How cold was it?

It sure has been cold on the Eastern seaboard the last few weeks. How cold has it been?

So cold the Democrats had their hands in their own pockets.

How cold was it?

How cold was it?

Wash the foot first

That idiot preacher has inserted his foot in his mouth again. I've written him several times and he used to respond but he ignores me now. He has not said anything newsworthy in several years now but his idiocy could not be kept underwraps for long.

He sure does make it hard for a person to hold their head up while claiming to be a Christian. He has to be an embarrassment to believers everywhere.

If you do not know what preacher I am talking about, good, because the less people who hear what he said the better off the world is. If you agree with what the man said, stop and leave my blog as I only want intelligent people reading here.

Conan O'Brian

I saw his show live once. Before the show went on the air, he entertained the audience with unscripted and unrehearsed material that was suggested from audience questions and comments. The man was double-over and laugh until your side hurt funny. But once the actual show began, he was like a different person and nothing was funny, entertaining, or interesting. He was only slightly better than Chey Chase but not by much.

Seriously folks

Howie mandell taking over for David Hassellhoff on America's Got Talent and Ellen Degenarate, uh, Degeneras on America Idol. maybe the producers think these shows are so successful that the judges make no difference, but seriously, Ellen and Howie?

Internet shopping

I love the internet. I need some test strips and I checked at a local pharmacy and the price was $69.99 for 50 strips. Ouch!

I checked a few other places and all were the same price so I decided it might be best to buy a meter with cheaper strips. But first, I decided to check the internet. I found one place selling the box of fifty strips for $39.00 and alsmost sent an order but decided to continue checking.

Believe it or not, I found one site that sold a kit that included a meter, 100 test strips, and 100 lancets for $17.50 plus free shipping.

All that and I am still in my pj's on this cold morning.

Sometimes the convenience of shopping on the internet is negated by the cost of shipping but it is a great way to compare products and prices and find local suppliers if shipping costs are prohibitive. Overall, shopping on the internet has been a great time saver as well as money saver and has resulted in making better buying decisions.

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Dr. Mary Johnson said...
Dale didn't like it either:

I just read that comment from Dr. J and I must say that it is the best compliment I have ever been paid.

Why Seniors Really Should Fear Swine Flu

I don't like getting flu shots and have always refused to get a regular flu shot. My doctor insisted that I get the H1N1 flu shot. She said I was in a high risk category. The CDS said I was not.

I'm glad I trusted my doctor.

It seems the report is out that the CDS report that children were more likely to die than seniors is they contacted the H1N1 flu and that somehow seniors seemed to have an immunity turns out not to be true. It seems that while children are twice as likely as adults to catch the flu, seniors are twice as likely to die from it as children are.

Don't you just hate mistakes that put your life at risk?

We got it wrong?

In the song, Twelve Days of Christmas, the golden rings are not jewelry.

Fitness and Weight Loss

My wife wanted a Wii for Christmas. To be honest, we are both overweight. Wait, that's not absolutely correct. We were labeled obese by weight measurements-just slightly but obese just the same. I had already lost 35 pounds but had gotten stuck at a certain wight and seemed that my eating habits would not allow me to go below that number.

My health had improved. When I started all my numbers indicated I was a walking dead man but with a change in diet the numbers came down and except for borderline blood sugar and slightly elevated blood pressure, my other numbers were perfect. But I still had work to do.

In the warmer months I am in the yard working almost everyday and I did the occasionally walk. It was enough to keep me from gaining weight but bad weather days and months were really hard on me. Every year over the holidays, I would pack on the pounds and spend the next spring and summer working the weight off.

My wife's argument for the Wii was that we could exercise indoors. I let her win this argument and I am glad I did. We exercise via the Wii on a daily basis. She is now only overweight and I am only two pounds away from reaching that new low.

But better than that, I now wear a size smaller pants, my double shin in now a shin and a half, I sleep better and have more energy. I has only been 30 days (yea, it was an early Christmas present)

We play the games occasionally but mostly do the Wii fitness. She is able to stick to a set routine but I have to work around my crazy work schedule. It is paying off. Even though the weight loss has not been dramatic-nothing like twelve pounds in 7 days with "right-sized smoothies" or "you can lose twenty pounds by Christmas" headlines in November issue magazines, but the physical changes are noticeable and occuring at a steady rate.

It was a one time investment, we don't have to get out into the weather to go to the gym or brave the elemnts to walk around the neighborhood. One great thing is, once results have been noticed, motivation to keep at it sets in.

Stupid lawsuits

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34743864/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

I exercise and sometimes a new exercise is one I cannot do and i know that I can't do it so I don't. i may do a version of it or I may just skip it, waiting for one I can.

However, the lady in this lawsuit was taking an exercise class and she informed her instructor that she could not do the next exercise. Instead of doing the logical thing and sitting it out, she attempted it anyway and when she hurt herself, she decided the injury was someone else's fault and sued.

When are people going to start taking responsibility for their own actions?

She would have had grounds for a lawsuit if the equipment was faulty or the instructor had failed to give all of the instructions, or had physically or mentally conercised her into doing something that was unsafe for her but to knowingly attempt to do something that one has already voiced an objection to because one knew it was unsafe for them to try, is crying fowl because they couldn't do it.

Grow up people.

Socialite Casey Johnson has died at age 30.

Casey Johnson may not be as familar to people as say Paris Hilton but she was the heir apparent to a fortune: the Johnson and Johnon fortune.

Not to speculate but I recently (like last week) saw her picture posted along with other dumb people on a crime library photo array of rich people who do dumb things. I believe her dumb thing had to do with illegal drugs.

I was sorted right. Here is the link: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/heirs-under-arrest.html



Casey Johnson
Dec. 1, 2009: Casey Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was arrested for grand theft after allegedly stealing clothing, jewelry and a 600-page legal document from her former friend--and according to tabloids, lover--supermodel Jasmine Lennard. The 30-year-old heiress, who supposed friends say has a drug problem, also reportedly left a used vibrator on Lennard's bed and some wet towels on the floor.

Vapid Sun

Why do writers need to use such language? I know some words that are not of common usage help to more narrowly define the exact meaning a writer wants to convey but honestly, can the sun really be vapid? In reading a true murder story, which is more important: the dead body of a nude man that has just been discovered lying on the doorsteps of his home clutching a chain saw or the mood of the sun?

Has anyone ever used the word vapid in a real sentence?

Old Fort, NC

My dad loved the mountains and so wanted a piece of land with a mountain stream running across it so he purchase an acre of land in Old Fort, NC. Unfortunately, he died before he could finish what he had started on the land. I'm glad he got to enjoy it some though.

The taxes on it were cheap, only $50.00 or so a year but more than Mom should have to pay on property she can never use so I made an agreement to buy the land from her. I had hoped to cleam it up and maybe build something on it but there are no jobs for me in the area so I finally decided to buy a home here.

I did however want to take care of the land and maybe grow some vegatables and flowers and maybe raise some pond plants up there so I made an agreement with a man to clear the land in exchange for the trees. He took what trees he wanted, cut the rest and left them piled up on the property in such a manner that I can't use the property for growing anything unless I pay to have it cleared and that would coat several thousand dollars, which I don't have.

Now if I were planning to build on the land the epense would not be any greater than it would have been otherwise since the property would have to be graded anyway.

I relunctantly decided my best option was to sell the property but that hasn't worked out. The first agent I hired didn't move the property because the government decided to close off access to the main road so they could remodel bridges. The second contract also failed because the economy tanked.

The property was valued at $14000 and has a tax based on $10,800.00 (less than $57.00 a year) I want to clear $10000 on the sale so I had it listed for $12800.00 but I no longer have a contract.

The address is 140 Violet Lane Old Fort NC. To reach the land one needs to take Bat Cove out of Old Fort.

Identical twins born in 2 separate decades

maybe. Technically no. Purist will argue that the calendar began with year one making the year 100 the last year of a century, not year 99. When we count to ten, we start with the number one, making ten the last number in a decade. Counting forward, 2009 is the nineth year of this decade and 2010 the tenth, or last year. So a child born on 12-31-2009 and his twin born a few minutes later on 1-1-2010 were not born in two different decades.

Even so, it is unusual for twins to be born in different years. congrats to the parents.

Rahael Ray's Sexy Photos

I was surprised by those words when I loaded my home page. She kinda cute, I guess but seems a little chunky to me. I just didn't think she could shut up long enough for someone to take her picture.

I didn't look at the pictures. I find her an irratating little mouse.

Fair enough. I doubt she would look at my revealing photos either. (Even if I had some).

Secret admirer

Having someone wishing to quote a line from something I wrote is perhaps flattering. I have been quoted often but have always known who and what for. I have quoted others and sometime I have had to pay for the privilege but I have always had to get permission which entailed filing out a request form with the exact words I was going to use and in what context, if from copyrighted work and always giving full credit if from work in the public domain.

I suppose my blogs would fall under public domain but I'm not schooled on that enough to know how the law works on that issue.

A blogger named Anonymous said she was going to use sometime I said or an idea I expressed in a college report. Being without a real identity, I cannot say for sure if this unknown person is the same unknown person from the other blog. But someone or someones wishing to use me in their college work, even if it is in a derogatory way, is kind of like having a secret admirer-or a stalker. One never knows when an unknown person's attention may change from flattery to scary. That is why this person interests me. If the two request from Anonymous came from the same person, then I know Anonymous is a black female college student with a less than average grasp of proper grammar.

I hope she does well on the paper she is writing. I would rather be quoted in an A paper than one that receives a lesser grade.

Cops stop attack on Mohammad cartoonist

I have a stupid question.

If it is offensive to Muslims to have the image of mohammad recreated, how does anyone know what he looks like?

I remember when this controvery was fresh the question was asked why Christians don't get upset when Jesus or God the Father are depicted in unflattering psoses. Christians are taught not to worship idols or graven images.

If someone does succeed in killing the cartoonist, will it further the causes of the religion?

Maybe I had two stupid questions to ask.

I'm Innocent

Sometimes mistakes are made and innocent people are convicted and sometimes it is murder that one is convicted of and the penalty given is death. It is a horrible thought that one should be put to death when they had done no crime.

I have done some research into death row inmates who have faced their final punishment who claimed until the end that they were innocent.

Some would have to say the cry of innocence was the cry of insanity. An example would be the man who told friends and family that he had money problems and he was going to rob an old lady who ran a business by herself.

The old shopkeeper was found murdered. Her wedding ring was sold at a pawn shop and two checks from her business was cashed. The police found the person who sold the wedding ring from the fact that he gave his driver's license as ID when the transaction was made. At the time of his questioning, he confessed and then led police to a garage where her car was hidden with her body inside.

At his execution he pleaded innocence.


It is possible that some people convicted were not the ones who actually committed the killing. Four men do a home invasion in which the victim is killed. Two months earlier another victim was found who was killed in like manner (strangled with a coat hanger).

I agree that it is almost impossible to say which of the four committed the actual murder and if the one who killed the first victim also killed the second but at least one of the four is a murderer.

Two men stop at a farmhouse owned by an elderly couple. The couple is murdered by gunshot and their bodies burned. The son of their neighbors and one of his friends were arrested. The son of their neighbor was convicted of murder but claimed it was his friend who was the real killer. Maybe.

In neither of the last two cases to I believe in the innocence of the men convicted any more than I buy into the story of a man whose step sons body was found in a freezer located on this carport. Even though the other children claim they saw and heard the murder and thier parents told them conflicting stories of what happened, the man claims that a stranger took the boy, murdered him and placed the childs body in his freezer.

This is not meant to be an indorsement of the death penalty. I do have a comment about that though. The constitution says "cruel and unusual" not cruel or unusual. While lethal injection is less cruel than hanging or the firing squad it is unusual in the fact that it is only a recent method. Hanging and the firing squad have been used for hundreds of years and while cruel are not at all unusual.

I agree with the opponents of capital punishment that the death penalty does not prevent a person from commiting murder but not executed person had ever killed after their death. On the other hand, numberous people who have been given prison time have gone on to be repeat offenders.