OH yea baby - I'm BAD TO THE BONE

Oh the poor poor Democrats wringing their hands and mopping around, all is lost all is lost, they only have a 59-41 advantage in Senate seats and as we all know that is not a majority!

GEEZ - I think a few years ago they might be a little more upbeat with a 59-41 lead but . . . . . no, not today. All is lost! They just can't ram crap through like they thought they would. I've become a 3rd party person. no no - all 3rd party candidates are really lame! hmmmm Well - I'll just cross my fingers and hope for the best.

But in other bigger news, no more beer pong in Huntington Beach Restaurants. In Wisconsin you can no longer text people while driving, HOWEVER, there is nothing in the new laws saying you can't play beer pong while driving.

Do you really think having a law against texting will STOP people from texting? OH REALLY TEXTING IS DANGEROUS? I'LL STOP! A few officers I know think it's ridiculous. There is already a law on the books that cover this, it's called INATTENTIVE DRIVING. The guys I know say the real problem is that no one really wants to tackle lowering the alcohol limit and actually getting tough on drinking and driving. THAT is the #1 cause of deaths.

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Speaking of being bad.

I was "called on the carpet" twice in this past week. OH, I'm bad, I'm one of those bad boys that mothers tell their daughters to stay away from.

It happened the other morning when I got to work and had an email that stated there was an "unannounced inspection" and my cell was in violation. It seems my yucca or palm or whatever it is (I call it Robert Plant) is . . . . . too tall. YEA - too tall. If someone was going to jump out my window they could poke their eye out of something. It's a menace.

"Plants must not be larger then three feet tall"

Why? It says I should trim back my yucca. Ever see what happens to a 7 foot yucca that is trimmed to 3 feet? It ain't pretty.

So I spend all day hiding from authority planning my next move and when I arrive home I have a yellow thingy hanging on my front door saying if I do not shovel my 7 feet of sidewalk I will be charged by the city for having THEM come out and shovel it.

OK OK, it had drifted over and I THOUGHT it would all melt. It didn't. But then what gets me is that in our area it's like every other house as a sidewalk. They are not even connected at times. It's not like people USE the sidewalks. You walk 5 houses and BAM 3 house's have no sidewalk so you go in the street. I live on a circle, there is like 5 cars a day that drive on it.!

OK OK - if you want to get snippy, what is up with the Columbus salt trucks. This morning it's like they have never salted before. The salt is in big piles. 10 feet of 3 inch salt, then bare road for 1 block, then 10 feet of 3 inch salt. It's like salt speed bumps! My thought was that they are trying to entice deer onto the roads so they can run over them.

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If you have not watched "V" you should the next time it comes on. Great SciFi show. Also a new one that I really like is Human Target. Sort of 24ish, James Bondish with a little humor.

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In 1959 on this day Alfalfa from the "Our Gang" was shot in a brawl over $50.

After a night of drinking, Alfalfa and friend Jack Piott went to collect money from Bud Stiltz on the evening of January 21, 1959, by pounding on his door posing as the police and forcing their way into his house late at night while he and his wife & children were sleeping.

OK - so far I see nothing wrong here.

This was actually the 2nd time Alfalfa had been shot, a year earlier he had been shot in front of a bar.

To ME - the guy just looks to young to be hanging out in bars and getting shot at.

In 1935 on this date five kids were busted in Janesville for a string of thefts which included cigarettes, whisky and blankets. While in the police station they were busted again for trying to crack the safe in the chief's office. Yet another gene pool to be stopped.

And on on this date in 1945 the Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously to Sgt. Truman C. Olson of Cambridge, for single-handedly stopping a German counterattack on the beachhead in Anzio, Italy, on January 30, 1944. Twice wounded, Olson nevertheless manned his machine-gun for 36 hours. He killed 20 Germans and wounded many others.

There are not many WWII vets left and they really were a generation which changed the world. If you see a vet buy him a drink (well . . . .use your best judgment on that one) and thank him.

And finally - I have been working on this one for a while now and printing it to see what it looks like on paper with mixed results. But here it is again.

BTW - did you know that - ON AVERAGE - it takes a person seven times seeing a fine art piece before he will purchase it.

This is #5 I believe - oh - I'm a bad bad boy.

hmmmmm - anyone else just see a black square when they click on this?


And finally - the air was so dry over our area that any REAL freezing rain never made it to the ground.


Looks like a cold front will move through Monday dropping us to AVERAGE Highs (like 25ish). Rain on Saturday and into Sunday.


Have a Thursday

Rod