My Current Wife is after me, saying that people don’t want to read my ravings about politics or religion.

Often, while sitting here reading news stories from around the world,  she’ll sense my anger and come over and stroke my head, saying,  “Down boy! Sit! Stay!”

So I’ll try to control my rants in the future, although when I read stories like the one telling of how the Pentagon has “lost” 8.5 BILLION dollars in  Iraq and Afghanistan, and has no idea where the money went, I want to head for Washington to find the people responsible for that and spit on their shoes and muss up their hair.

“Down boy. Sit!”

So, with an occassional lapse, I’ll  henceforth do my best to talk only about the good things in life. I won’t let the fact that my two beloved little daughters (who are now a couple of old broads in their 50s)  have much more respect for the words of Limbaugh, Pallin and Beck than those  of their sad-assed old man, upset me too much

 ”Sit! Stay! Good boy.”

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                                                             FIGHT FORTH (SOFTLY)

Please join me as I roam around town getting my exercise on Trigger, my three-wheeled Geezermobile.

As we pass my doctor’s office I am reminded that I must meet with him in two weeks. He didn’t like the looks of my blood pressure last week so he put me on two different pills. One of them is the damndest diuretic created by man. It reminds me of Martin Short’s comment about John  McCain: “The only time he doesn’t have to pee is when he’s peeing.” Read More→

I’m a  bit snarly today, because of several stories on the web and in the paper—

Bell, California, is a little town that is a pimple on L.A.’s rear. It is filled with about 50,000 blue-collar folks working hard for their living — and a batch of bandits have pulled off the damndest legal robbery in decades.  These “city fathers” passed “I’ll give you a raise if you’ll give one to me” laws, and came up with salaries that would make a master thief envious. The City Manager makes $376,288 a year.  The Chief of Police makes $457,000 a year. The city’s Chief Administrator makes $787,637 per year.  The citizens, who knew nothing about this until the  L.A. Times lifted the bandages, are now demanding resignations or recalls. These acts infuriate me, but the worst part of it all is the knowledge that if the great majority of American politicians thought they could do the same, they’d crush each other in the rush to the bank. Would they reject a $700,000 annual salary as excessive? Hell no. They’d say, “Great. I’ll take it – and when  do I get a raise?”

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