COWBOYS, LIGAMENTS & GOALS

• The Cowboys ended their pathetic season with an even more pathetic game last Sunday. No playoffs. The entire coaching staff needs to be replaced, or next year will look the same.
• The MRI on my knee shows a torn ACL, strained MCL, torn meniscus, tibia and femur contusions, and a cyst from the goo leaking. Surgery is in my future...
• I don't really do New Years Resolutions, but this year I do have a goal - to have my days off work equal the days I do work. Here is how it breaks down :

365 days in the year

-104 weekend days

-30 vacation days (I can take more - that is just what we "earn" each year)

-17 days off for federal holidays

- 1 day off for the Marine Corps Ball

= 213 WORK DAYS & 152 DAYS OFF

The GOAL is to get that as close to 182.5 & 182.5 as possible. So I have to figue out how to get 30 more days off to meet the actual goal. Of course my knee surgery will help (there's the optimistic view), and I can take more vacation days, as long as it gets approved.

I will keep a tracker so you can see my progress, Mr. Taxpayer! It's good to have goals...

ONE LAST ITEM ON THE CHRISTMAS LIST

A WIN OVER THE EAGLES TO GET MY COWBOYS INTO THE PLAYOFFS!!

MORE ELECTED WHO SHOULD BE IN JAIL AND A SHORT LIST OF THE ABSURD

• California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass & Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg trying to pass $9.3 billion in taxes including a half-cent increase sales tax; a 2.5 percent surcharge on personal income taxes starting in 2009; 39 cents per gallon of gas fee; a new "severance tax" on oil production; and a new 3 percent income tax withholding. But the real hoot here is that they aren't going to call these new "taxes" - they will be called "fees" - you see tax increases need a 2/3 majority vote, while fees only need a simple 51% majority. THROW THEM IN JAIL FOR TRYING TO ILLEGALLY PASS NEW TAXES!

• Mr. Obama spending hundreds of thousands with 3 law firms to fight the making public of a $12 REAL birth certificate. HHhhmmmm....

• Snow in Malibu, Las Vegas, and everywhere else, it seems. Must be that darn global warming again...

• CBS 60 Minutes, anchor Lesley Stahl praising Dem Congressman Barney Frank as "the smartest guy in Congress". He is Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, which means his portfolio includes banks, housing, and now the auto industry. You know, the same bank, housing and auto industries that are all going bankrupt and are begging for billions in bailouts....GOOD JOB BARNEY!

• Mr. Obama slamming Hillary for not having foreign policy experience - March 11, 2008 -"There is no reason to believe, however, that she was a key player in foreign policy at any time during the Clinton Administration. She did not sit in on National Security Council meetings. She did not have a security clearance. She did not attend meetings in the Situation Room. She did not manage any part of the national security bureaucracy, nor did she have her own national security staff. She did not do any heavy-lifting with foreign governments, whether they were friendly or not. She never managed a foreign policy crisis, and there is no evidence to suggest that she participated in the decision-making that occurred in connection with any such crisis. AND THEN NAMING HER SECRETARY OF STATE WITH THIS REVERSAL - "I am proud that she will be our next Secretary of State. She is an American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confidence; who knows many of the world’s leaders; who will command respect in every capitol; and who will clearly have the ability to advance our interests around the world....I have no doubt that Hillary Clinton is the right person to lead our State Department, and to work with me in tackling this ambitious foreign policy agenda."

POLITICIANS ARE GREAT ENTERTAINMENT, DON'T YOU THINK?

A GEM FROM MR. TWAIN...

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain

ISLAM GETS RESULTS!!!

MORAL CLARITY

RESPECTFUL CHILDREN

OBEDIENT WOMEN

Put the Numbers in Perspective:

1. More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.
2. Islamic terrorists murder more people everyday than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years.
3. More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.
   

"CHANGE" YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

After promising lots of "change" in the dirty world of politics and having a "transparent" administration, we have now begun to see that the "change" looks quite a bit like the same song and dance and "transparent" apparently means dodging any real questions. The voters for Hope & Change are now going to start seeing that this guy, just like every other politician, is a clown.

• Ayers - domestic terrorist, killer of policemen
• Reverend Wright - racist America hater, promoter of Black Liberation Theology
• Rezko - criminal real estate developer (AKA mafia)
• Blagojevich - corrupt governor

All associates, at one time or another, to one degree or another, of Mr Hope & Change. We are supposed to believe that he hasn't noticed ANYTHING questionable or criminal about ANY of them. At the same time we are supposed to believe he is the smartest guy on the planet. Um, ok....

One last thing - Mr. Transparent has set up a question and answer forum on his website where you get to type in questions and get a response from Mr. Transparent. Problem is, everytime someone asks a REAL question, like:

"How do you plan to explain your connections to William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Tony Rezko and Jeremiah Wright?"

this happens -

"This submission was removed because people believe it is inappropriate."

I BELIEVE THE ROCK BAND "THE WHO" SAID IT THE BEST -

"MEET THE NEW BOSS. SAME AS THE OLD BOSS"

PHYSICAL THERAPY & SANTA'S LIST

So I started physical therapy today for my torn up knee, to get my flexibilty back and to keep my muscles toned, and I have to say - #$%$^%$ THAT HURT! I think Faithy is tougher than I am. She goes all the time. And nobody gave me big hugs and kisses and told me how proud they were of me either. Anyway, more therapy to come until I get an MRI on the 23rd...

Now on to the important stuff - my Santa list (I was pretty good this year after all) -

1. BIG CAST IRON SKILLET -for all that cookin' I do
2. REALLY GOOD ELECTRIC SHAVER - has to be able to do my head also
3. GIFT CERTIFICATE TO BARNES & NOBLE - we all know how much I read
4. GIFT CERTIFICATE TO HOLLISTER/AMERICAN EAGLE/A&F - to continue projecting my ultra-cool image
5. AS MANY MICHAEL GRAVES HANGARS AS SANTA CAN BRING - because I am a neat freak
6. NO, THAT WASN'T A JOKE
7. SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE ECONOMIST" AND/OR "FOREIGN AFFAIRS - because I need more info
8. A DATE WITH MY WIFE TO THE OUTBACK - because sometimes you just need a 28 oz porterhouse, a frosty beer, your wife, and no kids.

A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY...

LATEST OFFERINGS FROM THE RELIGION OF PEACE

1. 12/5/2008 (Orakzai, Pakistan) - Religious extremists take out ten shoppers at a bazaar with a suicide blast.
2. 12/5/2008 (Peshawar, Pakistan) - Twenty-nine people at a marketplace are blown to bits by sectarian car bombers.
3. 12/5/2008 (Mir Ali, Pakistan) - Sunni extremists abduct and murder an 30-year-old man.
4. 12/4/2008 (Pattani, Thailand) - A 60-year-old man is among two people gunned down by Muslim separatists.
5. 12/4/2008 (Fallujah, Iraq) - Women and children are among fifteen Iraqis blasted to death by Jihadi car bombers.
6. 12/4/2008 (Khasavyurt, Dagestan) - A woman is killed by Islamic car bombers outside an apartment building.

File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack Obama — and the accompanying “global outpouring of affection, respect, hope” — had not caused an end to terrorist violence. Talking with correspondent John Yang, who was covering the Obama side of the story, Witt conceded that while “you certainly can’t expect things to change on a dime overnight....There had been such a global outpouring of affection, respect, hope, with the new administration coming in, that precisely these kinds of attacks, it was thought — at least hoped — would be dampered down. But in this case it looks like Barack Obama is getting a preview of things to come.”

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! This would be funny except that the truth is that 53 MILLION voters are just this naive.