Unanswered Questions Found While Perusing Blogs....

"Is Taylor Swift going to hell because one of her albums made a reference to two teenagers being alone and we all know what teenagers do alone?"

I Haven't Been Posting For Awhile, Here' Why....

Last Friday I went to the new Sam's Club on South Campbell to pick up some items. Everytime the PvtRN and I go there is costs us about $150.00, Instead of Sam's they ought to call it Costgo. Anyhow, we picked up toilet paper, paper towels, diapers for the grandbabies, paper plates, trash sacks, wax paper, paper napkins, a couple of cases of beer and a bottle of Ketel One. And a 50 pound sack of Iams dog food for Lexie, our deaf and mature dog who is just about as old as I am in dog years.

The PvtRN and I were in the checkout line when the woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired and
have little to do and all the time to do it in (I don't know what I did today, but it took me all day to do it) on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Iam's Healthy Diet again. I added that the last time I was on this diet that I'd lost 50 pounds but I went off it when I started barking at the mailman.

Actually this is essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to simply load your pants pockets with those Iams nuggets and eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete and if you have all your teeth and drink water with it, it ain't too bad. At least it is better than cat food (the PvtRN fed me catfood one time and told me it was a new kind of tuna fish. I was telling her that my taste palate was so sensitive That I could tell the difference between different brands of tuna fish. You know like "chicken of the sea", "starkist","Best Choice". She said I couldn't. You know, with enough Ketel One even pickled herring can taste like Tuna Fish. Sometimes I don't understand her sense of humor).

Every body in the line was asking me all sorts of questions about the diet and I just directed them to the website where I learned about the diet, paid for our items and loaded them in the trunk of the Honda.

The next thing I remember was waking up in a room in 8 East at Cox Medical Center.

The PvtRN was supervising a whole cadre of nurses taking care of my needs. Although still somewhat medicated, I asked what the heck happened to me.

Apparently I was doing fine loading the car until an Irish Setter came by and I started chasing it The setter and I ended up in the middle of the street sniffing each other's butts --- I never saw the truck coming and evidently the truck driver didn't see us either.

Hey Longrooffan, Happy Birthday!

Garden Plots Available At Rutledge Farms

For Immediate Release

The Springfield-Greene County Park Board will begin offering an Adopt-An-Urban Garden Program (AUGP) beginning Thursday, October 1, with the registration of its first 60 garden plots at the Rutledge-Wilson Farm Community Park.

In-Person registration for the 60 plots will begin at 8 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 1 at both the Park Board Offices, 1923 N. Weller Ave., and the Rutledge-Wilson Farm Community Park, 3825 W. Farm Road 146, and will be first-come, first-served. Any remaining plots will then be available by phone registration by calling the Park Board Offices at (417) 864-1049 beginning Oct. 2, or by visiting in person.

The AUGP is the first of its kind through the Park Board. Plot sizes are eight-feet by 16-feet, for $25 per season; 16-feet by 16-feet, for $40 per season. The growing season is March 1 through October 31 each year. Season renewals will be first offered each December to existing participants. Plots cannot be resold or sub-leased by any individuals or group. The Park Board provides soil, fencing, water access, and a sign for each plot.

All food grown is the property of each plot’s owner. Each participant is responsible for maintaining weed control, providing all seeds and other equipment required to grow a garden and removing debris at the end of the growing season.

“The goal of the new Urban Gardens program is to offer a space for people to grow fruits, vegetables, or flowers, who otherwise don’t immediately have the space available in their own backyard, said Parks Director Jodie Adams. “They will also offer an opportunity for youth field trips to see and participate in a working garden, along with generally providing fellowship with others and recreational, exercise and therapeutic benefits to our community.”

The Park Board will use the Rutledge-Wilson Farm as its AUGP pilot site throughout 2010.

An AUGP guide and application is available directly on the Park Board’s Web site at http://bit.ly/4zy8TG or www.parkboard.org. Applications are subject to staff review and condition. Call the Park Board’s main office at (417) 864-1049 for more information.

Walk Naked In America Day September 26, 2009

I received a link to this website in an email message this afternoon. Because I don't consider myself to be a terrorist-sympathizing, lily-livered coward and don't want to put myself in the position of posing as a national threat, I am passing this along as requested. Thank you and God bless.

WALK NAKED IN AMERICA DAY

Don't forget to mark your calendars. As you may already know, it is a sin for a Muslim male to see any woman other than his wife naked. He must commit suicide if he does.. So next Saturday at 4 PM Eastern Time, all American women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists. Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort. All patriotic men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their house to prove they are not Muslims and to demonstrate they think its okay to see nude women other than their wife and to show support for all American women. Since Islam also does not approve of alcohol, a cold 6-pack at your side is further proof of your pro-American sentiment. The American government appreciates your efforts to root-out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.

God bless America ! It is your patriotic duty to pass this on. If you don't send this to at least 5 people, you're a terrorist-sympathizing, lily-livered coward and are in the position of posing as a national threat.

Bribes? Blackmail? Is This Our Roy? What Strange Company He Keeps?

From the transcript of Edmonds deposition:

Q: Why is Roy Blunt in your gallery?

A: One of the individuals who was the recipient of both legally and illegally raised donations, campaign donations from foreign entities.

Q: And what foreign entities?

A: The ones that I'm aware of, Turkish entities. It's just like a network because those people, they worked together, and I don't have expertise in PAC, but a lot of --- there are so many ways that these PAC things can be not very legally distributed from one person's, let's say, Mr. Hastert's campaign to that individual or let's say it's a foreign registered lobbyist, like Livingston can get foreign money, but then clean it and then give it to him. It's just so many ways. it's a very complicated maze-like network on how they get this money cleared and into people, into people's pocket and also their campaigns.

But wait, there's more! Do a quick google search and read more.

If Looking At Pictures Of Naked Ladies Turns You Into A Homosexual, As This Guy Suggests, How Come You're Not Gay?

You Lie, Great Scott, YOU LIE!

Bus riders are talking about Joe Wilson, Roy Blunt's friend and protege, and his plans to visit Springfield October 3, 2009 to speak at a state meeting of the Missouri Republican Assembly.

Roy Blunt of monkey joke fame will introduce Wilson to the group which brands itself as the "Republican Wing of the Republican Party".

The Missouri Republican Assembly calls itself "The Republican Wing of the Republican Party." So does everyother state RA thus MRA loses originality points but scores well in the "Look who's coming to dinner."

William Scott Magill, an OB-GYN DO who is the Missouri president of the MRA says the group has about 500 members statewide with half of them living in the Springfield area.

Last Night, On The Merry-Go-Round....

Glory Days! -- Make It Full Screen, Oh Yeah, Oh Right, Come On Now!

ALL TOGETHER NOW, INCLUDING YOU IN THE BACK OF THE BUS, WITH GUSTO NOW!

0Sing It With US! This land is your land. This land is my land. From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the gulf stream water, this land was made for you and me.As I was walking that ribbon of highways I saw above me that endless skyways. I saw below me that golden valley, this land was made for you and me.Now I walk and I ramble and I follow my foot steps thorgh the sparkling sands of the diamond deserts ans all around me a voice was sounding, it cried this land was made for you and me. .sun come shining and I went strolling, the wheat fields wave, the dust cloud rolling, the fog was lifting, and the horse was chanting this land was made for you and me


As I was walking, I saw a sign there,
And that sign said, "No trespassing."
But on the other side , it didn't say nothing!
That side was made for you and me