JUST SAYIN' II

DIRECT FROM (UGH) NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
PICTURE OF BIGFOOT BEHIND TREE

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looking forward to klondike sarah entering republican presidential race and her confrontation with frau bachman. 

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nj anti-bullying law - like that will help civilization.  the truth is that stupid is forever and human communities have the same moral compass as chickens.

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FEELING YOUNG AGAIN

my new diet is sorta working.  just don't eat much and keep track of it.  that's it.

i was amazed after checking my records that my weight over two years had increased 12 pounds.  i must have convinced myself that there was no change but my super-duper balance scale does not lie.

i've met people who also must be in denial who claim their weight has not changed in many decades.  my weight changes every day.

i'm feeling really good.  like i was 140 years old again.

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JUST SAYIN'

going into deep depression because rabbits, groundhogs, and varmints are eating my flowers especially the beauties in my window boxes.  the #*&, %$@,  *%^& creatures climb into the porch window boxes and the flowers they don't eat they destroy, like republican businessmen.   i've screened them in and sprayed them to no avail.  I QUIT.

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al-megrahi is playing sick and dying again.  who will adopt him?  dick cheney?  oil rules.

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the world is going up in flames and yet israel is still building houses.  oh, the horror.

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179TH AND VYSE, BRONX, NY (PART LXVIII): LIFE BEFORE DEATH IN (ugh) NEW JERSEY

IRENE: THE PUSSYCAT HURRICANE-- LET'S REVISIT, "THE STORM OF THE CENTURY", NOVEMBER 25, 1950.


"The so-called "storm of the century" hits the eastern part of the United States, killing hundreds and causing millions of dollars in damages, on this day in 1950. Also known as the "Appalachian Storm," it dumped record amounts of snow in parts of the Appalachian Mountains. ...."


no big deal - i was outside walking from building alcove to building alcove on bryant avenue going toward tremont avenue when the storm of the century was occurring.

my wife says she walked struggling against the elements going to chale's drugstore during the storm as she needed information for a college paper.
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we weren't even on cnn's payroll.

"Forming over North Carolina just before Thanksgiving, the storm quickly moved north, striking western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. These areas were blanketed with several feet of snow for several days and travel was impossible for nearly a week in some places.

An accompanying windstorm covered a far greater area. New York City recorded a 94 mile-per-hour wind gust ........."

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GOD THE SOCIALIST CREATES JOBS

god in his fashion will have created more jobs than our loser congress, banks, and so called business community by sending hurricane irene and the earthquake through the eastern united states.  crumbling buildings, yachts, beachfront properties, will have created jobs and extracted money from the rich that our government was too intimidated to do.

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TO MOM

thank you for all the hand squeezed orange juice with pits and lumpy parts removed which has sustained me for all my 150 years.

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JUST SAYIN'

steve jobs, god's true son retires.

DEAR STEVE, THOU ART THE GREATEST.  HAVING IPODS HAS BEEN THE GREATEST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE.

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so sad that the yankees have lost a couple of close games.  champions win the close games.  what to do.  what to do.  sob..........

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rick perry on his way to finishing off the great idea of america continues his journey.  we hope it ends soon.

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the great recession and deflation continues while good hotel rooms in nyc are scarce and going for about $400 a night (breakfast extra).  i don't get it.

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MY FOOTBALL TEAMS I

as we assemble here today .... or actually just me, i look forward to great seasons by:

THE NEW YORK GIANTS

THE NEW YORK JETS (with plaxico buress)

who both play in (ugh) new jersey.  new york city inhabitants do their best not to recognize (ugh) new jersey.  it is just a sand lot and space for some athletic fields.  the inhabitants of (ugh) new jersey are merely a maintenance crew.  this is true as evidenced by the reality that the richest man in my (ugh) new jersey town sold lawn mowers.

ooops .. this is about football teams.

in the college forum i am rooting and cheering for

BOISE STATE

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

being a sunny weather fan, i'm for them as long as they are winning.  for the time being:  GO YANKEES.

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how about the east coast and DC earthquake.  too bad the repblicans sucked up all the money as we can no longer afford to fix anything.  obviously our money is more important than the washington monument or the national cathedral.  attaway republicans.

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HEALTH CARE IV

when i first heard about people concerned with ph balance i thought it was a cult.  now, looking for the fountain of youth and good health i'll grasp at anything.  its like going to church; why take a chance even though it may seem like a ridiculous idea.

where are those death panels we've heard about so much?  after a week of making my regular senior appointed rounds of doctors and observing some bad cases of people with elder diseases and their affects i'm ready to cash in my chips at an appropriate time of course instead of being like them.  too bad we're in such a retarded nation.

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HEALTH CARE III

eating right is the key to superannuated diet plans.  the following food items should be replaced with the suggested tasty substitutions:


a thick prime, rare, bloody steak with fried onion and mushroom topping with thick cut home style fries on the side substituted with bean sprouts.


a deep dish well baked crusted pizza pie with a variety of pungent cheeses and spices and visible olive oil substituted with a rice cake.


rich, creamy full bodied flavor ice cream with caramel sauce topping, multi-flavored sprinkles and a cherry on top substituted with a slice of kiwi fruit.






authentic new york cream cheese cake topped with banana slices in rum sauce on a honey graham cracker crust substituted with broccoli flavored tofu.

.. mmm ... hardtack

frosted, fruit jam filled birthday cake with burning candles and balloons substituted with civil war hardtack  ....mmmmm ....

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Ketchup song original and full

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HEALTH CARE II

i've got a pile of drugs relegated to my drug graveyard, the bottom drawer of my nightstand.


the docs are only as smart as the last drug company's sales representative they talked to.  subjecting us to every newly released concept and drug, thinking they are geniuses.  its sorta a trickle down thing.  my doctor is a great advocate of leeches and medieval torture.  his attitude is, "don't ask questions. just do it, stupid".  "duh, sure".

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179TH AND VYSE, BRONX, NY (PART LXVII): LIFE BEFORE DEATH IN (ugh) NEW JERSEY

home at last after the army. major readjustments returning to civilian life included: feeling uncomfortable when not wearing a hat; and being free to go in any direction i wanted. 

took about one week to get a crappy job.  it was the middle of december and entering the holiday season.  spent new year's eve at louis' apt playing cards with him and bernie.  not much adjustments returning to and blending in with friends and acquaintences.  i must admit that i have no recollection of my first date or any date that winter but i must have started dating again at some time because here i am 60 years later with grandchildren.

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ARMAGEDDON PARTY

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING FLAG

intellectual republican spokesmen are totally out of step with the mentally challenged republicans who are out of step with the greedy, money grubbing republicans.  it is to the detriment of this conceptually great nation that all these people may constitute a majority and we will be stuck with inept politicians to our ruin. 

although we may not deserve better, i do not want to be sucked into this potential train wreck.  i know.  there is no choice.

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ARMY DAYS XXVI

mustering out pay, form dd 214 - honorable discharge, final orders, and stuffed duffel bag in hand i headed for the denver railroad station.  a day and a half later on a december morning my train approached new york city from (ugh) new jersey.  i teared up at the sight of my hometown's magnificent skyline as the sky started to lighten.  there was no welcoming party or band to greet the conquering hero.  it was great to be home.

not a creature was stirring in the early morning when i got off the elevated train and descended on to boston road and headed to my mom's apartment on 179th street.  it was like being in a movie, attired in full dress uniform carrying my duffel bag up the street.  army days were over.

no time to fool around now.  had to get a job.  there was no sitting around or backpacking through europe searching for the real me.  these were the days when no matter in which direction you went it was uphill and the wind blew in your face and of course as usual if life itself tried to get easier, replacements would be sent in from the bench to tackle you.

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HEALTH CARE

all he wanted to do was cut me up, put me in pickling solution and freshen up the pickling solution three times a week, for the better part of my old man's day, for the rest of my life, and i walked out on him saying, "i'd rarther be dead".

he is very smart, went to medical school for many years, sat through hundreds of class hours and labs, paid huge sums to the academic community, his parents worked hard and are very proud of him.  and i walked out on him saying, "i'd rather be dead'.

of course he's angry.  i didn't take his prescription.  "i'd rather be dead".

i've led as full a life as i was capable of.  i have enough years to qualify without embarrassment or pity for the graveyard.  "i'd rather be dead".

becoming dead is not that easy, "i'd rather be dead?".  i may change my mind.

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ARMY DAYS XXV

back in harness in denver and bored out of my mind.  the pinball machines at the base drained my meager army pay.  my group was getting ready to be sent to our permanent assignments.  at this time our services were needed in japan and korea where our casualties from the harry-truman-korean-bastard war were.  most of the group was going to japan.

meanwhile my mom was harassing my draft board or someone, whatever, that she needed me at home.  she could really get on your case when motivated - a pitbull mentality.  within the next four weeks i was freed from the service.  i was not against being discharged.  on the downside, i would never find out whether what they say about japanese ladies is true.

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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXX

oatmeal - nothing less problematic than oatmeal

doctor's appointment today.  must minimize any inflammatory food, watch my Ph level, and stuff. 

they'll stick me, draw blood, and plot a data point on my chart.  the doc will use a straight edge, draw a line and predict when it will terminate.  a very important job- well paid too.

coffee

unfortunately for the medical community my last data point took an unexpected uptick which ruins what previously was a text book case.  sorry, i didn't mean for you to think, stand back.  take your knives, medieval torture devices, and get the hell out of here.  i'm not ready yet.

more coffee

i guess i'll eventually have to rely on faith.  browsing through the old testament, i see the story of abraham, isaac, and god.  the only thing this proves to me is that god is into S & M.  no solace here.

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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXIX

groan --- coffee

yea! yea! yea!  crazy bachmann wins iowa straw poll.   if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

"i love you bachmann, meine leader".  

canteloupe

at least there was some relief from loser, meathead, phony gingrich.

cheese puposa

NO TAXES HERE

just watched the movie, "vodka lemon".  when the federal government is disbanded and the states are broke we'll be very much like the people in this movie (kurdistan - i think).

BUT THERE WON'T BE ANY TAXES.  YEA! YEA! YEA! YEA! WE WIN!

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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXVIII

harris teeter artificially sweetened fruit cocktail -- pretty good

i see that my daily page views are practically nil.  just to let "to whom it may concern", whoever know that i don't care. 

since no one sees this blog how will anyone know that i don't care?

thats not my problem.  whatever.

fresh coffee

bizarrely the stock markets this week lost a gazillion dollars one day, then gained a gazillion dollars the next.  someone out there is stealing your money that falls between the cracks.  others just blindly do not know what they are doing.

its talk, talk, talk.  i'm going to speak to harriet crone who knows everything - a  prescient wizardess.

an egg and "autentica tortilla salvadorena" (tilde over the n) -- microwaved


nitwit, useless republican presidential contenders are providing a lot of laughs.  sadly one of them may become president.  everything comes to an end.  get used to it.

as i blogged in yesterday's WAPO, we are becoming the "planet of the apes", except there are no intelligent apes.

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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXVII

... mmmmm .......

buckwheat groat cereal

the republican field really makes me laugh, all pretending that they know something.  they're so obviously useless pretending their leadership and wisdom.   they do not support any feelings of confidence.  i wouldn't trust any of them especially gingrich to shine my shoes.  well ok, bachman could probably shine shoes and do windows.

coffee

i'm still waiting for obama to start creating jobs since the government is the only entity capable of this.  no one in the private sector seems capable of looking past their wallet.  they can sure bs and talk a lot.

cantaloupe


whoa, just saw the obituary of fred imus, brother of don imus.  he was found dead in his trailer on 8/6/11, last saturday.  sorry about that.  seemed like an ok guy.

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YES, I KNOW THIS IS FOX BUSINESS NEWS.  SORRY ABOUT THAT.


Remembering Fred Imus - Neil Cavuto



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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXVI

puposa de queso

a funny thing happened on the tea party's way back to the middle ages. the united states has become an economic risk.

SUPER DELUXE HEART ATTACK
INDUCING PUPOSA DE QUESO

of course the middle ages were really great because there were no taxes to the government because there was no government. there was full employment. if you wanted to work for the feudal lord you got a job. if you didn't want to work, you could starve to death.  if you had unpaid debts, you would be thrown in prison and if no one cared you would die. a system that was self-curing. there was no medi-plan because the black death was incurable and quick.

things were really great.

cherries

since the robber barons are all dead the government is the only job creator.  the two bit, plutocrat businessmen obviously destroy jobs.  the more they destroy the more money they make.  i would do the same thing if i were in their shoes.  sooooo, we are left with the government which seemingly is totally useless at this time.

coffee

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AS YOU EAT YOUR EL SAVADORAN BREAKFAST:



Exito inolvidable de el grupo Fiebre Amarilla de El Salvador

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ARMY DAYS XXIV

i had no thought as to how i was to return to denver.  i could go back the way i came via pickup military flights or pay my own way using public transport.  oddly, i was put in touch with, stanley, who lived around the corner on vyse avenue.  rich, stanley, i barely knew him.  his father too had recently died.  home on leave from lackland airforce base in san antonio, we hooked up to share driving his car west as far as st. louis where he let me out, hung a left, and headed to his base.

although little is written about the harry-truman-korean-bastard war period my neighborhood was emptied out by the armed forces.  some guys actually got married and impregnated their wives to get out of the draft.  this was not a good idea as far as i was concerned.

in st. louis near the RR station i stopped overnight at a flea-bag hotel and continued my journey to denver the next day by train.

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not a perfect world for anyone:


Jean Louisa Kelly - Someone To Watch Over Me

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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXV

coffee ...

sooooo, you bought into the myth that we should all own stock.

as you know, after the initial sale of a stock it is just traded paper.


bernie


i'm waiting for the next group of "bernie maddoffs" to be indicted.


genuine corn tortilla and blue cheese - lets call it roquefort for that intellectual multicultural effect

harriet crone is probably still insisting she can make 12% a year trading stock paper.

cherries

loved the sub-headline in sunday's new york times. " .... S& P FIRES BACK .... WARNS OF FURTHER CUT ...".  WHAT?, they're threatening us probably because their ratings are being criticized.


don't get ink on your fingers from the new money being printed to cover "tea party advocates".

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i was in the crowd at the 1939 world's fair but i don't see myself.  anyway:

GM Futurama - 1939 World's Fair - Part 1




i hope you got your heinz plastic pickle at their exhibit.  somehow i lost mine over the years.
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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXIV

coffee  ...

depressed because of yankees loss to red sox.  must carry on.

i wonder how much tea partiers are being paid off for their very narrow views and votes?   .........  uniforms and arm bands are being tailored for them.  a few smashed windows and fires will surely intimidate the general population..

grapes 

 stock market crash surprises risk takers.  they seem to think the only risk is how high will the market go.  .....ooops.  sorry folks, you were sold a "pig in a poke" when you thought you were so smart. 

no i am wrong.  its those evil social security recipients and FDR's fault.  you are definitely smart.  yes you are.  yes you are.  and cute too.

poached egg on toast. 

riots in london.....  i would like to read a history of this period written in the 25th century.  maybe i can get in contact with buck rogers.  i certainly am not interested in the .. ummm .. futurists' opinions as they don't even know where their wife is going this morning.



more coffee


middle east nations better get their act together because the rest of the world has their own problems.  do gooders and bleeding hearts are busy covering their own butts.  advice to middle easterners: just get a job and shut up.

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CHOW-A-THON WITH GRANPA DON XXIII

big glass of orange juice

yea, we won.

coffee

the congressional debt deal is really great.  they only got all the money.  we got the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain from sea to shining sea;  spacious skies; rainbows; and butterflies.   YEA!

shredded wheat - no milk - we're tough

time to start looking for a new democrat presidential nominee.  the present one has jumped ship.

more coffee

but the big news of the day is that, ".... Plaxico Burress has agreed to a contract with the New York Jets ..."; for one year after his prison release.  GO JETS!

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