Trivial Stuff #1

I'm trying to weed out the stuff that I should have weeded out ten years ago when we moved to our present location.  It will take me at least another year to get even close to being done, but it doesn't seem like too much of a chore, because I am finding or remembering lots of interesting things that I saved up over the years.  Most of this I will throw out and a little of it I will post to this blog.

Here are a few of the things I found yesterday:

todo:  Visit the elephant museum on Rt 30. 

what?:  The moonman speech.

todo:    Visit the Portuguese Restaurant in Frederick.. at 611 N. Market St.

who?:  Tenor ...  Umberto Giordano

phrase:  She was like poultry in motion.

todo:  Visit the Mucha museum in Prague.

todo:   Find out about the Wilcox murder case.

todo:   Find out how to use the "snipping tool"

can do:  Clone your dog in San Francisco for $100,000.  (Dogs are the 18th animal to be cloned.  Dolly the sheep was first.  Italy was the first country to clone a horse.  A cloned calico cat had weird colors.)  I believe Barbara Streisand just cloned her dog.

saying:  President Ford:  "If Lincoln was alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave."

look for:  The midgets in the final scene of Casablanca.



Joke:  A man rubs a lamp and a genie says he will grant him a wish:

Man: I would like to have a highway made from the mainland to the island of Hawaii.

Genie:  That's too hard to do.  Make a different wish.

Man:  Let me understand women.

Genie:  How many lanes do you want?

(I may have gotten this from Hermine Saunders)




Joke:  A man takes his depressed wife to see a doctor.  The doctor says that the wife's problems will be solved if she has some loving 3 times a week.  The man says: "OK, put me down for Tuesdays."

(Maybe stolen from Roy Ciavacci)



Joke:  Man 1:  When you were in the army, did you get a commission?
           Man 2:  No, just straight pay.

(maybe from Reader's Digest)



GENUG!

Bullying!

I haven't had a chance to publish a blog entry for a little while.  Too much to do and Elaine and I have been ill for a while.

Today, I want to talk about bullying...  first, you all know about my experience with bullies when I was 5 years old.. and how I resolved it by putting a nice round dent in one of my tormentor's forehead.  I would not recommend doing such a thing today... but it did the trick.  The bullies avoided me after that .

The second thing I want to mention was my job at Camp Maxim one summer.  The counselors had a couple of bullies under their control and they decided that one way to change their activity was to have them get beaten in the boxing ring by another kid... namely, me.  I guess they took a chance that I would not become a bully myself.. and I proved them right. 

Today... the United States of America is experiencing bullying on a "gigantic" scale.   Here are some of the characteristics of the USA bully:

o  He needs to have power over other people.

o   He uses other people to get what he wants.

o   He enjoys putting other people down and calling them names.

o   He does not seem to care about the feelings of other people.

o   He disrespects people who are different from him.

o   He disregards rules and safeguards.

o   He exudes an absolute attitude of superiority in all activity.

Y'all know who I'm talking about.  This person (IMHO) is turning the USA into a third rate country run by an absolute dictator.

What can be done about it?  Simple.   Vote for persons who can dilute or cancel his actions.  The House and Senate can be won back by the Democrats if everybody would vote.  (Am I being naive?)

All right.. maybe the GOP folks need to consider impeachment, if that is appropriate.

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