OOPS!

Phony smiles and aging politicians--mark it on your calendars!


UPDATE

YUM!

And how was your meal yesterday?

Reasons to give thanks today

The First President

George Washington

Gratitude, for what we have been given in the past

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

--Chinese Proverb

Oh, how the times have changed, yes they have

Many years ago, I watched my oldest brother die of the ravages of Hodgkins disease, and ultimately, leukemia. He was thirty-three when he died, though he should not have. But it was 1974, when there was still not enough research, apparently.

Thirty-five years ago is a long time, especially in the memory of Congress, if you understand anything. Now, it's all about healthcare, isn't it? Obamacare, it is called, though I ask, what the "eff" does Obama care about the American people?

Oh, yes, I remember Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick in 1969. I was not there: were you?

Does that whole episode mean we should have a healthcare program in Teddy's memory? Ted seemed, back then, to not give much of a crap about Mary Jo's "health", did he? And now, he has died himself, folks, and to promote the Obamacare program?

Ted Kennedy died because he had a brain tumor, and simply, because it was his time to die.

Before that, I have still a most vivid memory of Washington, DC, burning, in 1968, as many a$$holes set fires, looted and plundered their neighborhood businesses, and destroyed their own homes. I can still smell Washington burning, after these forty-one + years.

Can you? Do you even understand what happened back then? What trauma occurred after the killing of Martin Luther King? Do you, any of you, have any idea of the effect this had upon America at that point?

I do, because I was living in Alexandria, VA, and watching not only Senator Edward Kennedy, but all the politicians in DC--studying them, as it were. Shortly after I moved back to the Midwest, this "incident" occurred, which resulted in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopeckne. I saw so much in those days, that I resolved to become apolitical.

Oh, by the way, I do have a fond memory of Senator Birch Bayh, when in the tunnels beneath the Senate and House in 1968, complimenting me on the handsomeness of my young son, who was then about two years old and in a stroller. And wasn't Birch Bayh handsome himself then? And quite effective? He could have been elected president by our current-day standards of electing a president because of his looks...

And I am certain HE, Birch Bayh, would have produced, for public knowledge, his birth certificate AND a health certificate, in order to show the American people that he was fit to govern this nation.

Amazing, isn't it, how the times have changed?

What are you eating?

From NaturalNews.com:

Thanks, Mike!

Having trouble wading through all the health advice in the world today? Let me make it super simple for you:

If it's synthetic, don't swallow it!

That includes pharmaceuticals and processed foods made with chemical additives. Avoid anything manufactured and heavily promoted by large, powerful corporations. You'll live longer and more happily as a result

Ogden Nash, the Poet

"Once again there is someone

we don't see eye to eye with,

and maybe I couldn't be dafter,
"But I keep wondering if this time

we couldn't settle our differences

before a war instead of after."

Reminiscence

Sadness

What he says makes my ears bleed. Yours, too?

If guns are the problem,

then do something about it, Dick!

Da Mare seems very uneducated about what is the source of the "gun problem" in the City of Chicago. And uneducated about gangs, and their ways. Uneducated, or aloof, about many things, it seems. I vote for "uneducated", as he blamed the Fort Hood disaster on "America's "Love For Guns". This 'Chicago Way' machine politician HAD TO concur with his man in DC. It is the gun's fault. Riiiiight. Maggie, please smack him again!

"And so's your old man!" was a retort in and from the past.

I wonder just what Richard J. would be thinking of Richard M., right now, if he were still alive.

Back in June, 1992, over seventeen (yes, 17) years ago, Da Mare said this in response to the riots that occurred after the Chicago Bulls second championship:

"When you're celebrating in America, what you do is you break a window and grab something." *

*From "Quotable Chicago" by Richard C. Lindberg. Wild Onion Books, 1996.

Sometimes, many times, NO WORDS are better than any.

Sadly, he continues to spew.

As did his father, in stating:

"We hope that by the end of 1967 we will have removed every slum and blight home in Chicago"* May 18, 1967.

*From "Quotable Chicago" by Richard C. Lindberg. Wild Onion Books, 1996

Hopefully, he shall not spew for too much longer? He is extremely hurtful to our neighborhoods.

In the words of the 4th President

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed? Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uniformed mass of the people."

--James Madison, 4th President of the United States,
from "The Federalist Papers No. 10", page 304