Archive for May 22nd, 2009
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05.22.09
Weather is Super in Iowa
Tell you, I love living in Iowa. Where the temps can get into the 80′s and not have to turn the a/c on. Unless my wife gets a hot flash! hahahaha…yeah, she gets too warm, she turns on the a/c. Like yesterday, it was on for a few hours. And today, she just turned it on. But she closed the door to this room, so I am making do with the windows open and the fan running. Have to go to granddaughter’s house and get the a/c unit for this room and install it.
This evening some time, our son and his family will be showing up to spend the weekend. They will stay at our daughter’s house, but sure the grandkids will want to spend a night here. We just do not have the room for a bunch of people, unless they want to camp out on the floor. But will be super to have the grandkids here, don’t see them too much as they live in Missouri (I blame wife for not wanting to go there often). Wife just finished baking a ton of cookies for the grandkids, and I was allowed to have only one! Wife told me, you want more? Wait until the grandkids get what they want and you can have the leftovers. Geesh, somehow that does not seem fair to me.
Of course, we had to make sure we had plenty of candy on hand for the grandkids. Got enough M&M’s for sure! Plus a few bags of tootsie roll pops and super blow pops since all the grandkids love those (so do I, but again, wife said one only, which I had last night, and no more until the grandkids leave). Oh, and those awful tasting colored twizzlers! Grandkids love them, but I leave them alone. If it aint licorice or chocolate twizzlers, they can’t be good.
And now I want to introduce to the internet my latest blog! Yes, I for some reason decided to open up another blog. This blog is very niched toward on subject only, twitter. Since I am on twitter, and there is so much buzz about twitter, why not a blog about twitter? My new blog will have everything and anything that is twitter, from sites about twitter to the tools one should be using on twitter. After all, twitter has reached icon status around the world, with people like Oprah, Ashton Kutcher, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and more talking about twitter, going on twitter, and letting everyone know about twitter. So do stop by my new twitter blog, Twitter Blab, and check it out. It will flesh out over time as I post more and more about twitter and twitter stuff. If you are not on twitter, join soon. And then follow me on twitter as I do try to amuse and inform all of my followers. Heck, right now my goal is to hit 5,000 followers.
In 1991, President George H. W. Bush implemented a ban on media coverage of returning war dead and their dignified transfer process at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Shortly after he assumed office, President Barack Obama asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review this policy, and Gates later reversed it, giving family members of the fallen the right to allow or disallow media coverage. On April 5th, 2009, the repatriation of the remains of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Meyers became the first such event to be covered by the press in 18 years. This process has taken place, undocumented, over 5,000 times since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in 2001. Collected here are photographs documenting the transfers of nine soldiers that have taken place since April 5th, 2009. (25 photos total)
Documenting the return of U.S. war dead – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
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The Hillbilly’s Ten Commandments (posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Harlan, Ky.)
(1) Just one God
(2) Honor yer Ma &Pa
(3) No tellin’ tales or gossipin’
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meetin’
(5) Put nothin’ before God
(6) No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal
(7) No killin’
(8) Watch yer mouth
(9) Don’t take what ain’t yers
(10) Don’t be hankerin’ for yer buddy’s stuffNow that’s kinda plain an’ simple, don’t ya think? Y’all have a nice day.
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Pinocchio, Snow White, and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day. As they walked, they come across a sign: “Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world.”“I am entering!” said Snow White. After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, “Well, how’d ya do?”
“First Place!” said Snow White.
They continue walking and they see a sign: “Contest for the strongest man in the world.”
“I’m entering,” says Superman. After half an hour, he returns and they ask him, “How did you make out?”
“First Place,” answers Superman. “Did you ever doubt?”
They continue walking when they see a sign: “Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?” Pinocchio enters.
After half an hour he returns with tears in his eyes.
“What happened?” they asked.
“Who is this Nancy Pelosi?” asked Pinocchio.
—–Education is a cure for ignorance,
not stupidity.
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Why do we press harder on a remote control
when we know the batteries are getting weak?