Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on September 22, 2012
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Light Posting
My laptop is in the shop for the next few days, so not a lot will get put up until then. Sorry, but blogging from the phone is still a pain See y’all in a couple of days.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 21, 2012
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Don’t Count Your Chickens
The jackasses are rounding the last turn, and we’re heading into the home stretch on Election 2012. Depending on who is polled and who is doing the polling, either Rainbow Unicorn is pulling away from the pack, or Olympic Rhino is ahead by a nose. Also depending on which echo chamber you listen to, one of them or the other is winning this thing without breaking a sweat.
On the “Obama must go” side, everyone is talking about how the president is losing it, his administration and re-election are in disarray, and he will lose by a huge margin. While I hope that they are right, I have two words that should give all of us pause: John Kerry.
In 2004, George Bush was about as unpopular as I’d ever seen a sitting president in a re-election cycle. Honestly, you could have knocked me over with a feather the day after the election when I found out that Bush had been re-elected, and I supported the guy. Kerry supporters had been crowing for weeks before election day, and afterward they needed a suicide watch.
I want Obama to start packing on November 7. I want this country to start the long, slow, slog back to sanity. But we won’t get there by assuming we’ll win because everyone we know says he’ll lose. Leave the celebration for the day after the election. For now, we need to get on the ground and grapple with the opposition, no matter how defeated we think they are. We need to scrounge the voter lists for every possible person we can get to the polls, argue every point with the misguided, and point out every single reason Obama should join the ranks of the unemployed.
I will sincerely hate having to come on here on November 7 to discuss how we lost because we got cocky and didn’t take care of the electoral essentials. Let’s all do what we can to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 21, 2012
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30 Days of Tolkien – Day 19
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell! — The Hobbit
My Take – Thorin knew he was dying as he said this, and he finally realized that Bilbo’s love of life’s pleasures did not make him soft or sentimental. Instead, they made him full of life. Thorin’s greed for the treasure under the mountain had made him blind to reason and friendship. He violently rejected Bilbo when the hobbit tried to bring peace between the dwarves and others who were making claims on the treasure. What he did not realize was that Bilbo’s love of life made him fight all the harder to protect and preserve it, even to the point of losing the dwarves as friends and companions. Only at the end did Thorin realize that Bilbo had always been a true friend to him.
In my life, it has sometimes been hard to look at a friend and tell him the things he needs instead of what he wants. It comes back to the ‘hard right versus easy wrong’ argument. It’s better to lose a friend, possibly permanently, than to be less than honest with them or to not do the right thing in order to spare them. If they can eventually see that you willingly risked their approval in order to be a good friend, they may value the friendship even more.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 21, 2012
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Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on September 21, 2012
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Thoughts on the Day
- Ever hit one of those traffic slowdowns that magically disappear with no explanation for why everyone was going 25 miles under the speed limit? Am I the only one who screams “Why?” as he accelerates?
- JROTC cadets are so funny when they try to look battle hardened and professional as they give you directions to the math classroom.
- Remember all those perky people who got on your nerves all through high school? Well, they have kids now, and they all came to the school open house tonight.
- Come to think of it, so do the jackasses, and they were well represented tonight as well.
- Sitting in the back of the classroom having a discussion about your golf outing while my daughter’s biology teacher is discussing how the class is run gets you put on several of my lists.
- Telling me how hard it is to find a private sector job and how doing well in your class will help my offspring compete for the few jobs that are to be found, after you proudly tell us how you’ve been teaching for 23 years, does nothing for my estimation of you and your connection with reality.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 21, 2012
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All the Cool Kids are Doing It
Since Uncle, Tam, and Alan did it, it must be a good thing to do.
So, here you go, the top 20 songs played on my music player:
- Learning To Fly – Pink Floyd
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – The Beatles
- Your Wildest Dreams – The Moody Blues
- Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles
- Revolution – The Beatles
- Call Me When You’re Sober – Evanescence
- Yellow Submarine – The Beatles
- Get Back – The Beatles
- Deadbeat Club – B-52’s
- Woodstock – Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
- I Am The Walrus – The Beatles
- The Invisible Man – Queen
- I Know You’re Out There Somewhere – The Moody Blues
- In My Life – The Beatles
- Drive My Car – The Beatles
- Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
- Eight Easy Steps – Allanis Morissette
- Harry’s Game – Celtic Woman
- Friday, I’m In Love – The Cure
- Headlong – Queen
I normally listen to podcasts and such when I’m at work, so my music usually only gets played when I’m driving Boo to school and then during the drive to work. I have a “kid friendly” playlist that I shuffle through for that, so I guess that explains the family friendly list. It also explains why Boo has been singing Beatles songs at school. Although the time we were told he was hushed for singing “It’s Fwiday, I’m in wove!” during naptime did cause a chuckle.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 20, 2012
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Help to the Helpful
I received this in a message from the Second Amendment Foundation today:
In the last 15 days, supporters of the 2nd Amendment pledged nearly $15,000 for support of the important new film “Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire” that exposes California as the front line in the civil rights battle between public safety and the 2nd Amendment. The Second Amendment Foundation and the Calguns Foundation have each contributed $5,000.00 to get this project off the ground.
Please go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/assaulted/assaulted and make your pledge now.
The SAF and CALGUNS have been at the forefront of the gains we’ve seen in gun rights during the past few years. If you’ve got a few dollars that need a home, please consider giving them a hand.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 20, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/09/20/help-to-the-helpful/
30 Days of Tolkien – Day 18
There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest? — The Return of the King
My Take – It’s been 25 years this Halloween since I was last in North Dakota. I have an image in my mind of what Grand Forks and Minot looked like on that day, and that’s the image I will probably always have. But the small towns and cities I grew up in are long gone, and so is the boy I was then. When I do go back, even if my hopes to someday live there again come true, I will come as almost a stranger. No matter how many of my relatives live there and how many places I can look at and say “I remember this”, I will not be a true native anymore.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 20, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/09/20/30-days-of-tolkien-day-18/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on September 20, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/09/20/todays-earworm-229/
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