A Blog After a Bears De Feet

Hello there, fans and devotees. It has been a while since there has been a blog from us here in the middle west, but I know you have been waiting patiently. I started a long blog a couple of nights ago and had it about ready--and hit a wrong button and wiped out the whole thing. This is a new and revised blog. The Bears got beaten by the cursed Patriots in a very exciting 4th quarter, and the announcers in the Fox booth got into a trashing of how bad Grossman had been all season (after they spent all season trashing Orton), but the Bs still have a good win record this season, so life goes on. I should look up how the Bs did in 1947--that may have been a bad year also; I like to have a head full of Bears lore.
Betty Comden and Anita O'Day(one created great music and one sang great songs greatly)both passed away last week. There has been general chaos and mahem in Iraq; the su's and shi's have been killing each other is mass quantities. One of the Gemayels in Lebanon was assassinated (memories of the civil war in the 80's). Kramer gave out with some racial slams at a comedy club, and Hugo Chavez says that he is going to bring down the US. Lots more stuff has happened since the last blog, but Drudge has the record of world events on his site, and I have a load of news websites bookmarked, to look into when I have a lot of time to go through them, maybe when the first blizzard in the heartland snows us in. It has been hazy and fairly warm here all weekend. I know this summary of world events will not really inform my readers of what has been going on, but sometimes human doings whelms me. Last night Kasick on FoxNews had Dennis Miller give a little talk at the end of K's show and Miller weighed into the Dems for playing around with issues such as minimum wages, and not doing what they should be doing--which is defending the country from the next terrorist attacks. I am finding it interesting that the mainstream TV media have done nothing yet with the news about the Indian engineer working for the Air Force who may have given our secrets about how the stealth bomber is built to the Chinese. Oh yes, there is all the news about the Russian spy in England who died very painfully from some kind of radiation pill slipped into him; the news at first was he had been fed poisoned sushi. I need to look into this story more deeply than I have had time to do this weekend. It was 43 years ago this past Friday that JFK was shot, and the date seems to have passed by the news media--maybe because so much stuff has been happening right now. Oh yes, the Aggies beat the Texas 'Horns Saturday--no comments about going to the Chicken Ranch.
I had a good time with the family on Thanksgiving, and we had ham and buffalo and sweetpotato pie, among other tasty rations.
Friends, I am going to wind up this blog for right now, even though all I have done is rehash some news briefs I think are interesting. Must go to work in the early morning, even though my body clock still seems to be out of sync after a holiday off last Thurday; maybe the dark nights of November have something to do with this. Anyway, you all take care. Di di mau!

Postelection Bears Triumph Blog Entry

We lost congress but won the Game Sunday, pounding the NYGiants. So I should be happy, even though that makes my life priorities seem peculiar. Thursday we got our first snow, even though it mainly big wet sleet flakes, which soon disappeared from the streets.
I went home this weekend to visit the family, and we all had a good time.
There is not much to opine upon, even though I have strong feelings about how the election came out. I have expressed my feelings in previous blog entries. I just hope the winning party does not open the doors of America to whatever groups want all of us dead, so that they can reshape the world according to their holy book.
I did not know that Murtha had been involved in Abscam 26 years ago. Danny Ortega is going to be back running Nicaragua (he won by ballot not bullet this time) and rumors are floating that Castro may be dead by the end of the year.
I do not know how Drudge and Hewitt and the pajamasmedia bloggers Do It every day--sorting out all the news that comes across the wires(old fashioned phrase, aint it?) and telling us what it all means.
This is a very jerky disorganized blogging tonight, I know. My fingers are not working on the keyboard and I am ashamed that I do not know the full inside story of all the news that is occcuring as I type. Some guy on the radio this p.m. said that most people only listen to the daily news for ten minutes a day, and that is all the world info they get. Maybe true, but I try to get Some information, but tomorrow another load of info will come through, and we are expected to absorb that, and then the next day more stuff...
After a nice few days off from work I start back at the routine tomorrow morning. Whine! No, I am not going to whine about being employed.
This is going to be all for right now, for I must try to get some sleep before work. So, you all take care. Di di mau!

Election 06 is History

I did get to the polling place yesterday morning and Voted, and since the results started coming in last night I have been in bed sucking my thumb in unstoppable grief. No! I took the news in a manly manner and assumed that in a democracy one group wins and one group loses--even though I am not happy. I Will Survive--Hey Hey!
The whole cyberspace world is loaded with people commenting on the election results, so there is probably no reason for me to spill out my internal rage at the way the American voters chose their leaders yesterday.
And then--Rummy quit! Words cannot express my thoughts on that historic disaster to the nation. So, I will go intellectual and ask all my fans and devotees to read many books on civilian-military relations through history, starting with the ways Stalin dealt with his Marshalls, and the whole history of Lincoln, Stanton, and the Civil War Generals, and then the way Polk and the Mexican War Generals got along with each other. I did not want Rummy to go away!
I looked at some European newspapers online to see how they are covering the US election, even though I do not read French and German very well. By the way Prison Break is a popular show on French TV, and Brittny Spears' divorce is being covered in Europe. And I once had to take so many classes on the glories of European culture.
I really am in a kind of grouchy mood tonight after the election. My Ma was wondering why I am being so crabby today. And I had to promise to get over it and not fall into the traits of a late uncle who was mad all the time about something or other for years.
This has actually been a wonderful Nov. day--with temps in the low 80s in the afternoon. So the shorts came out of the closet and got worn one more time. They were very happy, as were my legs.
I think this is going to be all for right now. I have vented my views on the events of today and yesterday, and if the Dems are now in Power that is our system of peoples' govt. We will see what they do. So, you take care. Di di mau!

Election Tomorrow Oh Wow

ABC Nightline is right now doing a piece on Obama, which is so much of a love-in that I am about ready to gag. So much for network news impartiality. The guy is being revealed as absolute perfection and all-knowingness. Just my own private cynical opinion.
Have been drowning all day in TV campaign ads and they are still being shown at 11 p.m and getting meaner as the night goes on. Even people running for state and local offfice are being shown as the most evil creatures to appear on earth. Probably nothing new about all this; Washington and Andy Jackson got the same treatment, and Mary Lincoln got worse press than Abe got.
Back in the late 90s when Clinton was on the hot seat the chat rooms I used to spend my time being in got a lot of comments that there was nothing wrong with pols being sexually and financially corrupt--because the French pols did it all the time, and the French could not get why Americans were so bent out of shape about what our pols got caught doing. That excuse had not worked when Clarence Thomas was being grilled, but it was the excuse Clinton devotees were using for their hero.
A guy from Iowa who had been through West Point and was in the 101st Airbourne got killed in Iraq the other day. He must not have studied hard enough in school to avoid getting sent over there.
I am getting bitterer and bitterer as this blog goes along, even though I am watching Jimmy Kimmel, who is actually very funny and not quite as bitter as Letterman usually is. Maybe I will watch Jimmy before bedtime more than I usually do.
This blog is not really going anywhere, but I felt like venting my profound thoughts in cyberspace, if someone on earth might actually find this blog.
I will have much more to opine upon tomorrow evening after I watch the election returns. It will be an interesting and deep blogging, I guarantee that to my fans and devotees. So, di di mau!

Just Swingin'

Really tasteless title for this blog, making fun of the destiny of Saddam Hussein. The people in his home town are furious and threatening more violence in Iraq (what else is new?) The Iranians are actually glad about his death sentence-considering the 8 year war with them he started, and assorted commentators are claiming that Bush ordered the Iraqis to sentence him to death to get votes for the Republicans in the Tuesday elections.
It had to happen some time--the BEARS finally lost a game this afternoon--getting pounded by the Dolphins 31-13! I will be grown up and accept that everybody loses an NFL game sometime, but the Bears have been on a roll after 25 years of being dishrags, and maybe next week they will Win again; we have a Super to win in February in Miami.
This seems to be a very slow moving ritual of typing a blog entry; I have been droopy all weekend. Nothing emotional hampering living this weekend, but I have a cold and a sore back and leg, and even with wonderful weather I have sagged around for 3 days, and have tomorrow off from work, and have a lot of cleaning up in the apartment I need to do and some money matters at the bank I need to take care of, so the stuff should get done before the day the snow actually begins falling and winter begins.
The election campaign has one day to go, and then we will be rid of the mean political ads trying to convince us that the Other Guy is the most evil creature ever born. I am going to vote a straight ticket for my party.
Some thoughts on the TV preacher (Haggard)who got caught with drugs and a boyfriend, and like Jimmy Swaggart confessed his sins to his followers. That is what you are supposed to do as a Christian, but if he had not been caught he would have just kept on sinning and trying to keep getting away with what he was doing. Whatever you are doing, stop it, and do not wait to get caught.
With that somewhat haughty and smug opinion, which I need to get rid of myself and with prayer, I am going going to put this blog to bed, and should have more to send into cyberspace next time I appear. Di di mau!

Cold Thursday P.M. Musings

Not an attention-grabbing title, but it sets the time and climate. Cold and windy all day and into the night, but the weekend may produce temps in the 70s; shorts and sandals time, maybe.
I have not blogged for a couple of days while Kerry has the center of contention, but he did "apologize" and now we all can move on to Sy Hersh's speech in Canada (on Drudge), in which he trashed US troops in Iraq as being the most violent in American history, and they deserved to be called baby killers when they get home. (There was more in the same vein.) Apparently his listeners at McGill U. lapped up what he said.
Not a great night on TV. Earl was more silly than funny (even with Rosanne as a mean old lady who thought Earl was the voice of God), The Office was not very funny (even with being about diversity clashes between Americans and Hindus), and OC was a droop. And the political adds are getting meaner day by day.
On to Kerry! If he had said the college kids he was talking to that they should study, and then do something for the country, even to joining the military and taking their turn on the line, instead of planning to spend their lives in cubicles, I might have forgiven him, but he fell into the Dems' vision of going back to some warm fuzzy peaceful Clinton-style era. (Jack and Bobby-for all their faults-were about doing something outside of yourself). (We cannot go back to the mythical Clinton age if we wanted to; the Moslems are not done planning to kill everyone on earth.)
I should more to opine about, but my lower back to starting to hurt again, as it has been doing for the last several days. Everyone at work is wheezing and sniffling with the first winter colds, and I may be getting one. Aint this a cheerful blog tonight; nothing but moaning. When things get a little more cheerful tomorrow maybe I will give a more cheerful blog. Take care. Di di mau!