Holidays

Holidays are supposed to be a wonderful time of year, aren't they?  I used to love them when I was younger, probably because my Mother is the best cook I have ever met.  When I fix the dishes that she used to fix for Thanksgiving and Christmas, my able groans, trying to hold it all.
There was a turkey, of course, ( while I love ham, it is for Easter, thank you just the same) and corn bread dressing. We are southern, it is the best dressing in the world.  And then there would be some sort of vegetable, usually broccoli or cauliflower.  There was also macaroni salad, baked beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, baked sweet potatoes, and the best yeast roll you have ever put in your mouth.  When you recovered from that round, there was banana pudding, fruit salad, pumpkin pie, cherry pie, apple pie, sweet potato pie, and lemon meringue pie.  It was a feast.
It also took a whole week to fix everything, and we ate left overs for almost a month.  When I think of family gatherings, I always consider the food that we ate.  It was delicious, which didn't hurt, but it was the back drop for everyone that had come over.
Years later, after enduring several b a d  meals at the exe's Aunt's- I offered to cook and even his crazy father jumped at the idea.  I don't enjoy cooking all the time, but when I do, I like to go all in the way my Mother does. I didn't even mention the deviled eggs or the plates of olives and cheese that were out.  It just makes me homesick thinking about it.
So anyway, now that I am the grown up and my Mother lives about a million miles away from me, hopefully I will give my own children the same memories.
Even relatives that are more than annoying are tolerable when  the holidays are here.  If you don't have family close, consider getting together with all of the people you know that also have no where to go for the day.  There is always more happiness in a group, I think.
One of the saddest things to me is the dairy queen in this stupid little town is always hopping on Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I guess there are lots of people who have no where to go.  So if you can open your home to friends, think about having a meal with them on the Holiday.  You'll thank me later.

Walmart Might Consider KY Jelly for Their Associates

I really hate going to Walmart.  I have a lot of reasons that I don't like the place, not the least of which is their unending quest to keep moving crap around.  I like to be able to get in, get out.  There is a list of reasons why this is almost never possible.
1. No matter when I go there, there is always some sort of reunion breaking in front of me.  Who are these idiots who have to stand there blocking the aisle while they catch up with each other?  Go stand out of the way if you need to talk for more than ten seconds. Please.
2. Small children that aren't controlled by the adults who brought them there.  You may think that your little princess is adorable now that she can walk, but I almost run her over because silly me, I'm not checking the floor for your little bundle of newly walking joy.
3. Body odor.  For the love of heaven, soap doesn't cost that much.  There are third shift people in this local Walmart who make your eyes water.  God forbid if you are stuck shopping near them.  Good bye appetite.
4. Gossiping friends.  Okay, this one is my fault, but it still slows me down.
5.That herd of people who have to yap away with the people greeter. Just take your cart, ask your question and keep moving!  Those big glass things are letting more people in behind you, you know.
In my last trip through, I spoke to one of my former co workers.  She was telling me that they will not receive a quarterly bonus this go around.  Shock of shocks, how can that be?  Walmart is one of the few stores who are holding their own, aren't they?  So if the retail Rock of Gibraltar can't make its sales quotas, what does that say for the other retail establishments?
Why isn't the msm telling me any of this?  I can't believe, (she said sarcastically) that they have some kind of agenda.
Walmart used to be a great place to work.  With a few changes, it could be again.  They need to do away with the nepotism (one support manager I know went from support to co-manager in 12 months) they need to do away with the dead weight, and they need a much more responsive management team.
When I left their happy family, I was making about $17 an hour, so it's not that they aren't paying well.  It took me almost 10 years to get there.  I started at $6.50 an hour, but it was still more than the union grocery store was willing to start me at.
Walmart is not the family company that Sam Walton founded.  Think about any purchases that you have to make there.  You'll thank me later.

Daylight Savings Time and Other Dumb Ideas

I am lucky enough that my commute to work takes five minutes on foot.  I say that now, of course, because there is no snow on the ground to contend with yet.  When the snow ( a miserable four letter word, if ever there was one) comes, it will probably add another five minutes to my commute, as I have a dog that is delicate, just ask her.  She might weigh 165 pounds, but her delicate feet were not made to step in water or snow. But as I walk to work, I see children standing in the dark, waiting for the school bus.
Some of these children remind me of the old SNL costume, 'invisible pedestrian' as they stand there in dark clothes with their dark jackets.  I keep dreading the day when one of them will be hit by a car, the street they gather on doesn't have a lot of drive ways, so the street is parked up and the traffic is down to one lane in places.  I hate it, but it's going to happen one day.
I have written before that the hour "saved" in the whole stupidity of changing clocks is mythical.  If you want an "extra" hour to exercise, or do yard work, or whatever your plan is- set your alarm an hour earlier.  How easy is that?
In the state that I live in, the idea of changing clocks was very contentious.  It was voted on four times and defeated.  Seems to me that no one wanted it, right?  But the powers that be were determined to drag them kicking and screaming into time changes, and presto!  There has been no great increase in commerce that was promised.  There has been no increase in anything.  I guess whoever ramrodded it through was full of feces. Typical politician.
Another dumb idea that has been aggravating me is something I call the Caucasian tax in obamacare.  You probably weren't aware of this one unless you use a tanning bed.  I don't like them, they make me feel as if I am crawling into a glass and chrome coffin.  But I use one a few times a year because if I don't, the people around me cringe away.  Not because I am as pale as milk ( that would be the Sister, Shawna) but because I am so unbelievably irritable while I am not getting all of the vitamin D that I need.  So three or four times in the fall I will climb into a tanning bed and when I come out, I no longer want to rip of someone's head and crap down their neck. (Not counting the ex or his boyfriend, of course.)
But the morons who had to pass it to tell me what was in it, added this ten percent tax on tanning.  Who tans? Do you see a lot of black people lining up?  How about Mexicans, or even Asians?  No.  What you have are a lot of white people who either don't want to be the color of milk, or they use it like I do, for the vitamin D.  Seems a little discriminatory, doesn't it?
Finally, I guess the dumbest idea to me these days is a helmet law.  I know, I know, they save lives.  So do seat belts.  But if a person is old enough to make the decision to ride on a motorcycle, aren't they old enough to decide if they want a helmet on their head or not?  Goose stepping into a nanny state is an aggravating thing.  Scary, also.  Think about how much freedom you have, and how much you are willing to give away.  You'll thank me later.

Looks Like Walmart Will Be Hiring

I've read with a fair amount of amusement, the movement to have people who work for the largest retailer in the world, simply walk off their jobs on black Friday in protest of the policy that people have to work on Thanksgiving.  I worked for Walmart for ten years, let me tell you, I never had the Holiday off.
When I took the job there, I understood that I was working in a retail occupation.  I also understood that they day after Thanksgiving is the largest retail day for the store.  It's called "black Friday" because for many retailers, that is when they go into "black" that is-they actually make a profit for the year.
The things that all of the people buy don't magically appear by fairies and elves.  Real live associates are needed to put that stuff out there so that people can buy it.  When is it that they are supposed to do that?  If you know that you are going to really be busy on a certain day- wouldn't you plan on being ready for it?
Because Obama and his moronic policies have created 20% unemployment, any job is a good job right now.  While you may not like having to rearrange your Holiday, would you rather be living on the street because you cannot pay for your housing?  I am certain that all of these newly outraged people who plan to call in sick would rather have a roof over their heads and food in their refrigerator.  Sometimes there are hard choices that you have to make.  And if the worst thing that these employees have facing them is that they have to rearrange their Thanksgiving meal I have three words for them: suck it up.
If you have a job right now that is paying you full time wages, do you realize that you are better off than in three people?  If you have enough money to pay your way through life, thanks to B.O. you are better off than almost half of the people.  If you need something to be thankful for- I'd start right there.
There are service men and women who are being shot at on Thanksgiving.  They will hopefully eat a simple meal from a metal tray.  It may be turkey, maybe not.  There will be no family around them to laugh or enjoy the day with, and there will be no relaxing nap afterwards.  They aren't going to call in sick, they can't.  Nor will they stage a walk out-and Thank God- our freedom and safety depends on them.
If you are looking for something to be thankful for, I'd start right there.  The world doesn't owe you the hours that you want to work, and since B.O. was able to steal another one, just be thankful that you have a job.  You'll thank me later.

Obamanomics in Action

Here's a true story from the day after the morons put that socialist back in the oval office:

I have said on more than one occasion that I would love a day off.  I was hopeful that mittforbrains had chosen well, and like me, other conservatives would pull the lever for him, if not for Romney necessarily.  Well, that didn't happen and now we are stuck with four more years of the worst hot mess since Carter.  At least Carter meant well, I have to believe.  So B.O. is re installed  his yeti wife can continue to get all the free crap her sasquatch like hands can hold and I cannot afford to hire a part time person because of obamacare.

I had hoped that I could, had even narrowed down my search to one person and told him that I would be starting him after the election-provided of course-that b.o was kicked to the curb.

Well, bright and early this morning, I had to call my non employee and tell him that because of mass stupidity I was not in a position to hire him.  He needs the job.  He really does.  I believe him with my whole heart, and I truly wish that I could afford to hire him.  Not just for those blessed hours I would have off from work, but I truly believe in paying it forward.  But I can't take the bread out of my mouth for his.

He was almost in tears and I was in tears.  He needs to make the money to keep his small family afloat.  I get that, I really do.  But I can't help him and it is not just Obama's fault- it is the fault of every moronic, welfare believer in the nanny state that voted for him then or now.

And the crap doesn't stop there.  Did you realize that obamacare has a tax in it that specifically penalizes white people?  It puts a ten percent tax on tanning bed salons.  Who tans?  Do you see a lot of hispanics or blacks in there?  No, you see caucasians and only caucasians. How is that not racist?  

Thanks to b.o. there are so many regulations that are involved in hiring someone to work for you.  I can't afford the penalties (they are not taxes no matter what an idiot Supreme Court thinks) so I am stuck here for about seventy three hours a week.  

How's that for change you can believe in?  What's more- I am just one small business.  Do you really think that I am alone in my ideas?  I am not.  I have spoken to dozens of people like me, and we all agree that we'll just gut it out.  Is it any wonder that real unemployment is double digits and rising?  There is more feces coming.  Get ready for it.  Buy gold. Buy ammunition. Stockpile food.  You'll thank me later.

For the Walking Brain Dead that Voted for B.O.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/how-many-businesses-have-announced-closings-or-lay-offs-since-obama-won-a-second-term/


There's some change that you can believe in.  The recession that should have been over is only going to be longer and more painful than we could ever believe.  In fact, when you use the numbers that they used to calculate our economy during the 1930's we are smack in the middle of  a depression. In 1931, our unemployment numbers were 15.3%. In 1932 it was 22.9%. In 1933, it was 20.6 % and 1934 gave us 16% unemployment.  Removing the mumbo jumbo of only counting people who are receiving unemployment and counting all unemployed- we have 2009- 21%. 2010 we  are looking at 22%.  In 2011, it stayed steady at 22% unemployment.  For 2012, it is 23% unemployment.
We have let ourselves be overrun by people who are more concerned with the next free handout, the next gimmee, that we have signed over our sovereignty.
We are no longer the world's best hope- we are that homeless guy waiting for the next spare change to hit his cup.  We are no longer world leaders.  We are only the leaders of debt and  jobs lost.  We cannot get to the space station that we built unless we hitch a ride with a country that hates us.
We cannot even pay our own bills, and yet we are giving away billions in foreign aid.  A lot of that aid goes to countries that don't like us.  Pakistan is a fine example.  They were hiding Osama Bid Laden and we had to sneak into our "friends" country to get him.  Of course, Barry was quick to take the credit for it.  Quick to want the appreciation, even though he denied permission for the raid until he found out it was about to be leaked.
That's your guy and you can have him.  He has socialized twenty percent of our economy with no real way to pay for it.  But the idiots, useful or otherwise, heard free and they signed on in droves.  I pity them.  I will anyway after I get finished figuring out how to clean up this latest mess.
I had planned to hire a guy until the election results came in.  While I am still waiting to see how much of it was stolen, I am not hopeful.
If the main stream media can't even tell me how many people are dead because of fast and furious, I don't expect that they will tell me how many  voting booths were faulty or how many areas where B.O. received 105% of the vote.
Nope, they are in the tank for their guy, plain and simple.  So I am not hiring. My store will limp along and I will continue to work 16 hour days.  I will not expand, I will only hunker down and try to ride out the storm. As soon as mittforbrains gave up and quit ( surprised? no) I put the sell order into my broker.  He was getting a lot of those on Wednesday.  I converted the majority of my holdings into gold and silver, much like many people were doing.  I have a full freezer.  I have three guns in my house (one on every floor) and enough ammunition to stop the moron who thinks it is a good idea to steal from me or break into my home.  I would suggest that you do the same.  You'll thank me later.

Go Vote the Socialist Out of Office

Tomorrow is one of the most important elections of our life times.  Not only do we have to go about fixing the mess that has been wreaked on us for the last four years, we have to make sure that it never happens again.
I am not a fan of Mitt Romney.  Anyone who takes even a casual glance through these posts can see that I think he is John McCain revisted. I don'tt think he is conservative enough, and I don't like him.  I love Paul Ryan, however. He has a bold set of ideas, and he has a plan-something that the msm has been more than happy to ignore about B.O. lo these last four years.
If we allow the guy in there now to have four more years to tear up our economy, our identity, our standing in the world, we may not be able to fix it when he is finished.  Do you like that there is a kill switch on the internet?  Do you like that he won't even salute our flag?  He has no problem saluting other flags, just not ours.  I don't like the idea of having to pay him for the rest of his stupid life, but he smokes, and hopefully, that is a problem that will take care of itself.
God forbid, if he got hit by lightening on one of his endless games of golf, Joe Biden is in charge. Does that not scare the crap out of you??  It keeps me from getting a good night's sleep many times.  Go out and vote!  You owe it to yourself, to your children and to our Republic.  We simply must make our voices heard, that all that there is to it.
Go vote. You'll thank me later.

Look for the Union Label (and know that they are overpaid)

I'm not a big fan of the union.  I have said it before, I am sure I will take as much crap from the union toadies this time, as I did the last time.  Both my Father and my Step Dad were members of a union. When either of these fantastic men died, the only benefit that I saw from the union was a beautiful display of flowers.
My Father had to retire in his fifties due to his heart condition.  He hated not being able to work, he often said his disability check felt like welfare to him.  He hated that he had to rely on the government, and often told me about when he worked and was a member of his union.
He did something that was considered important-he talked about the lavish conferences that they had in great locations.  He liked that he got to go to them and enjoy himself while his union picked up the tab.  Sounds like Obama in a nutshell, doesn't it?
But then, my Father's heart took a crap and he had the first in a series of heart attacks that forced his retirement.  None of his union pals called to see how he was doing when he had to stop working.  None of them stopped by, none of them wrote a note or sent a card.  He thought that those guys were his friends, but of the dozens and dozens that he knew- two stayed in touch.  Now when he died, they sent a beautiful arrangement.  I think he would have preferred a cup of coffee at McDonald's with his alleged friends from the union days.
Now my step Dad was an awesome guy.  He loved my Mom- which already made him a great guy to me- but he always went above and beyond when he was doing something.  He also worked in a union shop.  That union kept voting in mandatory overtime and literally worked him to death. He hated doctors because of watching his first wife die slowly while being treated by doctors.
Jerry was getting to the stage in life when he was slowing down.  His children were grown and gone, his house paid for, retirement was stretching out in front of him.  He'd begun travelling with my Mom, they had decided to try Tennessee when they retired.  Unfortunately, he also worked with many younger men who hadn't paid for their things yet and they kept voting in mandatory overtime.  Go union.  My step Dad worked himself to death-never getting to enjoy the life that he had built for so long.
I recently  had an experience with a union.  Members of this particular group bounced checks, left my store wide open and unlocked, and failed to keep their word at every turn.  I wouldn't do business with one again if I had to.  Especially if that bunch is the standard bearer.
I read that unions are pouring millions into B.O.'s coffers.  Where do they get that money? From the saps that have to pay into it of course.  North Carolina in just the latest state to allow people the choice of not being forced to fork over their money to a union that doesn't support their political beliefs.  I can't wait until all the states are right to work-I believe it is coming.
The days of 16 hour work days and no day off is long past.  Unions can no more continue to take credit for that than whether reporters can take credit for the rain.  They were both going to happen regardless.  Reconsider whether your money is better spent on yourself, or on the facility, vehicles, and perks of the union toadies.   Think about it, you can thank me later.

Media Continues Ridiculous Pimping for B.O.

I read everything, I have said that many times.  I am also an avowed news junkie.  I have been following the election since the "shellacking" that was delivered unto the democrats not quite two years ago.  That was change I could believe in. And now I read the daily polls with more and more disgust.
While I am not sold on Romney (I do love some Paul Ryan, however) I have watched the polls get tighter and tighter.  I don't understand how they are able to poll B.O. so high in them until some important facts were pointed out to me.
 Read the sampling that they list at the end of the poll.  Lately, the numbers read something like D+7, or even D+12.  In English for those of us who don't live and breathe statistics, that means that these people being polled are weighted more toward Democrats, by seven or twelve percent.  In no location of our Republic outside of Chicago or San Francisco will you find that many democrats.  It would be the same as if I went to a fat farm and asked who there would like a piece of candy.
I could spend a lot of this post writing about why the media and their pollsters would want to go to such ridiculous lengths to make it look like their "one" is doing so well.  Perhaps, it's because they really do think that the whole world is as socialist as they are.  Perhaps, they can't see past their own agenda and hope that the more people see B.O. ahead in the polls (however untrue it may be) they will fulfill the wish.  Perhaps (and this is the one I tend to believe) the msm thinks we are all so stupid that we believe them when they talk, so they just tell us what they want to be true.  I'll let you decide for yourselves.
Unskewed Polls shows a much more believable outlook for the 2012 election.  I would often read the Gallup, Reuters, and ap poll and wonder if they were simply polling the press pool.  Unskewed Polls shows that Romney has a quite a lead going.  It made me sigh with relief, I'll tell you.
I have asked on separate occasions why the media is determined to carry water for B.O.  While I was reading, I also saw a poll claiming that trust in the media is down to its lowest point in ages at forty percent.  Who are these sheep that still believe the msm? I don't think that even slick willie's designated liar James Carville can buy it.  Of course, he is part of why no one likes the media anymore, isn't it?
Don't trust what the msm tells you without independent verification.  No doubt they will soon be reporting that Mitt Romney likes to butcher kittens to make his shoes, soon.  My grandmama used to say believe half of what you see and none of what you  hear.  Think about it.  You'll thank me later.

Why Does the msm Carry Water for B.O.?

I do not think that I could care less what Mitt Romney paid in taxes.  I am certain that he earned it.  Every penny of it in one legal way or another.  I am also certain that he has gobs more money than I do.  Speak the truth and shame the devil, as my Dad would have said. ( The irony of that is not lost on those that knew him)
But why is the main stream media simply obsessed with it? Not passing fancy, wouldn't it be nice to know, but digging through his Mother's trash obsessed.  These people are amazed that their credibility is
in the toilet, and blames it on those FNC watching mouth breathers.  I watch Fox News when I have to get information from the television.  I believe that in their quest to be balanced-they give too much time to liberal idiots-Alan Colmes, anyone?
But saying that, I don't care what Romney paid in taxes.  I am certain that B.O. has had his minions( msm) comb every resource legal and illegal to find any dirt that they can.  If something had been found, you can believe that I would hear about it, even in my separated from the television state.
Why is it that they can trace the family roots of the guy in charge back to the days of slavery, and yet they cannot lay hands on one transcript from his college?  Have you heard an interview with one person that knew B.O. back in the day?  One chick that used to date him? Nope. It's as if he suddenly appeared in a crowd and the msm doesn't think that is note worthy at all.
They even came up with a term for me: birther.  I wear the label with pride.  The same morons that told me they knew more than I did when it came to the guy with his finger on nuclear weapons will not do one hour's worth of investigating on where this guy went to school, how he paid for it, or any of the information that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has turned up questioning the validity of the made for tv birth certificate and selective service card that B.O finally presented for the public. It seems like a pretty valid question, to me any how.
Ask yourself why that is.  Granted, if B.O. were to be exposed as ineligible, that puts crazy Joe in charge.  Maybe that's why the media won't do their jobs.  Of course, that would be more believable if they weren't caught on mic sceming to catch Romney is a verbal trap.
Just tell me the things that happened today, media people.  Don't tell me if it is good or bad, or if I need to know it.  Just tell me the facts and I'll sort out their importance to myself.
Ask the same of your news sources.  You'll thank me later.