A Sign Of The Times.......

Is this what our world has come to? Megan Mullally has been reduced to singing commercial jingles (really bad ones) about butter alternatives? Sad. Sooo sad.

Global Warming, Schmobal Schmarming...

I'm not even touching the fact that America is going through its coldest, snowiest winter in decades...centuries even. Because that's just..well...funny.

Let's talk carbon emissions (I know..my favorite, too!). Though we're puttering through life the same as we always have, all of a sudden just living our lives is ruining the planet. I don't know about you, but I'm not so much doing anything different in my day to day life than someone who lived the same life 50 years ago. As humans (well, most of us...with some exceptions..Al Franken, Perez Hilton, Bobby Knight...you know) we breathe oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.... As far as I know that's been the case since Adam & Eve.... except for the fact that now we're destroying the planet with each breath we exhale. K. Right.. So here's my theory on the wacked out environmentalists making that claim (with no evidence that it is actually true)... Being an environmentalist means you have love for our environment, right? For Mother Earth, plants, trees, critters that eat plants, critters that eat the critters that eat plants, and so on... It begins with plants and trees, and plants and trees need carbon dioxide to live...so they can in turn give off the oxygen we need to breathe... So....by demanding we drastically reduce our carbon dioxide output to save the planet (again...no actual real proof of global warming...though there is proof of manipulating data and reporting false statistics, but I digress...), environmentalists are basically asking us to deprive our beloved plants and trees of the carbon dioxide they need to survive in order to produce the oxygen that WE need to survive..... sumation: plants don't get carbon dioxide, they die. plants die, they don't produce oxygen. we don't breathe oxygen, we die. Hmm. So...rather than fighting to save our plants and trees, they are encouraging us to kill them. Not only that, but think of in terms of the food chain: plants die from lack of carbon dioxide, critters that eat the plants die from lack of food. critters that eat the critters that eat the plants die from lack of food.... And on and on and before you know it, where's my steak?? Which brings up another point... meat. All of a sudden (after only..you know...like 2000 years or so), the meat we consume is destroying Planet Earth, so we should drastically reduce our meat intake. Don't get me wrong.... I have had some goooood steak in my life, but never one that was powerful enough to destroy an entire planet! Have we really come to this, America? You want to tell me I can't enjoy a prime rib without thinking I'm harming the environment? And is this an example of the government becoming involved in every part of our lives including everything we eat or drink? Sure, reducing meat intake is only a suggestion right now, but that's how all laws begin. As suggestions.... Look, I love plants and trees passionately..I mean, I'm married to a landscaper, for goodness sake. And I love Earth. A lot. It happens to be the only planet I can live on at the moment... But until someone can show me ACTUAL documented proof that Bessie and her buds are destroying the world, I will continue to eat her rump, shoulder, ribs, and every other delicious part of her. Actually, let's be honest... show me proof that cows are destroying the environment and I'll still want to eat them. Sorry.... HOWEVER, I think there's a solution where everybody wins. President Obama is trying to close Gitmo.... If the detainees go back to their home country, chances are they'll be planning an attack on America 2 minutes after their return. And I certainly don't want them setting foot on US soil, so..... maybe we can spare Bessie and offer up something (someone) else instead? I get to keep my cheeseburger AND I don't get blown up. SCORE!
If you're asking yourself if it's hard to be this smart, yeah, it is.

Liberalism and control....? I don't get it.

We start our lives as children of our parents, under their control and guardianship. We obey our parents' rules while we are being raised by them. We reach puberty, enter our teens, and begin to develop our own views, opinions, etc. This is the time we catch our first glimpses of freedom. We sometimes rebel in an attempt to gain just a little bit of that freedom and dream of the day it will be ours. But still, we live in our parents' homes. We go to school when they tell us to. We come home when they tell us to. We do our homework when they tell us to. We eat what and when they tell us for dinner. We go to bed when they tell us to. We wake up when they tell us to. And then we start the cycle again. All we dream of during this time is FREEDOM. The day we are no longer under their control; when we can make our own decisions, even if they are wrong and result in mistakes. Those mistakes evolve into lessons learned; lessons we may have never learned otherwise. We become stronger individuals when we are out from under our parents' wings and must fend for ourselves. No one...no one, once they have achieved their freedom, chooses to go back home to live under their parents' rule. Sure, plenty of people move back home now and then, but you know what I mean. Given the choice of making our own decisions vs. living by decisions others make for us, being in charge of our own lives always wins hands down.
So why is it, then, when the first quarter of our lives are spent in anticipation of this freedom, being in charge of our own lives and out from under others' rule, Liberals want our government to control every single faction of our lives? What kind of car we drive..how much energy we can use...what we eat, what we drink...and don't snub those last two because believe me, our government taking control of health care in this country absolutely means they will determine what we can and can't eat based on nutritional value. Why are they so anxious to have our government so completely interwoven into our entire lives? How can we prosper as individuals and therefore as a nation if we are not free to try new things, new ways, BETTER ways? There is no room for growth, learning, or success when we only do what we are told we can do. No one ever succeeded at anything by simply staying within the perimeters. Nothing was ever invented without the inventor going beyond what he was told he could do. We are being transformed into a nation of mediocrity, a nation where dreams will cease to be, a nation that will never learn how to become better because we are contained within a box of rules and laws and regulation.
Think about it... I challenge you. Think of it in these terms. Having lived on your own, gotten where you are, achieved all you have achieved because of decisions YOU were free to make...would you give it up to return to the rule of mom and dad? That's what we're doing, America. Wake up. See it. CHANGE it.

Dear Blog....

Sorry it has been so long... life has been um.... stressful? lately and I just didn't have blogging in me... so...

Help me out here... Joan Rivers was just detained in an airport for a passport snafu. Joan Rivers. K. Hold that thought.
Christmas day, *insert muslim name here that I'm not taking the time to look up* boards a plane in Amsterdam bound for Detroit with A BOMB IN HIS UNDERWEAR. Granted, the components were separate when he boarded the plane, but still... And apparently, according to eye witnesses on the same flight, Loser al Blah Blah didn't even have a passport when he boarded. Mmmk. That's awesome. What's more awesome is that HE WAS ON A FREAKING TERRORIST WATCH LIST after his father reported him to authorities LAST YEAR because of his extreme radical islamist views.... Still got on the plane. Thankfully the attempt failed when the device did not ignite properly and other passengers took him down before he could try again. The happy ending is that no one was critically injured, no one died, and the families and friends of 300+/- people didn't spend their holiday grieving their loved ones who perished when the plane exploded. Thank God. Really, THANK YOU, GOD. But really... if he had farted just right, that plane and everyone on it were goners. No passport. Warnings to FBI/Interpol/foreign embassies from attacker's own father. TERRORIST WATCH LIST.
K. Now...Joan Rivers. When Joan Rivers was flying out of Costa Rica back to America, she was detained at the airport because her passport listed her deceased husband's last name PLUS her own. As in, "Joan Rosenberg, aka Joan Rivers"... They aren't playing in Costa Rica, they mean business... And in the end, she had to drive SIX AND HALF HOURS to another airport in order to fly home to America. Seriously? Really??? I mean... she had two names on her passport, one of which is the name by which the world knows her. We aren't talking like, Keely Anthony, aka Keely Sisco. We're talking Joan Freaking Rivers. Who doesn't know Joan Rivers? I mean, please. Sure, she had two names on her passport, officials were skeptical of that, yada yada yada. All they had to do was light a match by her face to see if it melted or not. But whatever.
SO. To recap: Muslim with expired visa/no passport on terrorist watch list, reported by father to international law enforcement agencies for extremist views boards plane bound for US with a bomb in his skivvies. Widely known celebrity Joan Rivers detained at airport even though her passport listed not only one, but TWO names by which she is legally known. Ummmmmmmmm...... should I have my common sense meter checked??

Here's the thing....

... about the stupid Miss USA / Carrie Prejean thing. If you don't know, during the interview portion of the pageant, Prejean was asked her opinion on same-sex marriage and her answer was "I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anyone out there.." Openly gay (and more openly annoying) blogger Perez Hilton was a judge...obviously her answer did not please him (and others),,,,,,,,,,annnnd so began a huge controversy in the pageant world, the media, and the public with people demanding she be stripped of her crown. Blah, blah, blah, Donald Trump said she's keeping the crown (of which she was stripped *pun!!* a short while later for being stupid and taking nakey photos, but that's another story) yada, yada, yada.
So here's my point.. America... would you rather have representing you as Miss USA a woman who answered a question by giving her raw, honest opinion on a very sensitive subject KNOWING it could actually hurt her and/or jeopardize her chances of winning...
ORRRRRRR.....
A woman who hid behind a lie when she answered the question out of fear of it having a negative impact on her chances in the competition and affecting her public reputation... ???

Childhood Memories...

I've been thinking a lot about my childhood. How when you're a kid, you don't even know there is a "weight of the world". Life is purely about what happens between waking up and going to sleep. Nothing further. Not about whether or not you can afford those shoes and can't remember if you paid for health insurance this month. Nothing bad can happen to you because your parents are a forcefield..nothing gets past mom & dad. No worries. There are no worries. The things you cry over are why you couldn't walk to Allison's house to play after you didn't eat your carrots. Or your rabbit dying. Or because you DON'T WANT TO WEAR PANTYHOSE UNDER YOUR MAJORETTE COSTUME TO MARCH IN THE CHRISTMAS PARADE, DANGIT!!!
So anyway... I'm on this little journey of change in my life. Change in a lot of areas. Or maybe just one or two areas that affect the other areas, I don't know. Whatever it is, it has me thinking of stuff from my childhood and since you obviously have nothing better to do than sit there reading this, I guess I'll share. But just in list form. So I don't get all detailed and/or mushy and/or depressed and/or whatever.
The list:
Chef Boyardee Spaghetti O's with Meatballs OR Totino's Party Pizza and Ritz Crackers on a tv tray sitting on the green couch beside my brother at Grandmother Margaret's house on Saturday nights watching Hee-Haw, Solid Gold, Lawrence Welk, Mandrell Sisters, TJ Hooker, Hunter, Whatever-Ice-Capade-Happened-To-Be-On-At-The-Moment, and maybe some other tv shows I can't remember...
And this is what I meant by list instead of detailed description. Whatever. The moment passed and I'm done with it for now. Sorry. My Y key is not cooperating and I have to retype every word with a Y in it. That sentence took a while.
I know there's another tv show I'm forgetting... Maybe it'll come to me later.

Yeah.. I haven't felt like blogging.

Sometimes I wish I was a drinker or a smoker. A drinker of really nice, high-priced wine. Just so I could quit and realize how much more money I would have by not buying wine. Or smokes. I mean, sure, the escape from reality for a while would be nice, too, but really it's more about the money.