Pikaresque

Our New President

2009-01-21T19:39:00.003-05:00

I will NOT start this by shouting (as I may have done yesterday)
Thank God GWB is gone!
I choose, rather, not to speak of him again.

Now...well, let's get down to NOW.

I,too am hopeful.
I, also, am a realist.
Things will get worse before they get better.
This one man has such a weight in his shoulders...
I can't imagine why he'd want the job.
But, as I said, I am hopeful.
Why?
Because he wants transparancy.
Because he wants accountability.
Because he wants fairness.
Because he wants sacrifice!

It takes a whole lot of confidence in one's own self to
reach accross the asile and say
"I really can admire the things you have done,
now let's work together to do more".

Am I just a cockeyed optimist?
Not by a long shot....
(the conspiracy theories that run through my head sometimes are ghastly!)
A man that can speak like he does, and act as cool as he does,
and not lower himelf by relying on smear tactics and
KEEPING ON MESSAGE!
well,
he had me at "Yes we can".

Give the guy a chance!

The man believes in us...
let's return the favor.

I resolve...

2009-01-05T13:11:00.002-05:00

Not to kill my husband.

HIS resolution is to quit smoking.

Ohferchrissaakes...this is gonna be great.

Pray for me :)

QBK

Jingle Cats

2008-12-18T18:58:00.001-05:00

Okay...you know how I feel about cats>
But this is really funny!
Merry Merry
QBK

Cats ARE cunts...here's proof!

2008-11-21T19:41:00.003-05:00

Check this out......
http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php

It's today!

2008-11-04T07:35:00.001-05:00

VOTE
PLEASE!
Wait in a line as long as it takes.
Be late to work.
Do what it takes.

VOTE

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

2008-10-26T20:34:00.001-04:00

This just makes me LAUGH!!!!

Sent to me by my Mother

2008-09-18T18:57:00.003-04:00

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.

If you grow up in Hawaii,raised by your grandparents,you're "exotic,different.
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a community organizer,become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review,create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters,spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people,Become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee,spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million peopleWhile sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees,You don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council And 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, Then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America’s.
If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Don't forget to Register and THEN VOTE!!!
Encourage others as well.
We cannot take anything for granted!!!!!

QBK

PISSED!

2008-09-15T18:44:00.002-04:00

The market took a nose-dive!
Worries about AIG and Wachovia grow
after the collapse of Lehman Bros.
The most serious financial crisis
since the depression.

What does this mean to all of us???

It means Bush and all his big
fat-cat, demonic gang have
FUCKED US...ALL OF US!

So now does it matter to you
that John McCain said again,
TODAY, that
"America is still financially sound".

America!
Get your heads out of your asses.
Register to vote before it's too late!

Old Fart McCain won't lose all
9, yes 9 , of his homes.

What will you lose???

"Help me Barack Obama.
You are my only hope."

White Trash Bourbon Festival 2008

2008-09-11T21:07:00.001-04:00

Ya'll come, okay Hunny?

QBK

I should be so stupid............or smart?????

2008-08-08T09:11:00.000-04:00

It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'!

For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in NewMexico where she purchased the coffee.
You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that?
That's right. These are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. in the past year. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. The kind that reinforces our notion that the legal system in this country needs to be revamped. You know the ones.
So read on and make sure to keep your head scratcher handy because here are the Stella's for the past year:

7TH PLACE:
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

6TH PLACE:
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

Go ahead, grab your head scratcher.

5TH PLACE:
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, that's right, EIGHT days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue Mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the Insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

Keep scratching. There are more...

4TH PLACE:
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the poor tied up dog with a pellet gun.

Grrrrr ... Scratch, scratch.

3RD PLACE:
Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

Scratch, scratch, scratch. Hang in there; there are only two more Stella's to go...

2ND PLACE:
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

1ST PLACE : (May I have a fanfare please?)
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while thecruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her,.... are you ready? Are you sitting down? She was awarded $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit.

Hmmmmmmm.......

2008-07-28T18:32:00.002-04:00

Maybe then they would understand.......................

I'm Alright...nobody worry 'bout me

2008-06-30T17:19:00.002-04:00

Last month after my yearly Mamogram (read: OUCH!)
they saw something , well not great.
Obviously fearful, it didn't seem like something to blog about,
so I kept it mum.

Finally after a few weeks of doctors and more tests involving cold goo,
funny TV screens, ouchie needles and such....

I am here to report all is well. (read: phew!)

Big Pooper-doo in the pants the past few weeks, I can tell you that.

[big sigh] and scene

The Magic Bus.................

2008-06-25T18:39:00.001-04:00

www.bushlegacytour.com

George Carlin

2008-06-23T07:35:00.003-04:00

Comedian-actor George Carlin died of heart failure Sunday.

A comedian, writer, and actor, he not only made us laugh, but he makes us think too.

I wore out my 1970's "Class Clown" album....classic.

Most know he was NOT a big fan of organized religion and an atheist at his core.

Myself...I hope someone or something was there to prove him wrong,

embrace his heart and with him,

have the last laugh.

Thought for the Day

2008-06-20T06:58:00.001-04:00

OPEC sells oil for $136.00 a barrel.
OPEC nations buy U.S. grain at $7.00 a bushel.

Solution: Sell grain for $136.00 a bushel.
Can't buy it?
Tough!
Eat your oil!

(sent from my friend Dudley)

215 Days To Go

2008-06-18T18:51:00.000-04:00

Tim Russert

2008-06-14T19:14:00.002-04:00

I am shocked.
I am sad and feel bruised.

A gentleman and a giant who had a passionate
love for journalism and politics. Always mindful
and respectful of all dialouge, even if he didn't
agree.
A low-maintainance "everyman" with a brilliant
mind, an exuberance for life and a tenacious wit
that would suffer any slings and arrows.
A loving family man and devout catholic who named
his son Luke, after Saint Luke "to whom much is given,
much is expected."
We never saw his religion; only his faith.
His faith in God.
His faith in Country.
His faith in Family.
We respected him because we saw that he had great respect.
For Work.
For Collegues.
For Advisaries.

In his life he was accountable for all he did and
expected accountability of others.

Smart and funny and real.

The world is truely a duller place and I am so sorry.

QBK

????

2008-06-13T07:55:00.001-04:00

Bush is visiting the Pope AGAIN?????

What does he want....absolution?

..just saying

2008-05-22T19:56:00.002-04:00

Catching up.

Kyle's Momma passed May 12.
Exactly 15 minutes past Mother's Day
and we are all quite sure she held on
just so it wouldn't BE Mother's Day.

Sandy was diagnosed in January with Gallbladder
cancer, and let me say it is a monster.
She did take chemo, two separate rounds, but it
only held it off for so long.

She fought it with all she could, and when they said it was
too much, she stopped. Two days later we lost her.
We, as most people do, thought we had a little more time.
She passed with a Morphine drip and five boys at her side.

They lost their Dad, Curt, years ago when Kyle was only 6
and she did her very best to raise five boys on her own.
They are all college graduates, two with Masters Degrees,
fine, upstanding, good and true men. We should all have such
success in our lives.

We are at a loss here in our little part of the world.

I may blog some more when I feel like it...but right now
bitching about the Democrats fighting or old man McCain
just don't hold my interest.

TTFN

Peace,

QBK

2008-05-05T18:28:00.005-04:00

Hey Sara & Tony....
Check out Kyle rockin out with ON THE EDGE.
They really had a good time and the crowd was great.
Some lady said
" I didn't know Kyle played guitar? I thought he was
just the Garden Guy."
I got all sasy and said
"Oh honey, he's got talents you've never dreamed of."

She just stared kinda open mouthed at me for a minute.

Nasty old bitty.

It was nice having a normal day.

Seven New Sins

2008-03-10T16:00:00.002-04:00

After 1,500 years the Vatican has updated its list of the seven deadly sins.

The list comes as Pope Benedict XVI lashed out against the modern "secularized world" and its sensibilities when it comes to sin.

The new sins...
1. "Bioethical" violations such as birth control
2. "Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty

Okay so a group that hid the sins of thier pedifile bretheren,
the single RICHEST religious order on the face of the earth
is telling us to "recycle" our cans or be condemned to a firey hell?????

What a bunch of self-serving bastards!
Can't wait to see what our friends at SOUTH PARK are gonna do with this!!!!

And while I'm thinking of it...does the Popemobile run on bio-fuel???
Haven't seen solar panels on St. Peter's Basilica!

How about the sin of INTOLERANCE?
The sin of Sicking yor nose in others business?
The sin of Holier than Thou???

KISS MY WHITE ASS!
Stick your crucfix where the sun doesn't shine!

A lot on my mind

2008-03-04T22:02:00.002-05:00

A while back I deleted all my old posts.
Most thought it was for ego management, but here's the poop.

The shit has been hitting the fan here in Hooterville for quite some
time now, and it seems the hits just keep on coming.
I've avoided going into any kind of detail for about a year now because,
well, friends that are close know pretty much all the deatils and friends that are,
well, friendly...well I've found out time after time that when the going gets tough....
most just fall to the way side for fear bad luck is contagious or something.

A. For almost two years now the major road in front of our business has been "under construction" and it wa supposed to have been finished a year ago and still has not been finished yet. This past year was dreadful. They blocked access to our driveway 4 to 5 days out of 7 for well over 5 months. Our business is down by over 50% and we are ready to give up.We have wrote letters, called every state offical we could think of and this no compensation for our business. They pretty much told us there was nothing they could do so in other words "pound sand".
B. Our business partner it sems has whipped himself up a raging heroin addiction for which no one can do anything about. This past year has had the added joy of him stealing money from the business and wracking up more debts because he is, not only an addict, but an ass. His mother was a dear, dear friend of ours, the best of all people, someone you'd be honored to know and be loved by. Sadly our Debbie passed away and all that was good is gone. Apparently she cannot reach him from the beyond and he is beyond our help anymore. As my friend Sara says "these things never end well" and she is right. Our hearts are broken.

C. Just recentley my mother in law was diagnosed with Gallbladder cancer which it turns out is very rare and very aggressive. Just two years ago she survived a bout with Guilliam Barre' Syndrome that had her on life support fot two months. She had recovered but not totally and it left her weak.Her frame of mind is bad. She is not a positive person and to keep her going is tearing the heart of my beloved Kyle. So strong for so long and his hearts breaks into tinier bits.

I have gone through some really heavy stuff before my dears, but when the bow breaks the cradle will fall....and I feel like I am falling.

PLEASE no sympathy.....there are people that have it worse..it just doesn't feel like that right now. I just felt like I wanted to purge my mind and soul. My sense of humor and sanity is failing .
I'm sure it's just a momentary lapse in strength.....I am just so sad and drained and worried and fearful that I will break...it's almost too much. Send all whte light, prayers, good thoughts, jokes and whatever strength and optimism you can spare.
I am undone.

P