Thursday, July 17, 2014

BJs; Encore; Immigrant Children; Write-In Candidate; Woody Allen; AARP; Brain Power; Cheese; Jokes; Benghazi; Guns

Hey... 78 degrees outside today.. nice Spring/Summer Day.. some sun.. not much humidity.


My morning TRIAD meeting was a lot  of fun... In the afternoon, we went to Elaine's Doctor, Nurse Practitioner Karen Miner.  Karen was pleased with Elaine's blood pressure readings.


Afterwards, we went to BJ's expecting to snack on those great hot dogs and sausages that they sell.. alas.. the hot dog lady did not show up today, so there were no snacks to be had.


Also.. what is going on with BJ's?  They always have had about ten tables of books, some of which were on very interesting subjects (in my opinion).. today they had four tables stuck together to display mostly paperback romance stories, and very few hardbacks... also, where they usually have lots of movie dvd's.. I saw just a few... and to make matters worse, nobody was in the food area handing out samples.  What? Are they going out of business...?  And, I've noticed lately that I can get some food items much cheaper at my Giant Supermarket than at BJ's!


01.  *Carroll County Times .. Encore Section


I was surprised to see today that our newly revised Carroll County Times now has an "Encore" section, where plays and books are reviewed.  At last, culture has come to Carroll County.


02.  *Immigrant Children ..  Dean Minnich


Former Carroll County Commissioner and "good guy", Dean Minnich, had his column published today in the paper.  The satirical piece is designed to make people think about where they stand on this issue.  However, the people who should read the column won't, and those that do read it, will not follow it. (At least, that is what I think.)


03.  *Immigrant Children ..  Neil Ridgely


In a beautifully satirical letter to the editor, Neil says, in part: "Perhaps, when the Commissioners hold their daily public prayer this week... perhaps they will pray their thanks that God intervened and spared Carroll from the ravages of having hundreds of needy children of a dark skin color come to (their) County."


04.  *Immigrant Children .. Catholic Arch-diocese


The arch-diocese of Chicago will seek Federal permission to temporarily house some of "the children who have breached the Country's southern border in recent weeks. "

05.  Politics of Mt. Airy, Maryland


Jim Rowe, one of the owners of the Buttersburg Inn in Union Bridge, has signed papers to be a write-in candidate for Commissioner in November, challenging Richard Rothschild (Mr. Conservative). A write-in candidate has never won in an election in Carroll County before, but somebody has to challenge Mr. Rothschild and beat him for the seat before he does any more bad things to the reputation of our County and to the job of CC Commissioner.


06.  Pithy sayings of Mr. Woody Allen


a.  "The lion and the calf may lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep."


b.  "Last night, I slept like a baby."  "I woke up every two hours and cried."


07.  *AARP .. Ways to boost your brain power


At our "Train Your Brain" session earlier this week, we discussed 8 actions that AARP recommends that you do to "boost" that brain of ours.


a.  Lift Weights'
b.  Laugh a Lot
c.  Take 90 minute naps
d.  Meditate
e.  Eat more brain food, like grapes, spinach, salmon, berries, tuna.. etc.
f.  Walk briskly outside (150 minutes per week)
g.  Socialize
h.  Brush and floss


08.  Cheese


Have you ever heard of these cheeses?  I haven't.


coalho
asadero
criollo
manteiga
cotija
Crowley
panela
reino


09.  *Joke .. Naughty Little Boys


Two five year old boys are sitting in a hospital waiting room.  One leans over to the other and says, "What are you in here for?"
The other says, "circumcision"
The first boy says: "Oh, Man!  I had that done right after I was born and I couldn't walk for a year."


10.  *Joke .. Very Smart Little Boy


A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you."

The barber puts a dollar in one hand and a quarter in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son"?"
The boy takes the quarter and leaves.


"What did I tell you, says the barber.  That kid never learns."


Later, the customer sees the young boy coming out of the ice cream store. 
"Hey, son, may I ask you a question?  Why did you take the quarter instead of the dollar.


The boy licked his ice cream cone and said: "Because the day I  take the dollar, the game's over."


(This rings a bell with me.. I think it really happened to me.  Only with dimes and nickels, and my mother's boy friends.)


11.  *Benghazi ..  Again


Katrina Vanden Heuvel writes in the latest Progressive Populist :  "The only involvement Clinton had with Benghazi took place before the attack, when she strongly objected to the Republican Congress's cutting of the diplomatic security budget.  Over her objections, they cut it by 500 million (dollars), which left our people overseas needlessly exposed..."

12.  *Guns .. Again


Mary Sanchez also writes in the latest Progressive Populist: "Before day's end, 86 Americans who were alive yesterday will be dead from gun violence.  One of us dies from a bullet every 17 minutes.  That statistic lends a certain futility to the anguished plea of Richard Martinez: 'Not one more!'  He made this appeal after losing his only son, Chris, in the shooting rampage last weekend in Santa Barbera, California."


You remember.. the murderer was a young privileged nutcase who drove a fancy new car, was very computer literate.. and hated all women because none of them would pay him any attention.
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