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HOWYADOIN!    10 Oct 09   Another soggy Saturday.  I'm going to have to venture out into it eventually but I'm not in any big rush.  I normally don't update this frequently but I couldn't let Obama getting the Nobel Prize go by without comment.  In realize it is an award reserved mostly for Democrats. Past recipients include Pres. Carter and Al Gore.  Reagan who was responsible more than any other human being for the end of the cold war and the removal of the Berlin Wall was never even nominated.  But all of that is beside the point.  I'm now starting to get scared.  Is it possible that the folks who have been predicting just such a leader right before the end of the freakin' world are on to something? Are we headed for Armageddon?  Did you know that right now there is a shortage of freakin' bullets?  Who's buying up all the freakin' bullets?  And if it is actually the end of the world, what good are bullets going to do you anyway? Wow, I'm sooooo confused.

WTF did this guy do to get this award?

4 Oct 09

Wet and cold today...but that's alright.  I'll probably be cranking up the woodstoves this evening and I'm ready for a change.  Had the oil burner serviced and there's even oil in the tank but we probably won't use it much. I've been supporting the Arabs enough this summer with gas and oil.  A gallon of bar oil for the chainsaw is like 8 freakin' bucks.  I bought a gallon of hydraulic fluid for the splitter and it was 11 bucks.  Oh well, it is what it is, I'm just going to try and not use so much of it.  I'd much rather give my money to my buddy Doug who sold me the wood. 

Does it sound as though I've given up?  Was there a hint of a defeatist attitude in that last little rant?  Not on your life baby!  But there's much bigger freakin' fish to fry.  Man, there is a whole lot of shit that I just don't know.  Obamacare for instance.  Was Joe Wilson right? Did he lie? Are Illegals going to be allowed free health care?  What is going to happen to our VA hospitals?  I really can't find a lot of answers and it's pissing me off.  Why won't they just post the bill on the internet so we can all read the freakin' thing and decide for yourself. 

My regular visitors know that I consider myself  a moderate conservative.  On fiscal issues I tend to lean right, social issues a bit left.  I blame that on growing up in the 60's.  And also the move to Maine has had a lot to do with my tolerance of things that used to really bug me.  It truly is a live and let live kind of place. One of those issues is coming up for a vote in November.  Gay marraige.  They are calling it an equal rights thing but it's about gay marriage.  I'm going to admit that I am not 100% sure of all of the ramifications of the referendum, but I expect it will pass.  And I think it probably should.  I know.  I've already been chastised by the church that I was a member of at the time for having lesbian friends.  I no longer belong to that church. Or any other church for that matter.  I love our Lord and Savior, but his fan club's suck.  Some are wonderful beautiful people but there are just as many hypocrites among them.  Anyway, as I've been saying for quite some time, if they think marriage is so great let 'em have at it.  Why should straight folks be the only miserable ones?  'cept me of course..

Too bad about Chicago not getting the Olympics in '16.  I know they were really really counting on the money.   Especially Obama.  Since his economic policies have been spend spend spend with no plan how to pay for it.   

And the last thing I have time for this morning is Roman Polanski.  He has been convicted of getting a 13 year old girl drunk on champange and loaded on qualudes, then raping her.  He's in custody, we can have a guy there in ohhh...3 minutes?  Bring the sick bastard back and properly punish him. Period. 

4 SEP 09

I have been trying to be optimistic but ya know what? It ain't workin.   We're screwed.  OK, maybe we're not the screwed ones. We've screwed our grandkids.  We have spent sooooo much freakin' money.  The Stimulus ain't working.  The facts are facts and no matter how you try to shine it up, it's still a turd.  How about that 3 billion we just spent on the Cash for Clunkers.  I know, what's a lousy 3 billion when we're usually talking trillions.  That didn't do a damn thing for the carmakers. GM and Chrysler are still losing money. Business as usual.  And now the geniuses are predicting a dramatic drop in car sales for the rest of the year, saying anyone who was going to buy a car in the immediate future probably took advantage of the program. Ya think?  It just so happened that I had to buy a vehicle in the cash for clunkers timeframe.  But I didn't have a clunker that qualified.  I was competing with Uncle Sam.  It drove up the price of used vehicles and took a lot of very good auto's out of circulation.  The ones that lower income Americans have been relying on to get to our shitty jobs and buy groceries for our families.  Thanks a bunch.  We've been paying cash for clunkers long before.........Nancy Pelosi was Born!, Yeah that's it. Did they have cars then?

Another thing is buggin me too.  I've heard a couple different derogatory remarks recently concerning our veterans and what they should and should not be entitled too.  They've earn all they get 10 fold.  I ain't playin' on this one.  Next asshole bunny-huggin, liberal dipshit I hear spouting any of that nonsense is going to get an ass whippin.  My people skills are stretched to the limits.   I'm also stressing about a conversation I had with a buddy of mine.  It concerned the Rebel flag.  He was ranting and raving about how it should be outlawed and stood for ignorance etc etc etc.  I guess this is a common belief among northerners.  I told him I was born up north but got down there as fast as I could.  I consider my home south of the Mason Dixon and love all things southern.  I started to get into a pissin' contest with him but managed to be cool.  He's a good guy but doesn't know enough about Southern culture and think's it's all about slavery.   Dumbass northern rednecks.  Makes me homesick.

Hard to believe how the time is flying!  We had a soggy start to the season but it's been pretty nice lately and we have plenty of work for the fall so it's all good.  I'm  little behind on my firewood but expect to be looking pretty good there shortly.  See, summer is over in about another month.  Not just, the kid's are back in school  and football preseason crap is getting started summer's over, but for real.  It's freakin' over.  The wood stoves will be fired up in a few weeks.  It get's chilly when the sun goes down, and it goes down earlier and earlier every day.  Being colorblind, I don't even get to dig "the foliage".  Yes, I know it's spectacular because everybody gushes over it and the freakin' leaf peepers are clogging up the roads.  Don't the damn leaves change color in Connecticut or wherever the hell they all come from?

But for now, I'll just finish up the chores, kick off my boots and sit a few on the porch and reflect.  I've got a b-day coming up and I can't help wonderin' if this is as good as it's gonna get.  when I think to myself "you're going to be 54" it doesn't sound so old ya know. But when I say to myself "in 16 years you are going to be 70", that sounds freakin' old.  So I thought I would put 16 years into perspective.  I moved up here about 16 years ago.  Sounds like a long time.  But when you think of 16 years and realize that it is the average time served for a life sentence, then hey, that's not so long after all.  16 years is how long Clinton and Bush were in office. Now that certainly seemed like a long time didn't it.