.. and close eyes. I do anyway. It also gives me eyes a rest.

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

Theodore Rubin

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I still have a job. kinda. I got fired for tellin the job boss he didn't know what the fuck he was doin. This was the week I found out my Pop passed.
After a week in GB, I returned only to find out I had to go back to the same job.
Jobs are gettin more scarce here. But I've been around long enough that I still have guys asking me if I need work.
When I got back from GB, my boss gave me shit about being gone for a week. I said, Hey, I'm sorry my Dad died. fuckin asshole. He want's me to buy his business.
I might. But the price will have to come down now. And that's IF, I do it.
But, I'm thankful for being able to work still.
I'm thankful that this Huntingtons Corea hasn't progressed rapidly.
And I'm thankful for all the decent human beings I've met here.

And last but not least, I'm thankful for C&L.

*humming the song now*

And I agree with your assessment. ;)

As a Packers' fan and owner who watched damned near every game in which Sanders played, I won't hesitate for a second to tell you that Walter Payton (a great many of whose games I saw here in west Michigan, too) was head and shoulders above Sanders.

Payton had all of Sanders' moves, was a much better inside runner, could run over tacklers as well as leap over them (there was a good reason his coaches never had Sanders in at the goal-line), was a better pass and run blocker, was a better receiver(he occasionally lined up in the slot), and Payton threw a damned good pass whenever the Bears ran a halfback option.

Yes, Sanders was good for the quick strike, 80-yard touchdown run, but he was absolutely horrid when the Lions needed to run the clock and play ball-control offense. You've probably heard the old saw that defense wins championships, but what the talking heads fail to tell you is that defenses play a lot better when they get a chance to literally catch their breath. Walter Payton was a major factor in making the defense of the '85 Bears the best ever. And he made the otherwise so-so Bears defenses of the previous 10 years look much better than they actually were.

Shit just sort of came together, or fell apart, that way yesterday. Drove down from SLO on Tues, checked the dog and gear into the motel, then had the truck start making a loud tapping noise yesterday coming back from the office; pretty sure timing chain is about to let loose. Of course, getting a mechanic (let alone a rental car) on Thanksgiving weekend is a bitch. I'll get through it.

Have a cold one for me too, my friend. Cheers!

I was homeless. Literally living in a van, down by the river, with a large violent husband and three kids ages 3, 5, and 10. And several pit bulls.

I've also beeh homeless with my kids in a cheap motel being paid for by Catholic Charities.

I've also lived in cheap motels (paid weekly from my job at Checker Auto) always on the verge of being out on the street. Got head lice in one of those.

And, my kids and I spent the winter of 1998-9 in a battered women's shelter.

Which one of these scenarios would have been sufficient for that wingnut overdrive commenter?

just read the item ....should have known ...Border Services bending over for that Corpirate $hitstain IOC ... I wonder if the Mounties have put Olympic Logos on their Tazers yet ...?
Cause heres how the Mounties say Welcome to Canada:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/sto...

want to see Canada follow us into the heck hole!

and just exactly what 'reason' was the most prominent progressive voice in America guilty of?

no need for the Canadians to follow suit. And really, picking an activist journalist is the wrong person to go after. She's seen a lot worse than Bob and Doug Mackenzie, standing guard up in Blaine under the Peace Arch

Our whole train was stopped at the border crossing into NY State, at Niagara Falls (also my hometown, but I was coming from Toronto that day), for 2 hours. "Nazis" with machine guns and trained guard dogs got on and badgered many people, enough to make them cry.

It's not us common folk, on either side of the border doing it.

PEACE.

(I know I've told that story here before, but holy mackerel. Haven't been back in the USA since.)

When I was in the Air Force I'd smoke some weed and do some coke, then turn on Jerry Falwell with the music off, and Alice Cooper's Sick Things and I Love the Dead playing.

I also like watching the movie Metropolis with Gary Numan playing on his subsequent albums.