Joyanna Adams

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The Evolution of Education (What Evolution?)

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Today, I was rummaging through my old Shakespeare book, and read this at the beginning. Read what Shakespeare had to go through in school:
“From grammar the boys progressed to studying works of classical and neo-classical literature. They might read anthologies of Latin sayings and Aesop’s Fables, followed by the fairly easy plays of Terence and Plautus. They might even act scenes from Latin plays. As they progressed they would improve their command of language by translating from Latin into English and back, by imitating approved models of style, and by studying manuals of composition, the ancient rules of rhetoric, and modern rules of letter writing. Putting their training into practice they would compose formal epistles, orations, and declamations. Their efforts at composition would be stimulated too by their reading of the most admired authors. Works that Shakespeare wrote throughout his career show the abiding influence of Virgil’s Aeneid and of Ovid’s Metamorphoses Certainly he developed a taste for books both classical and modern; his plays show that he continued to read seriously and imaginably for the whole of his working life. “
Imagine our children getting that kind of education today? They didn’t even do this when I was a kid. I remember how much trouble I had learning to read. In the first grade my teacher wrote my mother and told her she was worried about me. I simply could not catch up with the other kids. Then one day, she took an hour out of her day, and explained it all to me. (Imagine that happening today.)   I had dyslexia, but back then, they didn’t really know about that. I didn’t find out until late in life, that my brother had it, as does my son.
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To this day I spell many words backwards. And even when I read it, if there is a mistake, and the spell checker misses it, my brain says it’s right. Luckily, that teacher gave me a gift, the love of reading. Once she explained it to me, I was off and flying. But, what if I had learned REAL grammar? The proclivity I have finally found as an adult, wanting to write, might have developed when I was even younger.
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At this stage, I feel like I’m still in second grade.
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As you can see, what Shakespeare and his fellow classmates learned went even beyond our English majors in college.
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Getting A and B’s were easy the rest of my life, and I was smart enough to know what I wasn’t being taught. When I got to high school, I LOVED Shakespeare, and understood him as easy as breathing. Finally, I thought. Something worth reading. My essays, if I may say so myself, outdid many of the things I write today. But all the A’s on my essays were downgraded when I refused to take off my makeup in drama class. My teacher was FURIOUS. (a man) I had the worst case of acne, and I just would not do it, and so therefore, I got a C. I started to hate school.
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My last year in high school, I was so bored I wanted to quit. My dad, talked me out of it, and that was that, I stayed in. But I have NEVER had a love for schools of any kind. I’m afraid I didn’t do much better in college. Oh, I got A’s, but I was furious with the teachers, the systems, the whole set up. I wanted MORE not less. When I read the Education of Henry Adams, I felt like I’d come home–okay, this contempt for the educational system runs in the family. I forgave myself, or should I say, Henry forgave me.
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Thank goodness, I was tired of blaming myself.
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But I almost dropped out of high school, which would have been a disaster. And now, 6.2 million kids a year drop out of high school in the United States. Kids are frustrated….and bored. They introduced John Dewey and the rest is sad history.
Reading, writing, and arithmetic are old rhymes in a old book.
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The biggest mistake our schools do, is put the brightest of their students out to pasture, while they spent countless hours trying to keep the slow ones “equal.” Is it any wonder so many of them turn to video games?
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The United States is 17th among nations in education. Even in the land of Shakespeare, most of their population is right along with us. What does this mean?
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I have no idea. Only that, we have come a long way baby when it comes to teaching the minds of the young, the evolution of education in America, is going back to B.S. —Before Shakespears.***
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Say about…two thousand years.

June 3, 2011 Posted by | education | | 3 Comments

If I Were A Rich Man…La, de, da..

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Someone in South Florida just built this special Pirates of the Caribbean theater. If you know him, tell him to call me. Okay, If I were a rich man, I would build this same thing in 3-D. It costs $2.5 million dollars. All it needs is Johnny. And for an extra treat, included is a Pirate Bar. And probably wenches. And popcorn. Okay. The Pirates of the Caribbean was my favorite ride at Disneyworld. What does that mean? Go ahead, and explain.

 

June 3, 2011 Posted by | Money | | Leave a comment

I’m All Weinered Out…How Bout’ You?

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The Middle-East is bursting with chants of “kill the Jews”; the U.S. economy is about to go into double-dip depression; Obama is about to grab more power by grabbing control of the internet; Sarah Palin is meeting with Donald Trump; and what is EVERYONE talking about?

Weiner’s underpants. (Which I ALMOST posted, but decided to post Demi Moore’s instead, simply for the point being…posting yourself in your underwear will get you LOTS of tweets, and attention. I imagine Weiner is not the only moron doing this.

Wait— Did I just call Demi’s husband a moron?

What you have to ask yourself is why Weiner even TOOK the picture in the first place, (from the angle of the shot, I’d say it had to be the wiener owner taking the picture) —but how in the world did it get on the internet?
That’s the question on everybody’s mind. He has not refuted the fact that it’s HIS picture, but that he had nothing to do with it appearing.
And his wife doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal. (What happened to the good old days of fidelity?)

I guess they think since the movie stars all do it, it’s pretty well accepted, which brings me to Demi Moore and her husband, Ashton Kutcher. There is an obvious contradiction in the fact that Ashton and Demi are running a campaign to stop young women being trafficked in prostitution. Somehow putting up shots of your wife bending over, is not exactly in tune with your message. You cannot tell if Demi is thirteen or fifty in that picture.

And explain this: As you can see, Ashton is holding a sign that says, “Real Men don’t buy girls.”

Nobody says to Ashton, “Real men also don’t post obscene pictures of their wife in underwear on the internet, unless you’re embarrassed that she is SO much older than you, and you want to make a point.”

The same goes for Weiner, “Real men don’t put up lewd pictures of themselves on the internet when they are married, or anytime for that matter, if they have half a brain.”

Maybe Weiner should campaign to STOP the upcoming vote outlawing circumcision in San Francisco. Spin his story with the picture, and say, See—there is a very good reason to not outlaw circumcision, and I’m proof.

He wanted to show it off, so…why not do something noble with it?

Nobody Thinks it’s just another, “Quick, run with this Weiner story.” orders from whoever runs the news, to get us all redirected from all the really bad stuff going down, because America is getting really tired of hearing about it.

  UPDATE: Sex stories will get your mind in the gutter EVERY time, even me. I posted an obvious remark in my last post, “I don’t wear underwear.” Because, I don’t. I find it annoying…unless I have a dress on. And then I realized how that simple comment could be taken, by pretty much all men, as a suggesting moment. I Actually meant it as part of the story. (too late, already posted.)

Let me apologize, and say…I had been watching Weiner stories all day long yesterday, and my mind had been corrupted with the national concern of Weiner and his wiener. It seemed to fit the mood. What I should have said was, “I do not wear Weiner underwear.”

Next time, I’ll get it right.

June 2, 2011 Posted by | Media, politics | | Leave a comment

And Now, Another Word From Our Sponcer…

 Nobody Flashes

This is called Aurora Australis. The picture was taken over Hobart.

It also makes you wonder if you were standing underneath that beautiful display, would you turn on your cellphone?

I’m just saying.

(Thanks to amfortas, who sent this beauty.)

June 2, 2011 Posted by | Life | | 1 Comment

To Debit, or NOT to Debit? OR…

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Let me confess: I LOVE my debit card. Yes, I remember the old days, back when men were men, and women washed diapers by hand…when you had to carry all that nasty cash around in your pocket. When you were at the store, you had to get out your wallet, and pull out the ten or twenty, and then you got change. SOME of us actually remember that.

Somewhere around the end of the twentieth century, even finding the correct change to give the cashier would get you at least five dirty looks from the people standing behind you. So, most people came home and threw the change in a big jar, heaven forbid they should hold up ANY line. This small change would later would put their sons through college.

Ha! Never again!

The women got the worst of it back then, because the men will only carry the bills. No man wants to be seen with a big LUMP in their pockets, (unless of course, you are a Weiner) which meant the women had to put all the coins, pennies, and quarters in her purse. It was the original “trickle down” concept to which later, Ronald Reagan based his financial budget policy on. The man spent the money, (Okay, we give them the credit for earning it…) and then the woman took all those drips of nickels and dimes that trickled down to her…and hid them from the man, Then, she would take those big jars, and use the money to buy clothes and shoes, which she also hid.

Are you kidding? Women are reincarnated squirrels. This secret hoarding went on for years. The last thing a man will do is venture into a woman’s closet, least you get caught admiring a dress.

Notice, I said…”Man”

If you didn’t have any money on you, you wrote a check. This got at least TEN people behind you wanting to shove you in a cart and roll you into the frozen food section. Remember, checks USED to be issued free to bank customers. Some banks even threw in toasters and guns for your business!

HA! Never again!

Now, you have to buy your checks, at triple-inflationary prices!

But, something HAD to be done about all this free cash floating around, sooooo, one day, someone at some bank decided, why not make a “debit” card so that the poor people wouldn’t have to stand in line anymore? They could just flick the one card through the machine, and the machine would say “ok!” and you were on your way, leaving lots of room in women’s purses for hair spray, dog treats, fashionable shoes, workout clothes, and baby wipes.

Did you ever wonder why the women now are fatter? It’s because they stopped dragging around bags full of heavy coins. “We have to give up something for progress.” said the bankers.

And the bankers were right. Now, a whole nation is hooked on debit cards. It’s easy, it’s fun, it’s so fast….and we can spend as much as we want and even more, and to make things even greater, we can go online to our bank accounts and see ALLLLLLLLLL the money we spent and how much it cost, and what we bought…and somewhere in cyberspace anyone can see just what where we bought it, and if there was sex involved.

You think the empty water bottles are a problem? It doesn’t even compare to the trail of every transaction being done every minute of the day. Yes, a huge paper trail of debit card transactions dominate the universe.

Nobody Thinks the great records of every transaction every man and women in the world have made, are hidden in Las Vegas, and under Harry Reid’s beck and call to sell this important information to the highest bidder—which is China. What? Do.you think we only sold them our garbage?

And now that they know everyone LOVES their debit card, it’s time to tax it every time you use it.

WHAT?

To make things fair, our bankers have decided that if you are a millionaire and buy a yacht for $250,000, and use your debit card…that transaction will only cost you 23 cents. (if our Congress has its way) And if you are a mere nobody, and want to buy a Slurpee at your local quickie mart for 99 cents, that transaction will cost you…23 cents.

It’s the hope and change that Obama promised!

Once again, the banks are NOT going to make much money off the millionaires, they aren’t millionaire for nothing you know, how do you think they got that way? Our “government” buttheads have to come up with some way to “tax’ the people.

The rich guys who own them, said, “You’d better figure out a way FAST, to save the banks!” Yes, the banks are in trouble—which means less money for the people who need lots of it. People are paying off their credit cards and the great profit from credit card fees is dwindling.

So, in comes the Federal Reserve: To save the merchants, it will price freeze the cost that the credit cards like Visa and MasterCard can charge them for each transaction. The banks will lose a big bulk of money, and so..they will charge you now for using a debit card. In other words, for using your own money. Pass the loss onto the customer.

No more toasters, no more crooks, no more banker’s dirty books.

Think: how many times a day do you use your debit card? On a average shopping day, I can go up to six to seven stores, that’s another $1.61 that the bank makes off me. I figure if I use my debit care just every other day, the bank will make around $300 dollars a year. Multiply that by 300 million and they make…

Now see, this is the problem. I can’t use my $1.00 calculator that I bought at the dollar store with my debit card to do this math. And that’s what they are counting on.

The little banks will be hurt by this, BECAUSE, many people will just take money out of their banks again and start paying cash. They will hide their money in grandma’s old underwear drawer. And those little banks will lose money, but the bigger banks, will have Uncle Bernanke to bail them out.

Like I said, I LOVE my debit card, but if the Feds get their way again, I’m going back to my hoarding, squirrely ways. And I know LOTS of places to hide my money.And if you come into my house looking for it, I’m saving you the trouble. My grandma is dead, and I… don’t wear underwear.

HA! Never Again!

June 1, 2011 Posted by | budget, capitalism, economy, Federal Reserve | | 2 Comments

Get Out Your Afro’s…Join the FACEBOOK Revolution!

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I was watching this young black kid, while waiting for my pizza tonight. He was about sixteen–tall, skinny kid— and he was pacing back and forth, while talking into his cell phone. After having read every single advertisement in the crowded little foyer, the only other option I had to ease my boredom, was to try to eaves drop on his phone conversations.
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Forget it. I couldn’t understand one single word.
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He was speaking English I think, but it was his own version. At first glance, he looked like all the young black kids in the neighborhood. He had jeans on with all of seven VERY big holes in the knees and down the legs. ( I counted them.) But, at closer look, there was no doubt, they were brand new. You can always tell new jeans, they have a fresh, never-been-washed or stained look. You can buy them all ripped up now…it’s the latest fad.
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His stripped polo shirt was also brand new. And his tennis shoes…red and black– very expensive and not a spot on them. He was talking on a rather expensive cell phone. And yet, the boy did not want to appear rich. He wanted to appear “poor” and “in” which this year seems to be the “I’m a victim of black racism” look.
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Okay, I admit— I once wore bell bottoms with a psychedelic jacket, and even for a joke, bought myself an afro wig, at sixteen, and wore it when I played pool. (see picture) Looking like a poor black revolutionary was VERY cool at the time. (I blame Sly Stone, but that’s me.)  While I looked a bit…befuddled in my “cool” wig, the kid today actually looked very nice, despite his attempts to distance himself from any kind of decency. Outside, his mother (who had never learned how to park evidently, or didn’t care) was waiting for him in her beautiful yellow Mercedes Benz.
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I forgot about him at once, but while I was eating my pizza at home in my kitchen table, the local news anchors were discussing how every night they were going to feature a person on FACEBOOK. (Like we care.) Up came a big face of some girl, and they were telling us what she likes, what her hobbies are…and I thought: Man…the news hour has gone completely under some far-out social agenda here. Hadn’t I recently read about a man named Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who helped organized Egypt’s protests? After his brief one day arrest, he stood before the worshiping crowd of young Muslims, and said: “I am not a hero, OK? I am not a hero, I am a very ordinary person. The heroes are the ones in he street.”
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Spoken like a true revolutionary. Beam me up, Trotsky.
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Nobody also remembers that not too long ago, ‘President’ Obama had called all the big CEOs of Facebook, Apple, Google, and many more titans of the internet to the White House to have a private conference with him.
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Coincidence?
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Do bedbugs like beds? Do roaches like old Fritos? Did a Wiener actually take a picture of his wiener?
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And, didn’t I just hear over the weekend that the riots last weekend in Boston were organized? So organized that the police were overwhelmed.
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This was on Drudge:
The troopers called for backup. State Police streamed in, State Police Special Tactical Operations teams and Boston SWAT teams arrived, and the Boston Police Department activated its Emergency Deployment Teams, which brought officers into South Boston from all over the city. State, Boston, Boston Housing, UMass, and Transit Police responded, for a total of more than 100 police officers. Police said the gang members are part of a group of more than 1,000 youths who have used social media sites like Facebook to plan unruly gatherings on the beach on three of the past four nights.
Oh boy…what FUN it is to be in the “in” crowd and go to a big riot party! Wow. Pass the drugs…man.
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Boston has had its black/white issues for some time now, but the national news has all but covered it up. And Boston wasn’t the only city that had “gang” problems: Miami had a gang shooting in South Beach, Myrtle had a big riot at the Black Bike Event, Rochester Beach was closed down due to gangs running among the families on the beach, and a Nashville Water Park had to close early, first time on a Memorial Weekend, due to the trouble being caused by…blacks. There, I said the obvious. BUT…good thing I’m not a cop, because JUST IN TIME to save his FACEBOOK gang of brothers, Obama has come out with both racist guns wailing.
In a marked shift from the Bush administration, President Obama’s Justice Department is aggressively investigating several big urban police departments for systematic civil rights abuses such as harassment of racial minorities, false arrests, and excessive use of force.
Buckle-up boys…keep those batons in your belt.
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Does Obama WANT the riots to go on? Is that why the hard-line with the police?
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There is an excellent piece on WorldNet Daily by Mychal Massie that answers this important question today. He claims that the Obama’s do NOT like white people, and go on to explain their deep connections with Marxists’. He says that Michelle is behind much of this. (See here.)
Michelle Obama has a deep contempt for white people in America – something she has not been shy in making expressly clear for those who have cared to listen. Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are committed Marxist-Leninists. (Michelle worked for them.) And it stands to reason no law firm hires outside of its comfort zone – so it is that the elements came together to meld the Obama’s into what they are today, i.e., Marxist-Leninists people blindly think are liberals.
So there you have it. The Obama’s are using the FACEBOOK to get the young, blacks to riot….again. It’s the same old Marxists from the sixties, coming back for one more time. Something tells me, it’s going to take more than that to make us all bow to the Marxists philosophy. He forgets…some of us old hippies remember the sixties, including the riots and the bad wigs….even the old revolutionary black ones who are driving Mercedes and buying their kids expensive cell phones. We do NOT want to go back there
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Obamacare hasn’t killed us all off yet.
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So, our youth are once again being manipulated. They want to be “in,”— it’s the nature of the young. FACEBOOK is a perfect way to gather them all to get together and act stupid, and they will never know, until they are old, that they were being manipulated by Marxists. I know, I didn’t figure out, well into my thirties.
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On the other hand, In Australia, the police soon will be able to slap fines of up to $240 dollars on people for using offensive words or phrases.
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If Obama gets reelected, the riots will get worse, and THEN,  I might move to Australia!. I’ll just talk like that kid I heard today in the Pizza pallor.
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They won’t be able to understand a word I’m saying.

May 31, 2011 Posted by | conspiracy, Obama | | 3 Comments

RIDE Those Greedy Hogs, Sarah!

Nobody’s Opinion: Memorial Day is over with, and what did we find out? Our Presidents care about the soldiers. (I say Presidents, plural, because NONE of them ever go away.) Over 6,000 have been killed and 43,000 injured from the now “three” wars we are fighting. (Or is it four? I’m losing count.)

They know they should at least put some Presidential PR effort into their photo-ops. ‘President Obama’ went overboard this year, actually laying the wreath at the Unknown Soldiers’ grave, unlike last year when he sent Joe Biden to lay the wreath. He showed up, made a speech, and went off to play golf. He’s just so thankful that they caught bin Laden on his watch he can’t stand the luck, and so he went off to celebrate. After all, Obama got the gay military issued solved, brought General Pretraeus back here, and is not any closer to winning any war.

Oh…we are not suppose to win wars anymore… I forgot.

Ex-President Bush, went bike riding with amputees from the Iraq war, and Fox devoted almost a half hour to the event. Message: If you are going to send them to war, you ought to be nice to them. So, I’d say, next year, Obama ought to at least invite some amputees to play golf, that is, if he wants to be welcomed back to Ft. Hood. Remember, President Bush stopped playing golf in respect to the boys who were dying overseas. So he rode his bike instead.

I still can’t figure out that logic, can you? And speaking of logic…

Nobody’s Perfect: Some couple in Sweden have decided that, “It’s cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead.” so they have made up their minds to not let anyone in the world know what sex their child is: including the child.

Well, that makes perfect sense.

I’d say the parents are being cruel here. If it’s not bad enough that they refuse to tell him/her anything about his gender, just wait till he/she gets to school and the kids all call him/her Pop.
Yes, these idiots named the kid, “Pop.”

Wait till the kids all gather round him/her singing, ‘Pop goes the weasel’ after they bag a few beanies on his/her head. Nobody wants to know what they are putting in the goat milk up there.

And speaking of what Nobody Knows..

 Nobody Knows what Janet Napolitano, our National Security Nazi, is drinking these days. Molesting everybody that moves, is not enough for her…she wants to use a sort of psychological spy machines…a lot like the ones in Minority Report. (The movie) These machines can tell from facial recognition if you are thinking of committing a crime.

So, last time I looked, I bet half the people on the planet are thinking of committing a crime. What if they profile some six-year-old kid who feels like stealing his little sister’s hot dog? What are they going to do? Arrest him?

Well of course they are! You can’t dance under the Jefferson Memorial, what makes you can even think about stealing a hot dog!? Wait, they search malevolent babies now. This will start us on a new road to BEFORE you commit a crime, we can arrest you. The new motto will be, “Guilty until proven innocent,” which is how I suggest we think of everyone in power…they are ALL guilty.

And speaking of power..

Nobody’s Fool: Netanyahu said this week, “No one has the power to stop the decision to recognize a Palestinian state in the UN General Assembly in September. It can also be possible to make the decision that that the world is flat. ” This means, that he will attack Iran, if push comes to shove, and make it flat to fit the bill…which brings me to the subject that nobody seems to care about…

Nobody Reports that Janet Napolitano told one of her best friends to stock up on food and water, at least six months worth. Gee Janet, when are you going to tell the rest of us?

And in a more humorous mood…

Nobody Wonders how a University Professor from Columbia, got lost in a Louisiana swamp for four days looking for “ducks”? Right. Probably very stoned ducks. Nobody also wonders how a smart guy like him, with all the rain we’ve been having, he could NOT find fresh water, and resorted to drinking his own urine?

And we are suppose to be impressed? Just what did he learn in college? And speaking of being impressed…

Nobody Remembers when she asked her father, one me Memorial Day long ago, what he remembered about the war? The first thing he told me was that he learned how to sleep with his eyes open, because the rats in the South Pacific were as big as dogs and would bite. From that time on, I would have to check to see if he was asleep or awake when I got home late from a date by flashing my hands in front of his eyes, when he was on the couch. Yep. He kept that talent until he died.

And speaking of checking things out…

 Nobody Wins when the country is going bankrupt and most people this holiday season, skipped the “events’ which can put you back money you are going to need to buy that water and food for six months.
No, around my neighborhood, everyone just mowed their lawns..and

Nobody Cared when they heard the news about two women “wrestling” around 3.15 in Atlanta in their hotel room. They just went and wrestled right out the ten- story window. Lashawana’s 30th birthday ended with a big flash. Something tells me that alcohol might have been involved.(Dave Barry strikes again.) And speaking of flashing…

 Nobody Flashes: At least Sarah Palin gave us an excellent uplift, when she rode into DC with the bikers on Memorial Day. This picture is one of my favorite of her.

Thanks Sarah.  Next year, Nobody would like it better than to see you drive one of those big hogs into town, don’t just ride on the back, next time, drive one in yourself. Start practicing.

Nobody Thinks the United States has lots of roads for you to practice on, and they all lead to Washington D.C., the city of Greedy Hogs, just waiting to be tied.

May 30, 2011 Posted by | politics | | 6 Comments

Nobody Remembers: Hope

Nobody Remembers

Rather than post the usual memorial…I thought, how about a rememberance of all the good this one entertainer did in his lifetime.? Through the film, you realize, just how many wars America has faught, and how many lives were givin up for our way of life..and all the entertainers of the past that went into harm’s way to bring the boys some cheer.

God bless them all.

May 30, 2011 Posted by | Just life | | 1 Comment

Nobody Reports a Blast of British Fresh Air

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This guy is one of my favorite blogsters. Pat Condell is his name, and I have no idea if he is famous in England, or just a regular guy. Nevertheless, I would certainly buy him a cup of tea. Too bad he isn’t Prime Minister.

I’m expecting comments from the peanut/coconut gallery!

May 29, 2011 Posted by | Middle East | | 2 Comments

What to Look for in a Republican Presidential Candidate

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This is what we should be looking for in a Republican Candidate, if a liberal or Rhino tries to pass you on the trail…
Just push them off the road.
It’s pretty clear.

May 28, 2011 Posted by | Elections | | 4 Comments

The Arab Marshall Plan Trumps FEMA

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Let me get this straight: The G-8 has decided to give the Arab uprising billions of dollars which they don’t have?

Deauville. France–The Group of Eight Industrialized economies pledged Friday to provide billions of dollars in funding to newly democratic nations in North Africa and Middle East, underscoring big nations’ eagerness to press reforms in the region, but kicking many key decisions about financial support to later in the year. (Well of course! Why pay now?) Several G-8 nations are struggling with large public debt, (like, cough, us) making hefty foreign aid programs controversial. As a result, they are channeling their efforts through international institutions they fund, (so no one can see the records) including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, African Development Bank, and European investment Bank. Official also endorsed a plan to reorient the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which helped rebuild Central Eastern Europe     —       Wall Street Journal

Oh, how nice. Now we are going to build the Middle-East. Peachy.

Yes, and who mostly finances the World Bank? And who also recently pushed most of the Stimulus money meant to give jobs to Americans to the European Banks? If you say Australia, you might want to think again, and throw another beer down the pie-hole.

Can you say…taxes? (No, I can’t either, I’m having trouble saying ‘blarney.’)

In the meantime we hear that this very same country, which is going to be giving billions of dollars to the great Arab Spring, can’t seem to help the poor people in its own country, who just got wiped out by the deadliest tornado on record.

Here’s a man’s account, emailed to my girlfriend, who emailed it to me. He knew some people down there:

“There were FIVE deaths at Pizza Hut. Of these deaths, one was a 16 year old girl (employee) and another was the manager who is credited with saving the lives of my family and the other survivors. He held the freezer door shut with a bungee cord until the door finally gave away and sucked him up into the tornado. He leaves two small children from what I understand. It has been very tragic. Although my dads’ house is fine (but was very close to the path), he lost a second rental home in which we still have not been able to determine if that family is alive. My dad’s car is destroyed. My husband’s Aunt lived one block west of St John’s on 26th and lost everything but she is okay. My family has several close friends who lost their homes completely. My son’s teacher lived behind Wal-Mart in the Plaza apartments and lost her home as well as his Art teacher too. It has been very tragic and sad. We may not all have physical injuries, but we have definitely been hurt here. I know Wilma also has several family members who lost their homes etc. I grew up in Joplin. This is not where I live today but it is my home. Please pray for the Joplin area!”

And good news folks! FEMA…is running out of disaster money! We are being told NOT to send clothes, OR food, OR blankets, to the people, but just to send money to FEMA. You see, all that other stuff just gets in the way.

As you can see, I am shocked. When a country leaders decide it’s more important to fund “democracy” in countries that are our enemies, over helping out its own citizens, you can bet we are not in Kansas anymore Toto.

Nope, we’re in Joplin, looking for our pizza man, who can’t find his car.

May 27, 2011 Posted by | Global Government | | 1 Comment

To Food Stamp, or NOT to Food Stamp: That is the Rationing Question

Nobody Cares
“I want to see the manager.” I said.
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I was standing in front of the counter at my local grocery store, and I was totally confused. No matter how much the guy behind the counter kept saying, “Well, that’s your food stamp total, you did get your ten dollar off,” that’s not what I saw. What I saw on the screen was $53.10 total, and $3.67 cents tax, which comes out to $56.77, NOT $70.15 which is what he said I owned him. It was “buy 50 dollars worth of groceries and get $10 off your purchase” day at Shop & Save.
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“I still don’t get it–how can I owe $70.00 dollars when the screen says my total is $53.10?” I was trying pretty hard to buy just enough items to add up to just $50.00 so that I could get the discount. The lady standing behind me…agreed. We were both looking at the same figures.
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“Yes, you did…you got fifty dollars, but you cannot claim milk on that.”
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The guy kept bringing up the food stamp total. Food stamps. He kept saying the words “food stamps.” Why? I was paying cash. When Obama said he was going to bring change, who knew it would be in such simple things as my grocery bill?
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It use to be, the screens were set up for cash, and those with food stamps would hand them over to the cashier—no more. They have set up the machines in my neighborhood, very EXPENSIVE screens I might add, for FOOD STAMPS. If you are paying cash, you cannot figure it out. The totals on the screen while you are standing at the counter are tallying up your food stamps cost.  If you are paying cash…you have no idea what is going on.
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The food stamp people have become the norm at my local Shop and Save and the customer that is paying cash is clueless to the screen, in fact he doesn’t exist anymore…only when you get your actual receipt.
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“You’ll see it on your receipt” said the cashier.
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The manager came over..and I started talking, “I still don’t get it. I’ve been shopping her for over five years, and the total came to fifty dollars and I should have had to pay forty….”
“Well, you had milk. He showed me the ad in the paper which said: cigarettes, alcohol, and milk were not included in the ten dollar sale.”
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To which I said, “This is completely unrelated to the fact THAT I WAS NOT ON FOOD STAMPS!”
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He seemed sorry. My bill had come out to $80 dollars, and I did get my ten dollars off, he said. Okay, if that’s the deal, THEN SHOW MY ITEMS ON THE SCANNER! I want to see my total: $80.00 plus tax! ON the screen!”
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But they don’t. ONLY the food stamp totals are on the big screens in front of your face….you, dear honest citizen of the New World of Obama and freebies, YOU are not as important as our food stamp customers.
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Looking up food stamps I found that in Missouri, food stamps are the norm. So, who can get food stamps? You have two ways…don’t work, or be an immigrant, and remember, even the cops can’t ask you if you are illegal, so that opens the doors to more than a few million getting free food.
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It seems every immigrant in the world can get them. Refugees, Asylees, deportees, Cuban, Haitian, Amerasian, (Now there’s a new word!) Hmong, or Highland Laotian tribal members who helped during the Vietnam era, American Indians born in Canada, (?) members of Indian tribes, parolees, battered spouses, and last but not least…veterans. As far as I can see, the veterans are the only ones who SHOULD be able to get them. What did all those other people do for us?
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Oh…if you are an immigrant and are blind and disabled you can get food stamps too. They probably even throw in lobster on Fridays.
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The key word here is: RECENT…Immigrant. No wonder they all want to come here. Food Stamps!
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Okay, many of us are having a big problem with food prices…so it really burns us that so many people are eating for free while we pay not only for OUR big bills, but for theirs too.
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I used to think paying $8.00 for a small roast was expensive. Today, that same roast cost $19.50. And I tell you what, I don’t believe it’s just due to the price of oil, do you?
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You can Shop now, but you don’t Save.
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So what happens next? All I can think of is that in WWII…many things were rationed. The government gave out coupons, and stamps for sugar, or whatever food you would get. This also happened with clothes and gas.
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Nobody thinks they want to go back to those days.
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I find it very, very disturbing that these machines, are set up for “food stamps” instead of regular cash. It’s as IF they are expecting to once again, in the near future…ration food for us all. In other words, the guy with cash will have to go get government food stamps if he wants to eat. The government will once again, be able to ration food.
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And you know what? They won’t even have to start WWIII to do it. It will…just happen.
Like all the malls disappearing…who would have thought?
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Glenn Beck was right. Start piling up…if you can— or marry an Indian born in Canada. Remember, if some day food is being rationed because of some “crisis” …the machines were already here.

May 26, 2011 Posted by | Global Government | | 2 Comments

Arab Spring…Coming to Your Men’s Fashion Store Soon

Nobody Cares
Nobody owns as many silly hats as I do, nevertherless…as I look around the world at other people’s hats, I must admit I’m a bit amazed.
Listening to Obama deliver his main theme of the wonderful world of the Arab democracy spring today in London, I couldn’t help wonder if the new fashion statement that they will be trying to get the young men to wear all over the world, so as to honor the new ARAB spring…is going just a bit too far.
Not the Fergie’s daughter didn’t at the Royal Wedding.
If I had to choose, I’d take J. Egar Hoover’s hat over the lot of them. There’s nothing I’d like better than to be a 33 master mason.
Until then, I remain…as you can see…cross-eyed.

May 25, 2011 Posted by | Global Government, Life | , | 9 Comments

NEVER AGAIN!–Will Obama Remember the Year It Was Said?

Nobody Flashes
We saw today, proof of the results of the Bell Curve. If you have ever read that book, then you will know why it was banned pretty much in all liberal cycles. The Bell Curve was a book written by two famous scientists who took IQ tests of every nationality, and came up with the conclusion that Jews were the smartest people on the planet. And historical facts prove that. The Jewish people have dominated the Nobel Peace Prize Winners, and just about every other field of importance, most of historical history.
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And today, we witnessed two historical moments that will be played in classes to future students in every western nation. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, confronted both Houses of Congress..stating truths so strong, and so obvious, even Obama’s own party had to stand and cheer. He would NOT give up Jerusalem. He would not give up too much land. And once again, reiterated the fact that millions of Muslims are wanting to kill the Jews.
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Never again, he said. Never again.
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He used no teleprompter. He used his passion, his heart..and the brilliant brain that God gave him.
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After that speech, I knew that HE knew that on this issue, America is not with their President. After all, we are not exactly a dumb people, we are brave. We are kind. And we don’t like losing our freedoms. In fact, we are getting downright sick of it.
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We also know our current President has made the most horrible mistake of siding with murderous Muslims, over the Jews, and we feel powerless to stop him, and ashamed. (At least those of us with sense.) After his speech, of course, the Palestinians said it was an act of war. Frankly, most anything is an act of war to these people, so we should expect more hatred coming from them all.
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Netanyahu did a beautiful Ronald Reagan. He went around the President, and directly to the American people, one of the things Reagan was good at.
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Today we also hear that Iran is escalating the building of its nukes. Now, the Jewish leader put the ball is in Obama’s court. Does he stop the Iranians? Everything that he has done in the last few months has only empowered them. The Congress is behind the Jews. If he does not, he will be blamed.
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And then—another historical moment. The man who had insulted the Queen of England MORE than once, Obama, was honored with a state dinner, in which, he did not look his usual cocky self.
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Clearly, something had happened. Somewhere, Obama was put in his place, behind the scenes, it was all over his face. Maybe he was told, you cannot go starting WWIII just because you feel like it: you are hurting England too. England has a much bigger Muslim population. No one was looking at each other at the dinner table. You could have put a ten foot- wall of ice between Prince Charles and Hillary. (Or preferably for Charles, some big trees)
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Michelle, at one moment, was looking at her husband with such pity on her face..really, her big brown eyes looked almost in tears. She felt sorry for him…for some reason. And then… he flubbed the toast.
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Trying his best to apologize, trying to make up for past bad behavior, where he, no doubt, felt he was so powerful that it didn’t matter who he insulted…that attitude has come back to bite him, and hard.
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Because today.. this historical day….the battle lines were drawn, at the Wailing Wall. The West must band together. We are all so weak economically that we have no choice. THIS is the deciding moment.
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The Muslims see a weak President, and are going to go for the throat soon. Netanyahu, made sure they knew that even if the American President was not behind him…the Congress was. And the Queen of England was showing her support for America. It was our oldest allies coming through despite the madness of the man in the White House.
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He said it clearly today. Jerusalem should be opened to Jews, Christians AND Muslims, and that will only happen if the Jews control it. If the Muslims get it, only the Muslims will be allowed to visit. They already have Mecca, I mean..good god…isn’t that big enough for them? The reason they want Jerusalem is the final nail in victory. They always put their mosques right next to the churches. Once there, they will kill the Jews.
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From all accounts, the great war is coming. Let’s just hope Obama is not in the White House if it does.
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God Bless Benjamin Netanyahu…This nobody, considers him…not only a great Jewish leader, but today, a real American hero. And to be an American hero, you need a LOT more than a high IQ..you need courage. And that’s not always easy to find. He may have to lead us all back to the hard reality…of NEVER AGAIN.

May 24, 2011 Posted by | British, Islam, Middle East, Presidents, Uncategorized | | 3 Comments

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