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Who ARE these three guys with Howard??

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and the answer is . . . . .

Saturday.  At the Pizza Bar eating pizza in front of a big TV.  There is a sports interview on the TV, its before the game ..  The TV Sound is turned down.  But you can hear the music from the Pizza Bar CD..   On the TV two players are sitting with big flash cards in their laps.. The MC asks a question, then the player holds up a card that says, 'Me.'   The MC asks another question, player holds up card says, 'E. Johnson.'  People are jumping up and applauding after each card answer and it continues like this until all the flash cards are gone.  Wow, this is neat.   I don't know the questions, couldn't hear them, but it doesn't matter.  Its hits me.  As I get older people stop asking me questions anyway.  So, if I don't have to know the  questions, my brain has more room for answers. Makes me feel sorry for all those volumes of the encyclopedia in my bookcase.   But how great this is!
Watching the TV Republican primary debates has helped me figure it out.  The only time these clowns tell the truth is when they are talking about one another. When I was younger I worked for an Insurance Company and attended the annual convention.  The featured speaker, George Fields, was 1 or 2 in sales, in the country.  George had finished his remarks and his rear was just about to hit the chair.  Throughout his message was, how important sincerity was to his overall sales' results.  While the applause was still building,  George, rose up, retook the mike and added.  "and besides, if they don't think you're sincere,  they won't sign on the dotted line."  This made the intensity of the ovation reach a staggering crescendo. I hadn't listened too closely because I knew his 'sincerity'.
Until I heard the Republican responder to Obama's Jan-2012 State of the Union address I thought all  thinking people, with even small amounts of brains,  had left the Republican party, and no longer call themselves conservative.  Or maybe they joined the Independents, or the Libertarians or maybe just became apolitical   But back to the speaker and the response line he used,  about . . .'all people in this country are either wealthy or becoming wealthy'  made me think he must of heard the president's address, which made him hopeful for our future and it sounded like he was going to vote for him...


GOP Voting Instrument

But realistically, Republicans think their base voters are like dope addicts. They can't kick the  habit.  So why bother them with factual truths?.  That's why, even late in life, you can hear a senior citizen say to his/her Republican representative, 'now take care of my Social Security for me,'  or  'protect my medicare for me' or . . . .    Social Security and Medicare? Democrats had to fight Republicans like hell to make Social Security and Medicare a reality.  Right from the start and the fight still goes on.  They have never stopped the fight.against Social Security since the early 1930s and against Medicare since the mid 1960s.. And here is this senior woman saying to a Republican about what makes her fearful for her future,and the Republican's mouth saying that he will be sure to take care of it for her, when in reality he is just a rubber stamp GOP voter in congress, Watching the debates, I noticed something frightening for our country.  The Republicans who want to be our president are LIARS.  In debate after debate.   Lying all the time.  And they  know everybody watching knows.  And they know the other contenders for the nomination to be president are kying too.  What!!!  It use to be unusual for politicians to lie to the people without apologizing when they got caught.  But these Republicans don't even care, they know all TV viewers can see and hear them lying.  In a world of GOPers like these, nobody would even notice Pinocchio's nose.

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Gambling

 

A winner

My best friend since we were in high school,  God love him, Jerry, loved to play cards, and playing black jack was one of  his favorites.  He also loved his boat which he kept docked at the summer home he and his wife Delores had just outside of Atlantic City..  Weekends he was always on his boat or in the casino.  Don't ask me why but I  never got seasick when I went sailing with him.  Anyway after the gambling issue won, he couldn't be happier.  And he lost so much money, when Rae and I went to Atlantic City to visit them, the casino sent a limo to pick us up at the Philadelphia airport, and transport us the 60 miles to Atlantic City.  Then they put us up at one of the hotels, in the best accommodations, and fed us the finest food.  All 'comped' as they called it.  Meaning, no cost to me.  Like the a junkets thay used to run from Miami to Vegas.  I always refused to go on them.  But this was Jerry.  Rae kept asking, "Are you sure we're  not paying for any of this?"

I did pay for my sub sandwiches (I had two) from the Whitehouse.  Subs do not taste the same in Miami because the water, used to make the bread, is different, so it can't  be baked to taste the same way it does back East.. And the water in Atlantic City is perfect for making sub (or Hero) rolls. If the water in Miami is soft then up there its hard and vice versa. And the Whitehouse in Atlantic City is greatly responsible for that reputation because they make the best steak and cheese or submarine sandwiches using bread baked at the Atlantic City Bakery..  If you ever go to Atlantic City, make sure you get one.  But the rest of my expenses were paid by the casino because Jerry was such a good customer (ahem, sucker) and lost so much money..

The Donald
(The wig is ready for flight.).

Anyway, about a year or so after that trip, during one of my regular calls to Jerry,  he tells me Trump Tower is going to open in a coupla weeks.  And then in a later call, he tells he went to the Trump Tower 'opening'  and they 'threw him out.'   "You're kidding?" I say.  He's laughing,  "Nope.  I was playing black jack and I was up $4,800.00.   This guy comes over and says, Get all of your chips and follow me to the cashier."  I cash in my chips and he escorts me to the front door and says, "We have your picture, don't come back.  You're not welcome here."

I couldn't stop laughing. but Jerry, he's like a kid, he is boasting.  I say "I think the Donald should get out of the gambling business.  He's in over his head."

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BONANZA ! ! !

What a fantastic time for a politician to be in the Florida legislature.

Its a dream come true. . There are so many lobbyists with bulging pockets on both sides of the gambling issue its manna from heaven.
When I was a kid I asked my father why the circus didn't stay in town for more days?   He explained that the money taken out of the community by the circus, did  not return, and the only thing that took more money out of a community, was gambling.  Its one of the reasons I was on the 'NO' Casinos Speakers Bureau the last time we had a gambling issue in Florida.  At that time I was pretty confident we would prevail. And we did. But now, I think more gambling is inevitable. Especially now when no one can accuse Florida voters of voting their best interests.  Here, the voters do stuff their own way, which is usually listen to the politicians who spends the most money. .   And any candidate who can push the right religious or bias button can get so many votes its usually enough to tip the scales, and they win, regardless of his/her qualification.  At the moment Republicans have the upper  hand.  If  Florida Republicans  found out a Democrat, running for dogcatcher, had taken the 5th in a minor matter, they would have a field day rubbing his nose in it.  On the other hand if he was Republican and had taken the 5th 75 times in a billion dollar fraud matter, maybe involving stealing from Medicare and Medicaid they would elect him governor.  So, who knows?
The fact that Nevada is suffering financially from the amount of money being sucked out of their economy is not even a factor. And Las Vegas?   Not the ideal place to raise a family.   And Atlantic City?  It was a dump to live in before gambling , and today?  Still a dump. 


All the glowing promises, to upgrade the living conditions in Atlantic City, were made to garner votes, just political rhetoric.  They can get the senior citizens, who overwhelming support Social Security, to vote for a Republican when Republicans have NEVER, from its beginning, supported Social Security.  Just feed them coffee and doughnuts and smile.

At the time, in Atlantic City there where very few high rise apartment buildings, mostly populated by senior citizens.  One was located where Atlantic City meets Ventnor, it was fairly new and just off the boardwalk.    During the election it was a hot spot for volunteers and almost all of the residents became workers in the campaign.  After the election they danced and sang on the boardwalk. . ."We won, We won."  The joy lasted a couple of days. Then  . . . . .
 Reality.  A resident of the building, who's lease was up at the end of the month, received a notice, her lease would only be renewed on a month - to month basis.  The building was now going to become a condo. . . . . . . .
As for employees, they were mostly imported from Vegas and other places.
And neighborhood improvement?   What the hell is that?  Not in Atlantic City.  And like Social Security, when politicians are.talking to seniors, they say they are for it, but when they  vote, well . . . . .  And this is Florida.  Our gov thinks peeing in a bottle is necessary and the State should pay for buying the bottles and testing the pee.  Hey gov,, can't you figure out how to charge this stuff  to Medicaid or Medicare?.

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Be fair Lord

The following is the twit to the Almighty, by Steve Johnson who dropped what would have been the winning pass in the Buffalo vs Pittsburg football game on Sunday 11/28/10, well over 2 years ago, but too good not to post again:

 

"I PRAISE YOU 24/7 ! ! ! ! ! !  

AND THIS IS HOW YOU DO ME ! ! ! ! !   

YOU EXPECT ME TO LEARN FROM THIS? ? ?  

HOW? ? ? ! ! !  

I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS ! !  

EVER ! ! !   THX THO..."

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