It’s rained three or four times over the last week, here at The House by The Swamp. Accompanied by GOLSS (that’d be God’s Own Light and Sound Show).
GOLSS will, on occasion, rattle your fillings whilst blinding you with a flash that the paparazzi can only dream about.
All it would take for my day to be complete is to watch Jimbo stare wild-eyed at the reptile crossing the road…
The “Political Silly Season” is here.
Mitt Romney allegedly bullied a high school classmate ‘way back in 1965. The classmate’s family says they never heard about this.
In “Dreams From My Father”, President Obama admits that his last two years of high school were passed in a haze of alcohol and drugs. This is just now becoming “news”, at least as trumpeted by Rush, Sean, & Co.
FoxNews notes that the percentage of “working-age adults” who are actively working, or looking for work has dropped about 10% since 2009 – and the rest of the Main Stream Media (MSM) yawns and ignores it, and instead keeps trumpeting the “falling unemployment rate”. Since I’m now eligible for Social Security, I could be tempted to retire, but I’m having too much fun being an IT Geek – I get to play with some really cool toys, AND I get paid for it. Sorry Young Punk, you’re gonna have to wait!
President Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage, but says he will defer to the states in this matter. Can you say “flip-flop”?
The list is endless, and growing. Fussing and fuming, sound and fury. All signifying nothing.
And it’s only May!
This is going to fun.
The headline on FoxNews reads “Arizona mom accused of burning face for refusing arranged marriage to older man”
The article does mention that the family is Iraqi. The article does not mention the religious orientation of the family.
I will speculate. Dare One Say “The Religion of Peace”?
Yes, into a setup.
I don’t think that the Setup was directed specifically at Rush, but fall into it he did.
The AP report on the apology never mentioned that Ms. Fluke specifically targeted Georgetown University as a Catholic institution.
Georgetown’s policies are clearly spelled out, and Ms. Fluke obviously knew of them. Her background as an activist (Wikipedia article) “Sandra Kay Fluke (born April 17, 1981) is a Georgetown University law student, American feminist activist, and a former employee a nonprofit aiding victims of domestic violence” makes it fairly obvious that she targeted Georgetown University in order to force a religious institution bend to the will of the federal government – a clear violation of the First Amendment.
The “setup” part of this is easy, and I can just hear the conversation… “Make it so obvious that some prominent right-winger will publicly lose his cool. Then we’ll hammer him so hard he’ll hear bells for a year!”
It worked.
In the Wayback Machine, I managed to survive End-Of-Year at the Small Financial Institution.
All of the year-end processing completed without major difficulties. I was happy. More importantly, Da Boss was happy.
Oh, there were minor glitches. A burp here, a different prompt there, an ambiguous procedure over yonder.
Here it is, the evening of January 4th, and guess what? I haven’t heard a peep of discontent from anyone at the SFI about the End Of The Year Past.
All of the above being said, there is undoubtedly a large, ugly, smelly shoe just waiting to drop. Probably right on my pointy little head.
I am breathless with anticipation.
Here it is, the last day of 2011.
Just another work day, as it’s the end of the year and our Small Financial Institution has to do all the year-end crap. Thankfully, this year we can start all the processing after Saturday morning hours are done at around noon.
There’s going to be two of us – Da Boss (IT Mgr) and me (IT grunt/geek). If all goes well, we’ll be done by 6PM. This is really a PITA for Da Boss, as New Year’’s Eve is also his Anniversary. I’m goinna try to get him out of there as soon as the Year-End “Reset” is done and verified OK, then I’ll rattle through the rest of the stuff.
Have a Good New Year’s folks!
Herman Cain is down. Newt Gingrich is up. Mitt Romney is hanging in. Obama is … still there, sorta?
American Airlines declared bankruptcy.
WalMart is still selling stuff.
The weather around here is still… changeable.
I now have personal stuff, family stuff, that I’m not going to comment on at this time. Majorly good, mind you, but I’m not commenting at this time.
Mom and Meelie are currently singing together – and THAT is also majorly Good Stuff.
My Bums (SF 49ers) are 9-2 which is Good. Especially compared to the last (I’m NOT gonna count) seasons.
The Local Bums (JAX Jaguars) just fired their Head Coach AND sold the damn team! Weird….
Annnnnd…. I’m off to bed. It’s been a looonnnng day.
93 years ago, on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, the guns on the Western Front fell silent.
I have no doubt that the one-million-plus men who stopped trying to kill each other looked around in the silence and marveled at their survival – “Holy crap! I’m still alive!”
I will lift an adult beverage later today, three times: Once for those who went before, once for us (our living veterans), and once for my future brothers-in-arms.
Been watching Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Katia. It looks, at this point, that The Swamp is going to be bypassed again, for which I’m grateful.
I’ve also been thinking on the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. I was at work at a hospital (IT Geek stuff) on the West Coast. While driving in to work, I listened to CDs (Rock ‘n Roll, if you’re interested. Huey Lewis and the News, The Guess Who are the ones I remember).
When I got there, and went in the employee’s entrance, one of the guys said “You heard about New York, right?”
“Huh?” I’m real articulate first thing in the morning.
“Airplanes? World Trade Center?”
“Huh?” Real swift, too.
“C’mon, Dude.” He turned me around and marched me to the main lobby. A television mounted on the wall was showing the collapse of the South Tower, in slo-mo.
That was MY introduction to the Wonderful World of Islamic Terrorism.