And in other news

A real conservative believes that the government should stay out of people's lives..... but that anyone caught having private sex with what they consider the wrong gender should be punished.

How many conservatives does it take to change a light bulb? None. If the Liberals would just leave it alone it will change itself.


Republicans WILL save the rainforest.... just tell them that is where the 'golf-ball trees' are located.

Some guy told me he was a Republican and that he voted his 'conscience'. I asked him how he could do both.

A good Conservative thinks that 'global warming' is junk science...... but that Creationism should be taught in schools.

A true conservative Republican believes the USA should get out of the UN, but that our highest national priority should be enforcing the UN resolution against Iraq.

Two guys are sitting in a bar talking politics and one asks the other, "Why are you a Democrat?"
"Because my Daddy and Grand Daddy were Democrats."
"Well, what if your Daddy and Grand Daddy were horse thieves?"
" I guess then I would be a Republican," he answered.

A Conservative believes a woman cannot be trusted to make decisions about her own body....... but large multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without any regulation.

A Conservative believes trade with Cuba is wrong, because they are Communists. Trade with China and Vietnam is good market expansion, though.


 Green BAY GOES TO SUPER Bowl

wow... check the Curds out on that Girl!!!!

I guess there is a football game tomorrow.


But you would never know around here.


This is the biggest thing around here since the invention of the cheese wheel.

Word is that Will-Annoys has already raised the toll price for any car with Wisco plates.







But to be honest..... I only watch football for the gratuitous violence & sex...... and the half-time snacks.

Sarah Palin Secret Sex- Sleeps With Chicago Bear!!

......... how many though is still unknown.

For my Brother....John

GIMEEEEEEE SOME FOOTBALL!!!!!!

This is almost too good to be true!!!!   90 years, 181 games...... & more history that you can shake a stick at.     The tribal drums are beating, Highway 41 south will be a ribbon of Green &Gold saturday and sunday..... many are planning on being in Chicago for the game  even if they do not have tickets.  First report I heard is opening price is about $675 for a single.  I could go on.... but for the uninitiated there is some insight HERE

I guess there is another game being played after this one next Sunday, I forget who,..... Mets and the Wheelers..... I forget.

TH

 

Going to the Championship

sometimes you win..... by a little..... and sometimes you win by THIS MUCH

NOT a True Believer & why you can't water ski on Lake Winnegago in Winter

Ok.  I am not having a good time with things.  I'm sitting here waiting for my sister to call with my Mother's  funeral arrangements.  It will be a small affair. But waiting is a bitch and it leaves the mind free to wander.  
The shit that went down in Arizona still bothers me.  It should.  Just like my mother, I will leave this world soon enough, in a appropriate time, but it makes me think of how it will be for my children in a world...... of hurt.  And this world is hurting.  You can smell the fear, the uncertainty, the dread and you see faces looking for a semblance of sanity in blank mirrors.  People are signing up to any movement that will offer them any kind of respite from all the unknown that greets  them with every breathe they take. And they are really not thinking of what they are signing up for.  It made me think back to a book I first read as a freshman in college, Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer".  It still makes sense after almost sixty years.


“All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.”

Eric Hoffer
  of course, now we can watch as well as read the message


Go ahead... watch this if you want to think...otherwise...go away 


 It reminds me of why, after all these years, that I am still not much of a 'joiner'.  Oh, I participate.... but I never wanted to be grouped.  I still have a deep sense of appreciation for Randal Graves at  L'ennui Melo-some-fucking-thing 
for coining the name to this blog..... I mean.... what's in an Eggroll anyways?  It could be nothing.... or the best of something.  Who knows?  Who cares?  Randal practices the ART of WHATEVER better than anyone I have read on the blogs.  I think he knows it and is proud of it.... and is also rather adamant in not giving a shit about anything as well.


Anyways....I started re-reading Hoffer this morning, mostly cause I was in no mood for Emily Dickinson, though she may come later today, and something else jumped out at me.


“When we lose our individual independence in the incorporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom—freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.”



Now that makes sense to me.  I don't want a label.... I don't want to join anything....if everyone else is doing it.....I am going the other way. I think what I think, I will vote the way I want to, I will drink plenty of the Tap Beer of Truth, Justice, Kindness........ and maybe have a doughnut or two.

These are troubling times, sisters& Bros.... just remember, there is no half-time in the game of madness