Local Weather: Sunny and 85 degrees. I hear sleigh bells ringing…….

Kind of weird to see all the trees in their fall colors…..when it is 85 degrees outside.

The trees around here don’t really change colors with the seasons as much as this is the time of year they just up and die from the heat and drought conditions of the previous 9 months.

I followed a redneck pulling a boat behind his truck, which was plastered with 200 NASCAR bumper stickers, for about 20 miles today. His boat was named “WET DREAM”. I would take bets that the guy is a “career bachelor” and has no clue why.

My son and I went to Dallas today for a couple Doctors appointments and spent about 2 hours stuck in gridlocked traffic. What a maddening experience! I do not know how commuters who deal with that crap every day survive. After not moving at one point for about 10 minutes, I glanced at the car next to me and saw the driver seated with his head thrown back, his eyes closed, and his mouth hanging wide open…obviously napping. Come to think of it though….this was Dallas…..there might be a pretty good chance that the guy had been shot…..

Idiocracy of the day. The Dallas Cowboys forced a SEASON TICKET HOLDER to take down the banner she had hung up at this past weekends game against the Seattle Seahawks. The banner said “WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” and had the emblems for each branch of the Military on it. At the other end of the field, the team allowed a banner to stay up that said “#24 BARBER SHOP in reference to Marion Barber, #24, the Star running back of the Team.

Also related to that same game…..the retractable roof over the stadium was kept closed for the entire game even though it was 73 degrees and sunny during the game….perfect weather. When asked why the team had kept the roof closed, a Dallas Cowboys Spokesman replied “For Fan Comfort”. Well thank heavens the team is looking out for the fans! We wouldn’t want anyone to break a sweat in that unbearable 73 degree heat…would we?

We had 2 local school bond issues on the election this week. One passed and one failed. The ballot measure asking for money to buy more classroom materials, portable classrooms, and upgrade the current facilities failed.
The measure to spend $100 Million dollars to build a 48,000 seat, retractable roof, 3 decked Football Stadium for our High School….passed in a landslide. There is a provision though that the retractable roof MUST be closed in any weather above 70 degrees….”For Fan Comfort”.

People in my area love to bash President Obama at every chance they get. They seem to forget that the man inherited what amounted to a broken down car parked on the side of the road that had all 4 tires missing, no engine, and no seats….all a result of the poor maintenance that the previous owner (“W”) did while he owned the car. Now, not even a year later, the GOP leaders are all siting in this broken down car, that the President is trying to repair as fast as he can,…all screaming…..”Come on already!! What is the hold up???? Why is this taking so long???”….wanting him to fix the problems….but not by spending any money in the process.

All the people that seem to be going nuts over health care are people that actually have health care benefits. Somehow I think that if you have a family and no health insurance, and one of your kids gets sick or hurt, then you tend to at least give the President credit for trying to do SOMETHING to give everyone benefits. Lord knows the previous man in charge did nothing about it. I have health insurance. I might gripe like Hell about the outrageous cost that we pay, but I am so thankful that we do have benefits. Everyone in our country deserves some kind of coverage.

Let’s just let Rush Limbaugh run the country. He obviously is the only one on the planet that knows how to fix everything that is broken in our Country and how to make everyone happy in the process.