Greetings to all, and welcome new friends to the East Wing.
Super Saver won the race as once gain they ran for the roses yesterday, for the 136th time. The Kentucky Derby, one of the most recognized sporting events in the world, and one of the shortest sporting events in the world. That’s why the start the party a week early. It’d be a shame to come half way ‘round the world just for 2 minutes or so and then go home, hence a one week party worth coming for, and at the end of the week long party, a horse race for 2 minutes or so, before ya go home. Sweet.
Want to have a really good day? It’s so simple ya gotta love it. Just smile at someone ya don’t know. Bet they smile back, ‘cause smiling is kinda like yawning, ya see it done, gotta do it too. And ya know why? ‘Cause everybody smiles in the same language.
That’s what’s so cool ‘bout smiling, want to talk a foreign language? Look at a stranger and smile in Italian. Oh, believe me, they’ll smile back, ‘cause it’s hard not to smile back when someone’s smiling at ya in Italian, and just that quick, you know a foreign language. That’s the way I met my wife, ya know, I smiled at her in Italian. And at that time I didn’t even know hillbillies could smile in Italian, but I did. It worked.
You’ve probably seen or heard of a product called “Rosetta Stone”, it’s simply a program designed to teach you a foreign language, well save your money. You now have the secret to communicate in any language you choose, and it’s free. It’s just another one of those East Wing Freebies.
Wow did I ever get the Emails ‘bout Sophia’s Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring. I would never have guessed how many people still have and or knew about the Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring. Seems like there are more republicans out there than I thought. They’re probably getting secret messages from Don Rumsfeld or somebody like that. I’m sure if Don Rumsfeld is sending out secret messages Sophia is on the list.
After all she did get, as you may remember, some time back, an email from the White House asking her to do her part to promote the then health call bill.
I never saw a madder cat in my life when Sophia found out she had actually received an email from the White House. She called it an email from the dark side. No, no with Sophia it was not what you’re thinking, it was the dark side as in Vader. The real dark side. Not the one you were thinking ’bout. Shame on you for thinking bad thoughts ‘bout the Republican Cat.
Not going to get into the details of Sophia’s response to that email. I’ll just say that some of the 4 letter words used could only be spoken by those felines versed in fluent cataneese. That email alone, endeared her into the hearts and minds of many Tea Party People. ‘Course being the National Spokescat for the CCCA (Concretive Calico Cats of America) also helped with the introduction to the Tea Party. Casts of a feather……
Sure was scared that all of my fruit trees and lilacs were gona get frozen out last Tuesday night. It got cold here in the East Wing Yards, but not cold enough, it appears, to freeze my stuff. As backup I picked a big bunch and put ‘em the florist cooler. Guess one of the little benefits of having your wife own the local florist, is having access to a really big refrigerator.
Actually a very special little friend of mine made his first Holy Communion today, and it’s been a tradition in their family for a long, long time to have Lilacs at the First Communion Party. I didn’t want to take the chance they would get frozen, so I got ‘em, and put ‘em in the big refrigerator. Guess that strategic planning learned some time back as the General of the Toto Volunteers still pays off. Well at least I got the Lilacs ready for Sunday. Today they were as fresh as if I cut ‘em this morning. It was a good day.
Now I don’t care who ya are, if your stuff gets frozen in the early spring time, you’re gona have a bad day, and maybe a bad rest of the year. ‘Cause chances are you’ll be missing a lot of your other stuff that got frozen out too. Ya know lilacs don’t just freeze and leave everything else alone.
Years seem to just go better when ya can smell the lilacs in the springtime. And everybody knows ‘bout that stopping and smelling the roses part. But ya know what, ‘bout that smelling the roses thing, I try to do that a little bit every day. If ya smile in Italian at a stranger, that’s smelling the roses.
Come to think of it, if ya smile at a stranger in Italian, maybe that’ll be smelling the garlic. Seems damn near all the Italians I know, and Lord knows I know a lot of ‘em, just can’t get too much garlic. Well, I’m hillbilly, and I can. Quick, real quick. But we, me and that Italian Girl I smiled at one time, we don’t sweat the small stuff like how much garlic to use. All too often it’s the small stuff that gets ya into trouble, and the first thing ya know, you’re in some real messy stuff, so don’t sweat the small stuff, and you’ll be a lot better off. Especially if ya’ve smiled in Italian.
Still getting some email ‘bout those big frogs I was talking ‘bout a couple weeks ago. I’m telling ya, ya gotta find ‘em at Southfork. And no, I am not aware to anything close to those frogs in Texas.
That reminds me, you people in Texas think you’re so smart, everything’s bigger in Texas, well, Duh! Who cares? Only those who live in Texas. I’ve never been to Texas, but have family who’ve lived there for many years. I don’t think they’re cowboys yet, I don’t think they gotta horse. All in all, I think Texas is more wimp than not.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell ya ‘bout the pistol-packing Texas Governor, Rick Perry and the ole coyote. Well it seems the Governor was out jugging early one morning, out by himself and a little dog. From what I understand it was in a somewhat isolated area, Texas has a lot of that, isolated area that is, even in the city of Austin, when all of a sudden from the sage brush, out pops a coyote interested in hot dogs for breakfast.
As the coyote approached the Governor and the little dog, the Governor, being the good politician he is, tried to engage the coyote in conversation. Asking are you a registered coyote? The coyote said yes, the Governor said, republican, the coyote said democrat. As the coyote lunged for his breakfast, the Governor pulled the .380 pistol with laser sights from his belt and the score stood at Governor 1 and coyote 0.
Interesting enough Austin residents reported seeing 755 coyotes since January 2009, but Gov. Rick Perry is the only person known to have shot and killed one in the city limits. And some of those asked about it had concerns ‘bout him shooting a gun in the city limits.
Well HELLO! With over 750 coyotes running ‘round in your town, you’d think a lot more than the Governor would have the guts to pop ‘em off. I think whoever was criticizing Governor Perry was some of those Texas wimps I was talking ‘bout.
I think I’m gona take back all that bad stuff I said ‘bout Texas, ‘cause if ya gotta Governor who jogs with a loaded .380 pistol in his belt, well, he’s got more guts than most. Now before everybody in Texas gets on my case for badmouthing Texas, I’m just joking, ‘cept for those wimps in Austin that badmouthed the Governor for shooting the coyote. Shame on you. I guess if you’d been in the same place, you’d just fed the coyote breakfast, and get another dog.
It’s just things like that is why Texas has Governor Rick Perry and not a wimp in place of a leader. It would be interesting to really know, I mean really, really know how the other Governors of the other states would have acted. How the President would have acted. I would propose that the vast amount of the Governors would never have been there to begin with, not without “my State Police Guards”. Wimps, many.
With a smile on her face and a twinkle in her eye, Sophia just told me how she thought the President would handle the situation. Sophia believes that the President would have acted in a direct and positive manner based on his life experiences. The President would first make every attempt to organize the coyote community, ‘cause a disorganized coyote community has no voice in society. Once the community had been organized, the President would bring in programs of social assistance. Programs offering free services such as housing assistance, food assistance, medical assistance, day care assistance, tattoo assistance, piercing assistance. With so many public assistance programs to be involved with, there was no time to work, so a special program would have be developed to ensure a continuance of money flowing into the community.
The new assistance program would be called Community Revenue Assistance Project. The CRAP Program was a big hit with the lazy coyote community.
Life was good in the coyote world. Lots of food, lots of money, lots of games to play, everybody’s got 50” flat screen TV, no work, life was good in that coyote community, way out there in West Texas.
And then the Governor got wind of what was going on right there in his own state. The Governor didn’t send the Texas Rangers, oh no, the Governor LEAD the Texas Rangers. They went out there, the Governor and the Texas Rangers, all the way out to West Texas. West of Midland, west of Pecos, even west of Toyah. All the way to where Interstates 10 and 20 come together, and they cleaned up that mess of free loading coyotes pretty much the same as if it had been the Dalton Gang.
There’s something ‘bout an elected official who’s got the courage to act as decisive as Governor Perry, that makes him special in the eyes of many, including Sophia. ‘Course the Governor has never tried organizing a coyote community either. Ya must also keep in mind that Governor Perry may well have missed his final chance at community organizing of coyotes. Does the term “gun shy” ring a bell? Oh, and that little dog of the Governor’s, he’s fine ‘cept for one thing, he won’t leave the Governors side while the Gov has the laser light show stuck in his belt. So don’t mess with Texas. Or maybe more appropriate, don’t mess with the Governor of Texas.
From the looks of the local papers, ya can tell it’s approaching primary election time in Indiana. The world is becoming cluttered with yard signs, newspaper ads, and junk mail in the mail boxes. Soon the airways are to be filled with many false promises and plans for a better future by people more interested in preserving their own future than mine and yours.
As usual in every election, there are both highly qualified candidates as well as those who have no more to bring to the elected office than the 2girldogs. Maybe not as much, ‘cause the 2girldogs are pretty girls.
Right here in my community there’s a classic example of such candidates, former office holders all. Now the last thing in the world I’d want to do would be to try and influence the way a person would vote, but the “Judge” knows how BobbyRays gona vote, ‘cause I made up my mind way back when. “Financial Responsibility”, now that’s a good tag line if I ever heard one. Ya don’t get more qualified than having financial responsibility.
The bills passed by the Indiana House and Senate, during their most recent session, when signed by the Governor of Indiana, become law. Most such laws become effective on the first day of the next fiscal year. For Indiana, the fiscal year starts July 1.
Some new laws get more media attention than others. Now we all know that here in Indiana we have a State Bird, the Cardinal. We all know and recognize the State Flag of Indiana. Bet ya didn’t know that come July 1, 2010 we’ll have our own Indiana State Casserole. Yes our own State Casserole. Now is that cool or what?? From this new law ya can just tell that some legislator was looking out for our best interest.
The recipe for the Indiana State Casserole is an extremely complex mixture of canned green beans, Campbell 's Cream of Mushroom Soup, and dried onions. The new State Casserole has yet to be named, but plans are afoot to have a state wide contest to select a name. The contest is to be open to all Hoosier, so if a good names just happens to pop into mind simply from the description of the ingredients, write it down so ya don’t forget it when the contest is announced. It’ll maybe be when school starts back in the fall, so the kids can get involved as a school. Maybe enter the best name from the whole school.
It is being rumored around Indianapolis that Governor Mitch Daniels pushed this State Casserole bill so it could be available as a tool for PTA’s across the state to be used in fund raising efforts to assist in paying for public education at a more local level. It is also rumored that Governor Daniels will sign executive orders which will allow all Hoosiers over age 18 to purchase the base ingredients for the Indiana State Casserole sales tax exempt. Should this novel idea provide a successful revenue stream, be prepared for more delicious state dishes to come from our legislative leaders. Government at its best.
The pleasure of your company is never ending in the East Wing. We’re glad you came by today.
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From the East Wing, While Smiling in Italian, A Governor & A Gun, Organizing Coyotes, Local Politics, The Indiana State Casserole.
I wish you well,
BobbyRay
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