One knows when they have arrived in this life when...

Every now and then, there are these little signals that come from completely out of the blue that in their own way, offer evidence that in some way shape or form someone has at long last come to a point in their journey. And in this case, I have an errand run to Target to thank for this...

Yesterday, I was getting my meds refilled and doing my usual, which was shopping for some cosmetics while playing air guitar bass to a live Reniassance disc. [By the way I should mention at this point what the illness was that hit your faithfull correspondent was a combo of congestive heart failure, primary kidney failure, fluid logged lungs and a longterm battle with gout. As has been mentioned in a previous post, luck and something from other places helped prevent yours truly from cashing in her chips a little too early...good thing to...there is someone who I want to meet before then...but that is another story]. In any event, on the store, a lovely senior male yelled at me:

'Hey Red!!!You want to know why redheads are so great? Blondes may have more fun, brunettes may be hot as heck, but redheads do things so well they make you forget the other two!!!!'

I darn near lost it there laughing!! OF all things he said this in front of his wife, who was a blonde....but he and I were both laughing like mad. This was a scream...but it also said 'Rhea, you are now home kid, you can rest for a little while....'

And from the 'Let's Hope this crap is over soon' Department: the home stretch is near, this silly season of campaigns is winding down and we can soon get back to what is really important. Like why is it that the rest of the NFL took this long to figure out Peyton Manning? How in hell Bud Selig is still the commisioner of Major League Baseball? When are the Moody Blues going to release another album? Will the Boeing strike ever end? What exactly is it with hockey moms? Will Eastern Airlines ever reform?

The answers to those and other questions at some later point, True Believers!!!

Just a few random posts here for now

Well this weekend has passed and a few thoughts came to the fore here:

- On behalf of my youngest cat Marty and the NFL, apologize to my friends scross the pond for the fact that the Chargers lost to the Aints, I mean Saints at Wembley. Yes we got the game here on CBS and while LT tried his best, it seems the time difference and other items conspired against the Bolts. Oh well there is always next year....ok...maybe in the exhibition season.

-Speaking of football, if it looks as though the Buffalo Bills are actually getting their act together, there is a possible spiritual reason for this: the late Tim Russert is looking down from above. Each Sunday in the fall, he would end his Meet The Press broadcasts on NBC with the words 'Go Bills!!!' Well they are now doing just that....if this is not divine intervention, I do not know what else to call it.


- As much as I like getting into political discussions about what this current season of insanity, I mean the elections, it has at points gotten out of hand and we are now seeing that it is more about the agenda than it is the people. History seems to have this nasty habit of repeating itself and the image of Nero is coming to mind here as far as the future of the US is concerned.

- If anyone who has been following this blog and others I have or other postings I make through other means may have noticed that there is at times a little bit of an emotional bent towards a few of the postings. The main reason for this has to do with coming out of a medical difficulty which if it were not for a series of coincidences and some really cool docs, yours truly would not be here. But after going through that type of hell and back one finds what is and is not important...who they want to be around. And if one particular friend is looking in on this, there is a 3 number term I will leave in this portion....1-4-3.


-By the by, when you get a chance, check out the music blog that I have created on this site. It is for a form of music that gets even LESS RESPECT than the late great Rodney Dangerfield...classical rock. From Renaissance to Yes, the range is talked about....with links to some places to purchase the albums mentioned. I even throw in a couple jokes to break up the monotony.

That's the news, weather and sports for now......Be good and if you can't do that...For Christ's sake be careful!!!!

Please say this did not happen - McCain pulls out of Ohio and others

Folks, I was hoping that I would not have to go off on a political rant, but word had filtered down that John McCain has decided to cash in his chips and pull out of several key states like Ohio and several others. This is like Patton surrendering to Rommel, The Spartans turning into wimps, the Mets losing the National League East lead 2 years in a row [I'm sorry THEY ACTUALLY DID!!!!]...and this means this is now a one party race.



So pardon this one [and with apologies to one of my heroes, Gunnery Sgt R. Lee Ermey, USMC, Ret.] while I say this as an open message to John McCain and his supporters: ARE Y'ALL HIGH???? WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, NUMBNUTS???? DIDN'T THE MARINES WHO TRAINED YOU TO BE AN OFFICER TEACH YOU THAT YOU ARE NEVER, EVER TO SURRENDER WITHOUT A FIGHT????? IF YOU CANNOT STAND UP FOR YOUR PRINCIPLES, HOW IN THE HELL CAN YOU EVEN DARE TO SAY YOU WILL STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY, YOU MAGGOT?????HOW CAN YOU OR MS. PALIN EVER BE TRUSTED LET ALONE ANY POLITICIAN??



While I am trying not to support either party, what John did was shameful, embarrassing and to be rather blunt shows that he had no stamina or standing. There is no way, no way on the face of the earth that this can be a race of the two parties if one candidate pulls out of key electoral college states. In effect this is now just a one party contest...



And to paraphrase my man, Keith Olberman of MSNBC and Sunday Night Football fame, this decision sir makes you 'THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!'. Not even Bill-o and the crew of Fixed News/Fox Noise would retreat in such a pathetic fashion.

At some point, this will be updated again....

Hey there True Believers!!!

I just looked around the bloggosphere the other day and realized, OMG I actually had this one still active!!! Well there will be a time when this will be revived, but for the time being, enjoy the select subject matter, the logic applied to solve some of the problems of the world - and even some humour applied to all of this!

If this gets one to laugh, ponder and maybe consider a positive course of action, then I have done my job!! Enjoy.

An update: Just thought I would, bring this into the modern era with a couple links. I would not ordinarilly do this, but these are two really sharp and cool people, who mean something to yours truly for different reasons.....but are meaningful just the same.

The first of them is to a blog which is as wonderful as the person who writes it is beautiful...and is just as thought provoking. One of the few really bright lights out there in the bloggosphere.She is a dear friend and Dear Readers, give this one a look or two:

http://becomingella.wordpress.com/

Speaking of friends, this is another one I am looking at due to the writer being from my former neck of the woods...that being the NYC region

http://poorfrank.blogspot.com/2008/09/during-this-election-season-you-want-to.html

Plus he and I have our respective rock backgrounds in common...Enjoy!!!