Ok, I know this is probably going to sound naive or insane or maybe even stupid but let me just throw this thought out there.  Instead of the delegate/super-delegate (and don’t even get me started on the Electoral College) business that we are being forced to sort of participate in, yeah, instead of all that mularky, how about this instead?  How about every single American of voting age votes for their candidate of choice and, when all the voting is done, whoever gets the most votes…

...wins.

Is that so crazy?  I mean, that’s actually how I thought it worked when I was growing up.  I didn’t realize that there were “powerful” decision makers that could vote against what the common folk decided thereby rendering their (our) votes meaningless.  I didn’t realize that there were “powerful” decision makers that could declare that millions of people’s votes don’t count because some bureaucratic morons decided to break the rules and vote too early.  I didn’t realize that you didn’t have to have more votes than the other guy to get “elected” into office.

Of the People, By the People and For the People, right?  Yeah, not as much as I once thought, I’m afraid.

Ok, it’s an oldie, but man, it does make me giggle!

I keep hearing it from my friends and family - “Why aren’t you posting?  What’s all up and shite?  What the heck am I supposed to read at lunch?” And it’s not until then that I remember that I haven’t posted in quite some time.  Wow!  Time really gets away from a guy, you know?  So anyway, since I haven’t been talking to y’all too much lately, let’s play some catch up, k?

Let’s see...there’s, ummm, ummmmm..........well.........

Ok, wait, surely I can...no, that’s not really anything.  Hmmm.....hey, remember the old, no new, no...crap, never mind. 

*blink*

Oh, I know!  How about the...maybe over by the....you know, that thing with the guy up on the place near the.....

Damn.  Have you ever experienced this?  So much happening and yet really not much to say.  Yeah, me too.  Sorry to dissapoint.  Let me mull for a while and I’ll see what I can come up with.  I’ll ponder and muse.  I’ll reflect.  And, what the hell, I’ll even contemplate a bit.  Hopefully, I’ll end up with a thought.  Surely I’ll end up with a thought.  Ok, maybe I won’t even come up with a thought.  I can be pretty thought-free at times.  It’s what makes me special. 

P.S.  Don’t you hate finding out that you wasted your time reading someone’s post about how they have nothing to say?  Man, that irks me no end!

P.P.S.  Your minute-and-a-half refund is in the mail.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please.  Pleasepleaseplease, someone tell me that this is a joke.

Sold!  Cornflake goes for $1,350

Whenever I hear someone speaking in any language foreign to me (which, embarrassingly enough, is every single language on Earth except English), it always sounds like they are talking at a rate of about one thousand miles a minute.  Maybe two.  I mean, SuperFast.  Evelyn Wood Speed Talkers. 

Is it just me or does it seem that way to everyone?  And do I sound that way to non-English speaking peeps?  And will I never learn to stop starting sentences with the word ‘And’?

Just too damn funny!

We love love love our breadmaker.  We have even fine tuned a recipe to be Just As We Like It™ and often enjoy it simply toasted with a little butter or perhaps with a little cheese spread upon it.  It’s great dipped in soups and chilis.  A nice piece set up next to a big plate of spaghetti is perfectly awesome.  And the breadmaker?  Well, it never fails.  Never.  Never ever.

Until now.

For the love of all that is holy, would you look at this thing??!!  I accidently left the curtains open when I took it out of the machine and I could hear neighborhood children crying and dogs wailing and grown men gnashing their teeth.  It was not pretty!  I’m not even sure what happened but I think I’m going to blame the yeast.  Or maybe the flour.  Perhaps the bran.

Actually, I’m pretty sure that it was Satan.

Or Voldemort.

Leave it to my best ol’ pal, Jim, to remind me that today is both an Eye Candy Friday™ AND Drew Barrymore’s birthday (1975).  Well, in honor of Jim and Drew, this week is All Drew All The Time.  So let’s get the Drew ball a-rollin’.  Here we go....

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That’s it, folks.  You all have a nice, safe weekend now, y’hear?  Oh, and Happy Birthday, Drew!  Love ya, girl!

Ok, this whole “blowing a spy satellite out of the sky with a missile even though it costs a gajillion dollars” story is just too juicy to not come up with some conspiracy theories, isn’t it?  We’ve been chatting it up at work this morning and have come with a couple of options.

1) We (the U.S. of A.) didn’t really care where the damn thing landed, but we couldn’t afford to risk another axis of evil-doing country finding it and seeing what we’ve been up to.  We may have been acting a little naughty/illegal.
2) We (the U.S. of A.) didn’t really care where the damn thing landed, but we wanted to take advantage of the situation and do a little sword-rattling.  In other words, it doesn’t matter what you send at us, evil-doers, we can shoot it out of the sky just. Like. That.  So HAH!
3) We (the U.S. of A.) didn’t really care where the damn thing landed, but shooting a satellite out of the sky is just serious, serious fun!  We don’t care how much it costs!  Whoopeee!!

What do you think?  Anyone have any more juicy theories?

Ok, so I guess I haven’t been posting very much lately.  I didn’t really think that anyone would notice but it seems that my old friend Jenn over at www.fivedollarshake.net has called me out for it.  And since she scolded me a bit for not even putting up any Eye Candy Friday™ posts lately, I offered to do one with models of her choosing.  So here you go Jenn, your own ECF™.  I hope you enjoy it.

First up, we have the very lovely Kate Winslet.  I LOVE her!!

Next we have a very dapper looking Terence Howard. 

Looking very “girl next door"-ish, we have Sophia Bush.  Very cute.

Another actor I really like - Dermot Mulroney.  Now I want to go watch My Best Friend’s Wedding again.

Looking decidedly NOT “girl next door"-ish is the sultry Jennifer Connelly.  Whoa!

And last but certainly not least, the ever popular Bruce Willis.  Looking good, Bruno!

Well, that’s about it.  I hope you all have a wonderful and slightly wacky weekend.  Later gators.