One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government’s primary concerns.
30 Days of Reagan – Day 3
Posted by daddybear71 on January 5, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/05/30-days-of-reagan-day-3/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 5, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/05/todays-earworm-71/
2012 Slogans
Ron Paul – Better the crazy you know
Barack Obama – Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Mitt Romney – I was for socialism before I was against it
Newt Gingrich – Who are you going to believe, me or your lying memory?
Rick Santorum – I have closely held moral values, and soon, so will you
Rick Perry – Johnson, Bush, Perry – There are three good reasons you should vote for me: I have good hair, I used to fly airplanes, and …. um……
Posted by daddybear71 on January 5, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/05/2012-slogans/
Family Memory
Velociman tells a story about a bull his family once owned, and it reminded me of one of my families legends:
Grandma once told me how she met my grandfather. My grandmother was a teenager at the time, and my grandfather was a grown man. He was leading a bull to market, and it wasn’t cooperating. Imagine a large farmer pulling a rope attached to a large bull’s nose ring and the bull having nothing of it. Two steps forward, stop to grunt and pull, then a step back. Grandma was sitting on her father’s front porch watching this happen out in the road. Finally, Grandpa Martinius had had enough. He shortened that rope up until he was close enough to that bull to touch it, drew back his fist, and punched him square between the eyes. Grandma says the bull went to its knees for a moment, shook its head a bit, then stood up and let Grandpa lead it along with no more issues.
Kind of explains a few things about me, actually.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 4, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/04/family-memory/
News Roundup
- From the “Makes Sense” Department – The place kicker for the University of Michigan has admitted that when he makes a kick, he doesn’t think about the kick. Instead, he thinks about brunettes. Makes sense to me. When I’m doing something important, I think about brunettes and redheads. Or when I’m doing something that isn’t that important. Let’s face it: If I’m conscious, I’m thinking about brunettes and redheads, and I’d estimate that I’m thinking about them at least 50% of the time I’m unconscious.
- From the “Mother of the Year” Department – A Massachusetts mother summoned police to her home to arrest two of her five children for fighting. Apparently her spawn had been bickering all day, and she just couldn’t take it anymore. Funny, my mother had five kids who fought constantly, and she never called the police. She self medicated a bit and then imitated Carlton Fisk with dimensional lumber, which always seemed to calm things down a bit.
- From the “Fuzzy on the Rules” Department – An assistant bishop of the diocese of Los Angeles has resigned because he had a secret wife and children. You know, there are some pretty simple rules for being a Catholic priest. The one that immediately comes to mind is celibacy. Either these kids are the second coming, or someone’s got some explaining to do.
- From the “TWA Coffee” Department – A woman in China gave birth to a healthy baby girl about halfway into a two hour flight recently. Flight attendants assisted her in the delivery. I understand that after being born, the baby was taken up to the flight deck and asked about gladiator movies. The little girl has been named “Angel”, but my sources tell me that the name “Bulkhead” was considered, but discarded as being too cruel. In related news, several first class passengers on the flight demanded extra frequent flyer miles because of excessive noise on the flight and a shortage of hot towels.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 4, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/04/news-roundup-42/
Quote of the Day
The republicans, on the other hand need every single one of the votes of people who get distracted by shiny objects; which means their platform, expressed in its simplest terms is, “Don’t scare the baby.”
Mike, talking about the voter pool in the country.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 4, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/04/quote-of-the-day-26/
30 Days of Reagan – Day 2
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
My Take –
Generational welfare should have never been allowed to happen. Americans will always there to give a hand up. We don’t like giving an eternal handout.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 4, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/04/30-days-of-reagan-day-2/
Today’s Earworm
Posted by daddybear71 on January 4, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/04/todays-earworm-72/
I give up
The news coverage of the Iowa caucus is really starting to sound like this:
I’m going to bed.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 4, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/04/i-give-up/
Thought for the Day
Apparently, “Because I’m your husband and I said so” just isn’t going to cut it tonight.
Posted by daddybear71 on January 4, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/01/04/thought-for-the-day-27/
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