A couple of weeks ago, I started taking lunch at the local senior center.
At first, I enjoyed it. It was a way to get a cheap($2), nutritious and filling meal without having to cook. The cheerful volunteers and staff served us on real plates with real tableware, and they were pleasant and almost embarrassingly attentive.
Reaching Out
What this is cockamamie* new “reach out” thing, the mot du jour for silly Gen-Xers everywhere (or is it Gen-Yers, whichever ones You-Tube about Obama).
Thank you very much, but I’d rather you not “reach out” to me or anyone else. There is quite enough of that stuff going on these days – talk to an MBTA cop about their recent subway molester stings.
I don’t mind being contacted, e-mailed, called on the phone or, depending on who it is, visited, with or without notice.
I’m happy to be sent a letter, a package or a nice bouquet, and it makes me happy when someone whom I haven’t heard from in a long time gets in touch, figuratively speaking.
If you are drowning in a hostile body of water, then by all means, reach out to the nearest hand, life preserver or weather buoy.
Otherwise, reach out and touch someone if you must, but please make it someone other than me.
*interesting word, from the French d
Blather
Peter was fulminating the other day about how politicians mangle the truth via distortion and deliberate misinterpretation. I’d add the media to that list of master scam artists.
What the….?
A woodpecker has been attacking the house, but I hadn’t realized until today that it created a massive hole in one of the window frames.
I threw on some wood putty, figuring maybe the odor would be unpleasant enough to keep it away.
Woodpecker or not, at this hour, the Dow is up almost 3%.
Humble thanks to my Jr. H.S. teacher Mr. Clark for raising our consciousness about the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Now, THAT’S schoolteachin’, by golly.
Backlash
From The Architect
Karl Rove, in this morning’s wsj online:
Mr. McCain’s other adjustment is his schedule. His campaign understands the dire circumstances it faces and is narrowing his travels almost exclusively to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada. If he carries those states, while losing only Iowa and New Mexico from the GOP’s 2004 total, Mr. McCain will carry 274 Electoral College votes and the White House.
Sure, Sure, Sure
Nothing infuriates me as much as people who argue with statements of fact when facts belie their simple-minded beliefs, like “you can do anything you set your mind to”.
I refer to a conversation I had yesterday with a state employee who stubbornly asserted that anyone can be a successful salesperson, regardless of age, gender or appearance.
That’s just flat-out stupid.
Guilt By Association
I suspect that with his history of supporting organizations like Acorn and friendships with people like Ayers, Barack Obama wouldn’t be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance or get a job with the Secret Service.
Then, how can he be the leading candidate for the Presidency?
Anyone who knows the criteria for either of the above credentials care to comment?
A Mystery
I’ve had a hard time understanding how anyone in my acquaintance could either support or defend Barack Obama.
That’s because I believe, or believed, that my friends and closest relatives have above-average intelligence and political sensibilities and are liberty-loving people.
Obama asked the Justice Department to shut down the American Issues Project for running ads about his relationship with William Ayers.
This past August, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to intimidate radio station WGN by flooding the show with calls when respected conservative commentator Stanley Kurtz was a guest on the Milt Rosenberg show.
Incredible, isn’t it, that liberal news organizations like the Washington Post and the New York Times have ignored these assaults on freedom of political speech, simply because of their adolescent infatuation with a fascist who wears clothes well and has a good speaking voice.
National (Bloody) Brotherhood Week
Between Sandra Bernhart’s cursing the “goyisha, shicksa” New Testament, Madonna’s screaming “I will kick (Sarah Palin’s) ass” and the cropping up of putrid green “Sarah Palin is a C*” t-shirts, it’s been all about the intolerance of the Obamacons this weekend and the MSM’s relative silence thereon, the LA Times being a notable exception.