ever in my search for Jesus or Mary in: The Wall, In The Cheese Sandwich, In The Lungs, In The Water, In The Corn Flake, In The Poop (that was kinda gross); I can actually see what the woman is talking about.

It looks like Jesus being crucified. Why the woman thinks this is a good thing to have in her womb is (kinda weird) but to each his or her own.

Jesus In The Womb

It can happen anywhere...

I walked out of my house yesterday evening to go meet a friend and as I went towards my car I heard BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.

The guys that were cutting my neighbor’s grass yelled at me to “hit the ground” I did not need to be asked twice. Then my neighbor from the other side came out to see what had happened and they yelled at her, hit the ground. We then heard a squeal of tires.

The gardener said, “I know what that was it had to be an automatic weapon because it sounded just like what we were using in Iraq.” He then went on to say he was sorry that he had told us to get down, but wherever the gun shots had come from was so close that is was possible that the bullets might have traveled.

Marion and I did not have a problem, as both of us initially thought that is was a worker having a problem with his tools – don’t know what sort of tool would make that sound, but I have never heard anything that loud in succession before. It was kind of scary.

Anyway, this is the story, and yes it did happen 1.5 blocks from my house. Not good for the neighborhood, and really bad for the guy that was murdered.

dream interpretation please?

I have been having some really weird dreams. Last night’s was particularly odd. I have no idea why I would have dreamed this. I am not sure if it was a nightmare or a sex dream; either way I woke up all sweaty(ewewee)

I was in bed with Spock and Captain Kirk. Spock was evidently my lover in the dream. He was in the middle with me to his left and CK to his right. CK had this long metal object with a light on the end of it that was some sort of weapon. He kept telling Spock to stop paying attention to me and play with him. Well it was not play as in a sexual play but like hey this is my little toy and I want to show it to you.

Spock kept on saying stop pointing that thing Jim you are going to hurt her (me). CK is like well I am just playing I won’t hurt her. Then all of a sudden the wind is knocked out of me because Spock throws himself on top of me. Again nothing sexual, though I knew in the dream that my relationship with him was sexual and CK was jealous. So when he gets off of me he leans over to KC and said “I told you to stop playing with that thing Jim you almost killed her with it”. Then he did the Vulcan Pinch to CK’s shoulder. He then rolled over and turned to me and said lets have sex, he is not going to wake up anytime soon.

I then woke up.

I then went back to sleep and dreamed the same dream again.

Gosh I think I could have at least had a little nooky with him before waking up each time :) Actually more to the point why couldn’t I have been in bed with Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt?

captian kirk is a big weenie :)

a question of proceedure?

I found an unidentified object (UO) in my salad on Monday night. After recovering from my initial disgust I put the object which kind of looked like 25 fossilized condoms in a plastic baggy.

I showed the object to a couple of friends at The Mayfair to see what they thought it was. The consensus was that at the very best definitely not fossilized condoms which made me feel better.

One of the bartenders said that I should bring the UO over to the restaurant that I got the salad from and let them know that they needed to be more careful. We all eat at this place a lot and the serving staff comes into the Mayfair daily.

I could not really be bothered to go over, thinking that it would definitely gross out the restaurant patrons if I all of a sudden pulled out the baggy with the UO still covered in salad dressing and complained.

Another Bartender who has been my friend for 20 years said: “Give me the UO and I will show it to the manager of the restaurant as he typically comes in for a cocktail when his shift is over.”

So I give her the UO in the baggy and don’t really think anything more about it. Well, I walked into the Mayfair last night, after what I must say was a very bad hair day, and my friend is sitting at the Video Poker machine. She calls me over and says that she talked to the manager and get this: The manager was mad at MOI because I showed the UO to my friends. My friend told me that he said the appropriate thing would have been to take it over in a brown paper bag and discreetly ask for him and he would have noted the complaint. He then told her he was very disappointed in my behavior.

I told my friend that’s BS I did not do anything wrong, the restaurant did something wrong. There should not have been a UO in my salad and further more I could have choked to death on it.

My friend looked at me and said: “Well I think the manager is correct. You did show it to me and a couple of other people.” Well that response really pissed me off. In fact it pissed me off so bad that I had to immediately walk away before I said something that I would not regret at the time, but probably would later. Not really worth losing a friend over an UO in your salad. Then I got to thinking, would a true friend take up for the manager at the Restaurant, or would they side with me?

Well the issue was resolved when my friend eventually apologized to me. I accepted the apology, but noted that she never said she was wrong with her take on the situation, but simply said she was sorry to have been nasty – she was having a bad hair day too.

I do not think I did anything wrong. Please someone tell me what your take on it is. I think I am still irritated.

buds of a feather smoke together

I was reading about legalized medical marijuana in California – why ? No idea, but came across a story about how some of the distribution facilities were selling vials named “Tom Cruise Purple” with a picture of TC on the front laughing hysterically. The head line read: Tom Cruise Purple Medical Marijuana has Actor Smoking Mad.

Sarcky and funny in my opinion, but I guess he is figuring out how to sue them.

At any rate the story led me through a number of others until I came across this. I think I saw a portion of this on The Tome, but not the whole thing ITS worth the watch. Spoofin' at its best.


If he successfully sues perhaps they can replace his picture with one of these people:

babar has talent?

I am not really sure what to say about this, but I think I could definitely sell it in my gallery!

Does the elephant have an innate talent? Was he or she taught? Does it really matter? This is a discussion that human artists have with critics: are you a better artist because you have paid $100K for a degree or are you actually a more talented artist because you are self taught?

Regardless, this is rather impressive:


Elephant Paints Self-Portrait