RT's Ponderings

So, after missing the last two days of work (three, including Monday), I went back to school, today. If I could stop coughing, I’d be a really happy person. My head would stop pounding, my voice might return, and I might be able to sleep more than a few hours without waking up from hacking off my head.

During my prep period, I went for some comfort: my cough drops, hot tea, soup, and jello. There’s always room for jello! Heh.

Have a good Friday! I’m going to go take some Tylenol and have a little ice cream–for medicinal purposes, only, of course. Really. Seriously.

I wonder if those glasses help “President Tom” with his perception of reality?

Have fun with this caption contest. If you want to do a Photoshop, feel free. This week, I will post the winner Tuesday evening.

THE WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!

5. Rodney Dill: “I am Jake Rednblues… I’m on a mission from God.”

4. Dennis: These X-Ray goggles suck…Kill the inventor!

3. Cowboy Blob: Does that Nose come with the glasses?

2. Deathlok: If you wear these glasses while enriching uranium, it looks like America’s coming right at you.

This week’s winner is. . .

1. Wyatt Earp: President Tom arrives for the gala Iranian premiere of Friday the 13th III (in 3D) . . . only 25 years after the rest of the world.

Cowboy Blob entry:

Other contests you should visit:

• Blonde Sagacity
• Cowboy Blob
• Gone Rick Hotel (I WON here last week!)
• Right Pundits
• Rodney Dill
• Sohos
  
• Wizbang
• Wyatt

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Yeah, I know the two seem oddly coupled, but whatever.

Ambulance Driver has an amazing clip of a British gentleman giving his highly polished .02 about Saudi Arabia, Islamofascism and his beloved country. It is excellent, and while AD says the guy should run for Parliament, I’d take it further and say, Prime Minister.

Wyatt has Obama’s plans for our defense (or extreme lack of it). It will make you say, “WTF!”

The warfare? This is kind of cool:

1. Kin bury body, find out loved one’s alive
They are sooooo out of the will, now!

2. Okay, what rhymes with Kyrgyzstan?
I do not like green eggs and ham? Well, it is a near rhyme.

3. Dude, I think we picked the wrong bar
What’s with all the guys grabbing ass? (Actually THIS is a pretty good story.)

4. Iowa man fired for prostitute requests
I guess he read the benefits package without his glasses. (For the idiotic real story, click HERE.)

5. Mayor, City Employee Under Fire After Found Passed Out on Street in Vomit…
Their attempt to create, Public Servants Gone Wild: Mid-Winter Break, didn’t go as planned.

BONUS!!!
And here’s a headline all of our veterans should be lucky enough to have written about them, because they deserve it!

When I was a little kid, one of my favorite songs to sing in Sunday school (aside from the marching with infantry song) was about a little guy named Zacchaeus. So, when I saw this comic/cartoon, it made me giggle. I’ve included the words to the song in case you need the reference (words are below the cartoon; the song itself-click the link).

Zacchaeus was a wee little man
And a wee little man was he
He climbed up in a sycamore tree
For the Lord he wanted to see
And as the Savior passed that way
He looked up in that tree
And He said, “Zacchaeus, you come down!
For I’m going to your house today
For I’m going to your house to stay”

**This wasn’t enough for another post, but I’m home sick just wandering aimlessly around the internet. I didn’t need to see this site. Whimper, whimper.

It’s funny, really. As an observer of what is happening in the Democratic race for a candidate for president, I’ve noticed several things:

Despite his inability to say anything of real substance and stammering to come up with an answer that isn’t some broad statement using the words “change” and “hope,” Obama seems to be steamrolling Hillary. Well, much aided by the mainstream media who fawns over him. So aptly portrayed by SNL. (This is the only link to the SNL skit.)

Then we have Hillary. For so many years she was the feared “ice-queen” type. She ruled her domain and those around her through the use of fear. Bitch may be the new black (according to Fey and her editorial on SNL), but it does not necessarily “suit” a leader. Just how does one wear bitch? My guess? It would have to be a really warm coat. As you can see, there is no REAL love for Hillary, in my estimation I’d say “bitch” is lonely and cold.

Why do I find all of this funny? Obama and Hillary argue about non-issues while ignoring the huge issues of our safety, security, and what they’d really do–you know, they are all talk minus any real plans.

Hillary’s tried and true hackneyed use of intimidation, lies, double-speak and such just don’t seem to be working for her these days. It makes me wonder just how all of those things worked for so long in years past. It was the charismatic male (who the media fawned over like a lovesick 15 year-old) that promised things from a town called Hope, building a bridge…to nowhere.

Essentially, she is running against her husband.

(Btw., doesn’t that picture make you think Obama is going to say, “Do you smell what the ‘Rack is cooking?” Heh!)

It’s been a while since I shared some quotations that made me think or that I just plain appreciate. I don’t know who to attribute most of these to, since where I got them didn’t do the proper thing and cite them, but I thought I’d share them just the same.

Hope you enjoy them, too.

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Kind of like kissing lots of frogs, right?

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve every had.

Believe it or not, I’m not exactly the most talkative person when you meet me. I have a hard time saying what I want to say–a shyness thing. That’s why I really like this quotation. Sometimes, just a glance says more than a whole sentence. Silence doesn’t always need to be interrupted with talking.

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

This one is good because it is a reminder not to dwell on what you don’t have and to enjoy your blessings, no matter how small they might be.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

How true. Can’t relive the past and you can’t let the bad things drag your butt into the mud.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
–William James

Sometimes we have a “view” of perfection for our own lives; however, I think, it is when we begin to find happiness in the mundane and imperfect (instead of dwelling on the imperfection as a really bad thing), that we learn to be happy. That opens up all kinds of paths for us that we might have closed our eyes to.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. ~Psalms 126:5

True, and a provision of hope.

In case my diet buddies get concerned: I’m sharing half the sandwich with my mom. She made some yummy homemade soup.

Cures what ails ya!

Larry Norman is one of the people responsible for contemporary Christian music.

He’s kind of folksy and is not afraid to use his music to say some uncomfortable things or touch uncomfortable subjects.

While he may not be everyone’s cup of tea, he felt strongly in his belief in God and his purpose in life as a musician being used by God.

He died Sunday after a long battle with heart problems.

Below are a couple of his songs, one sung by him and one sung by the group, DC Talk.

“Let the Rain Fall Down”
Larry Norman

“I Wish We’d All Been Ready”
DC Talk

Each time I down a dose, I think of this song. Fevers warp the brain, I tell ya.

(Btw., I’ve posted the winners for this week’s caption contest, HERE.)

I was wondering why Al Gorgonzola was so quiet. It appears that we are headed for an ice age. Well, maybe.

The reason? Hot air. Wind, to be precise.

“We missed what was right in front of our eyes,” says Prof. Russell. It’s not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind’s effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.

But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming.

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as “a drop in the bucket.” Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to “stock up on fur coats.”

When I was thinner, I once tried on a fur coat (for fun). It suits me well. I think I’ll invest in one next winter; you know, because a girl can never be too warm in an Ice Age.

Do you wonder what our last icing like event was like?

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.

I guess this is also a global thing, because wasn’t the United States, for the most part, quite prosperous and fertile? Just wondering out loud–anyone have the answer to that one?

(H/T: National Post)

Update: Have no fear, this will melt the ice.

In Wyatt’s comments for this week’s “weigh day,” Jim from bRight & Early posted a link to his blog that discussed the Florida Marlins looking for some girthy guys to dance at their games.

I found video of the auditions! I wonder if these guys just did it to stand behind the skinny chick?

I decided to spare my students watching me cough up a lung, today. Good thing. I never would have made it through the day. I have successfully coughed up one lung, though. I’m now working on lung number two.

When I’m feeling sick, I tend to eat won ton soup. It seems to have a little more “something” that makes me feel better. So, of course that means I have a fortune cookie. Well, I had two, but true to my luck, the second one was empty. However, the fortune I did get was a nice one:

Speaking of going places, I am going someplace, for the entire summer…two months…away from NJ. Anyone want to guess where I am going? I’ve been praying about this for years.

Something else that’s totally random:

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Would it be so wrong if I chugged the whole bottle?

It works well, but I want whatever is attacking my ears and throat to be gone, NOW!

I’m going to go back to whimpering. Now I know what that side of beef felt like in Rocky.