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I’m celebrating my 50th birthday today. My sister took me out to dinner and I feasted on the buffet.
I just bought a case of Pepto Bismol ‘cus I know next week is going to be repulsive…
Congrats Backwoods Conservative.
My husband hits that milestone in September.
I’ll be 39 in October and I’ve told him
1. He’s getting a party
2. He’s not going to like it.(heh)
He can get even with me on my 40th.
On tuesday I’m wearing my McCain/Palin vote life shirt.
The Chicago obama worshippers can bite me.
I think my mother must have celebrated her 39th birthday at least 20 times before she admitted to having any more than that.
You rock, cubbiegal.
I’m recovering from spontaneous bulimia and catatonic shock after having subjected myself to Boy George’s Yes We Can Obama tribute I unfortunately stumbled upon on Drudge. Has to be one of the most dreadful, most injurious things I’ve ever done to myself.
We finally have snow! That has rejuvenated me.
I am reading Samuel Adams and hope to get ideas on a much-needed revolution. Opened a bottle of wine (10% of the sales goes to the upkeep of Jefferson’s Monticello) and built a nice warm fire. I don’t want to think about next week or the next four years. We have our work cut out for us, but I plan on enjoying this very cold weekend with Mr. Durangodarlin.
Bush today claimed credit for the Obama recovery Bush claims will happen sometime later this year — Bush says the coming recovery is due to his quick action to save the economy by giving trillions of taxpayer dollars to the banking and finance industry, and the wealthy who own those firms.
I’m working on a way-back machine…Either that or, get seriously into the adult beverages.
BTW, My wife celebrated her 19th birthday for 36 years…I didn’t mind…Saved on candles.
Happy Birthday, Backwoods Conservative! Hope you enjoyed your day. Here’s to you.
Backwoods, happy b-day! Hope it was grand.
I’m planning to wear black on Tuesday for (respectful) mourning for our nation.
A lovely pot of the hottest chili con carne you’ll ever have the pleasure of eating with a great pan of cornbread. I’ve dug in to hibernate too, and just want the next week to go away – or at least, blur into oblivion.
Greg Ransom, don’t forget many of those bailouts went to foreign country investors as well. Sub-prime mortgages, like money in the bank don’t you know, and you and I get the pleasure of paying them off. Wish I could buy paper from other countries and be assured my investment would always have backing.
Let’s see…
Lakers tonight.
AD&D game on Saturday.
My nephew’s birthday on Sunday.
As far as the coronation next week – I’ll be putting as much as I can of my vast collection of video taped gymnastics, basketball, sci-fi, and whatever else onto dvd. Between all that and work, I should miss the entire coronation. I probably won’t even try to listen to Rush, Liddy, or Tammy Bruce all week because I’m sure that the radio stations will have them pre-empted for The One.
I have stopped watching TV entirely. Election night was the last time I watched TV.
Instead, I’m spending my time taking Paul’s advice and focusing on the positives:
Tomm. it’ll be TWENTY FIVE in Chicago.
It was -6 today.
Global warming my butt.
Had an interesting conversation with a bank person last week. A CD was due and went down to retrieve the little devil and hopefully find one with better return. The bank person practically ducked when they had to say, out loud, what the new rates were, but that also many of their customers were paying off anything carrying higher interest rates than what the banks are paying to use your money. What a novel idea, paying off debts!
What I have planned for Tuesday:
Put my Not My President sticker on my gas-guzzling SUV; drive around town.
Put on my Hitler Gave Great Speeches, Too t-shirt, and maybe show up at Starbuck’s.
You know. Express my freedom of speech.
Happy Birthday Backwoods, and many more!
I’m just chillin (literally, it’s near zero outside) watching the Pens beat up on Anaheim… The February edition of the NRAs American Rifleman arrived the other day so I may browse that in a few.
As for That One, I’ll skip the festivities next week. Lucky for me HDNET has resumed broadcasting Star Trek Enterprise final season, so I’ll DVR those episodes next week and skip the coronation.
Unwind? Exercise and sleep — which I have not been getting much of the past few days which may be because of . . .
The coronation? Trying not to think of it. At. All. If I do, the best I can come up is January 20th: the day the Republic falls, Bush finally leaves, and A New Dope ascends to power.
This is such a disaster, cultural, political, and economic that it is nothing I want to dwell on. Even the National Review is pretty much admitting these days the defeat of conservatism is as complete as it can be. We’re not fighting back. We don’t know what to fight back for. We’ve got nothing to fight back with. We’re lost.
The NRO people write things like “We need to know more economics” while they steadfastly ignore the works and person of Thomas Sowell, treating him as if he were some crazy dude in the attic that it’s poor manners to mention. I do not understand establishment conservatives. Is it some kind of death wish?
As for what else is on my mind? I would say layoff worries loom large these days. And just when the family’s situation was starting to level off financially. But it always happens that way.
Everytime a RINO speaks, a liberal earns his wings.
Believe it or not, Stephen Colbert did a great bit this week on shlocky Obama related merchandise…plates, energy drinks, etc. He and John Stewart both got in some good shots at Obama and Biden.
Unfortunately, Stewart was his typical self towards Israel. I would suggest he try living there, but he would just become part of the tiny % of Israelis who are calling for Israel to be punished for its policy of “apartheid”. Some people are just crazy.
I’m getting on a plane to Luxembourg tomorrow, so thankfully I’ll miss the non-stop coronation coverage.
Four more days to celebrate our Bill of Rights. After that, America’s enemies will see more justice than will Her citizens.
glockomatic – Luxembourg! Any room in the luggage for a stowaway? Nevermind, it’s cold there too. I’m only going to crawl into a suitcase for someplace warm. Happy trails to you….
Backwoods, hope your year exceeds all your hopes and dreams. Happy B-day
My boss gave me Coronation Day off – I threatened to play “Funeral For A Friend” at top volume all day long.
I will be flying my flag….upside down.
backwoods conservative – Congratulations on completing your 5th decade of Basic Training.
I thank God every day that HDTV was introduced at our time of life – and for anime too! It makes us old timers look hip when we watch cartoons.
Happy Birthday. I celebrated my 50th last Monday.
Hey Zorro- Glad to find another Enterprise fan. I’ll watch if the stupid station carries it next week.
I’ll also shop for an “Impeach Obama” bumper sticker. Can’t start too soon.
Happy Birthday Backwoods Conservative…As for me I will showing my lack of interest in the BO coronation by doing actual work the country needs without cheeky platittudes.
I am going to avoid the BO lovefest this weekend. Can hardly get down the street without seeing a BO bumper sticker out here in California. Its enough to make me vomit.
Perhaps a ray of hope with respect to the TARP CRAP
I think it was the best of the Star Trek series. They air at 1 and 2 PM eastern. I’ll watch them in the evenings rather than that socialist halfwit.
I will also be here, at Michelle’s, as usual.
zorro,
Hulu and fancast for me Tuesday nite. I can’t think of watching a single minute of the BO broadcast.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Happy Birthday from me to any all who have birthdays recent or soon.
I think europe will be celebrating the coronation of their new savior too…
January 20th is my birthday. Needless to say, there will be a very dark cloud cast over the occasion. Usually I watch all the precedings but not this time.
One bright spot is Glenn Beck’s first show on Fox is Monday night and his first guest is Sarah Palin! That’ll be my birthday eve treat.
To unwind, whew, it has been a long week. Actually, I had a late dinner and am going to pour a Dalmore cigar malt and read Dale Carnegie’s “Lincoln the Unknown”.
I wanted to offer this Lincoln quote: “Property is the fruit of labor…property is desirable…is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” – Abraham Lincoln, 1864
In addition, I emailed the President and VP requesting consideration of at least a commutation of border patrol agents Ramos’ and Compean’s sentences, and a full pardon if possible. I think they’re probably guys who screwed up a little at a difficult and underpaid job.
Living in the PHL area, I see a lot of news involving people who’re repeat offenders who’ve done far worse than Ramos and Compean, who receive miniscule sentences and come out and do increasingly horrific things.
I’m looking forward to the NFL games, but trying to avoid the media coverage of the thing that’s going to ruin my 33rd birthday on tuesday.
And I don’t consider this weekend as much a funeral of the bill of rights as a celebration of its life.
I was visiting my 83 year old dad tonight and was watching NBC news (not something I usually do but he doesn’t have cable). More then half of the news was about US Airways Flight 1549 and especially its heroic pilot Chesley Sullenberger and only about a five minute segment on PEBO (President Elect Barack Obama) and his upcoming inaguration. Anyway, It occured to me, how long will it be before the MSM begins to investigate Sullenberger the way they did Gov. Palin and ‘Joe The Plumber’; digging into his back ground and investigating his airline safety consulting company? After all we can’t have him overshadowing…THE ONE, stealing PEBO’s spotlight?
Has anyone read Obama’s open letter to his daughters? I swear, the man is shameless.
On January 16th, 2009 at 10:36 pm,
Thank you! I’m passing that around! Did Obama read that in his studies of Lincoln? If he did, you wouldn’t know it.
I couldn’t care less about the Immaculate Inauguration (Rush seriously rocks, doesn’t he?
). I have a job that doesn’t smile upon their computer equipment streaming either audio or video, so I will be spared, Thanks be to God Almighty.
Later, I will be on a treadmill with Oingo Boingo playing on the iPod. Since they can’t beam signals directly into my brain yet, I’ll be spared the nauseating Obama worship all over Planet Earth.
Happy Birthday, backwoods and purealchemy!
I’m spending my weekend trying to discern the meaning of this part of my oath: “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic.”
I wore black the day after election day but the 20th is my birthday so I’m not going to let it totally get me down.
Yep, Rush rocks!
Thanks for noticing! You have no idea what a cosmic burden it to be born on
Inauguration Day.
Send_me there is nothing to discern…The Nuremburg trials showed that all orders followed must be lawful. That said, Be careful before you fall on your sword.
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I heard a few years ago that January 16th was the one day of the year that would not be known as one of those National Such and Such days. Therefore, my birthday is referred to as National Nothing Day.
*Going to unwind
on the 17th as that is our 29th anniversary; Please don’t tell Tom Hanks.
*The 20th is just another working day for me, just like MLK day; As I have said before, my heart wishes PEBO well, but my head knows he is destined to fail; A failed ideology will lead to a failed presidency.
*I will continue to not participate in the recession, by living on less than I make; In the meantime, the government gives out more bailout money to banks/automakers so they can get more sorry people to tote the note on houses and cars they can’t pay for; I’m ready for “Atlas Interruptus”; Whatever happened to tough love?
I just took a two hour hot tub, and had a great bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Life is good…. until Obama is sworn into office.
Drunk.
I was born on Valentines Day. Awwww yeah. The ladies loved it.
We plan to rent & watch cartoons on the 20th.
I share a birthday with Jefferson Davis and Josephine Baker. I don’t think they knew each other.
That was absurdly funny.
East Coast oysters (especially PEI) are the best.
Don’t let anyone tell you different. West coasters tend to be too briny and/or one dimensional.
right4life absurd?
Chapoutier,
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your responses to that cat. The ‘logic’ right uses is surreal, but I won’t engage people like that.
Nope. I’m getting too old for that.
Hay chap. I’m sure glad you weren’t the guy that was banned. Did we ever find out who it was?
Trollman I’m the same as you I no longer watch TV and that includes sports. I’m done with TV and the good news I don’t even need to waste money for a converter box.
But seriously though I was thinking about getting Direct TV or Dish Network earlier this year but I’m glad I didn’t. Also I didn’t even watch the election because it was lose lose.
Although I don’t believe that Obama and his minions are the answer to our problems (and we will always have problems, wars etc.), I will not waste time hating him or pining away. The wife and I are going to jump into our truck and head down south to the Tunica casinos tuesday. While Obama is being adored by his gushing and swooning admirers, despite the fact that he has done NOTHING yet but help pass the crappo bailout bill, we will be totally ignorant of the media blitz of the inauguration while we gamble, eat, and drink our way through several casinos in Tunica, Mississippi and with a little luck, maybe come back with more money than we left with.
Get a dish so you can watch Link TV and Free speech TV. It reminds me of the old Berkeley Barb days of the sixties.
Word on the street is emu.
More like British comedy absurd, which is a good thing.
emu.
Good!!!!
Happy birthday to backwoods conservative and purealchemey and those whose birthdays are around the fateful day by about a month.
My sympathies, chapoutier, on the other meaning of your birthday. Valentines’ Day is my LEAST favorite day of the year. In fact, it is a day on which I think American popular society is telling me that I am not worth living as I am both single and unattached.
As for the day the Marxist, er, The One, is anointed, I shall be on my way away from DC seeking the companionship of military folks who will also be measuring our responsibilities.
No radio or TV or computer feed other than e-mail of mine will be used that day. Many prayers will be said four our country when I’m not driving or hob-nobbing with my military brethren.
Chapter 2 from Samuel Adams: “For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous”. Samuel Adams, 1766.
Just something to think about.
While the media, movie stars, and Obama minions are gushing and swooning this tuesday, the wife and I will be leaving Germantown, Tennessee for happy isolation from the media blitz in a casino of our choice in Tunica, Mississippi. We will eat, drink, gamble and relax in total ignorance of the glitzy merriment, which I understand will cost about 4 times what Bush’s did but this will be politely ignored by all loyal Obama supporters (NBC,ABC,CBS,CNN). While our cold tv sits idle, replaced by the jingle, jangle of the casino and hopefully lady luck’s support, my wife and I will raise a glass, not to Obama, but to ourselves and our pride to be United States citizens.
I will be busily raping and pillaging Mother Earth’s precious natural resources by drilling another hole deep under the Atlantic Ocean, all the while hoping, with all my being, that y’all will gleefully use the fruits of my labor to exponentially expand your carbon footprint.
If I didn’t have a beautiful wife and daughter at home, I might consider volunteering to stay on the rig for the next four years.
That’s how I roll…
No no. Whenever (when I was single) I would tell a girl that, it was most often “awwww….that’s so cute.”
Chapoutier would take what he can could get.
And now that I am married, I we have a system where one year, we celebrate V-day (meaning I plan it) and the next it is my birthday (she plans it). Since I really don’t care about my birthday I get the advantage off having to worry about Valentines day only every other year. Horray!
TXGator said: (#54)
It might have been fun to know La Baker (as she would have been known in some European circles). Well, maybe not as you would then be not likely to join the fun on these web pages.
Chapoutier’s reply is better than mine, but don’t tell him I said so.
Holder: No, I do NOT think it was a mistake when I recommended clemency for terrorists.
Obama: It was just a simple mistake that my nominee for Sec Treasury did not pay income taxes and accepted compensation for the taxes he did not pay and did not tell anyone until he was caught.
It is going to be a long four years. I am going to Tunica to eat, drink, gamble and NOT watch the coronation of the great one.
Thanks, deepdriller (#66). We need your work. Sorry about the separation from your family required for us to get the benefit of your work.
When my children ask me where I was when King Obama was crowned, I’ll look each of them in the eye and say, “Shut up and eat your government approved carbon-friendly vegan diversity meal (patent pending). And, throw another log on the fire, since the global warming is extremely weak this evening.”
Thanks for the sentiment Kevin, I’m very fortunate to have a wife who is VERY understanding (not to mention patient) and a daughter who thinks everyone’s daddy commutes to work halfway around the world.
HHHHMMMMMM… If it were green & kinda soylent, it would probably taste like people.
deepdriller said: (#72)
My father used to sail off on a Navy ship for six months at a time, and it seemed the most normal thing in the world to me–at least, that’s what I remember.
I am going to take my television out into the desert and use it for target practice. I won’t have to watch that bottom feeder Obama and all of his Obamunoids cheering him on.
Avoid the Obamunoid
Hey Michelle
The next time you ban a troll, could you make it more open. I’m thinking of images of public hangings or of guillotines with peoples heads rolling down the street. The MSM does that to conservatives all the time.
John Conyers calls for show trials/criminal prosecution of Bush administration.
-50ºF in Maine last night, all time record, breaking -48ºF set in 1925.
The -37ºF is a January record for Caribou, ME.
I blame global warming.
John Conyers sure makes a good Politburo member.
(I would put a /sarc here, but that would mean I was being sarcastic.)
As of 2 am, -8ºF, at Sussex, NJ, is the coldest temperature I can find for Mrs. Malkin’s old stomping grounds.
Good I hope they have a trial and find him guilty so he would know what it’s being gound guilty just for doing his job just Ramos and Campeon.
In Alaska we are basking in the pineapple express straight from Hawaii. Windy and warm. But all good things must come to an end. Next week will be one to catch up on all the chores, and ignore the MSM and the TV. I will get my news from Rush, Levin, and Cunningham. Have a nice weekend all!
“I’m working on a way-back machine… ”
Can I book passage? I won’t to go way, WAY back, find the first proto-politician, in a puddle of slime I’m sure, and kill it. To hell with the consequences.
I like your style. I may crack out my Fred Thompson shirt for Tuesday.
I still have my “Free the Chicago Seven” T shirt from the sixties. I keep it as a reminder of the stupidity of my youth.
Tuesday I shall wake up Lord willin and the creeks don’t rise.
Thank God for His grace, joy and blessings look at my tado list toss it
aside go for a walk in the woods my family owned b4 America existed and have a gut check about what made THEM travel to a strange land and FIGHT to create the greatest country that has ever existed.
Well let me add my thanks deepdriller for being one of the people who add WORTH to our economy. Separation from family can be painful-but at least you don’t have to take out the garbage those days-or do they save it for you?
Hopefully by the 20th I’ll have the rose garden ready to mulch–I use steer manure which will be appropriate. This year I am planting a Nancy Pelosi Rose: all thorns, no roses.
God Bless America, except for the Blue States.
AZ,
hey now I live in a blue state thanks to the philly fraud nobody including MM wants to expose.
don’t curse me please!!!
Happy Birthday BWC. I had mine on the first and my kid bought me a bumper sticker I’ve had to save before displaying it on the family rig:
“My child is an honor student, but my President IS A MORON”
Leftovers can be a real problem!
Sussex, NJ hit -14ºF, and has warmed to -14ºF.
Westhampton (Long Island) hit -15ºF.
Global warming is a bee-otch.
Caribou is warming up, morning low today only -32ºF (-36º C).
Yesterday morning it got to -37ºF.
It is getting warmer!
It shall be educational how the right and left blogs go forward.
Seems to this American that if the right bloggers do nothing but become opposition party types they have failed.
Stunts like Joe in Israel are stunts for clicks not moral spinalish.
Why is it that when the left is the party of opposition they’re courageous but when the right is the party of opposition they’re failures?
Hmmmmm?
It’s a question – Answer please
*crickets chirping*
Thought so.
I’ve got my “I take my guns, money and freedom, you can have your change” mug already to use for the next 4 years!
Iowahawk rocks!