Posted on 02/16/2007 5:33:38 AM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
Due to circumstances I have to check in and out on a rather irregular basis. I must have missed something. What happened to Mom?
I thought Mitch McConnell stopped the debate in the Senate. Yesterday I read some of the funding to our troops have aleady happened. Thanks to murfa the traitor. (Also another vn hero aka skerry)
Typing hopefully will strengthen these fingers, but the little finger just doesn't want to cooperate. lol
December 8:
6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window, watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!
December 9:
We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had. Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snow plow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life!
December 12:
The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry, we'll d definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again. I don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man. I'm glad he's our neighbor.
December 14:
Snow, lovely snow! 8" last night. The temperature dropped to *20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish I wouldn't huff and puff so.
December 15:
20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all.
December 16:
Ice storm this morning. Fell on my butt on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like h*ll. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel.
December 17:
Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. God I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room.
December 20:
Electricity's back on, but had another 14" of the d*mn stuff last night. More shoveling. Took all day. freakin' snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying.
December 22:
Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white stuff fell today, and it's so cold it probably won't melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to p**. By the time I got undressed, p**ed and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he says he's too busy. I think he is lying.
December 23:
Only 2" of snow today. And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she...nuts??? Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she's lying.
December 24:
6". Snow packed so hard by snowplow, I broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a gun who drives that snowplow, I'll drag him through the snow by his $#$%^. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was busy watching for the freakin' snowplow.
December 25:
Merry Christmas. 20 more inches of the @#$%^& slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she's an idiot. If I have to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to kill her.
December 26:
Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She's really getting on my nerves.
December 27:
Temperature dropped to -10 and the pipes froze.
December 28:
Warmed up to above -5. Still snowed in. THE WOMAN is driving me crazy!!!
December 29:
10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave-in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?
December 30:
Roof caved in. The snow plow driver is suing me for a million dollars for the bump on his head. The wife went home to her mother. 9" predicted.
December 31:
Set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling!
January 8:
I feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?
He's a handsome dude,
Today, nearly a week after my official announcement to the general public, I'm posting a link to the announcement about my retirement, ending 16 years in the Iowa General Assembly.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17842192&BRD=1142&PAG=461&dept_id=568956&rfi=6
MANY Thanks to all of those who have protected my identiy for lo these many years.
WHY am I going public now? Because I want to tell you about the dramatic changes when a General Assembly goes from quasi Conservative Control to Liberal Control.
The Iowa Senate, this week, passed a resolution opposing the War on Terror. The resolution is headed for the House. Next week, I will have an opportunity to speak against it.
There's more. But that's enough for now.
I just caught on the news that there's a lot of protesting going on about Toyota being in NASCAR this year. Dale Jarrett, one of my favorites, made it a point that TOYOTA is 100% made in America, owned by Americans.
Announcer then said that Ford is racing the "Fusion" which is made 100% in MEXICO!
I was raised in Indy and they had the same flap when the English started driving there, especially with a rear-engine car! Blasphemy!!
I was sent this in my email.
It's called If I Die Before You Wake.
http://www.flashdemo.net/gallery/wake/index.htm
Written and sung by a soldier.
Awesome.
WOW! You have REALLY been hit with the GLOBAL WARMING, HUH?
OH NO, Please tell me the coffee police are coming back, should be about the umteen time if the do....
So what if I am addicted to hot coffee (more than 5 times a week too!)....and I refuse to be a candidate for that Intervention show. LOL
The "other side," unfortunately, is not simply being the "loyal opposition," they're being the "total opposition". There was an excellent essay not all that long ago. In the piece, the author remarked how the liberals were prepared to lose the war in Vietnam all for the sake of advancing their agenda--for which they were successful. The piece then fast forwards to now positing the opinion the liberals are still prepared to lose the war in Iraq, if it means advancing their agenda (and, what the heck, if Republicans can get tarred on this for (1) starting the war and (2) losing it, then the sting of (a) starting Vietnam and (b) losing it, on the part of "the other party"--all the better).
I still believe Impeachment is on their agenda. They appear poised (read today's Washington Pravda) to set up all kinds of trip wires for the Iraqi conflict--who knows where that'll go.
Anyway, you still have a forum here, and heck, in a way you've released yourself to be even more a nuisance and pain in the south ends of the Communists (er, liberals) and their plans.
Yes. Bigtime.
And why wouldn't they turn out great, look at their great parents.
...REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN MCCAIN CO-SPONSORING LEGISLATION WITH JOE LIEBERMAN TO CUT CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, AND SAYS: "I AM CONVINCED THAT WE HAVE REACHED A TIPPING POINT AND [] THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES WILL ACT."
wow.. great pix..
Proud momma bursting at seams!
Oh how I wish we all could be there with you for the next 2 years. We'd help by making their votes a living h*ll for them... Not that you're not capable...;-)
Bless you.
This McLame/Climate Change thing makes me weary.
$74.5 Million Powerball winner on FNC.
She's resigned her position as a corrections officer. I'm wondering how she'll manage that much money.
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