New York Union Thugs, ‘NOW IS THE TIME’

Suppose you are the lady who called 911 while giving birth to a baby in the lobby of her apartment, and suppose it takes EMC 9 hours to respond because of snow clogged streets, in the meantime your baby dies.  Then suppose you learn that union bosses upset by budget cuts have instructed sanitation workers to slow down as a protest.

Now is the time for New York and all other cities to decertify public service unions because they are, in this case guilty of murder and in other cases bankrupting our country, now is the time to say “I am not going to take it any more” “I will not let these thugs ruin my country.”  NOW IS THE TIME………… 

My wishes for you

 

   

My wishes for you is a happy, safe, and sober celebration of the arrival of 2011……

 

you gotta be an improvement

The 111th Congress get outta here….

111th United States Congress

THE HOUSE OF REPRENSETIVES

DEMOCRATS………….255      REPUBLICANS………..179

For all the finger pointing and blaming Republicans for blocking bills, the numbers will not withstand any scrutiny.  The democrats could do as they please even if every republican voted no. 

THE SENATE

DEMOCRATS……….59(actually 57 and one communist (Bernie Sanders) and one independent)     REPBULICANS 41

Again, the finger pointing will not hold water, all they needed to do was pick up one of the several north east RINOs to close debate and push their agenda on to the White House with no republican support.  Actually they had 60 votes until poor Teddy died.

The will of the American people was ignored for the past two years, did you know the 111th Congress ran up more debt than all of the prior 110 congresses combined. 

Well, it is time for the 112th to take charge, personally, my hope is that they will flip the President the bird when he proposes more spending…………

Congressional Reform Act

1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below..
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2.  No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3.  Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11. 
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen.  Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.


Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.

I love a guy who will tell it like it is……..

Miss Diane, Can Vince come out to play.............

A few days ago I did a post about our first house in Edgewood, Md.

 

Just across the street and down two houses was an Italian American named Vincent, everyone called him Vince. It turns out that we became great friends and did stuff together very often. I remember one time when it was snowing and I went over to their house, knocked on the door, when his wife answered I said "Miss Diane, can Vince come out to play." We got into trouble together often enough but Vince was always did some really dumb stuff.

Vince Loved Pabst Blue Ribbon...........

I will start by saying Vince liked to drink beer. He worked at General Motors in Baltimore and always drove a Volkswagen. He would pick up a six pack of beer after work and I do not know how, he would drink it on the way home without ever taking the cans out of the plastic six pack holder. He would get home every day with six empty cans still in the holder. Maybe it was a joke, I am not sure but many times I have seen the empties still in a six pack.

I have told you about crabbing on the Chesapeake, this provides an opportunity to have fun a Vince’s expense. He loved crabs and to tell the truth his back yard crab feast was the first I ever attended. It was a great time. Well Vince liked to crab with turkey necks and a string.

One Saturday I was at the boat dock when Vince showed up with his small boat I watched him launch it in the water. As he pushed it off the trailer into the water at the boat slip things became unbelievable. He untied the boat a pushed it into the water but forgot the replace the bilge drain plug in the back of the boat, suddenly it started to fill up with water, Vince jumped into the water trying to lift the water laden boat up out of the water, needless to say, it sank. Of course by now there was a crowd on the dock cracking up watching Vence struggle with his boat.

Vince loved his Volkswagen...........

That little story is not worst case, Vince loved the old Volkswagens and owned one as long as I have known him, one morning on his way to work, Vince started to back out of his driveway and hit a garbage can sitting behind his car. Out of the car came Vince yelling at his house wanting to know who left the can in the drive way, he walked behind his car an pulled the can out from under his car. Unfortunately, he left the car running and in with the transmission out of gear, no emergency brake. You have to know what is coming now, yes Vince ran over himself. The car rolled backwards knocked Vince to the ground and wound up on top of him. We ran over and pushed the car off him but he was never able to live it down.

This was Vince's Plan.............

On another occasion Vince decided to open up his kitchen by removing part of the wall that separated the kitchen from the dining room. His plan involved cutting out the wall to bar level and putting a counter top on the wall to allow a useable bar and to open up the two rooms. When Vince made up his mind to do something he did it. He struck a line down wall and took his power saw to it.

This was Vince's Results....................

Unfortunately, he failed to consider that it was a load bearing wall supporting the second floor of his home. When the ceiling started to fall he had to quickly support it with a post where the old doorway was. He also failed to consider that there was electrical wires and water pipes inside the wall. When water and sparks started to fly he had to rethink his project. He finally completed the project but only after he had an electrician and a plumber in to correct the problems. Vince was always into something like that and it never worked out according to plan.

Just imagine, Vince with the doors closed on his neck............

Vince always thought his neighbor next door was nuts, and always spying on him. It did always seem the when he did something stupid he would look up and the neighbor was there watching. One example of that is when he was having a problem closing the doors on one of those sheet-metal storage sheds. The doors slid to the center and could be locked, on this day something was causing the doors to jam, he could not figure out what the problem was so he stuck his head through the door and pulled on both doors, needless to say what ever the obstruction was had cleared and now the doors closed, on his neck, his head was inside. When he managed to get them open enough to get his head out he looked around, yes the neighbor was watching.

Miss Diane, Can Vince come out to play...................

We moved away in the early 1980's and did not go back until after I retired in 2001. I walked up to the door, knocked and when Diane answered the door I said "Miss Diane, can Vince come out to play." Instantly, she knew who I was, we had a great visit, catching up on years of news.

This may be the only thing that did not happen to my friend Vince..............

I hope to find more of you folks that have a neighbor like Vince, he is truly a wonderful friend, good for lots of laughs but always in some sort of trouble. Please tell me your stories.

Oh, by the way, my friend, Mr Vince, like me, has not had a drink of alcohol for years now, May 28, 2011 will be 24 years for me..........

Miss Bee took the old sarge to school

For anyone who did not know, the Old Sarge took a child bride, yep, Miss Bee was 21 and I was 30 when we married.  Being older it only stands to reason that I was the wiser of the family :).  Someone I know would not agree with that last statement.

Yep, that lecherous looking old guy in that stupid looking jacket is the old Sarge with his child bride. I cannot deny that at one time I owned that jacket.  Could  she be wiser than me?

Prior to my assignment to Okinawa in November 1967 I had been a student in Calibration school at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland and Miss Bee lived nearby in Baltimore.  I had met her in Arizona and when she returned to Baltimore I found a way to get myself transferred there.  The rest is history, I went to Okinawa in November, she came in late December after I had found us an apartment and we were married in an Army Chapel on January 2, 1968.

While on Okinawa we eventually were assigned to government quarters and after our tour was completed I was reassigned to the Service School at Aberdeen so here we are back in Maryland.  As soon as they were available we moved into government quarters on APG, Maryland.  Miss Bee told me she wanted me to take her down to Edgewood, Maryland, she had something to show me. Being accommodating, off we went to Edgewood. She directed me into a housing development to a new house under construction. She said "we are going to buy this house"

2510 Thornberry Dr 

 

OUR FIRST HOUSE bought in 1971 (Photo from internet)

Well I got to tell I thought that was the dumbest thing I ever heard of, "I am a soldier baby, you know we just never know how long we will be here. How do you think we can buy a house?" "Besides that all I have to pay is our quarters allowance, no electric bill, no water bill, it is just simpler for us to live on base," I argued. She was just sitting there in the car, listing and smiling while I argued with myself. Seeing I wasn’t getting anywhere I told her "besides that we do not have the money for a down payment." Again she smiled and handed me a pass book for a savings account, she had been squirreling away money for the down payment. I do not know why I tried to argue with Miss Bee anyway, once she makes up her mind to do something, consider it done.

Well folks, about three months later we moved into our new house, the first time we ever owned a home. A year or so later, when I was ordered to Korea for a year, no family move was involved, had we been in government housing, still paying rent, we would have had to find someplace for the family while I was gone. The best part, when I came back to Aberdeen from Korea no family move was involved, we had some roots.

Needless to say Miss Bee was right and the sarge was wrong, home ownership has proven to be the one thing that a working person can do to improve their financial position in life. I soon learned the value of rental property for tax purposes, capital gains, all those economic things that should be taught in school, but are learned mostly in the school of hard knocks.

Over the years I went to that school of hard knocks, I purchased 12 houses, some for rental purposes and have sold all except our condo we live in.  Of the all those properties we lost money  on one and made a nice profit on the others.  On  and off over the years we have owned seven rental units which provided huge tax benefits, yes, real estate can be  profitable.

How could that cute little girl be so smart, maybe it just comes natural.

House #2, 711 Edgewood Road bought in 1977.(internet photo)

Six years later we sold the first house at a nice profit that we used that to buy this nice four bedroom brick rancher where we lived until we moved to Florida.  When it sold in 1981 we had a very nice profit which was used to buy home in Florida.

An inconvenient truth, global warming was a lie……

 

Shut up, CO2 cannot make it snow, could, how about a new Ice Age, can we make money on that Al??????

Special Instructions for Paul

In our recently completed house decoration contest Paul won hands down, for his prize I shipped him and unassembled snowman.  Somewhere in shipping the assembly instruction were misplaced and my friend just did not know what to do so I am providing  him the following instruction.

Step #1:  Make a base for your snowman……

This is accomplished by forming large snowball and rolling it around on the snow covered ground, it will continue to pick up snow from the ground until it get as large as you like

Step #2:  Make the upper body…………..

This is accomplished by forming a second large snowball and rolling it in the snow as in step #1.  When it is as large as you like place it on your Base.

Step #3:  Make a head for your snowman……….

Follow the same procedure as you did with base and body, only smaller

OK Paul, I hope you get closer to EXPECTATIONS than REALITY, have fun, I am sending you more fresh unassembled snowman, have a great day………….

Gold Star Mothers, is your state here?

 

I am pleased to learn that my state Florida has a license plate honoring Gold Star Families.  I have never seen one but was directed to a blog with the plats above, then I checked my state and bingo, someone did a good thing, I hope they are provided at no fee but do not know that.

If your state has not chosen to honor those Gold Star Families that a son or daughter has paid the ultimate price for America, it is time for someone to get off their ass and get it done.  

Anyone looking for a good cause, this should be nationwide at no fee….

Y’all have yourself a very Merry Christmas

by Chia Charlie

 

Tis the season to be jolly.........

Original post December 19, 2006

Well folks, the following is Christmas Story from my childhood, I do hope it puts you in the mood for a great holiday.


I am not sure but I think it is 1940 or 1941, I am sure it was in Armuchee, Georgia prior to my daddy being drafted into WWII. It was early winter and we were eagerly waiting for Christmas. My brother and I both were expecting to get cap pistols and cowboy suits from Santa Clause. I would be about 5 years old at the time.

Mama and daddy were both at work one day when we were snooping around the house, it is about a week before Christmas. Lo and behold, what do you think we found. You would be right, two cowboy suits and two shiny cap pistols and a couple of boxes of cap rolls. The temptation was just overwhelming, you know we had to try them on. We were just going to make sure they fit, so out of the boxes they came.

 

I am telling you, with my cowboy suit and pistol strapped on, I became Gene Autry, man, if I just had a horse named Champion. My brother was riding a broom like he was on Trigger, he was Roy Rogers.

After I was done with Gene, I suddenly became Hopalong Cassidy, riding the purple sage.

Well the smart thing to do would be put the stuff back in the boxes and wait for Christmas but sometimes you just can’t do the smart thing. The screen door slammed behind us as we rode of on the range looking for Johnnie Mack Brown, and the Lone Ranger. What fun we had, shot up all the caps cause the Indians were after us, ripped a hole in my pants when I went through a barbed wire fence.

It was getting on to time for mama and daddy to get home so we rode back to our house. We took the stuff off and put it back in the boxes, we were sure no one would ever know. Wrong, Christmas morning when we opened the box my mama noticed the hole in my pants and the mud on the knees, we were busted. I suspect they were upset with us but we didn’t get a whooping on Christmas.

I wonder if kids still do things like that................