is this the most ugly picture you have ever seen?  it is just one of those mysterious internet things that just popped-up as i was surfing.  i couldn't resist its hypnotic effect.  maybe reminding me somehow of the new jersey turnpike giving me strong nostalgic feelings.

lucky for us its in china.  it is a great argument for exporting these jobs to the other end of the earth.


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power was out when i awoke at 4:30 am this morning......  uh, oh, "al qaeda", i thought or "was it our ally, pakistan".

at about 5:30 the power came back on probably because my wife was about to call the electric company and give them hell.  "get crackin, electric company".

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9th ranked .... ummm ... 10th ranked ... whatever, boise state beat wyoming this past weekend.  a bowl game with a high ranked sec team is as good as it will get.

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must do the leaves on my lawn today.  i notice that i am the last one in my area to do that.  and they haven't blown away.  i think that last year they all blew down the street.  you can't be lucky forever.

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THE NEW RANDALL'S ISLAND STADIUM
(not the same as the one i knew 65 years ago)

recommend, john grisham's book, bleachers.  mostly about high school football.  as i suspected life ends on your 17th birthday.

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the latest george clooney movie, descendants, was pretty good.  mostly serious business.  not the most entertaining movie.

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watching the bios of Larry Page and Sergey Brin the founders of google.  as i suspected they were college dropouts and not regurgitators.  our best students can regurgitate their lessons but have problems putting two textbook chapters together to form something useful.

of course they are now busy hiring graduate (ugh) engineers to further the advancement of their product even though the best technical business minds were not college grads: gates, jobs, wozniak, .......  wtf?

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the evil anti-america dallas cowboys won again yesterday afternoon.  HELP, WHEN WILL IT STOP?

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its already after 7 in the morning on black friday and haven't bought anything yet.  i did want to look at an electronic item offered on sale on the internet but the offering company has already pulled it from the market.  i have two words for them and i hold a grudge.

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today is just one of those days when friends and family get together for an incredibly boring experience.  this is especially true for young people who want adventure, romance and excitement.  all they hear from the mature (important) adults is recycled gossip which they heard at the last assemblage of these clans.  most adults seem to be hardened off to the used bs and are the ones generating it waiting for their turn.  or after a certain age do they just become stupid?.  or because they are just not smart enough to recall the last time they said the same thing imagining that they are interesting.  let me straighten out all mature adults, "YOU ARE NOT INTERESTING".

at least the turkey was smart enough to end the suffering.

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trying to type my mini-thoughts while listening to newt bsing.  not only is he delusional and hypocritical but his voice is incredibly grating.  did i mention his ugliness?  putting a suit on him is the same as lipstick on a pig.

must admit that frau michele bachmann is very appealing, good sense of humor. 

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book-tv covered a segment concerning the ronald reagan myth.  reagan describes a scene in which a war plane is hit by anti-aircraft fire.  only the commander and a badly wounded crewman remain after the crew bails out.  the commander bravely stays with his crewman as the airship goes down and crashes.

after it was pointed out that we could not possibly know that this actually happened because there were no witnesses  or other human contact reagan became very angry and insisted it was a true story.

of course he was in his own lifetime movie.  surely he believed that he was telling the truth since everything in reagan's head was like a movie.  its hollywood.  in a movie we know everything.

just sayin'.

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all family members are at their thanksgiving destinations.  thats a relief.

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vegan turkey

major dispute here trying to influence the thanksgiving menu.  -----  brussel sprouts or broccoli  --- my wife votes broccoli, (ugh) yea.  real turkey ready to go. .... melon,  pumpkin pie, knishes, yams...  thats what the company is having.

my menu will be mostly swiss chard, fruit and nuts, thank you.

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somehow the ap poll this week has moved boise state into 7th place despite their showing the past two weeks: losing to tcu two weeks ago and beating san diego state but not covering the point spread this week.

tcu although dominating colorado state and are on a winning streak remained at number 19.

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so sad, giant's season practically over losing to the eagles.

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hooray, grover norquist rules the world, rah, rah, rah, yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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incredible outrage of the day is newt's tirade against public bathrooms.

obviously the romans, - remember the roman empire - marc antony, julius caesar-  were communists for having public baths.  does newt know anything about history??????  NO ANSWER REQUIRED.

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in many ways the, "occupy wall street" thing is mystifying but the concept of a more equitable distribution of wealth seems ok (please forgive me, newt gingrich).  i must admit in spite of the wrath of fox news that i am as happy as a puppy dog with my modest income.

it must be genetic.  i inquired of an uncle as to why he only worked three days a week.  he said. "thats all i need".

having and spending more money (than necessary) requires too much effort and will necessitate associating with other greedy, pretentious primates.  this does not appeal to me.

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boise state will try to redeem itself tonight by winning by at least three touch downs over san diego state.  we'll see.

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regis philbin, the housewife's friend is retiring.... yea!

i wonder what annoying personality will replace him?

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it does not appear that our bastard gods know what they are doing.

i use the word bastard in the nicest way.  we do not know or can verify the parentage of any of our so called gods.  somehow someone got under the skirts of their mothers.


... ummm ... maybe their mothers were the aggressive type and ...... nevermind.

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my pet hamster told me this morning that newt gingrich is a fraud.  my hamster does not think people are smart enough to figure this out.  thank you, hamster.

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occupy wall street people  - heh, heh - really fell into our evil hands.  yea!  we knew that if we, the government, sat on their/our hands and bided our time eventually we could trick them into being the bad guys (instead of us heh, heh).  now we can subdue them with police power and send them packing.

j p morgan, goldman sachs uber alles.

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newt is in the lead among republican presidential contenders.  and you wonder how germany elected 'dolph ....

speaking of that superior genetic german attitude and intellect frau bachmann sees nothing wrong in waterboarding.

nevermind.

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HOORAY FOR SO-CALLED CONSERVATIVES:  they understand that emissions and toxic waste strengthen the herd by culling out the weak.

also they can make a lot of money, money, money, money, MONEY, MONEY.............


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bad news for jets today.  they're 1 point favorites over patriots.

giants should win comfortably as they're 3 point underdogs in their game.

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boise state losing to unranked tcu canot do them much good in national rankings due out this morning.  my guess, 15th????????

"there's no joy in mudville, mighty ..... has struck out".

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herman cain strengthens nation's marital ties by adding another scenario to a couple's life.  acting out the, "president/intern" game or the, "gardener/countess" game was getting tiresome.  republicans have now started the, "herman cain/anxious job seeker" game making life more interesting.

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thank you to cnbc.  becky quick is back but seems a bit out of practice.  does she want to work with blabbermoth, joe kernan?

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pennis state will survive after joe paterno.  athletes, students, academics, and other nitwits will recoup.

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celebrating my half birthday should be a blowout affair.  at 150 there isn't even an entry in the actuarial life tables.  obviously it is a significant day.

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"would you rather attend a new jersey saturday night married couple's party or be dead?"

".... ummmm ... wait i'm thinking.   ..... ummm ... i'd rather attend the party.   ..... i can always recoup at a later date."

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another election day and we're still surviving.  --

in mississipi a fertilized egg is still not a person.  is that a chicken egg or what?

in ohio anti-union law repealed.  certainly many people need the benefits of a union and the govt. should keep out.

in virginia republicans won but seem to be unaware that federal government jobs and small government contractors are creating all the jobs.

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WEDDING ANIVERSARY COMING UP.

we've been married 120 years but it was so great it only feels like 110 years.

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"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! "

UPDATED VERSION --  The Rubaiyat By Omar Khayyam Written 1120 A.C.E.

A laptop computer at hand - wow,
A computer game, bottle of beer --and Thou
Beside me singing in the ... ummm .. bedroom --
Oh, bedroom were Paradise enow!

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wrong again - yea!  giants and jets win.  defy las vegas line.  9 point underdogs, giants win by 3.  3 point underdogs, jets win by 16 over buffaloes or buffalo or something.

interesting statement of the day: from eli manning, “I’d rather be down by three with 1:30 left than up four with 1:30 to go and Tom Brady on the field,’’.  and he was and he won.

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the political situation here and worldwide is depressing.  fortunately according to the aarp ad there are 50 million senior citizens voting here.  they may be stupid, senile, egocetric and have completed their useless lives but you have to take care of numero uno.  hooray for geezers and geezettes.

bye.  i'm off to do nothing.  yea!
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when most people in the obits are (were) a generation younger than you, you know you're getting older. 

nevermind.

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fetus' uber alles.  new laws determine that a fetus is a person. 

and its probably smarter than the legislators and judges upholding it rights.

i know, you are too busy too worry about the fine details of government.  of course thats how mussolini and hitler got into office because we left the finer points of ruling nations to the experts.

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looks like both the jets and giants will be tested today.  both are underdogs.  giants especially are under, under, umderdogs.  losses will certainly turn my attention to ncaa basketball and then the yankees spring training activities.

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SHOWTIME

really busy today.  preparing my olde self to attend my grand daughter's performance in a play tonight.  must shave, shower, and dress myself.  phew - hard work!!  also drive there and back.

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NEW YORK CITY BASKETBALL PLAYERS WANTED

the closest to new york city top 25 pre-season ncaa basketball teams are connecticut, syracuse and pittsburgh.  where are all the great nyc basketball players?

MAYOR BLOOMBERG MUST ANSWER FOR THIS!

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business entities are stockpiling money.  they say its because employees want wages, and benefits.  the govt. wants taxes.

things were obviously so much better in the dark ages when there were no wages or benefits or specific taxation.

we must return to the good olde days.

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just switched the tv to imus on fox business for some intelligent discussion after the introduction of that ignorant foreign nitwit, dr. zbgniew, remnant of the (ugh) carter era on scarborough.

would he be on if he weren't mika's daddy?

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another mouth to feed with the seven billionth person born the other day.  i don't think we're having enough abortions.  businessmen just look on it as another ten cent an hour employee and a consumer.  mmmmm, monnnneyyyy!

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another woman has come forward to accuse herman cain of harassment.  in the defense dept. if you asked the typist to type something it was harassment.  do women imagine or make up stuff?  you betcha.

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TAKING AN AVERAGE

the smartest people (phds and others) will tell you to take the average.  also harriet crone my great great grandmother's neighbor in transylvania said, "take the average".  housewives of new jersey will say, "take the average".  doing that will make you feel better but you will then have three incorrect estimates: the high, the low, and the average.  good luck with that.

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JUST SAYIN' XXXVII

yea, i survived holloween last night and tom brokaw this morning on scarborough.

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looks like women brought down herman cain.  yea, they killed another man but still can't be king.  many times they imagine things that never happened or make things up.  bring back squeaky clean presidential contenders like bob dole and john mccain.

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rick perry's speech over the weekend does indicate he musta had too much of his back pain medication.

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but the most important event occurred when the NY GIANTS squeaked past the dolphins in what was expected to be a blowout win.  they do not look like superbowl champs.

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stock market today headed for a train wreck.  keep your money in your mattress.  nevermind, you are too smart to do this.

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