It's been awhile since I've posted here. I'm on Blogger every day reading those on the left side's blogs. Y'all should too. There are some great writhers and funny stuff over there.
I was curious of when I started blogging, so I scrolled back t to the beginning and it shocked me to see that that I stared back in 2006. It seems at times longer and then like it was yesterday. I read a few of my earlier post and the did bring back memories... of old blogging friends now gone one way or another; a different time in life that was, it seems now, easier and simple - though it wasn't.
I will be surprised if anyone even reads THIS post.
Oh well. I guess I'll go back to Facebook... as soon as I get out of FB Jail for posting my feelings and the truth.
Maybe I'll be back one day...

Sometime Others Have Moments of Clarity; I don’t!
As I sat, strapped in my seat waiting during
the countdown, one thought kept crossing my mind, every part of this rocket was
supplied by the lowest bidder. - John Glenn
When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the
Bible and we had the land.
They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.
When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. - Desmond Tutu
America is the only country where a significant proportion
of the population believes that professional wrestling is real, but the moon
landing was faked. - David Letterman
I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. I'm a billionaire. - Howard Hughes
After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same
box! - Italian proverb
The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to
test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr
I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither
would take out the garbage. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a
new car or a new wife. - Prince Philip
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for
me at kickboxing. - Emo Philips.
Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it
yourself. - Harrison Ford
The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. -
Spike Milligan
Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke. -
Robin Hall
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and
you're a conqueror. - Jean Rostand.
Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars, but I'm just as happy
as when I had 48 million. - Arnold Schwarzenegger.
We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea. -
W. H. Auden
If life were fair, Elvis would still be alive today and
all the impersonators would be dead. - Johnny Carson
I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and
we're very skeptical. - Arthur C Clarke

Harley Davidson Speaks Out About Declining Bike
Sales
The slump in sales at H-D are not President Trump's fault.
The Baby Boomers
all have motorcycles, Generation X is only buying a few, and the Millennials
aren’t buying any at all.
A recent study was done to find out why Millennials
don't ride motorcycles:
1. Pants won't pull up far enough for them to
straddle the seat.
2. Can't get their phone to their ear with a helmet on.
3. Can't use two hands to eat while driving.
4. Don't get a trophy and a recognition plaque just for buying one.
5. Don't have enough muscle to hold the bike up when stopped.
6. Might have a bug hit them in the face and then they would need emergency
care.
7. Motorcycles don't have air conditioning.
8. Can't afford one because they spent 6 years in college trying to get a
degree in Humanities, Social Studies or Gender Studies, for which no jobs are
available.
9. Allergic to fresh air.
10. Pajamas get caught on the exhaust pipes.
11. Might get their hands dirty checking the oil.
12. Handlebars have buttons and levers, and can’t be controlled by
touch-screen.
13. Have to shift manually, and use something called a clutch.
14. Too dangerous to take selfies while riding.
15. Don't come with training wheels like their bicycles did.
16. Don't have power steering or power brakes.
17. Nose ring interferes with the face shield.
18. Would have to use leg muscle to back up.
19. When stopped, a light breeze might blow exhaust in their face.
20. Could rain on them and expose them to non-soft water.
21. Might scare their emotional support dog, then the dog would need
therapy.
22. Can't get the motorcycle down the basement stairs of their
parent's home.

Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, GA
Thank you for your service and sacrifice, fellow veterans.
Rest In Peace, we who are left now have the watch.

You newcomers to
Georgia, here are some things you need to know if you plan to stay here.
1. Save all bacon
grease. You will be instructed later how to use it.
2. If you do run your car into a ditch, don't panic. Four men
in the cab of a four wheel drive with a 12-pack of beer and a tow chain will be
along shortly. Don't try to help them. Just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
3. Remember: "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural. "All
y'all's" is plural possessive.
4. Get used to the phrase "It's not the heat, it's the
humidity". And the collateral phrase "You call this hot? Wait'll August."
5. Don't tell us how you did it up there. Nobody
cares.
6. If you think it's too hot, don't worry. It'll
cool down-in December.
7. A Mercedes-Benz is not a status symbol, a Jeep,
Chevy, Dodge, or Ford is.
8. If someone says they're "fixin" to do
something, that doesn't mean anything's broken.
9. The value of a parking space is not determined
by the distance to the door, but the availability of shade.
10. If you see a slower moving vehicle on a two
lane road pull onto the shoulder that is called "courtesy".
11. BBQ is a food group. It does NOT mean grilling
burgers and hot dogs outdoors.
12. Yes, weddings, funerals, and divorces must take
into account for Ga.Tech, UGA or Navy Football games.
13. Everything is better with 1000 Island or ranch
dressing.
14. DO NOT honk your horn at us to be obnoxious, we
will sit there until we die.
15. We pull over and stop for emergency vehicles to
pass.
16. We pull over for funeral processions, turn our
music off and men remove hats or caps. Some people put their hand over their
heart.
17. "Bless your Heart" is a nice way of
saying you're an idiot.
18. No matter what kind: sprite, coke, Pepsi,
mountain dew, it isn't called soda or pop. It’s all called coke
19. If you don't like the weather in Georgia, wait
15 minutes, it will change
20. The difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee is, the Yankee
goes back home.
21. And for you Liberals pussies…


I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the
ice. At least I presume she was poor -
she only had $1.20 in her purse.
My girlfriend thinks that I'm a stalker. Well, she's not exactly my girlfriend yet.
Went for my routine checkup today and everything seemed to be going fine until
he stuck his index finger up my butt. Do
you think I should change dentists?
A wife says to her husband you're always pushing me around and talking behind
my back. He says what do you expect? You're in a wheel chair.
The wife has been missing a week now. Police
said to prepare for the worst. So, I
have been to the thrift shop to get all of her clothes back.
At the Senior Citizens Center they had a contest the other day. I lost by one point: The question was: Where
do women mostly have curly hair? Apparently
the correct answer was Africa.
One of the other questions that I missed was to name one thing commonly found
in cells. It appears that Mexicans is not the correct answer either.
There's a new Muslim clothing shop opened in our shopping center, but I've been
banned from it after asking to look at some of the new bomber jackets.
You can say lots of bad things about pedophiles, but at least they do drive
slowly past schools.
Being a modest man, when I checked into my hotel on a recent trip, I said to
the lady at the registration desk, "I hope the porn channel in my room is
disabled."
To which she replied, "No, it's regular
people-porn, you sick bastard.”
A buddy of mine just told me he's getting it on with his girlfriend and her
twin. I said "How can you tell them
apart?" He said, "Her
brother's got a mustache."
The Red Cross have just knocked at our door and asked if we could help towards
the floods in Pakistan. I said we would
love to, but our garden hose only reaches the driveway.

Do
you remember Murgatroyd?
Do
you remember that word? Would you
believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word Murgatroyd?
Heavens
to Mergatroyd! The epression was popularized by the cartoon charater
Snagglepuss – a regular on the Yogi Bear Show in the 1960’s.
Lost
Words from our childhood:
Words
gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad
really!
Well,
I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.
About
a month ago, someone illuminated some old expressions that I have copied here. Expressions that have become obsolete
because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included:
“Don’t
touch that dial,”
“Carbon
copy,”
“You
sound like a broken record,”
“Hung
out to dry.”
Back
in the olden days we had a lot of ‘moxie.’
We’d
put on our best ‘bib and tucker’ to’ straighten up and fly right’ and Gay mean ‘happy’.
Heavens
to Betsy!
Gee Whillikers!
Jumping
Jehoshaphat!
Holy
Moley!
We
were ‘in like Flynt’ and ‘living the life of Riley’', and even a regular guy
couldn’t accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill.
Not
for all the tea in China!
Back
in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when’s the last time anything was
swell?
Swell
has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers,
fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers...AND DON'T FORGET...
Saddle Stitched Pants
Oh,
my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he
isn’t anymore.
We
wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, “Well,
I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!” or, “This is a ‘fine kettle of fish” they are all
gone!
We discover
that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen,
have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our
keyboards. Poof, go the words of our
youth, the words we’ve left behind
We
blink, and they’re gone.
Where
have all those great phrases gone?
Long
gone:
Pshaw,
The
milkman did it.
Hey!
It’s your nickel.
Don’t
forget to pull the chain.
Knee
high to a grasshopper.
Well,
Fiddlesticks!
Going
like sixty.
I’ll
see you in the funny papers.
Don’t
take any wooden nickels.
Wake
up and smell the roses.
It
turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has
liver pills. ("Carter's Little
Liver Pills" are gone too!)
We of
a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child each new word is like a shiny
toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other
end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that
once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the
earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory.
It’s one
of the greatest advantages of aging.
Leaves
us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...
See
ya later, alligator, Okidoki, and so many more that have slipped my memory, too.
WE
ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 40/50'S.
NO
ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN.
GOD
GAVE US ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS:
............OUR
MEMORIES........
Sadly,
though, for some of us, that too is beginning to fade!!! :-(

Dear Leftist, Good-for-Nothing, media:
1. You said nothing when Obama used drone strikes to execute people abroad.
2. You said nothing about Russia for 50 years until Trump was inaugurated.
3. You said nothing about Hillary's campaign manager's brother
being paid $175,000 to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia.
4. You said nothing when Obama engaged in military interventionism
in Libya without Congressional approval.
5. You said nothing when Obama greatly expanded presidential power through
the use of Executive Orders.
6. You said nothing when Obama filled his White House with
lobbyists after he said he wouldn't.
7. You said nothing when Obama gave 47 of his fundraisers Administration
jobs.
8. You said nothing about the murders and rapes at the hands of
illegal immigrants.
9. You said nothing when Hillary's net worth rose over $100
million as Secretary of State, in part, because her husband took
money from foreign governments.
10. You said nothing after Obama's net worth rose over $10
million as President.
11. You said nothing when Obama's Justice
Dept. wiretapped/surveilled reporters such as James Rosen and the AP.
12. You said nothing when Obama restricted immigration 6
times with Executive Orders.
13. You said nothing when Obama set a record for deportations.
14. You said nothing when Bill Clinton met Loretta Lynch on
the airport tarmac during the Clinton investigation.
15. You said nothing when Hillary was fed debate questions.
16. You said nothing when Obama and Hillary lied about a video
and Benghazi
17. You said nothing when Obama's IRS abused the rights of taxpayers.
18. You said nothing when Obama's White House held meetings with
lobbyists in coffee shops near White House to avoid disclosure requirements.
19. You said nothing when Eric Holder sold the guns you hate
to criminals and some were used to kill Americans.
20. You said nothing when the Clinton's took White House property.
21. You said nothing when Hillary laughed off defending a child-rapist.
22. You said nothing when Hillary lied about her private use of
a private email server as Secretary of State.
23. You said nothing when Janet Reno, under Bill Clinton, used a
tank to kill the Branch Davidians.
24. You said nothing when, on May 13, 1985, a bomb was dropped on
a row house in Philadelphia to uproot the black liberation group
known as Move, resulting in a fire that eventually burned down 61
houses, killed 11 people (including five children) and injured dozens.
25. You said nothing when Elian Gonzales was forcibly deported
using guns.
26. You said nothing when George Soros paid protesters to burn
parts of Ferguson.
27. You said nothing about states' rights until Trump's
Executive orders on immigration.
28. You said nothing about Obama's smoking.
29. You said nothing about the record numbers of people
on government assistance.
30. You said nothing about the number of part time and low paying
jobs under the Obama recovery.
31. You said nothing when Obama had SWAT teams raid a Gibson
guitar factory and seize property, on the purported basis that Gibson
had broken India's environmental laws - but no charges were filed.
32. You said nothing when Obama claimed that the Fort Hood
shooting was "workplace violence" rather than terrorism.
33. You said nothing when Obama ended some terror asylum restrictions, by
allowing asylum for people who provided only "insignificant" or
"limited" material support of terrorists.
34. You said nothing when the national debt doubled under Obama.
35. You said nothing when 9 times the Supreme Court unanimously
overturned Obama's expansive use of Executive Power.
36. You said nothing when Obama dismissed charges filed by
the Bush Administration against New Black Panther Party members who
were videotaped intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling station
during the 2008 election.
37. You said nothing when Obama released Guantanamo detainees who
then went back to kill Americans.
38. You said nothing when Obama unilaterally changed Congressional
law by Executive Order.
39. You said nothing when Obama fired an inspector general after
investigating an $850,000 AmeriCorps grant received by a nonprofit
run by former NBA star and Obama supporter Kevin Johnson.
40. You said nothing about the 36 Obama's executive office staffers that
owed $833,970 in back taxes
41. You said nothing when Obama Killed four Americans
overseas in counter-terrorism operations without a judicial process.
So NOW
you are voicing your objections about five months of Trump. I'm sorry...
we can't hear you because you said NOTHING before!!!

(Two Post In As Many Days... Oh The Wonder)
This
is happening right here in our own country!
We must put a stop to this immediately!
Have you noticed that stairs are getting steeper, groceries are heavier, and,
everything is farther away? And yesterday I walked to the corner and I was dumbfounded to
discover how long our street had become!
People are
less considerate now, especially the young ones. They speak in whispers all the time,
and if you ask them to speak up they just keep repeating themselves, endlessly
mouthing the same silent message until they're red in the face! What do they think I am, a lip
reader?
I also think they are much younger than I was at the same age. On the other hand, people my own age
are so much older than I am. Why, I
ran into an old friend the other day and she has aged so much that she didn't
even recognize me.
I got to
thinking about the poor dear while I was combing my hair this morning, and in
doing so, I glanced at my own
reflection. Well, REALLY NOW -
even mirrors are not made the way they used to be!
Everyone
drives so fast these days! You're
risking life and limb if you happen to pull onto the freeway in front of them. All I can say is, their brakes must
wear out awfully fast, the way I see them screech and swerve in my rear view
mirror.
Clothing
manufacturers are less civilized these days, too. Why else would they suddenly start
labeling a size 32 waist pant as a size 40?
Do they think no-one notices?
The people
who make bathroom scales are pulling the same prank. Do they think I actually believe
the number I see on that dial? HA!
I would never let myself weigh that much. Just
who do these people think they're fooling?
I'd like to
call up someone in authority to report what's going on. But even the telephone company is in on the
conspiracy. They've printed the phone
books in such small type that no one could ever find a number in there!
All I can do
is pass along this warning: WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!
Unless
something drastic happens, pretty soon everyone will have to suffer these awful
indignities. And if God wanted us to pop
out of bed in the morning, he would have us sleep in a toaster.
And don't forget God gave us toes as a device to find furniture in the dark!
PLEASE PASS
THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN GET THIS CONSPIRACY
STOPPED!

Please do not Google or check this with
Snopes. They will lie to you. Trust me!
In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a
trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by
the name of Dorothy. As it were, Dot Com
was a comely woman; large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg.
Indeed, she was often
called Amazon Dot Com.
And she said unto Abraham, her husband,
"Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou
canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her as though she were
several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How is this
possible, my dear?"
And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all
the towns and drums in between the towns to send messages saying what you have for sale. And they will reply telling you who hath the
best price. The sale can be made on the
drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
Abraham thought long and decided he would let
Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and they were an
immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at top price,
without ever having to move from his tent.
To prevent neighboring countries from
overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers
knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she
also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew to the People
(HTTP).
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading
as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic
Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS. And lo, the land was
so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no
one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer,
Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that
would work only with Brother Gates' drum heads and drumsticks.
And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have
started is being taken over by others." And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel,
or eBay as it came to be known, and said, "We need a name that reflects
what we are."
And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew
Owner Operators." (YAHOO). And because it was Dot's idea, they named
it YAHOO Dot Com.
Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young
Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's
drums to locate things around the countryside.
It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide
to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
That is how it all began. And that's the truth.
And Al Gore has been taking credit for this for
years…
I would not make up this stuff. Honest

What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can never be pregnant.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another gas station
restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and think of which way
to turn a nut on a bolt. Same work, more
pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
People never stare at your chest when you're
talking to them. New shoes don't cut,
blister, or mangle your feet. One mood
all the time. Phone conversations are
over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff
about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one
suitcase. You can open all your own
jars. You get extra credit for the
slightest act of thoughtfulness. If
someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend. Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Two pairs of shoes are more than enough. You almost never have strap problems in
public. You are unable to see wrinkles
in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original
color. The same hairstyle lasts for
years, maybe decades. You only have to
shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life. One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color
for all seasons. You can wear shorts no
matter how your legs look. You can 'do'
your nails with a pocket knife. You have
freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache. You can do Christmas shopping
for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes. No wonder men are happier.
When eating out and the bill arrives, Mike,
Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of
them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change
back.
When the girls get their bill, outcome the
pocket calculators.
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she
doesn't need but it's on sale.
In a bathroom a man has six items in his
bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a
towel.
The average number of items in the typical
woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not
be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
Forget arguments. A woman always has the last word.
Anything a man says after that is the
beginning of a new argument.
A woman worries about the future until she
gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he
gets a wife.
A woman marries a man expecting he will
change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't
change, but she does.
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water
the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to
bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
And there are the children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and
romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people
living in the house.
THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the
same thing!
Yep, I am a happy man!


One of the things about
retirement is the extra time one has to just think, which leads to questions.
So, I am 72 years old
and I have so many unanswered questions!!!!
I still haven't found
out who let the Dogs Out...
Where's the beef...
How to get to Sesame
Street...
Why Dora doesn't just
use Google Maps...
Why do all flavors of
fruit loops taste exactly the same…
How many licks does it take
to get to the center of a tootsie pop...
Why eggs are packaged in
a flimsy paper carton, or light bulbs too are in a flimsy carton but batteries are secured in plastic that's tough
as nails…
Ever buy scissors? You need scissors to cut into the packaging of
scissors...
Why is there Braille on drive up ATM's...
Why "abbreviated" is such a long word…
Why is there a D in 'fridge' but not in refrigerator...
Why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor yet dish-
Washing liquid
is made with real lemons...
Why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections...
Why do you have to "put your two cents in" but it's only a
"penny for your thoughts" where's that extra penny going...
Why do The Alphabet Song and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same
tune...
Why did you just try to sing those two previous songs...
Just what is Victoria's secret, anyway?...
What would you do for a Klondike bar and you know as soon as you bite
into it it falls apart...
Why do we drive on Parkways and park on Driveways?...
Do you really think I am this witty??...
I actually got this from a friend, who stole it from her brother's
girlfriend's, uncle's cousin's, baby momma's doctor who lived next door to an
old class mate's mail man...
I know… I need to get a life.
Cheers
15 Sep 2016 12:23 PM (9 years ago)

Not that I need any excuses to have a beer or
two, there are those of you who do need an excuse, or a reason to justify
taking a drink. Try these:
"Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I
drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into
the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and
dreams. If I didn't drink this beer,
they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, "It is better to drink this beer
and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
- Babe Ruth
"If all you had to look forward to was
sleeping with Lady Bird you'd stay drunk too." - Lyndon B. Johnson
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I
gave up reading." - Paul Horning
"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." - H. L. Mencken
"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to
heaven!" - George Bernard Shaw
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants
us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
"Without question, the greatest invention
in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I
grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go
nearly as well with pizza." - Dave Barry
Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B.C.!
- W. C. Fields
Remember "I" before "E,"
except in Budweiser. - Professor Irwin Corey
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support
Group. Salvation in a can! - Leo
Durocher
One night at Cheers (TV
Sitcom), Cliff Clavin said to his buddy, Norm Peterson:
"Well, ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest
buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it
is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as
a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps
improving by the regular killing of the weakest members! In much the same way, the human brain can
only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills
brain cells. But naturally, it attacks
the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer
eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient
machine! That's why you always feel
smarter after a few beers."
Cliff has point…
WHY???
9 Sep 2016 11:39 AM (9 years ago)

Okay, class,
here is the question… WHY?
Why can’t I
post anything here? I post all kind of
shit on Facebook, but not here.
Why is
Facebook more important than my blog? I
am here every day, sometime two or three times a day, to check on the awesome bloggers
on the port side.
Why aren’t
all of you on my Facebook friends list?
Why are y’all
still posting on your blogs instead of Facebook? Both types have stupid rules and laws. Is it because you can post larger post with the
ability to post more than one picture and place that picture where you want it
to enhance your story/blog? Makes sense
to me, I guess.
Why can’t
Facebook have a highlight or a BOLD option?
Why doesn’t
blogger have a LIKE button so you can let someone know you have been there but
didn’t feel the need to comment?
And most of
all, WHY AM I EVEN POSTING THESE DUMBASS QUESTIONS? The collection of questions seem to answer
the whole WHY question.
Okay, I’ll
go now. Continue with what you were
doing. (In Navy speak, that is Carry On).

It has been awhile since
I’ve posted anything, so I thought I would throw this one up just to let you
know I am still around and that I do drop by daily to read the peeps on the
left side blog roll. Sometimes several
times a day. So I hope you get as big a
kick out of these as I did.
THERE IS NO SENIOR
DISCOUNT FOR READING THIS---
Lying around, pondering the problems of the world,
I realized that, at my age, I don't
really give a rat's as anymore.
Things I have noticed and figured out… If walking
is good for your health, the
postman would be immortal. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, and drinks water, but is still fat. A rabbit runs,
and hops, and only lives15 years, while a
tortoise doesn't run, and does mostly nothing,
yet it lives for 150 years. And they
tell us to exercise? I don't think so.
Now that I'm older, here's what I've discovered:
1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
2. My wild oats are mostly enjoyed with prunes and all-bran.
3. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
4. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
5. If all is not lost, then where the heck is it?
6. It was a whole lot easier to get older, than it was to get wiser.
7. Some days, you're the top dog, some days you're the hydrant.
8. I wish the buck really did stop here; I sure could use a few of them.
9. Kids in the back seat cause accidents.
10. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.
11. It is hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
12. The world only beats a path to your door when you're in the bathroom.
13. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my butt.
14. When I'm finally holding all the right cards, everyone wants to play chess.
t15. It is not hard to meet expenses, they're
everywhere.
16. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth..
17. These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter. I go somewhere to get
something, and then wonder what I'm "here
after".
18. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
19. It is a lot better to be seen than viewed.
20. Have I sent this message to you before... or did I get it from you?
Oh well. This will do it for a
while… or sooner.
VV Day 2016
30 Mar 2016 7:03 AM (9 years ago)

Today, March
30th, is Vietnam Veterans Day in Georgia.
Some states
celebrate 29 March as their welcome home date.
And some (AR, HI, KY, MI, MS, NE, NV, UT, WY) do not even recognize the
date at all. Hell, even Puerto Rico
celebrates the day on 30 March since 2009. And what's with Hawaii? Many vets spent R&R there with their girlfriends, wives and family. Take the money but stay PC.
It has been
44 years since we (the US) pulled out of that beautiful shit-hole of a country. Over fifty eight thousand young lives lost
because LBJ and Congress didn’t have any balls, yet our men and women fought
bravely and honorably only to come home to ridicule, though I have yet to meet
a man who was actually spit on – not to say it didn’t happen. Just not as often as the public seems to
thing. They did get dirty looks and some
comments, but no spitting. And the worst
only came if there was a demonstration outside the airport, which rarely happened.
But no
matter which day the states choose, every day is Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans
Day for me. Especially for the 299 survivors of the USS Frank E Evans.
Thanks, guys, and welcome
home.
Golfing Quotes
15 Mar 2016 4:45 PM (9 years ago)

Golfing has its own language and descriptions. Comments and excuses are pretty unique, too. Here are a few for ya…
1. These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the
ball and hit it with the shadow. ~ Sam Snead
2. I was three over
today: One over a house, one over a patio and one over a swimming pool. ~
George Brett
3. Actually, the only
time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And I took a 7 to do
that. ~ Jim Murray
4. The only sure rule in golf is - he who has the fastest cart
never has to play the bad lie. ~ Mickey Mantle
5. Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're
not good at them. ~ Kevin Costner
6. I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers
for par. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
7. After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play
on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and
he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
8. The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of
the tree. ~ Brian Weis
9. Swing hard in case you hit it. ~ Dan Marino
10. My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded
putt. The rest can never be mastered. ~ Lord Robertson
11. Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and
you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ~ Jack Benny
12. There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are
two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground. ~ Ben
Hogan
13. Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of
the time, you're the best. ~ Jack Nicklaus
14. The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's
almost a law. ~ H. G. Wells
15. I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my
prayers everywhere except on the course. ~ Billy Graham
16. If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's
recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ~ Bob Hope
17. While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on
a rake. ~ Henny Youngman
18. If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up
the wrong golf ball. ~ Jack Lemmon
19. You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my
ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work. ~ Lee
Trevino

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO
SURVIVED THE
1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's!!
I am blessed to have been raised
during the late 40’s and 50’s. It was a
great era for kids to grow up, playing outside with no fears of being abducted
and using commons sense.
First, we survived being born to some mothers who
smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get
tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs
covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and
when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster
seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from
one bottle and no one actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made
with real white sugar. And, we
weren't overweight. WHY? Because we were always outside
playing...that's why!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them
down the hill, only to find out we
forgot the brakes. After running into
the bushes a few times, we
learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150
channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell
phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these
accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us
forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and
tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out
very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the
bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with
disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers
and inventors ever.
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
Kids
now days protest and destroy property if they don’t get what they want or demand. And they do it because they never learned to
deal with problems or simply because they can with no danger of punishment. Nope!
I am glad I was raised during the great days of the USA.
If YOU are one of our generation, CONGRATULATIONS!
While you are at it, forward this to your grandkids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents and
grandparents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?

It’s amazing how things have
changed in the past 70 years regarding military service.
1945 - NCO's had a typewriter on
their desks for doing daily reports.
2016 - Everyone has an internet access computer, and they wonder why
no work is getting done.
1945 - We painted pictures of
girls on airplanes to remind us of home.
2016 - They put the real thing in the cockpit.
1945 - Your girlfriend was at home
praying you would return alive.
2016 - She is in the same trench praying your condom worked.
1945 - If you got drunk off duty
your buddies would take you back to the barracks to sleep it off.
2016 - If you get drunk they slap you in rehab and ruin your career.
1945 - You were taught to aim at
your enemy and shoot him.
2016 - You spray 500 bullets into the brush, don't hit anything, then retreat
because you're out of ammo.
1945 - Canteens were made of
steel, and you could heat coffee or hot chocolate in them.
2016 - Canteens are made of plastic, you can't heat anything in them, and they
always taste like plastic.
1945 - Officers were professional
soldiers first and they commanded respect.
2016 - Officers are politicians first, and beg not to be given a wedge.
1945 - They collected enemy
intelligence and analyzed it.
2016 - They collect your pee and analyze it.
1945 - If you didn't act right,
the Sergeant Major put you in the brig until you straightened up.
2016 - If you don't act right, they start a paper trail that follows you
forever.
1945 - Medals were awarded to
heroes who saved lives at the risk of their own.
2016 - Medals are awarded to people who work at headquarters.
1945 - You slept in barracks like
a soldier.
2016 - You sleep in a dormitory like a college kid.
1945 - You ate in a mess hall,
which was free, and you could have all the food you wanted.
2016 - You eat in a dining facility, every slice of
bread or pad of butter costs, and you better not take too much.
1945 - We defeated powerful
countries like Germany and Japan.
2016 - We come up short against Iraq and Afghanistan.
1945 - If you wanted to relax, you
went to the rec center, played pool, smoked and drank beer.
2016 - You go to the community center, and you can play pool.
1945 - If you wanted beer and
conversation you went to the NCO or Officers' Club.
2016 - The beer will cost you $2.75, membership is forced, and someone is
watching how much you drink.
1945 - The Exchange had bargains
for soldiers who didn't make much money.
2016 - You can get better and cheaper merchandise at Walmart.
1945 - We could recognize the
enemy by their Nazi helmets.
2016 - We are wearing the Nazi helmets.
1945 - We called the enemy names
like "Krauts" and "Japs" because we didn't like them.
2016 - We call the enemy the "opposing force" or
"aggressor" because we don't want to offend them.
1945 - Victory was declared when
the enemy was defeated and all his things were broken.
2016 – We haven’t a clue as to what victory is or what it takes to achieve it.
1945 - A commander would put his
butt on the line to protect his people.
2016 - A commander will put his people on the line to protect his butt.
1945 - Wars were planned and run
by generals who knew how to fight and win.
2016 - Wars are planned by politicians who haven’t a clue about fighting
or winning.
1945 - We were
fighting for freedom, and the country was committed to winning.
2016 - We don't know what we're fighting for, and the government is
committed to social programs and political correctness, and our real enemy is
global warming.
1945 - All you could think about was
getting out and becoming a civilian again.
2016 - All you can think about is getting out and becoming
a civilian again.
Take me back to the good old days.