Well folks looks like my personal hand basket to hell has undergone transformation and picked up speed thanks to my partially misunderstood Parting Shot last week. Mind you I’m not complaining as the weather here has turned quite chilly damp and raw again and the heat in the hand basket is welcome. Apparently some of you need refresher classes in reading for comprehension. I’m not even going to try for retention because I figure that’s just a bridge too far this early in the day. But we’ll get to that later on in this week’s Parting Shot.

If any of you are contemplating a career change which also involves a change of scenery now is the time to strike. Apparently Las Vegas suffered a whole string of suicides and murders Sunday night. Strangely all the victims seem to have been odds makers and bookies. Also there was a secondary round of suicides and murders centering around Madison Ave & Wall St in New York Monday shortly after the opening bell of the stock market as the first signs of backlash against Coke manifested it self in retaliation for it’s Super Bowl ad. As with the comments I received about last weeks Parting Shot we’ll be getting to that subject in a bit too. Mean while-

 

 

 

Let’s get the obligatory Super Bowl jokes right out of the way right now. This way all you Broncos fans can get on with the ignoring/pretending it didn’t happen, forgetting &/or alcohol induced memory wipes.

This next one is Impish’s personal favorite:

 

Finally my personal favorite for its accuracy and humor in so few words:

 

 

 

 

Well THAT explains why I’m always hearing women around Impish mutter those words!

 

Want some laughs, or just scratch your head in total bewilderment……then this is a great place to start…….have fun

www.whitetrashrepair.com

 

 

“If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they can’t
have a headache and sex at the same time?”   — Billy Connolly

 

 

 

In all cases below I season my Bisquick with Finely Fresh Ground Black Pepper, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder & Poultry Seasoning

Impossibly Easy Breakfast Bake (Crowd Size)

Ringing the breakfast bell has never been easier! Enjoy all the traditional tastes of breakfast in one easy bake.

• Prep Time 20 min | Total Time 1 hr 10 min | Servings 12

Ingredients

2 packages (12 oz each) bulk pork sausage
1 medium bell pepper, chopped (1 cup)
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
3 cups frozen hash brown potatoes
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (8 oz)
1 cup Original Bisquick® mix
2 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 eggs

Directions

1   Heat oven to 400°F. Grease rectangular baking dish, 13x9x2 inches. Cook sausage, bell pepper and onion in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until sausage is no longer pink; drain. Stir together sausage mixture, potatoes and 1 1/2 cups of the cheese in baking dish.

2  Stir Bisquick mix, milk, pepper and eggs until blended. Pour into baking dish.

3  Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

4  Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake 1 to 2 minutes longer or just until cheese is melted. Cool 5 minutes.

Makes 12 servings

Variation

If you’d rather make a smaller recipe using a 9-inch pie plate, cut all ingredient amounts in half and bake 30 to 35 minutes.

Make Ahead

Savory Impossibly Easy Pies can be covered and refrigerated up to 24 hours before baking. You may need to bake a bit longer than the recipe directs since you’ll be starting with a cold pie. Watch carefully for doneness

Can be done with basically any breakfast meat not just sausage as long as its cooked and most of the fat is rendered out and well drained if applicable.

 

Impossibly Easy Bacon Pie

Indulge yourself with an old-fashioned bacon-and-egg breakfast with this easy pie recipe.

• Prep Time: 20 min
• Total Time: 1 hr 5 min
• Servings: 6

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

12 slices bacon, crisply cooked, crumbled
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese (4 oz)
1/3 cup chopped onion
3/4 cup Original Bisquick® mix
1 1/2 cups milk
3 eggs
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Directions

1. Heat oven to 400°F. Grease 9-inch glass pie plate. Sprinkle bacon, cheese and onion into pie plate.
2. In medium bowl, beat remaining ingredients until blended; pour into pie plate.
3. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Makes 6 servings

I put well sautéed (in bacon grease) mushrooms in mine. What is well sautéed? Cooked until all the extra moisture that would prolong the baking time is out of the mushrooms

 

Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie (Crowd Size)

Now you can make a crowd-sized version of the top-rated Bisquick Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie. It’s as easy as ever.

• Prep Time: 15 min | Total Time: 40 min | Servings: 12

Ingredients

1 lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
1 bag (12 oz.) frozen mixed vegetables
1 cup Original Bisquick® mix
2 cups milk
4 eggs, beaten
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (8 oz)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 13×9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. In 10-inch skillet, cook beef, onion and salt over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until beef is brown; drain. Spread in dish. Top evenly with frozen mixed vegetables.
2. In medium bowl, stir Bisquick mix, milk and eggs with wire whisk until blended. Pour into baking dish.
3. Bake 30 minutes. Sprinkle evenly with cheese; bake 10 minutes longer or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cut into squares.

Makes: 12 servings

 

I just read a document advising that Congress has instructed the IRS to send each taxpayer a tax assist package. It’s a Complimentary Tax
Software and Custom Backup USB Drive from the IRS. Apparently you just plug in this USB drive and it automatically uploads and installs the
IRS software to complete your taxes! The USB drive is yours to keep as a reminder of you having filed your income tax with the IRS for
another year! Just their way of saying “Thank you” to the Taxpayers! View the Youtube video to see how it works.

 

 

 

 

Forrest Gump claimed his Momma said ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’ Well apparently Coca-Cola wanted to put that theory to the test and see just how many Super Bowl Watchers who choose soft drinks over Beer they could piss off Sunday Night. By attempting to apply their Global Unity Philosophy from their iconic 1971 “Hilltop’ commercial (aka ‘I’d Like To Teach the World to Sing’ ) to a  message of acceptance for multicultural/multilingual America at the expense of our National Identity, they disrespected not only America, but it’s legal citizenry and Military as well by airing a multilingual version of ‘America the Beautiful’ during what is an uniquely and iconic American event.

 

Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad ignites online debate

‘American the Beautiful’ sung in different languages in addition to English

Author: By Ashley Killough Published: Feb 03 2014 10:52:22 AM CST Updated On: Feb 03 2014 11:01:26 AM CST

 

(CNN) – Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial Sunday night was at first glance a moving tribute to America’s diversity, featuring a full minute of ordinary people of different races and ethnicity doing ordinary American activities, as the classic song “America the Beautiful” plays throughout the ad.

Nevertheless it became one of the most polarizing moments of the night. Why? The song was sung in different languages in addition to English, which sparked an uproar on Twitter.

@BudLightBro: “Not a fan of the CocaCola commercial. America The Beautiful should not be sang in any other language other than English. Sorry not sorry.”

@Rob2TurntFoster: “I didn’t like the coca cola commercial last night because I couldn’t understand it.”

@mmahathy: “I will be drinking Pepsi after your Super Bowl commercial. We welcome all people but being American should be an honor. @CocaCola #tcot.”

@janicehr55: “I am truly disappointed in @Coca Cola for the offensive #SpeakAmerican commercial last night. Speak English!”

 

Former Rep. Allen West explained why he and others were so upset by the ad.

“The last thing any of us should want to see is a balkanized America,” he wrote in a blog post Monday morning. “Furthermore, it has to be of concern that we have Americans who lack the resolve to take a stand for our borders, language, and culture.”

West, a Republican from Florida, was not petitioning for a boycott of Coca-Cola products, but argued the song should have been sung in English and showed U.S. military members of diverse races.

“If you truly want to show a diverse commitment to service, sacrifice, and honor that enables us to live in ‘America the Beautiful’ that would have been rated the best commercial advertisement of the Super Bowl.”

And as Washington grapples with tackling immigration reform, the ad also became fodder for that ongoing debate. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham tweeted a reference to Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, whom she has criticized for supporting some GOP efforts to resolve the illegal immigration problem.

@IngrahamAngle: “But illegals will learn English, right @RepPaulRyan? Coca-Cola’s “America the Beautiful” Super Bowl ad #EnglishFirst”

Others were quick to blame Republicans for making hay about the ad. Former White House senior adviser David Plouffe tweeted:

“Looking forward to RNC banning Coca-Cola products at 2016 Convention.”

His tweet, of course, brought its own wave of criticism, as some compared it to the controversial MSNBC tweet last week that assumed conservatives would be offended by a Cheerios ad about a biracial family.

@amylutz4: “MSNBC called. They want their smear campaign back Rt @davidplouffe: Looking forward to RNC banning Coca-Cola products at 2016 Convention.”

While the Coca-Cola commercial certainly had its critics, it also had plenty of people coming to its defense, including Republicans, such as Sen. Lisa Murkowski ‏of Alaska.

@lisamurkowski: “My favorite commercial so far? Coca Cola’s America the Beautiful ad. Gave me goosebumps, and I don’t even drink pop! #superbowlcommercials.”

The Heritage Foundation, a high-profile conservative think-tank, also tweeted out support for the ad Sunday night.

@Heritage: Did anyone else like the @CocaCola commercial as much as we did? What a beautiful nation we have! #SuperBowl

The debate continued Monday morning with plenty of other people defending the ad — and blasting those who took issue with it. The term “America the Beautiful” became a trending topic on Twitter the United States.

@Originale_Pink: “wait, wait, wait…so people are genuinely upset that the Coca-Cola commercial was multi-lingual?”

@speatsm: “I’m embarrassed for those who felt that coca cola commercial was a problem. Actually, you’re the problem. #tolerance”

@littlegirlLiv: “I liked the Coca-Cola commercial, it represented the people. Not everyone that is considered an American speaks English. Hello diversity.”

Well @littlegirlLiv, and the rest of you liberally bent excessively tolerant Bozos, the Leprechaun has news for you! To legally be considered of called an ‘American’ you need to be a citizen, otherwise regardless you are just a resident alien regardless of what you call or consider yourself. One of the key steps in becoming a citizen? Speaking the English language proficiently! Here is another dose of realism for you liberal love everyone to the point of destroying what America was built on and stood for 238 years and numerous wars- That tolerance of people who say they are Americans but refuse to learn the language and demand that the many adapt to service the few rather than the common sense opposite costs us BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars every year contributing to our crushing debt!

I have seen service men and women tear up and have trouble maintaining their professional composure in many foreign lands, under shit conditions  having gotten up to stand at attention, despite the possible threat of incoming fire, when ‘America the Beautiful’ is played because it reminds them of what they are fighting for and all the things they have volunteered to do without to preserve that America. Well you idiots and Coke just pissed on that and them. No wonder Forrest Gump drank Dr. Pepper, I always thought he wasn’t stupid or slow he simply had a problem dumbing down far enough for the rest of us to understand his thoughts!

Molly’s family drinks nothing but Coke products and has already been put on notice by us that we will no longer be stocking Coke for them when they come and if they plan on bringing it with them and drinking  it, it will not be in my house. Coca-Cola can from now on KISS MY JARHEAD ASS! 

And now, America the Beautiful sung the RIGHT WAY…in ENGLISH!

 

 

Man Buried Astride His Motorcycle Inside Enormous Plexiglas Box, Riding Beloved Harley To Heaven

An Ohio man took his love of motorcycles to the grave — literally.

Billy Standley of Mechanicsville was buried Thursday while sitting atop his 1967 Harley-Davidson motorcycle in a Plexiglas casket, Columbus TV station WBNS reported.

It took five embalmers, three extra burial plots and steel reinforcements to make it happen.

Standley’s custom-made casket was pulled to the cemetery by a pickup truck.

He had requested an outdoor funeral so his biker friends could see him off, according to WBNS.

Standley’s children said the motorcycle helped him keep a sense of adventure after settling down to raise four kids.

 

 

A life time job at Hooters and a mandatory full body search by the TSA at every airport?   Can you imagine if those implants came with squeakers like pet and baby toys have? 

 

The Top 5 Things Overheard During Super Bowl XLVIII

OK I thought I was done ragging on the Broncos, but this was just too good to pass up!

1. “Honey, I thought there were supposed to be *two* teams playing.”
2. “Didja hear that gol-darned Coke ad?”/”?Que?”
3. “I’m sorry, Mayor De Blasio, but Governor Christie has ordered the line to your men’s room shut down.”
4. “Gee, I’m as cold sitting here as Jimmy Hoffa is over there in the old Meadowlands end zone.”

And the Number One Thing Overheard During Super Bowl XLVIII…

1. “May I have your attention, please: Will the fan in Section 131, Row G, seat 24 please suit up and take the place of Peyton Manning?”

 

 

Well apparently last weeks Parting Shot caught a few peoples attention. I got my lowest approval rating in some time, only 3 votes worth 3.5 stars. Miracle of miracles I actually even got comments on it. Unfortunately those comments fell into the nitpick and  confused about what I was saying but darned upset about it categories.  This led me to the conclusion that further amplification on last weeks Parting Shot via the vehicle of address those comments was required because I soon found out that none other than our own Impish Dragon was laboring under that same misnomer as the angry fellow. Impish quickly realize the error when I pointed it out to him and I suspect that many of you also need it pointed out.

Now I don’t mind mad, it means I’ve reached someone in a profound manner even if its not the manner I’d hoped for but I prefer that if you are going to be mad that you clearly understand what I said that you are mad about.

Nitpicking on the other hand generally doesn’t bother me, unless its done to try and make me look stupid and/or ignorant about the subject I’m speaking on. That does annoy the hell out of me, especially when some anal retentive has to call me on something that damned near every journalist who has ever written about our government has said at one time or another for exactly the same reasons I said it the way I did.

 

3 Responses to Leprechaun Laughs # 230 for Jan 29th 2014

1. bobschw says:

   January 29, 2014 at 09:28 

   Equating the Catholic Church to radical Islam is too much. Goodbye.

    

   • lethalleprechaun says:

     January 29, 2014 at 10:49

     Now there you go putting words in my mouth!
     YOU used the words ‘radical Islam ’I NEVER said those two words together in relation to each other!  [In point of fact I never equated the two or even mention the two religions together at any time!] Actually the word ‘radical’ never even appears in my entire Parting Shot.

     I strongly suspect you’re one of those narrow minded but wide open mouthed moral minority bead warriors who love to make presumptions about peoples destinations in the here after based on whither or not their beliefs & point of view coincide with you narrowly held ones.

     Sorry you don’t care for my assertions about the Church or their religious right bead warriors. Maybe it stung a little I don’t know but I’m not the only person making these comparisons or expressing these views. I’m just one of the few not getting paid for it & sans a newspaper’s protection who is being attacked and criticized for dragging it out of the incense shrouded shadows and calling attention to it. See I swore an oath to protect this country from all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC.

I have emailed Bobschw privately concerning this because I doubted he would be looking back to read any response I might make to his comment. What follows is an excerpt from my remarks to him regarding his mistaken belief and what I believe led to it.

I strongly advise you to carefully reread the Parting Shot at which you apparently took umbrage. At no time do I use the words ‘radical Islam’ in my Op Ed piece. The only one to use those words is in fact you sir. Nor do the words (Catholic) ‘Church’ and ‘Islam’ even appear in the same sentence let alone a similarity comparison. Also I would point out there is a vast difference between Islam and Radical Islam, just like there is between Catholicism and Fundamentalist/Born Again Catholicism. In both cases the former are much more open and tolerant of other religions and viewpoints than the later. Finally were I tempted to draw any parallels between any branch of Catholicism and Radical Islam my choice for comparison would have been the Westboro Baptist Church specifically.

I suspect you have misconstrued the graphic regarding what potentially happens when there is no Constitutionally guaranteed separation of Church and State.  I am aware of one other person who required being directed to examine this particular graphic a second time as well, that person being Impish Dragon.  In the case of the graphic,  just as in the case of the Founding Fathers words ‘church’ is construed to mean religion in general not any specific religion in particular.

I trust this explanation clears up any issues of misconstruing on your part over this subject and the graphic in particular. Now, if your religious views do not permit the expression dissenting view points for what ever reason or you cannot admit to your mistake in this (preferably in the same forum you chose to publically and groundlessly accuse me of the misdeed), I have no problem with your no longer reading my contributions to the blog. That is your right. However please see to it you are doing it for the right and accurate reasons and not do to some mistaken knee jerk reaction.

 Since he stated basically he was no longer going to be reading the blog and his comments were going to be part of this weeks blog I also informed him of such. I’m greatly interested in seeing just what kind of Christian Bobschw is and how many Christian values/tenants he actually follows since he is apparently such a strong defender of the faith.

Well commendably I didn’t have to wait long for a response to my missive:

On Thursday Jan 30 at 6:07 PM Bob Schwarer wrote:

I’m through with the blog anyway. Just is not my cup of tea I guess. Keep up the good work. Bye.

He also followed that up with:

On Friday, January 31, 2014 1:42 AM, Bob Schwarer wrote:

I went back and re-read the article. You are correct. The graphic is what got me confused. I’m sorry I jumped to the conclusion I did.

By the way, I do think churches and  most exempt organizations should pay taxes.

  Regardless of if he keeps reading or not he has earned my respect for admitting his mistake and offering an apology, a rare occurrence in my blogging experience.

OK a few words of explanation are required to make sense of this next round of reader’s comment and response. Tom called me on a technical civic error I made in the last Parting Shot. I used the term that was colloquially used on a daily basis with reference to our system of government. I did this despite know the difference largely to avoid being required to interject a Civics 101 lesson into the middle of my comment and detract from the point I was attempting to make. Apparently Tom wanted that Civics 101 class and so as not to look like I don’t know what I am talking about (trust me when your defending something for a living, possibly with your life you learn all you can about exactly what you are defending) here is that Civic 101 lesson. It was assembled from a variety of sources. My comment are in Green all bold font and underling for emphasis are mine. If its in black its taken from the myriad of web pages on this subject, just as I might point out was Tom’s uncited comment

 

1. Tom Harlander says:

   January 29, 2014 at 05:03

   “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the DEMOCRACY(?) for which it stands…” No, not a democracy, but a republic. Under a republic, the majority does not have the right to dictate to the minority, in a democracy, it does.

lethalleprechaun says::

January 30, 2014 at 14:47

Ok you caught me making a technically inaccurate statement here. It is a very confusing issue for most people because we use a democratic process to elect members to a Republican governing body to represent our concerns interests and intentions who themselves in turn again use the democratic process to arrive at a conscientious regarding the laws which govern us and (at least in the Founding Fathers theoretical beliefs) represents the will of the majority of We the People.

By popular usage, however, the word “democracy” come to mean a form of government in which the government derives its power from the people and is accountable to them for the use of that power. In this sense the United States might accurately be called a democracy. [Hence my use of the term which Tom called me on]

Many people are under the false impression our form of government is a democracy, or representative democracy. This is of course completely untrue. The Founders were extremely knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and feared a democracy as much as a monarchy. They understood that the only entity that can take away the people’s freedom is their own government, either by being too weak to protect them from external threats or by becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life.

They knew very well the meaning of the word “democracy”, and the history of democracies; and they were deliberately doing everything in their power to prevent having a democracy.

In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In a Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives when he chooses to solve a problem. The people have no obligation to the government; instead, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People. Many politicians have lost sight of that fact.

A Constitutional Republic has some similarities to democracy in that it uses democratic processes to elect representatives and pass new laws, etc. The critical difference lies in the fact that a Constitutional Republic has a Constitution that limits the powers of the government. It also spells out how the government is structured, creating checks on its power and balancing power between the different branches. [It should be understood that these limits checks & balances extend to the President as well, something Obama is doing his best to ignore and circumvent as often as possible though the use of Executive Orders]

The goal of a Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy but what exists in America today is a far cry from the Constitutional Republic our forefathers brought forth.

In the strictest sense of the word, the system of government established by the Constitution was never intended to be a “democracy.” This is evident not only in the wording of the Pledge of Allegiance but in the Constitution itself which declares that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” (Article IV, Section 4). Moreover, the scheme of representation and the various mechanisms for selecting representatives established by the Constitution were clearly intended to produce a republic, not a democracy.

The USA has moved away from its republican roots and become more “democratic,” it has strayed from the intentions of the Constitution’s authors. Whether or not the trend toward more direct democracy would be smiled upon by the Framers depends on the answer to another question. Are the American people today sufficiently better informed and otherwise equipped to be wise and prudent democratic citizens than were American citizens in the late 1700s? By all accounts, the answer to this second question is an emphatic “no.”

It was my opinion however that to make the technically correct distinction which you pointed out, followed by the requisite Civics 101 Lesson I have assembled here from multiple sources, would have been lost on most, confusing to many and served only to detract from the point I was attempting to make about the few attempting to impose their will on the many.

Perhaps I should have said I would not address the attempt by the Church to dictate law via the use of ‘Mobocracy’. Today we have DO have a mobocracy occurring in our streets all across America. Sadly, such mobocracy or ‘mob rule’ was endorsed and encouraged by Sen. John McCain who praised the recent wave of pro-illegal immigration demonstrations by saying . . . “if the protesters hang tough they will succeed in forcing Congress to liberalize immigration laws. If such demonstrations continue, I think we will have a bill for the President to sign soon . . . The more debate, the more demonstrations, the more likely we will prevail.’ He was of course referring to the Senate’s massive illegal-alien amnesty bill S. 2611 which did in fact, pass. Was S. 2611 passed to appease the mob? If so, it is a perfect example of rule by mobocracy!

Others have heeded his words and begun using the same tactics. For the Church however this tactic is nothing new, they have been using it to affect the changes they want for centuries when other avenues fail them. Why else do you think Constantine the Great caused the Roman Empire to convert or forced all the competing sects of Christendom to hold the First Council of Nicaea and in effect unify all their beliefs into one religion? He did it largely because the bickering Catholics were causing riots and violent infighting threatening to topple the Roman Empire itself.

CLASS DISMISSED!

Take everything with you that you came with! Anything you leave becomes property of DL/LL Media Enterprises. If you are going to forget something please see its not your kids and that its something Impish or I would like to have. Be sure to be back for Impish’s Saturday edition of DragonLaffs, if you let on you like me better than him he’ll just start blubbering and we’re due for more cold weather. I’m not doing a Hans Brinker imitation on frozen dragon tears around here!

Live, Love, Laugh!

Good morning my friends.  I hope everyone is doing well this morning.  I’ve had a pretty good week.  I graduated from physical therapy on Wednesday and on Thursday, the doctor said I could go back to work on light duty.  So, on Monday, I’ll be going back to work.  Believe it or not, I’m really looking forward to it.

As you might have noticed from today’s header, my little dragonette and I had a little father daughter project this week and we made our own homemade soft pretzels.  That was a lot of fun and the pretzels came out really well!  Delicious! 

Well, we’re going to jump right into today’s issue. So…

Gotta love this.  Pure throwback to Saturday Night Live.  Father Guido Sarducci explains the meaning of life.  Vita est lavorum:

Finding out that most nuns are reincarnated mob hit men is not really THAT surprising.

We are worshipped creatures.  Even this small mockup of our image is being raised high in the air for all to marvel and worship.          Or something like that.

This one is called, “More NFL Bad Lip Reading.”  It is funny as hell.  I hope you enjoy.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for
Natural Stupidity!

This one is from our dear friend Kim Komando.  Here, in her words:
If this fun password guesser can figure out your login info, it’s time for a new password! Play the fun but sobering password guessing game 

 

Ain’t that the truth!!!

Now THIS is MY kinda Gal!!!

 

 

Well guys, with the Super Bowl on TV tomorrow, you may find this video VERY interesting…”10 Super Bowl Facts That Will Change The Way You Watch The Game.”

 

And we have to have the commercials…but why was the uncensored version of this one cut from the line up?

Why was this “uncensored” ad rejected from the Super Bowl? Not because of Scarlett Johansson’s racy antics. Nope. The Super Bowl balked at the last line and left SodaStream basking in the free publicity of an “uncensored,” “banned” ad starring Hollywood’s sexpot-du-jour.

and since we seem to be doing another video issue, how about one called Lucky People. 

Which just goes to show you that it’s better to be lucky than smart.

 

Okay, so that last one was pretty bad.  Not quite a groaner, but just plain bad!

 

Thanks to Ginny for this one.  For you fellow aircraft fans.

I want to take a second to thank Ginny publicly for her continued submissions to our Observations section.  Thanks Ginny, you make this easier and more fun!

Things on my “To Do Before I Die – Bucket List” (okay, technically, #3 has to be done after I die, but you get the idea)

1. Buy 4 pigs. Paint numbers 1, 2, 3, & 5 on them.  Release them in the mall and watch security spend the rest of the day searching for number 4.

2. Answer the phone from a wrong number or a telemarketer by whispering: “It’s done.  But there’s blood everywhere.”

3. Have someone take my corpse after I’ve died, dress it in a superman costume and be thrown from a plane high over my home town.

4.  Next time I go in for a urine test, hide a small bottle of apple juice in my pocket.  Fill the cup with apple juice and carry it back out to the nurse.  Before handing her the cup, say something along the lines of, “My goodness, look how dark my urine is.  Let me go ahead and filter it one more time.” and then drink the cup down.

Okay, so what would be on YOUR list?

Okay, one more Super Bowl joke….

 

 

<From under what appears to be a blanket and fleece wear Cosplay cross between Hogwarts Sorting Cap and Jabba the Hutt>

 Ha…Ha…Hang on to your fl…fl…fleece and b…b…blankets boys and g…g…girls here w…w…we go again!

Winter Storm Watch for Harris, TX

Issued by The National Weather Service Houston/Galveston, TX Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 4:33 AM CST

… WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING…

AN ARCTIC AIRMASS WILL SETTLE OVER THE AREA ON MONDAY DROPPING TEMPERATURES TO AROUND FREEZING TO WELL BELOW FREEZING BY TUESDAY MORNING. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE TOWARD THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST HELPING TO INITIATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF FREEZING RAIN… SLEET AND SNOW. THIS WINTER PRECIPITATION SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND TAPER OFF FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST BY EVENING. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND AN INCH WITH SOME ISOLATED HIGHER TOTALS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY NORTH OF A BRENHAM TO CONROE TO COLDSPRING LINE. FUTHER SOUTH… THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET… POSSIBLY CHANGING TO SNOW TOWARD EVENING.

 

 And as if it wa…wa…wasn’t bad enough th…th…that I’m dealing with the full m…m…monty of actual No…no…northern type winter weather, s…s…someone apparently wants t…t…to turn Impish into an ice sculpture!

Wind Chill Warning for Miami, IN

Issued by The National Weather Service North Webster, IN Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 1:07 PM EST

… WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST /11 AM CST/ WEDNESDAY… … WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED…

THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER…

* WIND CHILLS WILL BE 15 BELOW TO 25 BELOW ZERO THIS AFTERNOON… FALLING TO 25 BELOW TO 35 BELOW BY THIS EVENING. THESE DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY… WITH SLOW IMPROVEMENT TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

IMPACTS…

* DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS ARE IMMINENT TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FROSTBITE OF EXPOSED SKIN CAN OCCUR IN A MATTER OF MINUTES IN THESE CONDITIONS. HYPOTHERMIA OR EVEN DEATH IS POSSIBLE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE OR DEATH FOR THOSE NOT PROPERLY DRESSED FOR THE COLD.

S…s…so you’ll just have t..t…to understand if I s…s…say we’re t…t…too cold to ch…ch…chat this mor…mor…morning.

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he’s walking with a limp
“What happened to you?” asks Sean, the bartender.
” Jamie O’Conner and me had a fight,” says Paddy.
“That little shit, O’Conner,” says Sean, “He couldn’t do that to you, He must have had something in his hand.”
“That he did,” says Paddy, “a shovel is what he had, And a terrible lickin’ he gave me with it.”
” Well,” says Sean, “you should have defended yourself, Didn’t you have something in your hand?”
That I did,” said Paddy, “Mrs. O’Conner’s breast, and a thing of beauty it was, but bloody useless in a fight.”

 

 

 

Ok so maybe snow men are not bigger in Texas, but then again there aren’t supposed to be any

snow men in the southern part of Texas at all!

 

 

70,000 Healthcare.gov users are exposed to hackers

 

The government’s insurance exchange website Healthcare.gov has been fraught with problems since the beginning. Now we know those flaws include security.

David Kennedy, the expert who founded TrustedSec, recently testified to Congress that up to 70,000 users’ personal info could be stolen using simple Google Search techniques. This data includes names, addresses and user names.

Moreover, he found much more fundamental problems in the website’s code that could let hackers spoof links coming from the site. As of now, none of the issues has been responded to by the site’s developers or the government.

Click here to read Kennedy’s troubling report at the TrustedSec website.

 

 

 

 

When I left Connecticut all those many years ago,

I gave away my ice scraper/snowbrush combo that

I had McGyvered out of 3 different ones and attached

to an expanding aluminum pole. She went thru an1/8 of

ice on a windshield like a hot knife thru butter.

Even cleaned off the top of a Tahoe from the ground.

I miss it right now I really do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life on the farm

A little boy comes down to breakfast. Since they live on a farm, his mother asks if he had done his chores.

“Not yet,” said the little boy

His mother tells him no breakfast until he does his chores.

Well, he’s a little pissed off, so he goes to feed the chickens, and he kicks a chicken.

He goes to feed the cows, and he kicks a cow. 

He goes to feed the pigs, and he kicks a pig.

He goes back in for breakfast and his mother gives him a bowl of dry cereal.

“How come I don’t get any eggs and bacon? Why don’t I have any milk in my cereal?” he asks.

“Well,” his mother says, “I saw you kick a chicken, so you don’t get any eggs for a week.

I saw you kick the pig, so you don’t get any bacon for a week either.

I saw you kick the cow so for a week you aren’t getting any milk.”

Just then, his father comes down for breakfast and kicks the cat halfway across the kitchen.

The little boy looks up at his mother with a smile, and says, “You gonna tell him or should I?”

 

My most recent (weather inspired) endeavor

Frosty Impish Dragon

Frosty Impish Dragon, was a morose unhappy soul,
With a stitched up knee and an outside temp of minus 8, and two women upon whom he had to wait.

Frosty Impish Dragon, is a fairytale, they say.
He became frozen in the snow, but Lethal knows that for coffee baring virgins he’ll come out to play.

There must have been some heat in that volcanic vent they found,
For when they placed his tail in, he began to dance around!

Oh,  Frosty Impish Dragon, was unthawed as he could be;
and DragonLaffs readers say he could laugh and play, just the same as you and me.

Thumpity thump, thump, thumpity thump, thump,
look at limping Frosty Impish Dragon go.

Thumpity thump, thump, thumpity thump, thump,
over the mountains of Indiana snow.

Frosty Impish Dragon, knew the sun would be hot that day,
so he said, “Let’s run, and we’ll prank some fun now, before it melts away.”

Down to the village, with a cane clutched in his hand,
limping here and there, all around the square, sayin’, “Catch me if you can.”

He led them down the streets of town, and jaywalked before the traffic cop;
and only paused a moment, when he heard him holler, “Stop!”

For Frosty, Impish Dragon, had outstanding warrants and had to hurry on his way,
But he waved goodbye, sayin’ “Don’t cry, I’ll be back again some day.”

 

 

Poll: Is the U.S. partnered in a secret side deal with Iran over its nuclear program?

    Yes  (94%)
    No  (3%)
    Undecided  (1%)
    Other 0 (0%)

Poll courtesy of The Washington Post

Yeah ok so what you say. I see this all winter? Well, that’s my back yard and it sits not

50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico!

U.S. pilot scares off Iranians with ‘Top Gun’-worthy stunt

The U.S. Air Force has a message for Iran: Don’t mess with our drones.

In what only can be described as a scene out of Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun,” Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff, describes how F-22 stealth jets scared off Iranian jets from a U.S. drone flying in international airspace.

The Aviationist reports that in March a U.S. MQ-1 drone came close to being intercepted by an Iranian F-4 Phantom combat plane, but the Iranian aircraft stopped short after a warning by an American pilot.

“He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said ‘you really ought to go home,’” Gen. Welsh said.

According to The Aviationist, the Iranians came within 16 miles of the drone.

…and inches of crapping their flight suits!

 

When I heard the news that there would be no tailgating allowed at the Super Bowl this year, I literally gasped out loud and my heart started palpitating. It is so wrong, on so many levels to ban tailgating at Super Bowl. The two go hand in hand, so how could you even call it a “Super Bowl” without the presence of grills and tents in the parking lot? To me, it’s un-American to not tailgate, especially at a Super Bowl game.

Here is the officially statement from the dumb ass, president and CEO of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Al Kelly, “You will be allowed to have food in your car and have drink in you car. And provided you’re in the boundaries of a single parking space, you’ll be able to eat or drink right next to your car. However you’re not going to be able to take out a lounge chair, you’re not going to be able to take out a grill and you’re not going to be able to take up more than one parking space.”

If I had a pickup truck, I would just setup my tailgate spread in the bed of the truck, technically I am still in my car.  We already have the purse ban, now the tailgate ban, I wonder what’s next to go in  the pursuit of stripping fans of every dollar possible?

 

Last week we did the main items for your spread. Here now are some snack & dip recipes

 

 

RITZ Spicy Chicken “Meatballs”

Prep Time: 30 min

Total Time: 55 min

Makes: 24 servings

What You Need

• 5 stalks celery, divided
• 1 lb. ground chicken
• 60 RITZ Crackers, crushed (about 2-1/2 cups), divided
• ½ cup hot pepper sauce, divided
• 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
• 1/3 cup oil
• ¾ cup blue cheese dressing

Make It

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Chop 1 celery stalk finely; mix with chicken, 1 cup cracker crumbs and 3 Tbsp. hot sauce. Shape into 24 balls.
• Mix remaining hot sauce and butter in shallow bowl. Place remaining cracker crumbs in separate shallow bowl. Roll chicken balls in hot sauce mixture, then in crumbs until evenly coated.
• Heat oil in large nonstick skillet. Cook chicken balls, in batches, 3 to 4 min. or until lightly browned, turning after 2 min. Drain on paper towels. (Note: Balls will not be done but will finish cooking in oven.) Place in 15x10x1-inch pan sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 20 to 25 min. or until done (165ºF). Meanwhile, cut remaining celery into thin sticks.
• Serve chicken balls with dressing and celery sticks.

Shortcut

Omit oil. Shape chicken mixture into meatballs and coat with hot sauce mixture and crumbs as directed; place in 15x10x1-inch pan sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 375°F for 30 to 35 min. or until done, turning after 15 min. (Spraying the coated balls lightly with cooking spray will help insure crispness and browning)

Substitute

Prepare using ground turkey. (Use the dark meat ground turkey its cheaper and has more flavor for this)

Nutrition Information Per Serving:

130 calories, 10g total fat, 2.5g saturated fat, 15mg cholesterol, 240mg sodium, 6g carbohydrate, 0g dietary fiber, 1g sugars, 4g protein

 

Warm Reuben Spread

Prep Time: 10 min

Total Time: 35 min

Makes: 20 servings, 2 Tbsp. spread and 6 crackers each

What You Need

• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
• ½ cup Thousand Island dressing
• 4 Swiss cheese slices (1 oz. each), chopped
• ¼ lb. sliced deli corned beef, chopped (about 1 cup)
• ¾ cup well-drained sauerkraut
• Rye Crackers or Party Bread

Make It

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Mix cream cheese and dressing in medium bowl until blended. Stir in all remaining ingredients except crackers.
• Spread onto bottom of 9-inch pie plate.
• Bake 25 min. or until heated through. Serve with crackers.

Use Your Microwave

Mix dip ingredients as directed; spread onto bottom of shallow microwaveable dish. Microwave on HIGH 2 to 3 min. or until heated through. Serve as directed.

Substitute Pita chips for Rye Cracker or Party Bread

 

 

Beer-Infused Hot Dog Bites

Prep Time: 20 min

Total Time: 20 min

Makes: 16 servings, 2 topped crackers each

What You Need

• 4 hot dogs, each cut diagonally into 8 slices
• ½ cup beer
• 32 RITZ Crackers
• 4 slices (0.8 oz. each) pepper Jack cheese, each cut into 8 pieces
• 4 tsp. grainy Dijon mustard

Make It

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Spray medium nonstick skillet with cooking spray; heat on medium-high heat. Add hot dog slices; cook 1 min. on each side or until each is browned on both sides. Stir in beer; cook 5 min. or until beer is cooked off.
• Arrange crackers in single layer on parchment-covered baking sheet; top with hot dogs and cheese.
• Bake 2 to 3 min. or until cheese is melted. Top with mustard. Serve warm.

Make Ahead

Hot dog slices can be cooked ahead of time. Refrigerate up to 24 hours. Remove from refrigerator about 30 min. before using as directed.

Non-Alcoholic Variation

Prepare using non-alcoholic beer.

Nutrition Information Per Serving:

90 calories, 7g total fat, 2.5g saturated fat, 15mg cholesterol, 200mg sodium, 5g carbohydrate, 0g dietary fiber, 1g sugars, 3g protein

Substitutions

You can use Smoked sausage slices,  Lil Smokies or Bratwursts in place of hotdogs. If using the Lil Smokies

I place the cheese on the cracker  under the Lil  Smokie and parallel to it so when it melts it affixes the sausage

to the cracker

 

Sloppy José Dip

Prep Time: 20 min

Total Time: 20 min

Makes: 3 cups dip

What You Need

• 2 tsp. oil
• 1/2 cup chopped onions
• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 can (10 oz.) diced tomatoes and green chilies, undrained
• 1 pkg. (1-1/4 oz.) taco seasoning mix
• 1/3 cup cheese dip, divided
• 2 tbsp. sour cream
• Tortilla Chips (Round ones work best) or Corn Chips (The Scoops kind)

Make It

• Heat oil in medium saucepan on medium-high heat. Add onions; cook and stir 1 min. Add meat; cook 10 min. or until done, stirring occasionally. Drain; return to pan.
• Add tomatoes, taco seasoning and ¼ cup cheese sauce; mix well. Cook 2 min. or until heated through, stirring frequently. Spoon into shallow serving dish.
• Drizzle with remaining cheese sauce and sour cream. Serve with WHEAT THINS.

Make Ahead

Prepare dip as directed except do not top with remaining cheese sauce and sour cream; spoon into airtight container. Refrigerate up to 24 hours. Remove from refrigerator 30 min. before serving. Stir dip; spoon into microwaveable dish. Microwave on HIGH 5 min. or until heated through, stirring after 3 min. Drizzle with remaining cheese sauce; top with sour cream.

Nutrition Information Per Serving:

200 calories, 9g total fat, 2g saturated fat, 15mg cholesterol, 440mg sodium, 24g carbohydrate, 2g dietary fiber, 5g sugars, 6g protein

Tip:

To easily drizzle the cheese sauce heat it 30 seconds at a time in the microwave stirring in between heatings until the correct consistency is achieved. Use the spoon to do your drizzling for best results

 

Bacon-Guacamole Dip

Prep Time: 15 min

Total Time: 1 hr 15 min

Makes: 16 servings, 2 Tbsp. dip and 16 pieces each

What You Need

• 5 slices cooked bacon, crumbled, divided
• 2 fully ripe avocados
• 1 small red onion, finely chopped (about 1/3 cup)
• 1 large fresh jalapeño pepper, seeded, finely chopped
• 1 large garlic clove, minced
• 2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice
• ½ tsp. kosher salt
• Corn Chips, Tortilla Rounds, Pita Chips

Make It

• Reserve 1 Tbsp. bacon. Mash avocados in medium bowl. Add all remaining ingredients except crackers; mix well.
• Refrigerate 1 hour.
• Sprinkle with reserved bacon.

Note

Place both avocado pits in the guacamole before refrigerating. This will help prevent the guacamole from turning brown.

Nutrition Information Per Serving:

200 calories, 10g total fat, 1.5g saturated fat, 5mg cholesterol, 340mg sodium, 25g carbohydrate, 4g dietary fiber, 5g sugars, 3g protein

 

Now with all the coaching I’ve given you over the last 2 issues, if you can’t score with your spread on Super Bowl Sunday then you must be one of the Texans because they can’t score at anything!

 

 

Old age is having a choice of two temptations and

choosing the one that will get you home earlier.

Michael Moore breaks from left to decry Obamacare as ‘awful’

By Cheryl K. Chumley | The Washington Times Thursday, January 2, 2014

Michael Moore, the Hollywood legend of liberal mindset and pro-Democratic documentary, has broken from the party line to criticize Obamacare, calling both its rollout and provisions “awful.”

He made the assessment in a written piece to The New York Times, saying that it was high time liberals came forward and admitted the obvious.

“That is the dirty little secret many liberals have avoided saying out loud for fear of aiding the president’s enemies at a time when the ideal of universal health care needed all the support it could get,” Mr. Moore wrote. But the truth is this, he added: “Obamacare is awful.”

But his reasons were hardly those of conservative views.

Rather, he said the health care plan was actually pro-insurance industry, and that President Obama knew that the better path for reform was a single-payer system that simply provided Medicare for everybody, Mediaite reported.

Bet Nostradamus didn’t foresee this sure sign of the Apocalypse’s imminent arrival! 

 

I do not like this Uncle Sam
I do not like his health care scam
I do not like those dirty crooks or
how they lie and cook the books

I do not like when congress steals
I do not like their secret deals
I do not like this jobless rate or
speeches filled with racist hate

I do not like this Marxist plan
I do not like this “kick the can”
I do not like this spending spree
I’m smart I know that nothing’s free

I do not like “no common sense”
I do not like downsized defense
I do not like their smug replies
when I complain about their lies

I do not like this kind of “hope”
I do not like it Nope Nope Nope

Now I’d like to say this one was mine too but ‘tis not. I found it appended as a signature to an email I received.

 

 

Cannibal Rat-Infested Ghost Ship Headed For The UK?

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Experts believe an unmanned, missing Russian cruise ship might be making an unexpected landing in Europe soon. The crew of the Lyubov Orlova deserted the ship after it was impounded over unpaid debts in Newfoundland in 2010. Two years later, the Canadian government was towing it to scrap in the Dominican Republic. When the towline broke in heavy North Atlantic seas, the Canadian government decided to just let her go. After several recent storms have hit the North Atlantic, experts now fear that the ghost ship might be heading for landfall in Ireland, Scotland or the southern tip of England. And that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that the ship is probably carrying horrible cannibal rats.

 Why don’t we just tow it into Somali waters and let the Somali Pirates board it? We’d get rid of two problems at the same time!

 

Victory for religious group in Affordable Care case

 

Supreme Court extends injunction for Catholic charity run by nuns

Author: By Bill Mears CNN Supreme Court Producer Published On: Jan 24 2014 03:30:23 PM CST Updated On: Jan 24 2014 05:54:35 PM CST

 

(CNN) – Some religious affiliated nonprofits will remain temporarily exempt from requirements in the Affordable Care Act to cover birth control and other reproductive health coverage they oppose for religious reasons.

That is the result of a Supreme Court decision on Friday that extended an injunction for a Catholic charity run by nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor.

The exemption stands while the case is being considered by the lower courts. It is a clear victory for the religious group and its insurer.

In a once-sentence order, the Supreme Court said the Obama administration could not enforce the requirement if the group tells the Health and Human Services Department in writing that it is a non-profit that holds “themselves out as religious and have religious objections to providing coverage for contraceptive services.”

Although the high order applies specifically to the Little Sisters of the Poor, which run several homes for the elderly nationwide, it will likely have the practical effect of keeping the federal government from forcing other religious nonprofits that raised similar objections to comply with the mandate.

The mandates were designed by the administration to give women employed at nonprofit, religious-based organizations — such as certain hospitals and private faith-based universities — the ability to receive contraception through separate health policies with no co-pay.

The sticking point was a requirement those groups sign a government self-certification form that would allow third-party administrators to provide the contraception coverage.

The White House had said the administration was confident the rules “strike the balance of providing women with free contraceptive coverage while preventing nonprofit religious organizations with religious objections to contraceptive coverage from having to contract, arrange, pay, or refer for such coverage.”

But religious-based groups sought delays around the employer-contraception requirement, saying signing the form would force them “to choose between onerous penalties or becoming complicit in a grave moral wrong.”

The justices in their unsigned order concluded: “To meet the condition for injunction pending appeal, applicants need not use the form prescribed by the government and need not send copies to third-party administrators.”

The case is Little Sisters of the Poor v. Sebelius (13a691).

 

I have been following this case with great interest  Not only because of its potential slap in the face to Obama and his ill conceived legacy of socialist medicine & crushing debit, but for the separation of church and state implications as well,  for reasons we have never quite been able to discover or understand the Founding Fathers spoke about it, obviously  believed in but didn’t see fit to include in the constitution. This has led down thru our history to numerous ‘brushing’ incidents when the two sides of the coin rub each other the wrong way. It has also led to a great deal of hypocrisy on the part of Religion who apparently believes this protection works only in one direction, specifically in their favor.

 

 

I believe firmly in  and fought for the separation of church and state for multiple reasons. The right to worship the god of our choice and in the manner we chose is an important freedom. Secondly it is one of the things which prevents us from ever becoming an Islamic state. Finally, it (in theory anyhow) protects me from having the tenants and beliefs of a religion I might not necessarily subscribe to or follow force their dogma on me by passing laws based on their religious beliefs which I then am forced to obey.

 

 

 

From where I sit it would seem the (in particular Catholic) Church

just loves to interpret and bend this precept to their advantage at

every opportunity. They used it to shield  pedophile priests for

decades claiming only they had jurisdiction over them. They use it

to justify their refusal to be considered corporations (thereby

avoiding paying federal taxes) or being designated a Special Interest

Lobby so they do not have to follow inconvenient (to their aims)

laws there too. They even tried to use it as a shield against being

held accountable to labor laws where lay personnel were

concerned, this particular subject being a case in point for that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However just let the Government make a single comment about their abuse of Separation of Church & State and the keening, caterwauling and carrying on makes listening to the wail of the Banshee preferable!

Now once more they want to play the Separation card and be exempt due to religious convictions from providing Government mandated Healthcare because they find a tiny portion of it unacceptable (we’re not even going to get into how the concept that this is a democracy – a form of government where the will of the majority rules and how this fact  is being blatantly ignored by the Church). I’m sorry but I was raised and taught that God believed in and represented free will. in all things including worship of him and our choice to sin against him or not. I was also raised to believe that my sins were between him and I no other, that the church was merely there for me to turn to for guidance and help NOT to be the Catholic version of the Sharia Police or a Religious second government with our Democratic one.

free will

noun

noun: free will; noun: freewill

1. 1.

   the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion.

   synonyms:
   self-determination, freedom of choice, autonomy, liberty, independence

I’m just guessing mind you but it seems that the Church feels that this long held belief of both God and our Founding Fathers doesn’t apply to them either.

Finally the thing I find most laughably hypocritical of all about this, is that while the Church concentrates on removing birth control from things its forced to pay for that every other employer of lay people in the united states is now subject to paying for (despite there being 2 or 3 other legitimate medical reasons for its use other than the prevention of Contraception) they are not objecting in the least to their insurance paying for three other conception altering medical procedures! One of those is irreversibly permanent and the other two’s reversibility is at best a coin toss. Those apparently are ok, but a pill whose contraception effect ceases in as little as a week after stopping them is a huge offense.

You know it occurs to me that back in 1949 when George Orwell published “1984” everyone assumed that the Big Brother he was  portraying was limited to the Government. At the time nobody saw the camel’s nose of the Church intruding into their lives, likely because they had been doing it for over 1900 years by then. However in 2014 when we talk about Big Brother we need a Roman God Janus like figure with one side a McCarthy era Politician and the other a Spanish Inquisition robed monk!

Funny how Separation of Church and State converge and agree that your private lives are their business isn’t it?

 

 

Yeah, another one… I just can’t seem to keep myself entertained tonight, so I figure I ought to burn through some backed up cartoons and stuff.  So, lets just go ahead and laugh some, huh?

Okay, so 22 pictures, cartoons and jokes to make you laugh today.  I hope at least one of them left you with a smile.  Cause you know what they say about smiling, right?  It makes the bastards wonder what you’ve been up to!

Be well my friends.

Welcome to another edition of Funnies Only!  To those of you who enjoy these issues, I say, “Have Fun!”  To those of you who want a little more meat with your Dragon Laffs, well “Wait for Saturday.”

I know some of you are saying, “You’ve been home from work for a month and a half now, why haven’t we got more of these?”

Well, I don’t have a great answer for you, except to say that it’s hard to be funny when you hurt.  Laughter may be the best medicine, but when you are the one dispensing the medicine it can get a little tough.  and that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it.  So, let’s laugh!

How’s about another session of…You Had ONE JOB!!!

Okay, that’s enough of that for now!

Now, we can’t do this without some motivational posters…can we?

Yeah, I know that last one was pretty bad.  But what can I say.