Well, I guess I'm offended. I got an e-mail invitation to join other Big And Beautiful people in their quest for a date.
Gees. Who would think ten pounds would catapult me into this category? I'm a little offended. I'm also married and my husband frowns on me dating other men. Maybe that's why he asked me for a date last night and took me out to hear some fine blues performed by masterful local musicians. It was fun to go out on a date at the age of 61. We need to do this more often. We have movie dates and dinner dates once in awhile, but really good music in a club that served Dreamsicle cocktails using their own brewed orange soda was a little bit more fun. I can't remember the last time my husband and I danced, so another wrong righted. I even wore a dress.
I digress.
Big and Beautiful dating website. I didn't click on it, somewhat afraid of what I might see. I'm thinking though that what the world needs is a little more honesty, so how about I create a dating web site called Aging, Annoyed and Argumentative looking for similarly Disgruntled. I'm sure there are people out there my age who have lost their spouses and just can't seem to meet someone fun to hang with.
Then again, there is a quiet dignity in solitude and memory.
Still, New Year's Eve, it would be fun to kick up our aching heels a little and get a midnight kiss. Aging, Annoyed and Argumentative people everywhere, send me your profile information and I will try to match you with a compatible curmudgeon. Note: I have the world's worst track record in setting people up so this disclaimer absolves me from all hook up disasters. I think I'm using that hook up phrase wrongly. Or maybe not. How feisty are the Aged, Annoyed and Argumentative?
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
What Are You Doing?
I just made a pan of lasagna, and no skimping on the ingredients, for the homeless shelter for this evening's meal. My husband and I do this regularly, and I started wondering what, if anything, others are doing to make this world a little less traumatic for someone.
What did you do this year to help take the terror out of Planet Earth?
Maybe you gave away your old clothes. That is always good, people need clothes, even clothes that belonged to someone with no fashion sense whatsoever.
Maybe you dropped some change into the Salvation Army's red bucket outside of Pick 'N Save.
Maybe you donated your time and/or money to an organization in need.
Maybe you did just one little thing that didn't matter much, except to the one person for whom it mattered greatly.
Or maybe, like a lot of people out there, you did nothing. Maybe you have the mindset of the 1%, that anyone can make it in this country and if you can't, well, you're not my problem, you're a victim of your own inertia.
I wonder if we ever stop to think about how one act of kindness or charity costs us very little, so why don't we do it more often?
The holidays tend to bring out a more generous side to most people, but there are 51 other weeks out there when generosity stays at home.
I propose every "have" on the planet do one little thing, one small thing, each day to ease the suffering of less fortunate fellow earthlings. I bet if we did, the world would be a brighter place, not only for the downtrodden, but for ourselves, as well.
Wonder what the Koch Brothers are doing tonight? I'm sure they're on the phone to Washington screaming about tax hikes. Don't be a Koch. Make this your motto for 2013.
What did you do this year to help take the terror out of Planet Earth?
Maybe you gave away your old clothes. That is always good, people need clothes, even clothes that belonged to someone with no fashion sense whatsoever.
Maybe you dropped some change into the Salvation Army's red bucket outside of Pick 'N Save.
Maybe you donated your time and/or money to an organization in need.
Maybe you did just one little thing that didn't matter much, except to the one person for whom it mattered greatly.
Or maybe, like a lot of people out there, you did nothing. Maybe you have the mindset of the 1%, that anyone can make it in this country and if you can't, well, you're not my problem, you're a victim of your own inertia.
I wonder if we ever stop to think about how one act of kindness or charity costs us very little, so why don't we do it more often?
The holidays tend to bring out a more generous side to most people, but there are 51 other weeks out there when generosity stays at home.
I propose every "have" on the planet do one little thing, one small thing, each day to ease the suffering of less fortunate fellow earthlings. I bet if we did, the world would be a brighter place, not only for the downtrodden, but for ourselves, as well.
Wonder what the Koch Brothers are doing tonight? I'm sure they're on the phone to Washington screaming about tax hikes. Don't be a Koch. Make this your motto for 2013.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
New Years Resolutions I'd Like to See
1. Scott Walker. I will stop pretending I know anything about anything.
2. Mitt Romney. I will pay 47% in taxes on my offshore illegal investments.
3. Barack Obama. I will kick John Boerner's a$$ from here to Kenya.
4. Anne Coulter. I will dress up in leather and bop a liberal, all while keeping my eyes open.
5. Ron Johnson. I do solemnly swear to lose reelection by doing what I do best. Nothing.
6. Donald Trump. I will shave my head.
7. Paul Ryan. I will lose my schoolboy charm and have an affair with a Catholic woman who has had an abortion.
8. George Bush, Sr. I will die.
9. George Dubya Bush. I will stand trial in The Hague for war crimes.
10. Chris Abele. I will stop sticking it to Milwaukee County employees/retirees and commit Sheriff Clarke to the Behavioral Health Division for observation.
11. Sheriff Clarke. I will stop making a horse's a$$ out of myself at every opportunity. I will also buy a portable electro-convulsive therapy machine and hook myself up whenever I start to feel tea-partyish.
12. Lindsey Lohan. I will give up on the craft and become a full-fledged junkie, once and for all. I will also buy burglarly tools; shoplifting is too hard.
2. Mitt Romney. I will pay 47% in taxes on my offshore illegal investments.
3. Barack Obama. I will kick John Boerner's a$$ from here to Kenya.
4. Anne Coulter. I will dress up in leather and bop a liberal, all while keeping my eyes open.
5. Ron Johnson. I do solemnly swear to lose reelection by doing what I do best. Nothing.
6. Donald Trump. I will shave my head.
7. Paul Ryan. I will lose my schoolboy charm and have an affair with a Catholic woman who has had an abortion.
8. George Bush, Sr. I will die.
9. George Dubya Bush. I will stand trial in The Hague for war crimes.
10. Chris Abele. I will stop sticking it to Milwaukee County employees/retirees and commit Sheriff Clarke to the Behavioral Health Division for observation.
11. Sheriff Clarke. I will stop making a horse's a$$ out of myself at every opportunity. I will also buy a portable electro-convulsive therapy machine and hook myself up whenever I start to feel tea-partyish.
12. Lindsey Lohan. I will give up on the craft and become a full-fledged junkie, once and for all. I will also buy burglarly tools; shoplifting is too hard.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas!
It is a day of feasting, joy and peace.
It is also a day of cleaning up wrapping paper, dishes, and trying to get jello stains off cashmere sweaters.
It is a day of cookies, roast anything, and mulled wine.
It is a good day to reflect on the past year.......or forget it; your choice.
So don your gay apparel, and head off to your Christmas reunions.
Eat, drink and be merry.
This little light of mine; I'm gonna let it shine!
It is also a day of cleaning up wrapping paper, dishes, and trying to get jello stains off cashmere sweaters.
It is a day of cookies, roast anything, and mulled wine.
It is a good day to reflect on the past year.......or forget it; your choice.
So don your gay apparel, and head off to your Christmas reunions.
Eat, drink and be merry.
This little light of mine; I'm gonna let it shine!
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Anarchy Anyone?
Well, let's see. The NRA came out with quite possibly the most moronic answer to curb gun violence; arm more people. Put more guns out there. Arm everyone. Anyone or anything that thinks like Sheriff Clarkes does is in serious trouble.
Yep, it's a shoot out at the not so okay corral, otherwise known as the good old United States of Armed (and Dangerous Idiots).
When a person is sick, you don't give him a hundred times the prescribed dose of medicine in hopes that it will cure him.
More guns is about as intelligent an answer as the NRA and the GOP could come up with. How did these intellectually compromised people come to power? Oh yeah, I forgot. They're leading mostly intellectually compromised individuals. Right to the slaughter.
How do I despise this country? Let me count the ways.
If any mad scientists out there have developed a truly smart water, nows the time to market it. Make mine alcoholic, please.
Yep, it's a shoot out at the not so okay corral, otherwise known as the good old United States of Armed (and Dangerous Idiots).
When a person is sick, you don't give him a hundred times the prescribed dose of medicine in hopes that it will cure him.
More guns is about as intelligent an answer as the NRA and the GOP could come up with. How did these intellectually compromised people come to power? Oh yeah, I forgot. They're leading mostly intellectually compromised individuals. Right to the slaughter.
How do I despise this country? Let me count the ways.
If any mad scientists out there have developed a truly smart water, nows the time to market it. Make mine alcoholic, please.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
SHERIFF CLARKE NUTTIER THAN A CHRISTMAS FRUITCAKE
In the wake of yet another tragedy perpetrated by a mentally ill person with assault weapons, Sheriff Clarke is calling for armed officers and guards in every public place.
Uh huh......funded by whom?
Not that funding is the issue.
The issue is the fact that guns are legal and people don't want the right to bear arms taken from them. Well, it's time to abolish this right, has been for a long time in an ever-increasingly violent and mentally ill United States. Sheriff Clarke is the poster boy for Tea Party Politics; how does this dude get elected as a democrat? Hopefully, he's made a big enough horse's a$$ of himself in the past year that we won't have to deal with his particular brand of crazy much longer.
Sheriff Clarke likens the suggestion of gun control as the "mind-set of sheep". I'm proud to be a peaceful lamb. Why is gun control so abhorrent to Sheriff Clarke? Is it his wolf mind-set? Does he like to put his deputies in danger everyday while people ride around with semi-automatic guns under their driver's seat? Does he think more guns make a safer society, because really, if that's his mind-set than he has either flipped his holster or he can't see the forest for the trees.
Comparing gun control as a knee jerk reaction and something that should be resisted with the ferociousness of a junk yard dog is typical Clarke - laughable and ridiculous. Seriously, a mental status exam needs to be ordered for this guy. His lunatic is really showing.
Ban all guns. Hunting will be allowed, but hunters will have to store their guns at a government warehouse and sign them in and out per hunting season. Hand guns should be completely illegal, and anyone caught with a hand gun should serve five years in prison, mandatory.
And just so you know, Mr. Clarke, none of we "liberals" are exploiting what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School to further gun control legislation. We're appalled at what happened. We're appalled at the number of weapons available in our society, and we're appalled at the lack of mental health treatment available to those members of our society who desperately need it. Like you.
Mr. Clarke further expresses the need to fund his crazy solution by cutting green programs and social safety nets. This guy is a disaster, and he's being paid for it by Milwaukee County. He posted all these comments on a Tea Party website, and now won't comment to the Journal/Sentinel reporter who is questioning his stand.
My question is, did Sheriff Clarke post these comments, which are anti-humane, on County time?
Uh huh......funded by whom?
Not that funding is the issue.
The issue is the fact that guns are legal and people don't want the right to bear arms taken from them. Well, it's time to abolish this right, has been for a long time in an ever-increasingly violent and mentally ill United States. Sheriff Clarke is the poster boy for Tea Party Politics; how does this dude get elected as a democrat? Hopefully, he's made a big enough horse's a$$ of himself in the past year that we won't have to deal with his particular brand of crazy much longer.
Sheriff Clarke likens the suggestion of gun control as the "mind-set of sheep". I'm proud to be a peaceful lamb. Why is gun control so abhorrent to Sheriff Clarke? Is it his wolf mind-set? Does he like to put his deputies in danger everyday while people ride around with semi-automatic guns under their driver's seat? Does he think more guns make a safer society, because really, if that's his mind-set than he has either flipped his holster or he can't see the forest for the trees.
Comparing gun control as a knee jerk reaction and something that should be resisted with the ferociousness of a junk yard dog is typical Clarke - laughable and ridiculous. Seriously, a mental status exam needs to be ordered for this guy. His lunatic is really showing.
Ban all guns. Hunting will be allowed, but hunters will have to store their guns at a government warehouse and sign them in and out per hunting season. Hand guns should be completely illegal, and anyone caught with a hand gun should serve five years in prison, mandatory.
And just so you know, Mr. Clarke, none of we "liberals" are exploiting what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School to further gun control legislation. We're appalled at what happened. We're appalled at the number of weapons available in our society, and we're appalled at the lack of mental health treatment available to those members of our society who desperately need it. Like you.
Mr. Clarke further expresses the need to fund his crazy solution by cutting green programs and social safety nets. This guy is a disaster, and he's being paid for it by Milwaukee County. He posted all these comments on a Tea Party website, and now won't comment to the Journal/Sentinel reporter who is questioning his stand.
My question is, did Sheriff Clarke post these comments, which are anti-humane, on County time?
Saturday, December 15, 2012
The NRA Has A Plan For Your Family
The NRA announced today that automatic weapons training classes will be held every Saturday at your local library for ages 4 to 6 at 10:00 a.m. Classes will be one half hour long. Register early and avoid the rush. Call 1-800-BLASTEM to reserve your seat today.
Don't send your child to school without proper armament. For the registration fee of $1900, your child will get a specially scaled Glock 9mm that will fit into his/her hand, a bullet proof vest, and proper and thorough education in the variables of when to shoot and when to play on the monkey bars.
Local sporting goods stores, in conjunction with NRA training, will have a 50% off sale on all holsters, boots, straps and shooter paraphernalia, so you never have to send your child out on the playground defenseless.
Support your local NRA chapter, and let's get guns into the hands of potential victims as soon as possible. Learn to be a Shooter TODAY!
Remember, a gun can be your most steadfast friend, no matter how old you are. It's never too early to start learning how to be a completely paranoid person. The NRA wants YOU!
Don't send your child to school without proper armament. For the registration fee of $1900, your child will get a specially scaled Glock 9mm that will fit into his/her hand, a bullet proof vest, and proper and thorough education in the variables of when to shoot and when to play on the monkey bars.
Local sporting goods stores, in conjunction with NRA training, will have a 50% off sale on all holsters, boots, straps and shooter paraphernalia, so you never have to send your child out on the playground defenseless.
Support your local NRA chapter, and let's get guns into the hands of potential victims as soon as possible. Learn to be a Shooter TODAY!
Remember, a gun can be your most steadfast friend, no matter how old you are. It's never too early to start learning how to be a completely paranoid person. The NRA wants YOU!
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