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With my nose plugged we will get through January…

I am just glad to be done with the last year of crap.

Time to throw it all out and start anew again.

Be safe, celebrate the New Year in comfort with much liquids and food!

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Dinner at the cabin, we had 30 pounds of Prime Rib and all the fixins.

The one thing I wished for, all of my sisters and Mom went in and this Sears Tool Box.

Sitting right next to the Kegerator at my cabin.

Damn, I know I am spoiled.

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Ahh and Eliot’s exploits continue to be revealed.

Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned.

The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources said.

When will Mrs. Spitzer file for divorce? The sooner the better. She doesn’t deserve such a man.

The revelation comes three weeks after Spitzer was outed as “Client-9″ in a separate federal hooker probe involving the New Jersey-based Emperors Club VIP.

At the center of the new ring is Kristin “Billie” Davis, a busty bottle blonde who hails from a ough-and-tumble California trailer park. She has a reputation for hard-partying, shameless self-promotion and a rumored 10,000-name-long client list.

Davis’ alleged multimillion-dollar empire was smashed by city vice cops as she made plans to skip town. Prosecutors say she netted some $2 million last year by pimping out ladies of the night for as much as $1,000 an hour through four Web sites.

10,000 clients? She was a busy gal. Sex sells. And if you’re a desperate enough man, you can buy it for this kind of money. Course the classy guys only want the best whores they can afford.

I really feel bad for Spitzer’s teenage daughters. To know their father is a low life scum who does these things must be very embarrassing, and he has let them down in a huge way. This is one of those things daughters have trouble forgiving. They’ll certainly never forget the pain and anguish this has caused their Mother.

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DON’T FORGET!

Spring yourselves forward tonight. Er, or is it early tomorrow morning? Who the hell gets up at 2am to change their clocks??

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Yawn…

American men still don’t pull their weight when it comes to housework and child care, but collectively they’re not the slackers they used to be. The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up off the sofa and pitching in, according to a new report in which a psychologist suggests the payoff for doing more chores could be more sex.

House chores for sex???

Joshua Coleman, a San Francisco-area psychologist and author of “The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework,” said equitable sharing of housework can lead to a happier marriage and more frequent sex.

Wow.

So Dads…clean the toilet, wash some dishes and mop the floor…maybe you’ll get lucky later.

Hmm.

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Over @ Pirates Cove, Teach shares with his readers an article about the famous Victoria’s Secret- and how the CEO has decided the brand has become…TOO SEXY.

I have a few things to say on this subject.

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Red Sox Nation meets the Rockies. Heh.

The Sox won their 12th American League pennant by beating the Cleveland Indians by the deceptive score of 11-2, before a crowd of 37,165 at Fenway Park, the first congregation since 1986 with the chance to celebrate a championship at home. The Sox, who broke open last night’s game with eight runs in their last two at-bats, come back to Fenway Park to open the 103d World Series Wednesday night against the Colorado Rockies, the National League champions who have won 10 straight and 21 of 22.

I missed most the game last night- I was working. My daughters were at Fenway though. And they will be going to all the World Series games (thanks to their Dad). This coming Thursday they are traveling out to Denver and will be staying with their cousin, who is displaced member of the Red Sox Nation. After the Sox beat the Rockies, maybe they’ll meet up with Michael to make him eat crow ball park hawt dogs?? LOL!!

World Series overview
Wednesday, Oct. 24 (8 p.m.)
Game 1 at Boston

Thursday, Oct. 25 (8 p.m.)
Game 2 at Boston

Saturday, Oct. 27 (8 p.m.)
Game 3 at Colorado

Sunday, Oct. 28 (8 p.m.)
Game 4 at Colorado

Monday, Oct. 29
Game 5* at Colorado

Wednesday, Oct. 31
Game 6* at Boston

Thursday, Nov. 1
Game 7* at Boston

(* - if necessary)

May the best team win. That’ll be the SOX thank you very much!

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“It is outrageous. How am I supposed to communicate?”

…so said Michael very recently.

Heh.

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Give me one good and logical reason why we need gun control laws?

After today’s tragedy at VT, it seems pretty clear to me: HAD EVEN one student or professor had a gun of their own on them this could have turned out very differently. Someone would have shot down this gunman long before he shot down so many more.

Gun control laws won’t and obviously DON’T work. If a person wants a weapon, a gun they will get it- legally or not. Today’s events are proof we need to arm all our citizens with a gun to defend themselves.

What are we left with? A nation mourning 33 innocent people, dead in a matter of minutes, at the hand of a very sick person. And the dead, and others, had NO way to defend themselves. We won’t see any victims kin speak up for the right of Americans to own and use firearms; we will hear cries for banning all weapons though.

And in the future we will be once again shocked and saddened. By another mass shooting on some campus that is GUN FREE and SAFE.

Give me a good reason to ban guns.

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Cotillion sister and blogging friend Chrissie passed this BLOGGING AWARD to me yesterday. I was very surprised and it really made my day. I haven’t been able to place a lot of effort into blogging lately, due to school and work and life. When one gets something like this, it reminds us why we do this- blogging. To cause others to think.

This is actually a meme of sorts. The idea is to THINK of 5 other bloggers who have made YOU THINK. There are so many excellent bloggers out there and a few of them I call friends. In that, I am PROUDLY passing this onto to these fine people who DO make me THINK and who do deserve this award much more than I do:

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Here’s a Marine who could use some prayers. As could his family…

MARION TOWNSHIP — A U.S. Marine from Bellefonte who was seriously wounded in Iraq is “still fighting” for life at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where his family and fellow Marines are keeping vigil, his father said.

Marine Cpl. David Emery Jr.’s, legs and left arm were shattered on Feb. 7 in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq’s Anbar province. Emery, 21, nicknamed “D.J.,” also suffered a severe abdominal wound, including a severed artery that caused his kidneys to shut down, his family said. He is on a ventilator and is also suffering from pneumonia.

“I still can’t believe it’s happening,” said his father, David Emery, who made a one-day trip back to his Marion Township home before returning today to Bethesda. “I keep thinking it’s a bad dream I’m going to wake up from. But I keep having it.”

The younger Emery’s wife, Leslie, who is seven months pregnant with the couple’s first child, remains at her husband’s bedside along with the Marine’s mother, Connie.

David is in a coma. Every breath he takes right now is a blessing. He is in a very acute, intensive care situation. There is no way to predict how this will pan out.

“Right now he’s maintaining his own blood pressure,” David Emery. “They took him off the medication for that. So that’s a positive sign. He’s still on a ventilator, and they’re still doing dialysis every day. And every day they are cleaning his wounds.

“They haven’t even started working on his fractures yet,” the elder Emery said. “We take it a day at a time. Every day he holds on, there’s some improvement. It means he’s not getting worse.”

David Emery Jr. has not regained consciousness since he was wounded in the bombing. But his loved ones think the Marine is aware of his family, friends and a long line of Marines who have visited him, the father said.

“I took his hand and said, ‘If you can hear me, squeeze my hand,’ ” David Emery said. “And he squeezed my hand. Boy was that a good feeling.”

He can hear his father. And everyone else. I hope they are taking care of the pain he feels too. Often they keep severely wounded people in medically induced comas just so they can start the process of healing without the pain.

While staying in Bethesda near his son — the family is being housed by the Marine Corps — David Emery attended a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for the Marine he thinks saved his son’s life.

David Emery said his son’s sergeant major, Joseph J. Ellis, of Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, appeared to have realized that a man pushing into a crowd near Ellis and David Emery Jr. was an insurgent. Emery said he was told by Marine Corps officials that Ellis got between the suicide bomber and his son. Ellis was killed by the bomb.

“I think of him as a hero,” David Emery said of Ellis, a 40-year-old Marine from Ashland, Ohio. “He saw him pushing his way through the crowd. He moved to get this guy and probably saved my son’s life.”

It’s sad when a hero dies in the act of saving others. But it happens daily in Iraq. For those left living, the pain and sorrow of being ALIVE is forever with them. The guilt, that feeling that they somehow should have been killed, is always there. David needs prayers, lots of them.

Semper Fi young Marine…

Teach has a story about the good work of some American soldiers…how they saved a baby’s life…at Pirate Cove’s Tuesday Trackback party.

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Two years ago today. The LIMB Support Group was formed.

And I still remember spilling my coffee all over my lap reading the comments to that post.

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December 8: 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the
wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge
soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So
romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!

December 9: We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering
every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely
place in the whole World? Moving here was the best idea I’ve ever had.
Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our
driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and
covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again.
What a perfect life.

December 12: The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment.
My neighbor tells me not to worry, we’ll definitely have a white Christmas. No
snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we’ll have so much snow by the
end of winter, that I’ll never want to see snow again. l don’t think that’s possible.
Bob is such a nice man I’m glad he’s our neighbor.

December 14: Snow lovely snow! 8″ last night. The temperature dropped to -20.
The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I
warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The
snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. l didn’t realize
I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I’ll certainly get back in shape
this way. I wish l wouldn’t huff and puff so.

December 15: 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4×4 Blazer. Bought
snow tires for the wife’s car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife
wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that’s silly. We aren’t
in Alaska, after all.

December 16: Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway
putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, Which I think
was very cruel.

December 17: Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere.
Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm.
Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should’ve
bought a wood stove, but won’t admit it to her. God I hate it when she’s right. I
can’t believe I’m freezing to death in my own living room.

December 20: Electricity’s back on, but had another 14″ of the damn stuff last
night. More shoveling. Took all day. Goddamn snowplow came by twice. Tried
to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they’re too busy playing hockey. I
think they’re lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a
snow blower and they’re out. Might have another shipment in March. I think
they’re lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me.
I think he’s lying.

December 22: Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of
the white shit fell today, and it’s so cold it probably won’t melt till August. Took
me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to piss. By
the time I got undressed, pissed and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel.
Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he
says he’s too busy. I think the asshole is lying.

December 23: Only 2″ of snow today. And it warmed up to 0o. The wife wanted
me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she nuts!!! Why
didn’t she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she’s
lying.

December 24: 6″. Snow packed so hard by snowplow, l broke the shovel.
Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a bitch who drives
that snowplow, I’ll drag him through the snow by his balls. I know he hides
around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down
the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I’ve just been!
Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our
presents, but I was busy watching for the goddamn snowplow.

December 25: Merry Christmas. 20 more inches of the !=3D@x@!x!x1slop
tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God I hate the
snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him
over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she’s
an idiot. If I have to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” one more time, I’m going to
kill her.

December 26: Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all
HER idea. She’s really getting on my nerves.

December 27: Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze.

December 28: Warmed up to above -50. Still snowed in. THE BITCH is driving
me crazy!!!!!

December 29: 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could
cave in. That’s the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?

December 30: Roof caved in. The snow plow driver is suing me for a million
dollars. The wife went home to her mother. 9″ predicted.

December 31: Set fire to what’s left of the house. No more shoveling.

January 8: I feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me.
Why am I tied to the bed?

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So Michael moves back to Colorado as this person starts a “business” –one that he (Michael) is well qualified to operate…in the very area he lived in!! Hmm…maybe there are opportunities for this up in Colorado??

The Chandler, Ariz., resident has started a business that will make it that much easier for amorous couples to join the “Mile-High Club.”

For $750, couples can get a 90-minute ride 6,000-feet above the Phoenix area, with the only destination being that delightful place known as love, sweet love, the Arizona Republic reports.

Riedel’s friend, Richard McPherson, flies the lovebirds up in a Cessna 320 decked out with a “retro lounge jazz club” interior for the company, Mile High AZ.

Thus far Riedel’s venture is still in its infancy. Mile High AZ is testing the airspace, so to speak, offering free flights to friends, who in turn leave “testimonials” on Milehighclub.com.

“It was everything we expected and more,” the Republic quoted one posting.

And though this mortgage broker hasn’t quit his day job, the paper reports, he’s enjoying the ride, noting it’s “a heck of a lot more fun to talk about than being a Realtor.”

All I can say is:::
***THUD***

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