RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON THE MIDSHIFT II

Does anyone really care that the Dixie Chicks still consider themselves "silenced" and "censored" by the American public? No matter what your political affiliation when you begin espousing it in public you'll annoy the batcrap out of someone. They hit the jackpot on that one, managing to alienate the major portion of their fans. But who really cares?

Okay, Michael J. Fox has Parkinson's. He's pulling all the hearstrings he can for his political favorites. Got it. Rush Limbaugh said he might be off his meds in the ads. Rush got crucified for that one. Got it. See my first entry regarding the Dipsie er Dixie Chicks. If you're gonna play with the big boys you're gonna get hurt. That applies to both MJF & Rush.

Does anyone seriously believe Islam is a religion of peace? I'm asking this with the reaction to the Pope, the Danish cartoons, the imam in Austrailia who compared women to meat, etc. in mind.

The upcoming election is proof that you'll sometimes need both hands in the voting booth. One to hold your nose and one to pull the lever. Case in point; the race between Allen & Webb in Virginia. What a cesspool that's turning into. Here in Texas it's not too bad, lots of hype and BS. I'll still be using both hands though.

A toy company in Britain is selling pole-dancing kits for elementary school aged girls. How long before we see that over here? Thank God my two children are boys! The War Department is due to deliver child number three in March, if it's a girl I'll be burqa shopping.

Speaking of the War Department, the other night I was regaling her with tales of my teenage years when my buddies and I would place phone orders for pizza and other items in our neighbors names. Then we'd walk by their houses to enjoy the "I didn't order anything" conversations that followed. The piece-de-resistance was the time we scheduled for a cesspool to be cleaned out the following Saturday. After relating that one she just stared at me before finally stating, "You're the reason Caller ID was invented". Ooops.

A news article from yesterday related how a funeral home in Salt Lake City caught fire when they were cremating a six hundred pound corpse. Seems some fat liquefied, ran off and ignited. Some things you just can't make up.

Speaking of fat, the Social Security Administration busted thirty-four people in Miami for falsely claiming they were too obese to work. Did they put them all in the same cellblock? Is Florida on any seismic fault lines? Just wondering.