What is it with PETA? When they started out it was with the best of intentions,now they are nothing more than a joke. Earlier this year they stated that Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream needs to use a womans breast milk instead of cows milk to produce their ice cream. Now they are objecting to President Obamas swatting of a fly during an interview. Whats next? Are they going to go after the fisherman who baits his hook with a live worm or cricket? How about that poor fish that has a sharp hook impaled through its mouth? Or the bee that stings you and dies,are you responsible for its death? I am surprised that they don't go after the makers of flea collars for your pets,don't they know that millions of fleas are poisoned every day? How about going after the makers of mosquito repellant? It is a good thing that PETA was not around when the bubonic plague wiped out one third of Europe,if they were then the plague would still be as prevelant as it was back then because they would be protesting the killing of the mice and rats which the fleas that carried the plague were on.

My message to PETA is GET A LIFE AND LEAVE ALL OF US OUT OF IT. I think it is time to fire up the BBQ and grill some cow. My definition of PETA is and always has been, People Eating Tasty Animals.

I just posted this Microsoft Forefront Sweepstakes Widget for 500 credits. You can earn free credits too!

These are actual laws that are still on the books.

In Las Vegas Nevada,it's against the law to pawn your dentures.

In Natoma Kansas,its illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suites.

Its illegal to sleep with your boots on in Tulsa Oklahoma.

Michigan law forbids pet owners from tying their crocodiles to fire hydrants.

In Alabama,its illegal to play dominoes on Sunday.

It's illegal to eat snakes in Kansas.

It's illegal to walk your elephant without a leash in Wisconsin.

In California,it's illegal to hunt whales from your automobile. It is also against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dustrag.

Cotton Valley Louisiana,law forbids cows and horses from sleeping in a bakery.

The maximum penalty for double parking in Minneapolis Minnesota is working on a chain gang with nothing to eat or drink but bread and water.

Taken from Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers Institute.

I just came to my site after visiting Dans and commenting on the fact that Oprah will not let Sarah Palin come on her show because she doesn't want her show to be used as a political platform. Having never watched more than about 5-10 minutes of her show does not inhibit me from sharing my thoughts on this. As I pointed out on theologians cafe,it is Oprahs show and she can do as she damn well pleases. Someone said that she is being racist,I do not believe that for a second,She pays the help and the utility companies and everything asociated with her show and if she chooses to say that she will not have this candidate or that candidate on until after the election then so be it,it is her right to do so. If a person doesn't like it then there is a nifty device that they can use...A remote control for the television,either change the channel or turn the television off.

God help us if we get another republican in office for the next 4 years,McCain has already stated that he intends to spend $10,000,000,000.00 (ten Billion) a month on an ongoing war which we have no business fighting in the first place. There has NEVER been peace in that part of the world in recorded history and there never will be. If McCain gets in it will be just like Bush never left office save for the fact that the Vice President would look better than our present one. I noticed that although McCain criticized Obama for not having the experience to lead our country he has chosen someone with even LESS experience for his vice presidental running mate. Don't get me wrong,she does talk very well and knows how to work a crowd,but McCain IS 72 with a history of health problems to consider. If he won and a few months or even a year or two after he got in,he has a stroke which incapacitates him,then the country is being run by someone who has NO foreign policy experience. At least with Obama he has picked a seasoned senator for his running mate and if anything happened to Obama I have no doubt that Biden could step up to the plate and do a good job.

I know that for me this is a long blog and not everyone is going to agree with my statements,but that is what is so good about this country,We are allowed to express ourself even if the majority doesn't agree with us.

About 15 or 16 years ago I was having dinner with Jerry Clower and he told me a joke which is one of my favorites...here it is:

An insurance salesman went to a farm to try to sell the farmer a policy and while he was looking around he saw a pig with a wooden leg in the pigpen. He asks the farmer about the pig and was told that it's a special pig. "about 2 years ago I was in the back 40 plowing and the tractor tipped over and trapped me and I was yelling for help,well that pig heard me and broke out of the pen and came and burrowed underneath me so that I was able to slide out from under the tractor. That pig saved my life."The salesman said "I agree thats a special pig,however it doesnt explain the wooden leg."The farmer looks at the salesman and says "Well that isn't all. Last winter we had a fire goin in the fireplace and we all went to bed,I guess a knot popped and an ember came out of the fireplace and set the rug on fire. That pig smelled the smoke and broke out of the pen again and started banging his head against the door. Woke the whole family up and we were able to put the fire out. That pig saved my families lives." The salesman looked at the farmer and said "That doesn't explain the wooden leg either" The farmer just shook his head and replied,"Son a pig that special you don't eat all at once."

 3 salesmen check into a motel for a convention, the clerk tells them that they will have to share a room but it is only 30 dollars,so the guys each pony up 10 dollars and go to their room.

The manager comes in and is looking at the books and tells the clerk he made a mistake and the room should have only been 25 dollars. He gives the clerk 5 dollars and tells him to take it to the men and refund that part.

On the way to the room the clerk decides that since he cant split 5 dollars evenly between the men he will give them each 1 dollar back and keep the other 2 dollars for himself. This makes each mans part 9 dollars.

3 x 9.00 = 27.00 + 2.00 in the clerks pocket = 29.00  Where did the other dollar go?

My brother in law did Movies from A-Z so I thought I would see if I could do the same with my movies:

Artificial Intelligence (wouldn't this be a good name for GWBush autobiography?)

Big Fish

Cold Creek Manor

Dream Catcher

Equilibrium

Fast and the Furious 1 and 2

Going the Distance

Hollywood Homicide

Identity

Johnny Carson

Kangaroo Jack

Lord of the Rings 1,2,&3

Minority Report

Night at the Museum

The Order

The Pacifier

Quick and the Dead

Ray

Sleepwalkers

Timeline

Under Seige

Van Helsing

Walking Tall

xXx

Young Guns

Zorro

 This is the first year that we have not had our father on fathers day and I thought a pictorial tribute was appropriate to honor him on this day.

He was a happy baby

But also serious

And inquisitive

And mischevious

He was the oldest of his siblings

He was a patriot 

Who fought for his country

He married the love of his life in 1952

He loved his family

He had class

His grandchildren were a great joy to him

His health was failing

He passed away 8 days after fathers day last year

I miss you dad and will continue to think of you everyday for the rest of my life.

What are some of the sayings that you grew up hearing that still bring back memories? Some of the ones in my family are:

Go teach your grandma to milk ducks

Shoot fire and little bitty fishes

What the washerwoman finds the washerwoman keeps ( taught us to empty pockets of money)

This is NOT a democracy its a dictatorship and I am the dictator

With fathers day fast approaching I thought that I would try to do a post about my father who passed away last year just 11 days before his 75th birthday.

Dad was born July 6 1932,the first of 6 children between 1932 and 1955 (his youngest brother is a year younger than my oldest sister) One thing that nobody can argue with is that he had a very good sense of humor,one time that I am thinking of right now took place in the late 70s. Dad owned a variety discount store from 77-91 in the Fayetteville Arkansas area(started in Fayetteville and moved to a small town just west of town in the mid 80s)

We were on a buying trip on this particular night and I am driving along an empty stretch of Texas highway at 2am. He is asleep in the passanger seat of the pickup and I had the radio on a talk show just for background and to help me stay awake and alert(too bad it didn't work for him as well or this story would never have happened). Anyway,I am driving along and things are peaceful until all of a sudden he asked me in an urgent tone,"Pat,Can you see?",needless to say that from him being asleep for a couple of hours and then all of a sudden having him ask that,my heart skipped a beat or two,"Yes,I can see" I told him. He let out a little nervous chuckle and informed me that when he woke up he could hear the sound of the tires on the road and hear the radio playing but couldn't see a thing...he forgot to open his eyes. I teased him about that off and on for the rest of his life.

I remember when we wrapped him up like a mummy one year for halloween and he stood in the picture window of the living room and scared the kids as they walked up. And how he would ski down the mountain with one of his kids on his shoulders. And let us not forget mothers day 1965 when he was managing woolco and had 1000 cases of Coca Cola,1000 cases of 7-up and 1000 cases of either Pepsi or Mt Dew and had them in pyramids in the parking lot (let us remember that at time soft drinks were in bottles)when a freak blizzard swept in and bottles started popping and soft drink trucks were rushing around trying to load all the cases before they all broke.The funny thing is that about 14 or 15 years later,in a different state,one of his customers remembered the pyramids,turns out that he worked for Coke in Denver at the time. And ANOTHER customer( who is my oldest sisters age ) was talking to my dad one day in Fayetteville when dad mentioned that he was the first retailer to sell Mt Dew, the customer told him that there was a woolco store in Colorado where he grew up that gave away Mt Dew hillbilly hats but by the time his mom would let him ride his bike to the store they didn't have any left,Dad laughed and said that was his store and he only had 500 hats.

Dad,I love and miss you and think of you everyday. Happy Fathers Day.