“What is the value of being narcissistic…….if you don’t learn to love your self first?”

Well I have just heard on the news that Gov. Mark Sanford is now making the statement comparing his latest situation to King David of biblical Israel and the woman to tempt him, Bathsheba.

I think that he has been lying to the voters of South Carolina for much longer than this recent event and it is now just second nature to him.

The narcissistic, hubris of this man playing the “con man” aspect to the religious right population is now at the level of being blatantly comical to the rest of us whom are not so easily lead.

The Gov. Mark Sanford Story Just Gets Better

It has recently come out that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford used South Carolina tax dollars to indulge in his extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina.

That's right, Gov. Sanford, who became the hero to the Conservative Right Wing of the Republican Party when he played to the fiscal conservatives in rejecting the Obama federal stimulus funds, has raised some very legitimate concerns and questions. After misusing his position and misappropriating tax dollars for this personal use, Gov Sanford is now in the damage control mode making statements such as, “He is going to reimburse the state for the full cost of the Argentina leg of this trip.” (Well, yea now that he has been caught!!) According to the South Carolina Department of Commerce, Sanford's airline tickets cost $8,687, and included flights to different cities in Brazil and Argentina.

I am so glad that Gov. Sanford is watching out for the tax payers of South Carolina, and of course with the hopes that he would be taking good care of the United States tax budgets. Just Like Bush and Cheney did!!

Another Proud Moment From Two Potential 2012 Republican Party Presidential Candidates

The recent events are a perfect example on how the Extreme Fundamental Christians, Conservative Right Wing’s actions have screwed up my Republican Party.


Last week, just two weeks after taking the first steps toward a 2012 presidential bid, conservative Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada admitted to an extramarital affair last year with a campaign aide. Ensign who was a rising star in conservative circles and Nevada’s most popular Republican Politician, also belongs to the men’s Christian ministry "Promise Keepers," and has championed causes pushed by the GOP’s conservative religious base. Earlier this month, he went to Iowa, home to the nation’s first presidential precinct caucuses, to speak as part of a conservative lecture series designed to define the GOP after its shattering defeat in last year’s presidential and congressional elections. Last year, Ensign was named chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. (Is't this rich) Ensign was even highly critical of former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, after Craig’s arrest in an airport bathroom homosexual sting. Ensign stopped short of urging Craig to resign but suggested strongly that he should. Ensign was quoted, “I wouldn’t put myself hopefully in that kind of position.” Oop-seeee!?!? My Bad??? Oh, did I do that????



Now late this afternoon, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said that he has been involved in an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina. Sanford even though that his own self interest's was worth his while not to even be at home with his family on Father’s Day. Sanford became a hero to the Extreme Conservative Wing Nuts within the Republican Party when he played to the fiscal conservatives in rejecting the Obama federal stimulus funds. For doing this, he has been mentioned as a possible presidential prospect.

Both of these men within the Republican Party, the ones who hold up “Family Values” as if they had the monopoly on this issue, have both been involved with lying, cheating, and infidelity against their wives. Their self-proclaiming moral high ground is nothing more than the typical hypocritical crap that comes from the Christian, Extreme Right Wing Conservatives. The sooner the Moderate Republican’s purge this extreme cancer from within the Party……THE BETTER!!!

Hey! Check Out That Cooter!

No no no……That’s not what I meant. The word means Turtle. Now growing up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, I of course had heard the term being referenced to the exact same thing you were thinking of.

The early settlers who lived in the Carolinas, first added the word to the English language because the name was derived from the African word, kuta or nkuda. The term quickly became prevalent across the whole Southern Colonial States.



In the early 1970’s, I was in the Navy and stationed in Charleston, SC. This is when I learned that the origin of the word “Cooter” was the name for a “Box” Turtle; or any hard shell or soft shell turtle in general for that matter. It could also mean the other also.



During the early Colonial to mid- 1800’s history, the Maryland terrapin was considered a delicacy and at one time they were so plentiful on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, that great numbers were shipped to New York in boxes filled with straw or hay until the turn of the century when over harvesting devastated the population. Local watermen were making a good lucrative profit catching and shipping terrapins to all the northern seacoast cities. These local watermen’s greed even had enough influence within Maryland State Government, that they got a law passed restricting feeding them to the slaves at that time.



Now I can honestly say, I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could post what could be considered a sexually obscene message….but still have plausible deniability. I think I pulled it off. (I also have a Vette) (;D

Cab Calloway performing Minnie the Moocher

Hello All. I am trying my first attempt at posting a video clip on my blog site. I chose Cab Calloway performing Minnie the Moocher, which in my opinion, is one of the best Big Band Jazz tunes that has stood the test of time. Cab Calloway had one of his homes less than a mile down the country road where my mother grew up during her childhood here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The house is now all grown over with vines, saplings, weeds, etc. and the once fine home is now just a derelict that has caved in on itself. Most people don't even know the home's legacy.

Cab was born on Christmas night, December 25, 1907, in Rochester, New York, but when he was 6-years-old, they moved to Baltimore, Maryland. After school, he sold newspapers, shined shoes, was a grocery store checker, waited tables, and walked horses at Pimlico Racetrack.

His parents hoped Cab would someday study law, but, by the time he graduated from high school at the age of 17, he had already made up his own mind to be an entertainer. In high school Cab played drums and sang with a small group. He had even performed on the vaudeville circuit with some kids from his school.

As we all know, Cab grew up and became a great world renowned musical success. The legal profession's loss, and the rest of the world's gain.

Enjoy

The Bush’s Approach Of “Cutting The Red Tape” Financial Regulations Didn't Work Out Very Well.

This past week President Barrack Obama started taking the reasonable first steps to reinstate the old banking and financial regulations that were gutted over the years that had started with the Regan Administration.

The “New Deal” that Franklin Roosevelt promised the American people began to take shape immediately after his inauguration in March 1933. Based on the assumption that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the depression, the first days of Roosevelt's administration saw the passage of banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs.



Roosevelt appointed Joseph Kennedy as the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kennedy was appointed to review, and propose laws to curb and reign in the unscrupulous acts of those who ultimately destroyed and crashed the financial markets at the time. After Franklin Roosevelt called Kennedy to Washington to clean up the Securities and Exchange Commission, somebody asked Roosevelt why he had tapped such a crook. "Takes one to catch one," replied Roosevelt.

Kennedy's reforming work as SEC Chairman was widely praised on all sides, as investors realized the SEC was protecting their interests. His knowledge of the financial markets equipped him to identify areas requiring the attention of regulators. One of the crucial reforms was the requirement for companies to regularly file financial statements with the SEC.

Since the Ronald Regan Administration, influential PACs have been pushing to remove and dismantle these exact same laws and regulations that Joseph Kennedy developed to protect the working men and women's retirement funds of this country. Now with most of these safeguards removed and what laws remained on the books, the prevalent viewpoint of the last eight years under the Bush / Cheney Administration was to just ignore and look the other way as any violations were going on.

Of course as if history could not have predicted it, we are now in our own crash of the financial markets again just like in 1929. Just like the old saying, “Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” As I see it, the correction of this current financial problems are to go back to the way it use to be by reinstating the laws and regulations that Kennedy knew worked and did for many years.

Rin Tin Tin (A Memory Of A Childhood 1950's Saturday Morning TV Show)

I am the type of person who’s mind can just wander with non-tangible eclectic thoughts like random snap shots going through a slide projector. During one of these moments, I remembered an old episode of Rin Tin Tin, a Saturday morning TV show on ABC. To put this in the perspective of the time frame, the television series ran from 1954 through 1959. It was at a period of time that the ultra conservatives were in control and the viewpoints were blatantly racist stereotypes.

To start with, let me give you the base of the story line. Rusty was orphaned in an Indian raid, (i.e. those heathen bastards killed that poor little white boy’s Mommy and Daddy). Rusty with his dog, Rin Tin Tin (everyone loves a boy and his dog; just look at Timmy and Lassie) were adopted by the troops at Fort Apache and helped establish law and order in and around Mesa Grande, AZ.

This one particular episode was that for the benifit of some visiting dignitaries, the solders from the local Calvary Fort that Rin Tin Tin and Rusty “B-Company” (the little boy’s name) lived at, were going to put on a reenactment show with the local Indian tribe. The reenactment was a gun fight battle that the Troops had originally won and everyone was supposed to use blank cartridges. Of course the Indians plotted to use real bullets and the solders from the fort would be defenseless. Ah! Not to worry because Rusty “B-Company” over heard and found out the evil Indians' plot but he and Rin Tin Tin had to hurry back to Fort Apache to warn Lt. Rip Masters (cool name) and the troops that they were in danger.

Well the reenactment had started and as far as the visiting dignitaries knew, the solders being shot and falling down was just part of the show. It was not until after several of the Fort’s troops were shot and killed by these scheming and not to be trusted Indians, did they realize that something was very wrong. Those men were really dying?!?!

Now just in time before all of the troops in the reenactment were doomed, the Calvary came charging in being lead by Lt. Rip Masters, Rusty, and Rin Tin Tin to save the day. After several Indians were killed, they turned tail and ran just like the cowards they really were.

The show ended back at Fort Apache recapping the story and laying praise on everyone for stopping the evil plan of the Indians. All's well that ends well and the camera goes to black with everyone laughing and smiling (with dog barking happily) to return next Saturday with a whole new episode foiling another evil scheming plan.



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