Updated with a little traveling music brought to you by Little Mo:
Big Guy’s headed to the Quad Cities today to tour a factory in Bettendorf, IA and talk about how "Manufacturing serves as the backbone of communities across our country and the continued revitalization of the manufacturing sector is critical to America's success as we compete in a 21st century global economy." (from our Big White pre-trip guidance pak for reporters.)
We all know how Big Guy loves visiting American manufacturing facilities, and supporting American jobs:
Bringing a little of that famous Obama razzle-dazzle to the factory floor
I guess he hasn’t heard about the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge being rebuild in China yet.
“California decided not to apply for federal funding for the project because the “Buy America” provisos would probably have required purchasing more expensive steel and fabrication from United States manufacturers.”
Ruh-Roh! San Francisco is circumventing the Buy American Act, implemented to “protect domestic labor by providing a preference
for American goods in government purchases?” This doesn’t sound good, does it? I don’t think any of Big Guy’s buds at the AFL-CIO, UAW or SEIU are going to like this one little bit. I wonder why San Fran Nan isn’t all over this? Maybe some of her 62% increase in personal wealth last year came from investing in bridge rebuilding projects.
Man, if he can’t get this embarrassing San Fran cost cutting measure turned around pronto, I don’t know if Big Guy will be welcome back onto the floor of all those factories that he loves to tour during campaign season. Here he is in 2009 with a worker showing him, ironically, how he makes these large bolts that are used in bridge construction: (I swear, you can’t make this stuff up.)
Big Guy visits the Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Company factory in Ohio, 2009. They make bridge fasteners. How’s that HOPE and CHANGE workin’ out for you, fella?
Just a quick recap of our economy performance under Big Guy’s stewardship (Results calculated after our $850 billion shovel ready Stimulus package):
UNEMPLOYMENT: up 25%
NATIONAL DEBT: up 35%
PRICE OF GAS: up 104%
So, everything’s up! That’s good, right?
On the home front, Lady M is back at the Big White and resting comfortably following her triumphant “Queen of Africa” tour.
As soon as she’s caught up on her sleep, she and Air Force Won 2 will be hitting the fundraising/campaign trail for Boston and Burlington, VT. So we’ve got that to look forward to.
We’ve all got to do our part this time around, because with the R-words doing everything in their power to sabotage the economy, we’ve got a lot of spinning to do. Maybe we can borrow some of these turbine engines from Jeffie to help us get into the spin cycle.
Whoa! Looking into the abyss can make you a little light-headed if you get too close.
In unrelated news, Hillary Clinton announces a new role for U.S. State Department: Rock Star Promoter. Yep. State helped Lady Gaga get a Euro Gay Pride gig set up in Italy. Because we have a lot of excess capacity in the State Department now that we’ve hired our summer interns.
Plus, Hil has a soft spot in her heart for the lovely Lady Gaga.
A little of Lady Gaga’s lipstick on Hil, and we could be separated at birth
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Thanks for Bridge over troubled waters. Reminds me that "this too shall pass", referring to B&M. Also a friend's quote "God don't like ugly" so comforting when I think of the current occupants.
ReplyDeleteIs the "razzle-dazzle" supposed to make him look youthful and energetic? Why can't he just walk down the freaking stairs?
ReplyDeleteOr, better yet, he should teach Moo about the proper way for a lady to go down the stairs, as he's demonstrating (poorly) here.
A lady rests her hand lightly on the hand rail, turns her body 45 degrees toward the rail, and steps down with her knees bent and both knees toward the rail, to prevent onlookers at the base of the stairs to have an, ah, disquieting view of the nether regions. Barky is descending in a ladylike pose, except for the hand on the rail, and the speed of descent.
Of course, whether she's descending or ascending the stairs, walking, getting out of a car, or just standing, she carries herself like a cart horse.
Wow, MOTUS. Lady Gaga and Hillary -- separated at birth indeed! I wonder if Lady G will be corralled into singing "Born This Way" at the first big campaign rally for Big Guy.
ReplyDeleteThere are GAYS in ITALY??!!! Well there goes all my fantasies of a dark, handsome, Latin-inspired lover plying me with red wine and seducing me with sweet nothings in Italian.
ReplyDeleteEverything comes in cycles, just praying that we come out alive from this spin cycle.
ReplyDelete<span>Well there goes all my fantasies of a dark, handsome, Latin-inspired lover plying me with red wine and seducing me with sweet nothings in Italian.</span>
ReplyDeleteoh, they do that.
but as soon as you're asleep they sneak off and meet their boyfriends.
just like in chicago.
I always thought Lady GaGa looked like Anna Piaggi, butt I see now that I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteA more fitting song for The Won's campaign rallies would be Weird Al Yankovic's Lady GaGa parody I Perform This Way.
A cart horse? Priceless.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/blogs/click/0611/Beyonce_Obama_needs_another_term.html
ReplyDeleteThat's one singer off my list.
She was still on your list, after her trip to the Situation Room? =-O
ReplyDeleteWell, I gues she is talented. But dumb.
Buck Feyonce
ReplyDeleteI like to see Barry ride the invisible pony. It always makes me laugh.
ReplyDeleteSorry, she was off my list a long time ago, my bad.
ReplyDeleteThat pic of him with the turbine - looks like the worshipping press got their halo a little too big on that one.
ReplyDeleteThe pics of lady gaga and hillary - I can't believe how the same they are!
Well ... you can get that in the Caribbean, kinda.
ReplyDeleteDark, handsome, Latin-inspired lover plying you with rotgut rum (you pick up the tab) and seducing you with sweet nothings in the local patois.
That doesn't have the same ring, does it. OK ... forget Island Love.
We do our best to keep it...ah, "invisible". So far so good.
ReplyDeleteSan Fran Nan needs a serious investigation. Who increases their wealth by 62% in one horrible economy? INSIDER TRADING. People in their "senior" years are not starting up companies and are usually not speculators with their wealth. Someone(s) whispered into her ear to buy??? If she were an "R" word they would be all over her for ethics violations. This admin is one slimy, cheating, criminal organization. The mob is running America. **On a different note - the Palinazation of Michele Bachman began "offically" yesterday. They will unleash on her like nothing we've ever seen - since Saracuda that is.
ReplyDeleteOh dear! Here goes another one of those intertubz rumors about "whose your momma?"
ReplyDeleteInvisible pony! LOL. I always think of Blazing Saddles every time he rides his horse down AF1's steps.
ReplyDeletegiddy-up Bu-rock, giddy-up.
So, is Lady Gaga actually a lady? If so, she is one ugly dude.
ReplyDeleteToo bad those stairs don't have wheels on them, so it was start rolling as he is dancing down the steps. That would be a sight to behold.
ReplyDeleteAlso, too bad the turbine didn't start somehow and suck him right in. Yes, I said it.
B&M... BM... hahahahaha!!!
ReplyDeleteYet another GEM of a hardhitting, political expose of corruption, quid pro quo and the Chicago 'Way.'
ReplyDeleteBlago gets to keep his hair!!!
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_91aa0c4b-08a3-5052-8124-71449adf22cd.html
We can ALL rest easy (well, until they come to foreclose on your house and have illegal 'guest workers' throw your mattress into a mob owned dumpster) that the former Illinios Gov WON'T be getting a prison buzz cut. Mebbes a bf and/or a self drawn tat...butt his locks will flow freely.
Seriously...Blags wasthisclose to all things dirty in Illinois--and he is taking da' fall, whilst Rahmy gets to be Mayor and Barky keeps the White Hut with Daley and Val Jay-Jay free to roam the West Wing???
Somebody has some 'splaining to do...and lets "hope" its Blago. And quickly.
I just love me some Weird Al.
ReplyDeleteMOL responses to your great and timely post are all too funny. I remember a grapefruit worker explaining on TV how inflation had affected her and she said with great insight "Everything has went up and nothin' has went down." The doofuses in control of our country have no clue about what to do or what they have done.
ReplyDeleteCalConserveGirl,
ReplyDeleteYou are right about them unleashing investigative reporters (who have suddenly remembered that skill, after forgetting how to use it on Barky) on Bachmann. But, we can help Michele by emailing her campaign and asking her to hit back hard.
There is a great post today about this situation at Protein Wisdom, but an evern greater comment by Bob Reed:
<span>I have to kind of agree with happyfeet here, </span><span>
<p>She missed an opportunity to shove this right back in Snuffelupegas’ and the entire media’s face. She should have said something along the lines of, “George, seriously, you guys have never bothered to produce the Presidents college records or writings, his notes from the Illinois leislature, or even be the least bit skeptical about with his time at the Annenberg challenge with Bill Ayers or from before as a “community organizer” for ACORN; you will barely ever speak of any of his controversial associations, people like Rashid Kahlili, but you’ll subject my foster children, some who were only with us a short time, to a feeding frenzy of media badgering in order to uncover the slightest bit of embarrassing personal information about me? No wonder the American people are tired of, and turning away from, the double standard and biases of the mainstream media…”
</p></span><span>
<p>(That last part said while shaking her head an affecting a look of pity)
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</p></span>I have sent the comment to Michele Bachmann's contact address on her campaign website. Perhaps activists here would join my email campaign, and send the comment, above, to her? It would be great fun to watch the faces of the dweebs such as Stephanopolous as she calls them on their fecklessness and malpractice.
His little "look at gutsy me!" hands-free prance down stairways, especially TaxPayer One and Marine One, is one of the most contrived schticks I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteAs for her, she lumbers, galumphs. With those ginormous feet she is lucky to have not taken a face-forward very nasty fall.
His little "look at gutsy me!" hands-free prance down stairways, especially TaxPayer One and Marine One, is one of the most contrived schticks I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteAs for her, she lumbers, galumphs. With those ginormous feet she is lucky to have not taken a face-forward very nasty fall.
His little "look at gutsy me!" hands-free prance down stairways, especially TaxPayer One and Marine One, is one of the most contrived schticks I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteAs for her, she lumbers, galumphs. With those ginormous feet she is lucky to have not taken a face-forward very nasty fall.
Me too, but I feel like I'm missing the point of his parodies when I don't know the songs on which they're based, since I stopped listening to most popular music about 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI was looking up a Styx video on YouTube earlier, and it was on the Vevo channel, and I had to look at Gaga's face in the channel frame the whole time I was watching what I remember as real music. Kind of worked my nerves.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong: I'm sure she possesses a certain kind of talent (self-promotion and shock value) but I'd much rather look at Tommy Shaw in a stupid jumpsuit with 1980 hair.
She is most certainly not a lady; however, to the best of my knowledge she is biologically female.
ReplyDeleteHe's clearly never taken a spill on stairs. I have. Once you've felt your feet go out from under you and the lip of the stairs slam into your lower back, you're glad to have that handrail there.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention that...I was reading one of those "bathroom reader" trivia books last night and there was a blurb about people who slip on purpose in convenience stores so they can sue. Surveillance cameras caught one woman as she poured olive oil on a spot and then went back and pretended to fall. Security experts noted she didn't fall "right": a slipping fall tends to go bottom-first, not head-first.
ReplyDeleteSo Michelle would fall right on her ample padding, in other words.
Yeah, one of my FB friends just posted something about some video of MB kissing a boy who had a mullet and then saying that no one who was the mother of anyone with a mullet had any business running for President.
ReplyDeleteWell, as long as everyone who opposes MB as a candidate is so open-minded and tolerant....!!
The grapefruit worker said this in English? Well, that's something at least.
ReplyDeleteI have a blog devoted to his special walk. Let's Prance with Obama. http://prancewithobama.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteHere's the latest:
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I know my mind is in the sewer butt when I saw that picture of obozo with his head in that doughnut I could hear him saying "yes, this toilet seat should fit her ample butt after the trip to Africa." *DONT_KNOW*
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of WTF, did anyone notice his rolled up right pant leg in the pic where he's prancing down the stairs? Maybe he' sending a subliminal message like, "Roll up your pants. It's too late to save your shoes!!
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, that conjures up a funny picture, his getting sucked right in by the turbine!
ReplyDeleteNobody who could will ever really talk about anything, because they all want to live. Or at least want their family to live.
ReplyDeleteIf you're not depressed enough, go to Drudge....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.drudgereport.com/
buh-rock and mooch...BOWEL MOVEMENT is quite an accurate description! Can't wait for this BM to be over!!! >:o >:o >:o
ReplyDeleteNever listened to her anyway, but the kiddie hoochie clothing left an awful taste in my mouth.
ReplyDeleteOff-topic: Refugees
ReplyDeleteI am a refugee. Again. Did this in May 2000, and just did it yesterday. Same problem both times: Forest Fire.
Will we ever learn, or will we continue this stupidity, of allowing forests to be right on the edge of cities? We could easily have a fully cut mile around all cities.
Imagine driving away from your house, with just a few hours notice, and not knowing whether your house will be there when you come back. No matter how carefully you consider what to take, there is always something you forgot to put on your list, or you forgot to put in the car. Time and Space. There is never enough time to think about it, or to pack the car. There is never enough space for everything valuable.
I thought they burned enough of the forest last time that we wouldn't have to worry about this for decades. I was wrong. At least I was able to come to my son's house with my two dogs. Some people had to go to shelters, and they don't accept animals there. So I am one of the lucky ones. Did have to leave the cats, but we put out an entire big bag of food for them, and several large containers of water. And they have cat doors, in case the house does catch on fire. It was heartbreaking to leave them, but you have to make hard decisions at times like these.
Just wanted to share my thoughts on this, and encourage people to be prepared for emergencies. Bless you all.
"Throw out your hands
ReplyDeleteStick out your tush
Hands on your hips
Give 'em a push!..." yeah that's the won. ;)
Prayers to you!
ReplyDeleteMom, your description of descent is the natural response of any female in a dress. Our MOO apparantly lacks conventional upbringing, as sha cannot ascend anything, or descend anything, in a manner appropriate to the female response to the possibility that those at the bottom of the stairs might get a good glimpse of the cootch. Or, that they may only see our broadest attempts at a dress.
ReplyDeleteRather, she clomps down the stairs without regard, oblivious to the FACT that she looks much like Sasquatch, or an over grown beast, and notice of her personal sex orientation is secondary to the FACT that she is: <span>obtuse</span>.
Butt, what beautiful clothes. Such an icon..... :'(
Hey, grinding her girl groove in front of kids was so amazing for Beyonce! She's just gotta love The One and The Other who made it possible for her.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't the Secret Service grab the guy in the beginning of the video when he said he wanted ax the president about his walk?
ReplyDeleteAll right. A story (don't give up hope srdem!!):
ReplyDeleteMy dad was stationed at Aviano AFB, Italy, in the spring of 1974. I was just fifteen, my birthday being in March. My brother was almost 14 (may 2). there was a festival in the village, and us "tween"s went to it: only to find that there was no drinking age!! And the place was crawling with American teens! Music! Food! Wine!! It was amazing.
Whilst my good father thought we were in bed, my brother and I staggered up stairs to our rooms.
Well, about an hour before dawn, comes a rRmeo, who had seen me, and he sang under the window. My DAD was so pissed he threw water on the young man, which only encouraged him!! He sang under my window for about ten days straight, undetered. Finally my sleepless DAD was so goddamn mad he went down there, with an interpreter: seems this young man, aged 18, had decided that I was the love of his life. He was from Roma, and wanted to marry me: no need for papa to dispair! My Dad convinced him that we don't do things that waqy in America.
In the shadows, under the eaves, he hung out afterward, playing a mournful guitar. I threw him roses that I picked in the hotel gardens (little bitch) and laughed at him. In a final salute to my charms, he sent up as hoto of himself, "Mario", with a silver cross necklace on a chain.
I keep them still, amazed at the romance no one has ever since offered.
Well, That's my Italian story. God Bless and help Italy :*
That is so heartbreaking. I hope your house and cats are safe. You will be in my prayers.
ReplyDelete...oooo cat. meow.............
ReplyDeleteYes, my prayers are with you.
ReplyDeleteSometimes though, realtors have built housing in areas that were never meant to hold people's homes. Some of the disasters around Malibu are an example. Houses in burn zones, fires, everyone pays for the home owners' insurance awards. The builders and the people who allowed them to build there are at fault -- people assume that houses are built in safe places -- and why not?
I am NOT saying that this is your case, Janice. I hope these disastrous fires are stopped quickly and everyone's property is protected. I love cats and especially understand how hard it is to leave yours behind. I had to put kittens this morning into the hands of someone whom I did not know well, but it was their best chance and all I can do is pray that they have good lives.
Kinda like Clarence, and there ain't no other like him:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsHyMwpIjo&feature=related
Granny that's so funny. I posted a song above, and it over rode the music on your video, and whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a faggot.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts are with you, Janice. That must be heartbreaking. Hopefully all will be well when you get to return home.
ReplyDeleteHi Janice. Are you in Los Alamos? God bless you. They have not evacuated us over here on the east side of Jemez. Lotsa smoke though! We's havin' smoke parties on the porch here. Don't forget the fambly pictures!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe National Guard is there.: some our friends. Your home is safe unless fire gets it, then God help the NG. My son in law is on the front line, hot shot Santa Fe Nat'l forest: god bless the hot shots. Be safe xoxoxoxoxo
Janice--you must live in Los Alamos. I grew up there. The family home burned in the Cerro Grande fire. I'm in Cedar Crest now, saw the smoke on Sunday evening from my dining room window. My heart just sunk, as I could tell from the plume, it was going to be bad. Pray for rain, ladies!
ReplyDeletePrayers to you. Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to you - sorry to hear about your troubles. We're thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, she is a very talented piano player.
ReplyDeleteI do live in Los Alamos. My youngest daughter graduated in 2000, and they had to hold the graduation ceremony after we returned from the evacuation back then. We had just started finals' week when we were evacuated. Instead of forcing these kids to go through finals, it was decided to just graduate anyone who would probably have graduated anyway. One of the few decisions of the school district that I approved of.
ReplyDeleteWe border on the National Forest on all sides, thus there is no recourse to living near forest land (though there aren't many close trees, as most of those burned near the town in 2000). The main employer in town is the National Laboratory, so if you don't want a long drive every morning and night, you have to live up here.
Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers. I really try to not feel sorry for myself, and instead hope and pray that those magnificent fire-fighters do not get injured. If our homes are spared, it will be because of them. And I am grateful for the National Guard. We drove past many of their posts on the main intersections as we drove out of town (we were about the last to leave, because the dogs decided to be difficult). The Guard are putting up with the smoke and discomfort to keep our homes and neighborhoods safe.
Janice's terrible plight reminds one of the old question: "If you had to leave your home on very little notice, what would you take ?"
ReplyDeleteIt is the quickest way I know to find out what a person truly cherishes, and what can be left behind. Fifty people would probably come up with at least one thing in common, their pets, and secondly, their old photos of loved ones . After those two, we would all probably have somewhat different answers.
I hope we will get the 'all clear' from Janice in short order.
God Bless Janice, and so many of our fellow Americans who have suffered so greatly this past Spring.
Beautiful thoughts, Janice. You are a strong, caring woman and we are all praying for you.
ReplyDeleteLove it Granny! Did we ever see George Bush dancing? I don't recall.
ReplyDeleteYou are, as always, correct MathMom. Descending stairs so that your foot is turned and completely on the stair has the further benefit of helping you stay upright and not falling. Models know this and will always use this posture when stairs are involved on the runway. As for Her Moochness and FFA, I keep hoping that she will continue to do it her way and take a 3 point landing one of these days soon.
ReplyDeleteThe word akimbo sooo works for me .. Keeping out of the really bad words I actually use ... Xxx
ReplyDeleteAm now in usvi .. tall dark and handsome here means the ladies... Am so into my rum and the manly man I am with ...the one I brought ...xxx
ReplyDeleteI grew up in LA in the '50's and '60's. I have heart-smiles about my youth. Much has changed there, but it was heaven to a tom-boy who played in the backyard (the forest), climbed trees higher than the boys, threw rocks at bats, participated in Russian-olive fights with the upstreet boys...(we had many more boys than girls on 48th St).
ReplyDeleteMy folks moved there in 1944. For almost 60 years, fire never threatened the town. But, that was before the bark-beetle, environmental regs. that prohibit thinning, cutting, and clearing the forests. We now see the results.
I'm in Cedar Crest...7,500 elevation. Right smack up against the National Forest. No cutting, no thinning...we're just waiting for a similar disaster. Good news, today, they closed the highway up to the Crest, due to the danger.
Prayers to all up north of me.
Butt ... How about Etta James... Wow !!!
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing an interview from several years ago, a woman who had to "grab and run". She got the dog, the family photos, and...her vacuum cleaner.
ReplyDeleteNO thinning cutting cleraring forests...hahahahhaha. Yet most of the mountain, myself and entire family included,. depends on firewood as our only source of heat in the fridged winters. Strange how WE are the danger to the forest!!!
ReplyDeleteWe were asking ourselves exactly this not long ago, when a tornado touched down less than a mile from our house. The family photos, sadly, are scattered all over the house. Hubby keeps talking about digitizing them all and saving to an external hard drive that can be grabbed in a hurry. My grandmother's jewelry is in a safe, accessible place, and the cats can be popped into pillowcases (seriously, the easiest way to restrain a cat in a hurry) and the dogs leashed pretty quickly. But my grandmother's quilts and dishes? My other grandmother's chest of drawers that's over 100 years old? There would be nothing we could do about those. :'(
ReplyDeleteAntique and rare books. Artwork. After a certain point, you almost wish you could put everything in a safety deposit box.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice if Obama had come on over to the west end of Iowa to see just how bad the flooding is in Iowa and Nebraska. (btw, to the people in the fire zones, you can have all of the water that's flooding Iowa and Nebraska right now...really...we dont want it) He declared Nebraska's disaster a couple of weeks ago, but waited till just a couple of days ago to declare Iowa's disaster, and Iowa has been getting smacked around by the flooding worse than Nebraska. (at least from what I've seen on the news. I'm on the Nebraska side of the flooding)
ReplyDeleteAin't it the truth? We have a log home in southern Colorado...right on the Conejos River...been on the market for 2 years. We'll die before it sells. Highway 85 takes us from Santa Fe thru Ojo Caliente...mile after mile of dead trees. At every dirt road is a sign that warns of no trespass, no woodtaking...just leave the dead trees folks.
ReplyDeletebettyann...I can give you as much wood (it's soft...fir, spruce, aspen) as you can haul off of our property.
I remember seeing him dance at one of the inaugural balls with Laura. I think that's the only time, though.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, they're movin' off Sarah - for now - and on to Michelle: same MO. Same animus. Same idiots.
ReplyDeleteWhy are these people so threatened so by smart women? Paging Dr. Freud.
Funny catch Jayne. The Secret Service had been informed that "ax" was "ask" in Obama-speak. Just like dropping the "g's" etc. Notice the language in Iowa today. Back to talking with the folks.
ReplyDeleteJanice -- words cannot fully express how sorry I am to read about your forced evacuation. We're all here for you with prayers and positives thoughts soaring your way this evening. This calls for a visit to gratefulness.org to light a candle and hope that no other flame will touch your life or those you love. God bless!
ReplyDeleteGreat story, bettyann -
ReplyDeleteSomething similar happened to me in the Hofbrauhaus in Munich. My husband and I decided to see where Herr Hitler got his start. Inside were the long tables typical of a school cafeteria and a bierstube. We joined a table where US Naval aviators were enjoying the beer, and getting rowdy with German servicemen. The Americans began to stand on the table, hold their steins high, and sing "God Bless America", the Germans followed suit, responding with "Deutschland Uber Alles" (sorry, no umlaut on this keyboard). It was getting louder and louder, but still in good fun.
We were having a great time, when a German man sat down next to me and took my hand. We had been imbibing while singing with the pilots and were at least tipsy, and my husband is not the type to choke another man without a good reason.
I spoke to the German for a while in my 3rd-year German Student Deutsch, explaining to him the man on my left had my heart.
I don't want to sound vain or full of myself, he had developed a bad case for me, in that short time. I don't think he was drunk. He was smitten. I finally convinced him I would not leave with him, and he left, holding onto my hand until he was too far away to hold on any more, sadness on his face that has remained imprinted in my memory for more than 25 years.
I hope he found someone to love. My husband, the dear man, told me he understood exactly how "Hans" felt. I do love that man! :*
What more can I say, except, God bless America, and Deutschland, too.
God bless Janice.
ReplyDeleteIronic that we are all relying on you to get those air conditioners in Hell up and running for us, butt you can do nothing to quell the fires of Los Alamos.
First JLHan with the flooding up in Minot, and now this. I can't imagine the anxiety. Somehow, I know this is all Big Guy's fault.
Here, GWB was coaxed into dancing. (Some other videos show more of the coaxing part, but they're fuzzier.)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqy91GnS-Bg&NR=1
Here (once you get past the ad), he appears to be aiming to make his guests feel comfortable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFGduqAM00&feature=fvwrel
Prayers and good wishes go to fire personnel and N Guard who are working so hard to stop this disaster in Los Alamos. Our little town in Southern California that is surrounded by National forrest was evacuated and saved from destruction with the labor and dedication of fire people from many states. We are eternally grateful to them. We will hold good thoughts for their success in NM.
ReplyDeleteBless you,Janice, for grounding us in what matters.What a marvelous post. We go about our daily lives, then suddenly a calamity strikes & we have to make terrible choices. We should thank God every day for the peace and prosperity that we know here in our blessed country (such as it is now that Barky and Mooch have done their best to destroy it).
ReplyDeleteHoping & praying you get through this.
I love the Cart Horse photo album. You probably had a hard time choosing, there were so many to pick from.
ReplyDeleteRockin' The Paradise
ReplyDeleteToo Much Time On My Hands
Two of my all time favorites - actually the entire album is a top fave. I remember the evening early in our relationship when I found the vinyl in m PFG's collection - I knew then that he was going to be a keeper!
Historic!
ReplyDeleteI'd pay to see that.
ReplyDeletePrayers and good thoughts your way Janice. My heart breaks for you (and JLHan with the flooding). Its so easy to forget to appreciate the wonderful security of 'sameness' day to day...until catastrophe strikes, and everything changes. Be strong...and when you can, let us know what it really going on...one thing that is a consistant, is the lack of a trustworthy media.
ReplyDeleteWish we could send you some of our rain here in Monterey County...who knew it would rain again the last week of June? Butt here it is...not hard butt steady. May rain again tomorrow. Prayers to all you in flood and fire zones.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite Christmas presents from my parents was a vacuum cleaner. It made me feel so grown up!
ReplyDeleteOn the NM Fires webpage they have this advice:
ReplyDeleteRemember your six P’s: People, Personal computers, Pets, Pills, Papers and Pictures.
There's somedthing about American women! Good story!
ReplyDeleteRain? What's that?? Very smokey, sneezy morning here. My friend's home burned down :( He had built it himself.
ReplyDeleteIronically enough, MOTUS, we fixed my son's swamp cooler when we got here. Albuquerque is just a stone's throw away from Hell, I believe. The house got up to about 105, and we said "The Hell with this" and went out and fixed it. It was so cold last night (cooler is left on 24/7) that we needed blankets. Hehe. So I guess Hell froze over, in one small part.
ReplyDeleteEngineers are scary people.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/06/michelle_os.html
ReplyDeletePretty much says it all!