Little Visitors

Those awesome Jack-O-lanterns are the work of Aunt Jannie and Uncle Gordon. Picture taken when the little visitors stopped by their house yesterday. The awesome punkins are Zoe & Roman aka Tigger & Miss Ladybug.

Autographed Photo La-z-boy DWI Chair, Motorized Chair :eBay Motors (item 280416805135 end time Nov-03-09 19:17:54 PST)

Autographed Photo La-z-boy DWI Chair, Motorized Chair :eBay Motors (item 280416805135 end time Nov-03-09 19:17:54 PST)

If you can't afford to bid on the motorized DWI La-Z Boy chair on eBay (bid is at $37,300. , you can bid on a photo of the chair for $405.

The L'il Punkins With The Big Pumpkins

Fall Back Tonight -or- The Times They Are a Changing

Musings of an Uninspired Blogger

Yes, it is snowing again this morning. Those in southern climes can gloat. We must have had ten or more days it snowed in October this year. No "Indian summer" for us. Frazzled Minnesotans continue to shake trees to get those leaves down so we can rake before we are buried in white stuff. Global warming would prevent an accumulation of snow. The ground would stay warm. We could cope with a little snow as long as it didn't burying the fall crop of leaves.

Well intentioned dental groups are offering a buy-back of excessive Halloween candy. They pay 1$ / # for their young patients candy. Then the groups donates the candy to charity. One of the recipients (of the candy) is the food shelf. Go figure. Give the candy to the kids who can't afford dental care.

Don't drive drunk. We all assume this means don't drive a car drunk or an airplane either. Minnesota, where nothing is legal, there is a case of an man who tried to drive his Lazy-Boy recliner home from a bar while inebriated. He got fined, arrested and the chair was confiscated. The police are selling the motorized Lazy-Boy on eBay. Who knew you couldn't drive tipsy in a recliner?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/La-z-boy-DWI-Chair-Motorized-Chair-lazy-boy_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem23039d0147QQitemZ150384476487QQptZOtherQ5fVehiclesQ5fEverythingQ5fElse

WHile Bernie Madoff had the nations attention, Minnesota had two supposed entrepreniers scamming investors. Two who defrauded millions and billions while living the high life.
The trial of Tom Petters started this week. His lawyers admit his business was running a Ponzi scheme, but blame it on his employees. He was too busy doing charitable work to notice. The second guy, Denny Hecker, is having his holding auctioned to pay debtors. His lawyer wants half a million a month allowance for his client's living expenses. Nice try.
If they are found guilty I hope they are sentenced to serve in the main stream prisons. No cushy white collar jail please. Don't even house them with the sex offenders. Last week our governor was livid when he discovered that a state prison for sex offenders had purchased fifteen 50"flatscreen TVs for inmates use. He had the sets removed and installed in veterans homes or other worthy places. Hopefully they can get these guys to see the big picture another way. We have to try to reform them since we can't give them the "chair" in Minnesota.

We Are Doomed

It is Halloween week and I can get by with a little ghoulish blogging, can't I?
We are doomed. We have lost manufacturing jobs, status as #1 autobuilders for the world, and India and other emerging countries are doing cut-rate surgery with Drs. trained at our universities.

More bad news. Walmart is selling caskets online. Discount caskets that you can pay off over 12 months. The ultimate "lay away" plan. If that weren't bad enough, you can put the casket on your gift registry. REALLY. Casket as a gift is really a novel idea. Leave it to Walmart to sell everything from diapers to caskets. Wonder where those caskets are manufactured.

Playing Nice While Hooping It Up At the White House

The Democrat party has been the champion of political correctness. Feminists are not all Democrats but the more socially conservative Republican platforms of recent years have not been wildly appealing to the most left leaning women. I don't mean to offend anyone, but that is how I perceive things.
Imagine my amusement when President Obama was accused of not playing fair. He has a history of a 100% approval rating voting for liberal causes when he was a senator. Last week he was called to task for not inviting congresswomen to play basketball at the White House. They portended that not inviting women limited their ability to network with the boys. His reply, "That's bunk". He says he only invited an existing "team" who wanted to play at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I was proud of him.
If Washington's political women have "Hoop dreams" they can always hula hoop with Michelle on the White House lawn. You have to play nice, girls.
Oh, oh, I probably P.O. 'd someone for calling them girls.
Nancy probably reacted to the president's answer with a frown. On second thought, I doubt it. Can't frown. Can't smile. Can't move that face.
Keep up the good work inspiring girls and women to exercise, Michelle. Pelosi and the gang may not like what you are doing, but I think Phyllis Schafly would have.
Is that really the White House back lawn in the picture?