Anyways... tis the season &stuff

Well, gosh-golly...... most years Wisconsin is getting set up for the outdoor season; boating biking, fishing, camping, hiking and all the other sundry things we miss four months of the year.
This year it is the Recall Season.....The election is still two weeks away...But Walker's ads ate ripping up the airwaves...He raised over $15 million in funding from OUT OF STATE CONTRIBUTORS... MOSTLY kOCH INDUSTRY FUNDED PACs... he is pushing to sell off State Forests and Parks.. or lease them to out of state management companies... by Federal Government estimates wWisconsing has lost about 6000 jobs in April alone, yet he claims that we have addeded 23,000, according to his State appointed flunky.

.... whew!!! in other news... the bestest girl in my part of the world finished her Senior Art Exhibit...

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... had scored a couple of free tickets to the Black Keys in Milwaukee last Wednesday!  Couldna happed to a nicer kiddo!

Scott Walker Lies

just a little bit about the lying piece of shit 'wisco' goverbut

About Mike

Stopped at the Moon for coffee the other day.  It's a cozy spot on the corner of somewhere and anywhere with little traffic lights set up on the intersections to tell you when it is ok to go to other places.  They serve up scones and muffins and other delicious stuff  with evening specials of poetry and music.  That kind of place.

So I run into my friend Mike.  He's a painter.  Houses, buildings, bedrooms and such.  That kind of painter, not an artist painter, but he has had his business for over 35 years and is well known for his craftsmanship and quality.  I have known Mike a long time now, though I cannot really recall when I first met him.  I think I was writing movie reviews for the college paper and he was writing music reviews.  Maybe that was it.  Anyways, he is a kindly sort, kinda long and tall with a smile that seems to remember every good record he ever listened to and a laugh that recalls every good beer he ever had occasion to drink.
"Jim," he says to me, " have I got a story for you!"  Now a guy that has put three daughter through college knows his stories, so I get my self a big mug of the hot and black and settle down.


"Seems like there was this painting contractor, " Mike started, "who was going door to door to solicit for house painting jobs.  But the guy was a crook.  He would wait till he found some old gullible folks, shoot them an incredibly cheap price, and then do a quick shitty job and take off.  He would buy cheap paint, or leftover paint, mix it with cheap additives to stretch it out.  Ripped everyone off."  He takes a bite of his egg& bagel, and I wait for him to chew and swallow.
"OK, " I impatiently said.
" Well, a couple of weeks ago he was up on the Northeast side of Appleton, over by Darboy, and I guess he conned some old lady into a  paint job.  Didn't scrap, didn't prime.... just mixed a whole bunch of different brands of leftover white paint from other jobs and diluted the crap out of the mix.  Well, when he was half-way done that storm hit.  Remember that one?"
 " Ya, when we got all that lightning and about five inches of rain."
"Yup.  So when the guy comes back... gees I think his name was Frank Schmitz, or Scwartz... lemmee think, I'm having a moment here."
" Mike, I don't care what his name was... what happened? 
"Right. " But by now Mike has take another bite of bagel and holds up a finger to let me know he has paused the story.
"OK???"
"Well, the paint had ran right down the side of the house... all over the drive, down the sidewalk... all the neighbors were standing around.  I guess it looked like a Dali painting.  He had to go hire someone to sand blast the drive to get the stuff off.  Oh, speaking of sand blasting... did you see the Mural Leif Larsen painted on the side of the old Franklin Milling building?  I sand blasted that one.  Gees, what a tough job."
"Mike!"
"Ok.... well the guy goes out and buys some more of the cheapest paint he can find.  Over at Badger building supply.  Joe told me about it, he's the salesman there, do you know him?  Used to hang out with Al Lewis at the old B&BTap? "
" No,  don't."
"Well, Joe is decent.  Anyways, Joe told me what he bought and that crap is not fit to paint a chicken coop, much less a house.  See, this is how I ran into the story... Joe told me."
"Mike!"
"Alright.  Well Joe told me that he also bought a bunch of cheap linseed oil.... he was gonna dilute the cheap paint too.  Gees, some guys should be thrown in jail for doing that kinda shoddy work.  Remember 2001 when the mini-tornado came through and all those shyster contract roofers were here.  I guess they busted a few of them... big fines and stuff.
" Are you gonna finish?"
He looked at my plate... and pointed to my half finished muffin."You gonna finish that?"
"Daminit, Mike!"
"Ok... Well...What happened is he got on the job.... slapped that crap paint all over the place...quickly loaded up his stuff and was at the door trying to get a cash, not a check, but a cash payment out of the old lady.  A reputable contractor will take a check.. but those cheap gypsy guys, oh no, they want cash... and then you never see 'em again."
I could tell he was getting off topic again.
"Ok.... did he get the cash, or what?"
"Well, just then, there was a sharp clap of thunder ... and lightning, again... and these huge clouds roll in and Frank, or whatever his name was... just looked at the house, and all the paint was starting to run again.  You sure you gonna finish that muffin?"
"I'm gonna finish YOU pretty soon!!"

"OK.... so he's at the door trying to get the cash, it's really starting to rain... he's knows that paoint is gonna starti running soon.... and then there is a huge flash of lightning......

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 ..... and suddenly there was a loud voice from above that said....

'Repaint, Repaint... and Thin No More!''

MY coffee cup just missed his head as he ran out the door.

WARNING COMMIE-FASCIST RANT FROM THE RIGHT

I caught the following off of FB.  At first I planned on just ignoring it.  It is one of those viral things that has been on line for the last few years.  Just the regular rant&roll with a little extra froth.  This one, though, was posted by someone I used to know a long time ago... and I am guessing that they are still a decent enough sort of person, but the tone startled me because they are also one of those Christian types..... who just can't love Jesus enough.  Now... sometimes I feel like an atheist, or an agnostic...gees, sometimes I feel I may be a Buddhist or a Jew..... but never could I embrace any religion or person who would go along with this kid of clap trap.  Check it out.

Put me in charge . . ..

Put me in charge of WINZ food grants. I'd get rid of cash for potato chips or chocolate, just money for 50kg bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away.
If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Healthcare. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings.
If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?
You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried.
If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

Put me in charge of compulsory job search. In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job.
It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you.
We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.
Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest.....You will vote for a ‘welfare’ Govt. only.
You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

Just plain old wrong on so many levels: forced labor, relocation camps, mandatory sterilization, stripping of voting rights.  This is 'smaller' government?  Democracy?

I had more planned to say.  I just can't find the words.  And they call liberals 'Socialists'?

I am just sad, really, and in need of a beer.  Might make me more christian.

RIP Goober

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You can fix tires forever, now

Ain't got much... but I sure gotta little

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OK....just a little bit of stuff.

 The old hometown... which is the same old hometown... received about four inches of rain early thursday morning in about a nine hour span.  Maybe everything a little flooded and wet and stuff. Backed up in basements and flooded some creeks and roads. 
Didn't bother me none, but it did get us a mention on the national news this morning.  I forgot what show.

My friend Lee, who writes a column about beer and beer stuff for a local magazine... stuffed a picture of me in his last story.  Me made sure he got everyone of my grey beard hairs in it, too.  I will get back at him.

My bloggy friend Leslie at PARSLEY'S PICKS  WROTE AND ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS PIECE on the new McCarthyism spreading across America, aided and abetted by Fox Snooze.  It is worthy of a national publication.... please go read it!!!!



My youngest, Wonder Girl, graduates from College next Saturday.  Her Senior Art Show is next week.  I really can't wait.

Her and her Mom have planned a small graduation reception.  I was told that my input was not valid..... gees, I don't know what would have been wrong with some Green Bay Packer balloons, some cheese and crackers and a keg of good beer.
Shheeesh.... women!

I put up that counter map thingee exactly one year ago.  It said that in the last year 20,833 folks visited this blog.  That can't be right, and what does it all mean?


Anywayz.... that's alla I gotz.   Ya'll have a good weekend and .... stay liberally ok.

OBAMA is a Commie! AND so is WISCONSin

First off... OK... A BIG hat tip to Tengrain at MOCK PAPER SCISSORS   for bringing this to my attention.  I guess that Fox thinks Obama's new slogan is.... oh the horror!..... Communistic!


Fox's Lou Dobbs: “ I'm Not Saying Anybody Is A Communist,“ But Obama 2012 Slogan, “ Forward,“ Is Tied To Communists, Fascists

Well, gosh.... Wisconsin has been using 'FORWARD" as a slogan since, ah, 1851... just a little pre-communismishtic, if you ask me.  OK, see, I guess I knew that all along, but me being me... dirty socialist slime scum that I am.... I always thought our motto was "EAT CHEESE OR DIE"

 ..... which you have to admit is much snappier and fits on a T-shirt real nice, but I'm guessing that if Old Lou Dopps found out, why gosh, it would probably make us all Commies here in da old Cheese State.  But then, see, I started thinking.... maybe Wisco is just full of Commies, what with a Motto like, duh, Forward!

Like, get this.... hey and I am not kidding....Saturdays in the fall they hold these really big Commie Rallies down there in the State  Capital of Madison.... and All the Commie youths, see, gather and wear Commie Red clothing and drink socialist beer and chant slogans like "Defense", which everyone knows was invented by Stalin,  you cannot make this shit up, see.

yessirre Bob!

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when they did that State Quarter thing....a few years ago.... They even put FORWARD on the quarter! See!  More proof that I live in a Commie Socialist State!  Everyone knows we worship cows here and cows are all femme-nazi in a sisterhood of sour milk!

Besides... ever try to milk a Bull?
Damn... hey and if that is not proof enough that Obama has just ripped off our Commie Slogan...... get this..... our State Bird is.......... a... Robin.  Commonly called... Robin Red Breast!  Goddaminit... a real Commie Bird that was worshiped by Brezhnev.  Think I am making that up?  Nope.  Just go ask Lou Dipp, he'll tell you.!

To say nothing of the fact that Robin was the name of that little masked gay kid that hung around with that pedophile, Batman.  Stuff...everyone KNOWS gays and pedophiles are Commines!  Just ask Lou Dabbs!  AND  Robin Hood was a well known socialist with all this 'give to the poor shit.  Can't make that up, No Sir!!! 
And, get this too..... Wisconington has this Statue named FORWARD.....been outside the Capital since 1893 which just shows how Commie we are..... and, get this,   the Commie Socialist Teachers whose been doing all that protestations and stuff...hey.... they sacrifice Christian Babies and Christian Republicans right  in front of!!!!

Boy and Howdy..... I sure hope Governutz Walker was watching Lou Dapps the other night and helps the Republicans get rid of Obama and the whole goddaminit State of Wisco.... that is.... iffen he can RECALL what he was elected for anywaz.

hat tip to Tengrain at MOCK PAPER SCISSORS  for bringing this to my attention..... oh the horror of it all.


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