Nice place huh? I’d like to say I got to go fishing there over the weekend or was going next weekend. But with this bunged up hand and now thanks to the bunged up hand forcing me to use the cane in my left hand my bunged up knee, my changes of scenery are limited to short distance moves to other rooms of the apartment and even those sometimes need assistance if I can’t fit all my needs in a pocket of a shoulder satchel.

Doctor is making some disturbing noises over the hand and has scheduled an ultra sound, some X rays and some sort of therapy which is supposed to get at the tendon swelling which so far has resisted going down with other treatments. As for the knee it’s just grin and bare it until its better, a slow tedious process. Strange how you can bung something up in a heartbeat but it will take a season to fix itself.

Speaking of seasons we’ve had some early fall preview weather here since last week with a few mornings in the low 70’s/ high 60’s. A pleasant change from the triple digit heat indexes that we were experiencing. The Farmers Almanac is predicting harder than normal winter for the North East and cooler and wetter than normal for Texas and I’m thinking this might be a foretelling of that.

Roughly 30 days remain to peak hurricane season and I’d be happy to have dodged seeing or even having to worry about one for an entire season.

OK time for more pills for pain and swelling and to get hand back up (actually I’ve been writing this 5 minutes at a time and 75% left handed)

I’ve gotten so desperate I’ve taken to drinking it out of a lidded travel mug with a straw to keep from spilling it. Problem is it doesn’t hold enough and the one that does is too heavy to hold with right hand while moving about on cane with left! I’ve even had to resort to using Molly’s Keurig because I can’t handle my pot left handed with making a mess.

I got this theory says that Old Scratch used to be a Texican back in the day.

Sure Sign its Hot in Texas

A Staten Island lawyer asked a judge if he could have a “‘Game of Thrones’ style trial by combat” instead of an actual trial.

The Top 5 Differences in a “Game of Thrones” Style Courtroom Trial

5. A motion for sanctions can include requests for disbarring and/or beheading.

4.  The death penalty is the only sentence no matter what the crime and they still can’t beat Texas’ death penalty record.

3. The courtroom sketch artist is always running out of red colored pencils.

2. Based on the exposed breasts and penises, *every* jury is “hung.”

1. Readers will say that the transcript was better.

Damn! Another of my reality show ideas down the toilet!

NEW HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL!!

Listen to the young people, F-this, F-that, and nary anyone will step up and correct them- even with wife and kids in tow!

FINALLY – – Someone in the teaching profession had the courage to set the standards so badly needed NOW.

We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of Colorado , along with Sara Palin and Tom Brokaw on TV a couple of weeks ago….what a dynamic, down  to earth speaker. Even though Palin and Brokaw were also guest speakers they did little but nod and agree with him. This is the guy that should be running for President in 2016

A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give. By Dennis Prager .

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.

First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity — your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American .

This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America , one of its three central values — E pluribus Unum, “from many, one.” And this school will be guided by America ‘s values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America ‘s citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here — it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English — but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning’s elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school’s property — whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can’t speak without using the f -word, you can’t speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as “Nigger,” even when used by one black student to address another black, or “bitch,” even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way — the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago — by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.

Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue… There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate — to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

Dennis Prager is a radio talk show host in California.  He has never been a school principal.  No such event as described below has ever occurred.

The text referenced above is one such column, a piece authored by talk show host Dennis Prager, a staple of Southern California talk radio for over twenty years (and now a nationally syndicated radio host as well). Mr. Prager has never been a high school principal. His column, “A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give,” was originally published on 13 July 2010, and within a few weeks of its publication we began receiving e-mailed copies which omitted the authorial attribution and changed the piece’s premise from the abstract to the concrete by presenting its content as a speech actually delivered by a real high school principal to his school’s incoming class:

• An early-August 2010 version was positioned as “Supposedly from an Arizona Principal.”
• Another early-August 2010 version bore this preface: “Hillsdale College is setting up a charter school in Washington D.C. This is what each student that is allowed to enroll in the school and their parents will read, sign and adhere to while in attendence. I sincerely hope that in the near future all our schools will adopt these very same policies.”
• A mid-August 2010 version asserted “This speech was given by a new HS principal in Florida.”
• An early-September 2010 version proclaimed the item to be the “Principal’s Remarks at a South Texas school.”
• A November 2010 version was titled “California Principal’s Opening Message to Students” and further asserted the speech was given by “Dennis Prager, a principal at a high school in Redding, California, on the first day of classes in 2010.”
• A July 2011 version opened “We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of Colorado…”
• A May 2012 version placed Sarah Palin and Tom Brokaw at the event as guest speakers: “We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of Colorado , along with Sara Palin and Tom Brokaw on TV a couple of weeks ago….what a dynamic, down to earth speaker. Even though Palin and Brokaw were also guest speakers they did little but nod and agree with him. This is the guy who should be running for President in 2012!”

In concept, Dennis Prager’s July 2010 column echoed one of his earlier efforts, a piece setting forth a commencement speech that he would give if were he called upon to address a graduating college class.
Read more at

The text referenced above is one such column, a piece authored by talk show host Dennis Prager, a staple of Southern California talk radio for over twenty years (and now a nationally syndicated radio host as well). Mr. Prager has never been a high school principal. His column, “A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give,” was originally published on 13 July 2010, and within a few weeks of its publication we began receiving e-mailed copies which omitted the authorial attribution and changed the piece’s premise from the abstract to the concrete by presenting its content as a speech actually delivered by a real high school principal to his school’s incoming class:

• An early-August 2010 version was positioned as “Supposedly from an Arizona Principal.”
• Another early-August 2010 version bore this preface: “Hillsdale College is setting up a charter school in Washington D.C. This is what each student that is allowed to enroll in the school and their parents will read, sign and adhere to while in attendance. I sincerely hope that in the near future all our schools will adopt these very same policies.”
• A mid-August 2010 version asserted “This speech was given by a new HS principal in Florida.”
• An early-September 2010 version proclaimed the item to be the “Principal’s Remarks at a South Texas school.”
• A November 2010 version was titled “California Principal’s Opening Message to Students” and further asserted the speech was given by “Dennis Prager, a principal at a high school in Redding, California, on the first day of classes in 2010.”
• A July 2011 version opened “We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of Colorado…”
• A May 2012 version placed Sarah Palin and Tom Brokaw at the event as guest speakers: “We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of Colorado , along with Sara Palin and Tom Brokaw on TV a couple of weeks ago….what a dynamic, down to earth speaker. Even though Palin and Brokaw were also guest speakers they did little but nod and agree with him. This is the guy who should be running for President in 2012!”

In concept, Dennis Prager’s July 2010 column echoed one of his earlier efforts, a piece setting forth a commencement speech that he would give if were he called upon to address a graduating college class.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/principal.asp#LtYHQILbgrGmwkzw.99

How do you avoid this happening and seeing your send to me laughed at here just like this? It’s incredibly easy actually, just follow these simple steps:

Globalization?

A definition of globalization that I can understand and to which I now can relate:

Question:
What is the truest definition of  Globalization ?

Answer :
Princess Diana’s death.

Question:

How come?

Answer :

An English Princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, riding in a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling), followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.

This was sent to me by a Canadian, [Living in Australia] using American Bill Gates’ technology, and you’re probably reading this on your computer, that  uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian truck drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexicans who are in the US illegally because the current president, born in Kenya and educated as a Muslim in Indonesia refuses to enforce US law.

That, my friends, is Globalization !

No dog has ever been happier than this dog in a hot tub

Just look at this cute little guy and tell me you’ve ever seen a happier pooch. I don’t know if anybody has ever loved anything as much as this dog loves this hot tub. Watch his cute and funny reaction as the hot tub jets massage his back.

Sounds a lot like the same noises Impish makes in a hot tub!

My understanding is Mrs. Dragon actually bought him a new recliner with a noxious odor filter and a catalytic converter the output side of which is ducted to the outside

Presidential candidate Donald Trump had to return to New York City to show up for jury duty. I know we just did this topic with President George W. Bush who also had to report for jury duty, but I just couldn’t resist…

The Top 5 Overheard During Donald Trump’s Jury Duty Term

5.) “Juror #6 insists on seeing the court’s proof of jurisdiction in exchange for $5 million to the charity of the judge’s choice.”
4.) “And my point is that if the defendant doesn’t have a hundred million dollars on him right now, then we aren’t peers.”
3.) “Can’t the defendant just declare bankruptcy and start all over with no charges against him?”
2.) “No Mr. Trump, my ruling has nothing to do with my time of the month.”

And the Number One Overheard During Donald Trump’s Jury Duty Term…

1.) “‘I’m really rich’ is not a verdict, Mr. Trump.”

Watermelon-and-Cucumber Smoothie

Total Time: 5 min
Prep: 5 min
Yield: 1 serving
Level: Easy

Ingredients

One 2-inch piece English cucumber, peeled and roughly chopped (about 1/2 cup), plus one slice reserved for garnish
3 tablespoons lowfat buttermilk
1 tablespoon honey, optional
1/2 small lime, juiced (about 1 tablespoon)
2 cups cubed seedless watermelon, frozen

Directions

Put the cucumber, buttermilk, honey if using and lime juice into a blender. Blend on high until smooth. Add half of the frozen watermelon and blend until almost completely smooth, turning off the blender and pushing down on the ingredients with a spatula or wooden spoon as needed to help the blending process. Add the remaining frozen watermelon and continue to blend until smooth. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water if needed to adjust consistency. Pour into a glass and garnish with a cucumber slice.

I like a little fresh mint dropped in at the final couple pulses before serving. You can use lemon instead of lime and I’ve even see one with kiwi instead of cucumber though I’m not sure about the buttermilk in that one. No buttermilk? Use a little light cream like you’d put in coffee or perhaps a little coconut cream if you have it. To make it an adult beverage I recommend a wee dram of Malibu Coconut Rum.

BBQ Pork Loaded Fries

At a glance

Prep 30 min.

Total 40 min.

Serves 8

Bake: 10 min.

Prepared steak fries are topped with savory pulled pork and Cheddar cheese. They are baked for just 10 minutes, sprinkled with tomato and green onion for winning loaded fries everyone will enjoy!

What You’ll Need

2 cups warmed slow- cooked pulled pork 
1 package (28 ounces) frozen steak fries, prepared  according to package directions
1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese  or Monterey Jack cheese (about 4 ounces)
1 medium tomato, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
2 green onions, sliced (about 1/4 cup)

How to Make It

• 1 Set the oven to 450°F.  Drain any excess liquid from the pork. 
• 2 Arrange the fries in a 13x9x2-inch baking dish.  Top with the pork and cheese.
• 3 Bake for 10 minutes or until hot and the cheese is melted.  Sprinkle with the tomato and green onions before serving.

Serves 4 to 6

I gave you a killer pulled pork recipe last week and this is perfect for the left overs or to serve a large crowd. Works well with waffle fries & potato skins as well though you may need to alter your cooking time and temp. Pepper Jack Cheese goes well as well and give it a little zing if your like your nachos spicy.

Works well with left over pot roast shredded and tossed with equal parts BBQ sauce and Picante as well.

I like to do it with sausage gravy too. Bake fries first the apply gravy and cheese and put back in oven (I turn it off as soon as it goes back in) for 5 minutes until cheese melts

Someone out there Must be “deadly” at Scrabble.

Wait till you see the last one! It’s going to be hard to top because it fits to a “T”

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES – LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS!  NO MORE Z’S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
I’M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FINALLY…. FOR THE GRAND FINALE :

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
When you rearrange the letters:

An Arab Backed Imposter

What  Causes The Most Accidents In the USA? Not  cell phones…. 

Not  the radio………
Not the GPS monitor…… 
Not talking………….
Not  texting…………..
Not watching a car  video……
Not changing a  CD…….
Most driving accidents in the USA  are caused  by:

Yep  !!!….
You guessed  it right!!!….
Inappropriate  footwear !!!!…

Virginia Tech survivor: The gun lobby’s foolish answer

By Colin Goddard Updated 11:39 AM ET, Fri August 28, 2015

Editor’s note: Colin Goddard is a Virginia Tech shooting survivor and a senior policy advocate for Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.

(CNN)Early Wednesday morning, Alison Parker and Adam Ward were on assignment in Moneta, Virginia — Parker as a reporter and Ward as a cameraman. Working for WDBJ7, Roanoke’s CBS affiliate, they were working on a story about the 50th anniversary of Smith Mountain Lake and interviewing Vicki Gardner, who leads Smith Mountain Lake’s Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, they were doing their jobs.

Until, in a few terrifying moments on live TV, they weren’t.

Instead they became two more victims of our nation’s gun violence epidemic. A disgruntled former WDBJ employee shot them both, severely wounding Gardner in the process. It was a chilling look at gun violence in this country, a crisis that kills more than 30,000 Americans each and every year.

Wednesday’s horror hit particularly close to home for me, because, like Ward, I, too, am an alum of Virginia Tech. It’s conceivable that I could have crossed paths with him during our shared time on the Blacksburg campus. A little over eight years ago I survived the infamous mass shooting at Tech, which is less than 80 miles from where Ward died. Shrapnel is still lodged in my body from that day, but I was lucky to emerge with my life intact. Thirty-two others were killed.

The extremist leadership of the National Rifle Association and other gun lobby groups routinely respond to these incidents with empty platitudes about how “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” In light of what transpired Wednesday, I’d like to follow their rhetoric to its logical end by asking them a couple of simple questions that our elected officials answer all too rarely.

Are reporters supposed to keep a revolver in their left hands and hold onto the microphone with their right? Do cameramen avert death if they stare down the sights of an AR-15 with one eye while looking into the camera with the other?

These questions, of course, reveal the absurdly unserious nature of the gun lobby’s worldview.

While the details of how the shooter in the televised killing obtained his weapon continue to unfold, we know that requiring background checks on all gun sales would save lives. And yet despite this, gun lobby groups routinely hawk the idea that implementing background checks on all gun sales is overly burdensome to prospective buyers, as if the 90 additional seconds required to make sure the buyer isn’t a convicted domestic abuser or dangerously mentally ill is somehow an affront to one’s rights.

Try telling that to a family member whose loved one was killed because a gunman avoided a background check. And yet for years, these groups have had enough political clout to scare politicians out of backing common sense reforms. Every year in Virginia, a small group of four gun lobby-backed legislators won’t even allow a basic background checks bill out of a House subcommittee.

While checks are required on sales at federally licensed dealers, criminals and other dangerous people can all too easily shirk such checks by purchasing guns from unlicensed strangers — whether online, at a gun show or elsewhere.

After tragedies like Wednesday’s, gun extremists will often try to change the subject. Sometimes they’ll suggest it’s “too soon” to talk about the bigger-picture policy issues that could help reduce gun violence. They’ll say that it would be “irresponsible to politicize” these moments, as if merely discussing ways to prevent future tragedies like these somehow dishonors the victims. If we followed this logic, there would never be a time to have these conversations, because 88 Americans are shot and killed every day.

The truth is, elected officials who aren’t willing to take action want these events to recede from the headlines so they can return to the status quo of not standing up to the gun lobby.

It’s time for all Americans to come together and ask our lawmakers, “Do you side with the overwhelming number of Americans who support basic gun safety measures or do you side with the gun lobby?”

For the sake of the many Americans whose lives were destroyed during this cruel summer of gun violence — while doing their jobs, enjoying a night out at the movies, or praying in their house of worship — we demand that political leaders side the right way and take action to end this crisis.

I am sympathetic towards Mr. Goddard for being a VTech shooting survivor, and can certainly both see and understand from whence he arrives at his view point. I’ll even go so far as to say that I can agree with him that the Gun Lobby does keep some much needed reforms from ever occurring and that those reforms might possibly save some lives. However as much as he rails at the Pro Gun faction for it’s behavior, you could reverse the statements and point them right back at the liberals.

Liberal never miss the chance to snowball the slightest incident into a reason to ban guns all together utilizing the logic that guns themselves are bad and responsible for the horrors that we as a society witness.

They point to lives destroyed by guns, and tell us we can ‘trust them’ to usurp another of our constitutionally guaranteed rights. One which pretty much every founding father at one point said was the only assurance the populace had against a tyrannical government.

They love to drag their poster child for the Evilness of Guns, AR-15 into the discussion of every event even if one was not involved.

But what they really hate? Facts. Hard unassailable, non-spinable, incontrovertible data that throws the bullshit flag on their entire gun hating position. Facts and data like this: