the big brown wave of the future

    Being stuck here in the middle of the Great Large Massive Power Outage of 2012, having lost all the food in a 22cu freezer and a 23 cu refrigerator, and spent a very nice few hours bonding with my younger son catching water from the downspouts into buckets to use for flushing the toilets, etc, I suddenly came to the realization that this is, in fact, | Read More »

    i am bean peaced off…really peaced off..

    ….(bean a reaction to the DOJ dropping the charges against certain disgusting thugs, without any explanation or justification whatsoever,thereby letting them get away with the most reallest “voter intimidation” tactics ever employed in modern times in this country….and the toadal lack of press time devoted to this story….) ……however. living as i do in west virginia…..i won’t have the opportunity of dressing up in clan gowns | Read More »

    not having a strong stomach, i tried to avoid the 100 day press conference…unfortunately….

    …i got exposed to one memorable line about people who had refinanced their mortgages at a lower rate, that this was “effectively another tax cut”….i guess he must have been listing his famous tax cuts…or something… ….but wait…if you reduce the interest you pay on your mortgage, doesn’t that kinda lead to reducing the deduction you can take on your taxes if you itemize..which would | Read More »

    Is Your Iraq Vet Being Hounded Like This, Too?

    When Sgt. Dave – my son – was discharged from the Army in 2006, we knew there would be the inevitable calls from recruiters. The National Guard. The Active Reserve. And, of course, regular Army recruiters hoping to re-enlist him. Some of these offered pretty large inducement packages, but Sgt. Dave was able to resist the temptation. After a while, the calls became less frequent, | Read More »

    Senator Caroline WHO???

    When I was young, my name was (not really) Chuckie Smith.  When I got married, my name changed to (not really) Chuckie Jones. Does Caroline Schlossberg (that’s my best approximation, you never really see her real name much) deserve a Senate seat? Good question. Her claim to fame then…she raised children?  Oh really.  I raised children also.  I lost all my potential Social Security benefits | Read More »

    NFL to Adopt Obama “Redistribution Plan”

    dateline: toadlynotrealnews,October 29,2008, (me) reporting In a surprise announcement this morning, NFL spokesperson Nina Allenburger said: “In today’s football world, we have too much disparity between the ‘name brand’ ‘popular’ players, and the third or fourth string ‘generic’ players. We in the NFL realize that the fans come to the games to see their favorite big stars, so that’s who we put on the field. | Read More »

    I HAVE SHARED THE WEALTH

    in 2000 ad, chuckie worked in the kitchen of a restaurant chain as a prep cook. this was to help cover the 100% justified and toadally reasonable” increase in premiums brought about by having two teenage male drivers in our household. but let me not go there, yes? i was one of two prep cooks on the staff. we shall call the other….hhmmmm….how about beverly, | Read More »

    too many things started coming together in my head…and it’s scary….

    thing number one….gas prices…which is reliably THE number one economic thing “the people” pay attention to…we are now approaching a gas price equivalent to the gas price in FEBRUARY 2008, or, for people who can’t count, the same gas price we had only eight months ago…what happened in the meantime to cause gas prices to go so high…anyone??? thing number two…fannie mae, freddie mac….a mostly | Read More »

    income redistribution in a typical restaurant kitchen…or…..

    in 2000 ad, chuckie worked in the kitchen of a restaurant chain as a prep cook. this was to help cover the 100% justified and toadally reasonable” increase in premiums brought about by having two teenage male drivers in our household. but let me not go there, yes? i was one of two prep cooks on the staff. we shall call the other….hhmmmm….how about beverly, | Read More »

    the joy of being obama is….

    okay, guys, i’m on dial-up,really really slow dial-up,so i don’t see any of these videos that get posted here, but i do notice a trend. apparently, you all have dug up videos of obama saying things he swears – okay he doesn’t swear as such – but at least, lots of things he denies he ever said. i had thought it was my age-eroded memory, | Read More »

    Comprehensive Sex Education for Kindergarten (an attempt at humor)

    “Good morning, boys and girls. My name is Ms. Livingston-Probinski, and I have the most fun job in the world. Can you guess what it is?” boychild:” Are you a clown inna circus!?!” “No, my job is much more fun than that, and besides, I would never work in a circus, because they take advantage of people who are different, and make you laugh at | Read More »

    Obama and O’Reilly talk taxes

    **Apparently, Obama’s main message is that when the Government has soooooo very many things to pay for, they have to get the money somewhere….. Obama wants the Government to pay for health care, mortgages, college education, “pay your bills,” and apparently whatever else anyone can think of. I don’t know about you, but when I was a child, my parents paid for my health care. | Read More »

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    what the frack…?

    okay, well i don’t know what particular “diary” to select, so i just picked the first one…hopefully, someone will educate me on the etiquette of blogging, so i might get better at it…i am just a oleperson here, trying to make sense of this new world….hah, good luck with that…. well, to get back to the meat of the matter, or the “what the frack | Read More »

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