It’s Friday, April 13, 2012 and tomorrow is the day that my year pretty much revolves around.
I speak of course of the opening day of the Montana spring turkey season.
This season promises to be excellent. A relatively mild winter resulted in a better than average winter survival rate. Spring thus far has been fairly dry and we’ve observed flocks of 40 or more birds, including some pretty impressive (and hopefully, gullible) Toms.
And it appears that I will be able to spend a lot of opening week in the field.
As some of you know, I showed up for my new job on Monday, put in half a day and was then told that my background check hadn’t been completed yet.
What’s worse is that no one seems willing or able to say when it’ll be done. But, at least I get to spend the next week engaging in one of my top three favorite pursuits.
So, we’ll do some this and that today.
- With Rick Santorum “suspending” his campaign, I guess it’s pretty much decided that Mitt Romney will be the Republican Party nominee.
I must have missed the announcements where Gingrich and Paul had dropped out.
Nonetheless, the Republican Party establishment has made its choice and we’re now expected to rally around Romney, regardless of our core beliefs. As much as I want to see Obama listed as a former president, you’re gonna have a pretty tough time convincing me that Romney is what this country needs.
It boils down, I think, to a choice between what this country needs less.
Yeah, that damned “lesser of two evils” thing , all over again.
But as before, I’m not having any. I’m sick of voting for someone based upon my finding them less disgusting than their opponent. I’m voting for who I WANT.
- I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they’ll never vote for a Mormon.
I don’t understand this reasoning at all. Do these people think we’re electing a national religion?
What possible difference can a president’s religion make? It’s not like he can issue an executive order banning Presbyterians. Are they worried that his religious convictions might influence his decisions making processes? Would they prefer someone with no particular faith-based value system running the country?
Or could it simply be that they’re just idiots? Idiots that have let the mainstream media convince them that this is somehow an important issue?
- I wish I could predict an interesting presidential election this go-round.
Oh sure, there’ll be plenty of hype and drama. Lots of finger-pointing and mud-slinging fun, but does that sort of thing really get our attention any more? We people that pay attention to politics on a regular basis pretty much already know what we think, so the target audience is the undecided, haven’t figured it out yet, impulse voter.
Which I guess will be the people who actually do decide who gets the White House for the next term.
Just like they did last time and thanks for that.
- If at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail again.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. This is what, the third or fourth time North Korea has sent up a glorious rocket of fail? Reports are that 90 seconds into the flight, the rocket went BOOM and fell into the ocean.
If anybody should be pissed, it should be North Korean fisherman. That kind of thing can’t be good for the fishing biz.
- This just in from our War on Women Desk: Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Hilary Rosen managed to accomplish what few liberal commentators have done and that’s to piss off pret’near every mom in the free world.
According to Rosen, “Guess what, (Romney’s) wife has actually never worked a day in her life.”
I guess being a stay-at-home mom, raising 5 kids isn’t really work.
Even His Obamaness got his back up, calling the remarks “ill-advised.” and adding “I don’t have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates.”
While Rosen did quickly issue an apology, she later blamed Republicans for focusing on her comments, rather than on the issue of whether Romney understands the concerns of working women.
Okay, so what about the democrats and independents that have also ganged up on her?
This is clearly a situation where she should have just apologized and then shut the hell up, but like any liberal media disciple, has got to turn an apology into an attack.
Shame, shame on you, Ms Rosen. That ain’t journalism, hotpants.
Next up:
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Try the Laurel Ford dealership – I haven’t had a complaint since using them. I haven’t used Billings Ford for over a decade – poor substandard customer service lost my business forever. Lynn |
Hi Lynn, I would, were it not for the fact that Laurel Ford gave me the absolute worst shopping experience in my life.
It was bad enough that they nearly put me off of Fords altogether. I have no idea what their service department is like and it’s great that you’ve had good experiences with them, but I personally will set foot on their lot only upon having verifiable confirmation that Hell has frozen over. Elim |
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Well congrats on the new job and will miss your posts. Most the time good for a great laugh or two. |
Hi Deedee, Thanks! Hopefully, my first half-day on the new job isn’t gonna set the tone. You as well as anyone know of my inability to tolerate uncertainty.
I do so miss the folks from my last full-time gig. It was a fun bunch to work with. Elim |
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Hey,
What’s the big deal about disclosing where you work? You got something to be ashamed of? I work at Wells Fargo and don’t try to make a huge mystery about it. Ralph |
Hi Ralph, No, nothing to be ashamed of. It’s just something I chose not to disclose to the general populace. I think mostly it’s because I don’t want people to think that because I work at Le Fromage non Précisé, the opinions I have are in some way those of my employer.
Or, that because I work at Der große gelbe Bleistift, their viewpoints are mine. So, I chose to keep my work and my blog in two separate containers. Elim |
And finally, on to the usual Friday offerings:
What if you’re gay AND Chinese?
No, no dessert for me:
If you’re happy and you know it:
I guess so you can avoid it?
Does PETA know about this?
Just don’t do it on a plane containing me:
From our new Friend Zone product line:
Because the USA smells like a caramel waffle cookie:
Decisions, decisions…
And that’ll wrap it up for today and the week. We may go back to the once a day format until my work situation is squared away. You’ll have to tune in Monday to find out. Chances are that it’ll be a “lite” version in that I plan on spending as much time as a I can in the weeks next week.
You never know though. This is Montana and it could snow still.
Take us on out, RFG!
