Important Stuff -- Or Not: Rambling

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Rambling

I think I bit off more than I could chew with my other blog. The good news from Iraq is coming in faster than I can post it. I made about 30 posts tonight. Did you know that if you make too many posts on your blog, Blogger turns on word verification? I have 987 posts there and still have about 60 to go. I have no doubt that more will come in while I wait the 24 hours for word verification to expire. And I haven't seen any of this stuff in the MSM. I took my blood sugar when I woke up yesterday and it was down to 91! Normal is from 90 to 100. My sugar usually tests over 200. So, this is good. I don't know if it's my new medication or dropping caffeine. Probably both. Today, I start eating oatmeal (yuck) to tackle my cholesterol. I guess it's better than chicken wings, even though I make the best wing dip in the world. I'm trying everything I can think of before I have to start exercising. The lazy man's shepherd's pie experiment was a success. I just slapped together a layer of Dinty Moore beef stew and a layer of mashed potatoes -- and I didn't even make the mashed potatoes! It's a bit odd to dig in and find potatoes under a layer of mashed potatoes, but it works. I was at PetSmart awhile ago, again looking at the cat cages, which I shouldn't have been, and a young woman was adopting a young, short-hair, black cat -- not much older than a kitten. I came back the next day and the same cat was back in its cage. I heard a couple of employees talking about the "demon cat" who looked the girl right in the eyes and then clawed her face. They said she was terrified of it. I guess she didn't know the rule about not handling a cat unless it wants to be handled. The cat was gone the next day. Either they sent it back to the rescue group or someone else adopted it. I ALMOST took home a pure white short-hair of about the same age this week. But I didn't. Would you like to edit your pictures? Here's a good photo editing site. http://www.picnik.com/ Guess I'd better poke my head up and see if there are any stories to write. Just an hour till quitting time and a bowl of oatmeal.

11 comments:

Trader Rick said...: You can add stuff to your oatmeal, like bananas, strawberries, maple syrup or garlic...; 7:15 AM
Lone Ranger said...: I'm thinking sugar-free whipped cream.; 8:33 AM
Jim O said...: Mashed potatoes? I thought you were low-carb guy.; 9:57 AM
Lone Ranger said...: I'm not as low as I used to be. I used to be down to 20 a day, but the doc says I could have 90 per meal. There are a lot of days when I'm way below that.; 4:57 PM
Mark said...: I get cinnamon roll flavored Oatmeal. Did you know cinnamon counteracts sugar? That's the excuse I use for eating sugar. As long as there's cinnamon in it, too, it's ok to eat.

Do you think my doctor would buy it?; 5:22 PM
Lone Ranger said...: Cinnamon has a lot of curative powers, but doctors are reluctant to approve anything they can't subscribe.; 5:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Garlic, Rick???

(ack!); 8:26 PM
Lone Ranger said...: You should go to the Gilroy garlic festival in Gilroy, California in late July. They have things like garlic ice cream and garlic jam and it all works!; 9:41 PM
Anonymous said...: That could be a possibility were we to go north to see the friends who live northeast of Sacramento and bug us to come up. I might be able to talk the boys into making the slight detour. I'll have to phrase it properly though... ;); 3:49 AM
Lone Ranger said...: I went twice when I lived in Japan. When you approach Gilroy, you can smell the garlic in the air from the fields. I have one of their cookbooks, but haven't tried anything yet. It's a huge celebration.; 5:03 AM
Trader Rick said...: I was only kidding!!!; 9:36 AM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.