We Are In Trouble …
So Saturday afternoon we were heading up to our first Durham Bulls game with my Cousin Steve visiting from Toronto. As we were driving on the highway Wesley calls from the back seat of van and says.
“Daddy, I know what you call a HOT girl.”
There was a moment of disbelief which hung in the van. No one could believe his was coming from our 6 year old.
I responded, “Wesley what do you mean by HOT?”
“I mean when a girl is very beautiful Daddy, not like when she is warm.”
Still silence hung in the air. I know I shouldn’t have but I had to ask. “Wesley. what do you call a very beautiful girl?”
“A Hottie!”
The three adults in the car were trying to maintain our composure. But I had to respond, after all his Mother is now snickering in the passenger seat, looking at me with the “You Wanted to Have All Boys” look again.”
“Wes, it’s not appropriate for you to call any girl HOT or a HOTTIE, they don’t like that. It’s disrespectful. They want you to see them as ……”
Wesley interrupts, “Does that mean I shouldn’t whistle at them either?” and then he let out a wolf whistle.
“No Wesley, that is also disrespectful.”
I turned to Lauren and said, “We’ve got a little Hugh Hefner in the back seat”.
We are in sooo much trouble.
You Want What for Christmas?
Last night we took the boys to Picture People for their semi-annual portraits. Afterwards they told us it would be 20 minutes so we decided to walk around the mall and maybe check out the wait to see Santa.
Indeed, even on a Friday night, the line for Santa was non-existent. So the boys took their spot in the queue waiting for one little boy to take a picture with the Big Man.
For the first time all three boys had no problem going up and talking to Santa. They climbed on his chair and his lap and took a great picture. Afterall they had just come from their latest photo shoot.
The Boys With Santa
While I’m proofing the photo with the help of Santa’s Elves, who by the way looked like they just rolled in fom a tractor-pull, Santa begins to ask the boys what they’d like for Christmas. As I finished up I walked over to listen and I hear Wesley say “I want a Bakugan, a Four-Wheeler, and a… a… a… Towel.”
Santa looks at me and says “A Towel?” with a puzzeled look on his face.
I shrugged my shoulders and said “I dunknow”.
Santa finished up with the boys who thanked him and wished him a safe flight on Christmas Eve.
On the way back through the mall I couldn’t help but ask Wes, “Why did you tell Santa you wanted a Towel”.
Clearly Wesley was very disappointted in himself, “Daddy I got nervous …. I couldn’t think of my third thing … I’ve got to go home and look at my list. Can we come back tomorrow after I check my list …. I don’t want Santa to bring me a Towel Daddy.”
For the record, the third thing on his list was a GI Joe Snake Eyes Action Figure …. he’s going to get Snake Eyes but he’s going to be wrapped in a towel. 
So is This What 35 is Gonna Be Like?
This morning while I was still laying in bed, my wife pulled me close whispered Happy Birthday and then got up to take a shower. I turned over and fell back asleep. While I dozed off I had a dream. . .
In this dream I was wearing lot of heavy winter clothes walking through several stores in a large mall with the intention of getting “back to my car”. I was carrying a couple of bags as slowly I negotiated stairs, turnstiles, and multiple sets of doors.
Finally, having passed through about five stores, I get outside the last store and realize that my car wasn’t there. It was parked back at the first store. And as I considered how to turn around and walk back the way I came, I had a thought.
“Wouldn’t it be alot easier just to wake up?”
So I did. That’s right, I was soo lazy I wouldn’t even walk through a mall in a dream.
Ideas Relegated to the Dollar Store
So I was in a local dollar store looking to purchase a couple bags of Green Plastic Army Men, because that’s what we conservatives give our children . . .no actually Aiden needed them them for a project.
But while I was there I looked around and guess what I found:
"The Truth" is no one wants these ideas, not even for 1 Dollar
Al Franken’s Book – The Truth was all over this shelf. Right between the coloring books and other books which were far from best sellers. I roared with laughter and snapped this pic with my phone. By the way this was the only hardcover book on the shelf at the dollar store.
I guess no one wants to read this book or the ideas of it’s author . . . . . even for just a dollar.
The Election Part IV – A New Hope – Guest Speaker
This Pre-Election Series Includes:
Part 1 – Acknowledge the Sins of the Press
Part 2 – Obama Tax Plan
Part 3 – Poll Dancing
Because I’m half frozen from taking my kids Trick or Treating, I invited a guest lecturer in for Part Four of our pre election series taking another look at Obama and McCain. This is a facinating video presented by Jedi Master Alfonzo Rachel!
In addition to his latest speech , I present this truely inspiring beatdown of Barack Obama . . .
Well done Master Jedi!
P.S. – Thanks Again Anne for the Great Link! I really should make you a guest contributor to Kofacts!
Obama’s Tax Plan
This is the second in our series up to the election, you can find the first story here.
What we found is that the press have provided him such onesided coverage that it has failed it’s duty to properly vet this man or his proposals.
Now we’ll take a fresh look at Obama’s Tax policies.
If you raise taxes on businesses, jobs Go Away [FACT!]
Removing so called “tax breaks” on business amounts to a Tax Increase [FACT!]
If you raise Capital Gains Taxes Treasury Revenues Go Down [FACT!]
New T-Shirt
I’ll be weighing in shortly on the Democratic and Republican Conventions but I thought I would share my new favorite T-Shirt. You can get yours here: http://www.authenticgop.com
My New Favorite T-Shirt
File That One Under Dumb
So I’ve finished moving into my new desk at work. I was getting some things set up yesterday and I was trying to pull a group of hanging file folders out of the back of the bottom drawer of my desk.
The group of files was stuck and they were not going to move. So instead of investigating the source of the wedge, I decide “I’m going to muscle them out”. As I did the 4 inch section of files did eventually come loose. Unfortunately for me the potential energy I had stored in them as I wrenched them out of the drawer quickly became kinetic energy as the group of files rotated and the top of the folders smashed into my face. In particular, into my nose.
Had this been the end of the story it would not have been worth telling. So now, having been hit in the face, my first reaction was to lower my head and quickly pull the weapon (stack of folders) away from my face. Can you see where I’m going? Maybe this illustration will help:
That doesn’t help let me zoom in a little closer:
When I instantly lowered my head and simultaneously withdraw the weapon (ala Steve Erwin) one of the metal hooks caught the inside of my nose and tore through the edge of the nostril toward the peak of my nose making my nostril about 25% wider. OUCH!
Of course I thought I just hit myself in the face until the blood started pouring out of my nose. Luckily a co-worker, Judy B . . my angel of mercy, came running when she heard the string of profanities leave my cubical. She quickly got paper towels as I cupped the blood under my nose.
Thankfully there is a hospital across the street and after the bleeding slowed and it became apparent that stitches were in order, I drove myself to the ER where the nurse, Pam, and the doc gave me a hard time about losing a fight to a hanging folder.
Two hours and six stitches later I was back at work.
To be sure that I would not fear the need to file again, I jumped right back on that horse and filed another 10 documents. Yeah Me!
File that one under dumb!
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