My sister or bil sent me this article by Walter Williams, one of my favorite economists. I love to listen to him on the rare occasions when he subs for Rush Limbaugh. He writes that we don’t have a poverty problem. We have a dependency problem. I agree.

There is no material poverty in the U.S. Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor. Dr. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, in their study “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America’s Poor” (http://tinyurl.com/448flj8), report that 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning; nearly three-quarters have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more. Two-thirds have cable or satellite TV. Half have one or more computers. Forty-two percent own their homes. Poor Americans have more living space than the typical non-poor person in Sweden, France or the U.K. What we have in our nation are dependency and poverty of the spirit, with people making unwise choices and leading pathological lives aided and abetted by the welfare state.

Our “poor” live better than many middle class people in Europe and they don’t even have to work to do that. Like I say over and over again, the social safety net has turned into a hammock. We have not eliminated poverty. We have simply made it more palatable. See my previous post, Why Work.

The Census Bureau pegs the poverty rate among blacks at 35 percent and among whites at 13 percent. The illegitimacy rate among blacks is 72 percent, and among whites it’s 30 percent. A statistic that one doesn’t hear much about is that the poverty rate among black married families has been in the single digits for more than two decades, currently at 8 percent. For married white families, it’s 5 percent. Now the politically incorrect questions: Whose fault is it to have children without the benefit of marriage and risk a life of dependency? Do people have free will, or are they governed by instincts?

This brings to mind one of my rules to avoid poverty. Do not have children you cannot afford. I’ve said many times that I could solve most of our “poverty” in two generations. How? If you go on welfare you get sterilized. The biggest cause of poverty in this country is poor people having children they cannot afford to raise. And they don’t stop. We had a woman in Macon, when there was a food stamp glitch, asking how she was gonna feed her fourteen children. Ironically she stated, “Someone needs to take responsibility for this.” There was another welfare queen with fifteen children at another locale, after her boyfriend was sent to prison, demanding that people take care of her and her children.

There may be some pinhead sociologists who blame the weak black family structure on racial discrimination. But why was the black illegitimacy rate only 14 percent in 1940, and why, as Dr. Thomas Sowell reports, do we find that census data “going back a hundred years, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery … showed that a slightly higher percentage of black adults had married than white adults. This fact remained true in every census from 1890 to 1940”? Is anyone willing to advance the argument that the reason the illegitimacy rate among blacks was lower and marriage rates higher in earlier periods was there was less racial discrimination and greater opportunity?

Hmmmm! Exactly what was it that broke the strong black family apart? When did the illegitimacy rate start rising? If you guessed the late 60’s and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Fucking Society give yourself a gold star. What racial discrimination couldn’t do, the Dimocrat Party did by paying young black girls to have children and get their own apartments. Just think, if the KKK had come up with a plan to do this, they couldn’t have done a better job than the Dimocrat Party. The KKK was made up of Dimocrats, after all. It was the terrorist wing of the Dimocrat Party. Of course, the Dimocrats couldn’t have accomplished this without the useful idiots of the Congressional Black Caucus who support these policies. They should be ashamed of what they have done to their own people.

No one can blame a person if he starts out in life poor, because how one starts out is not his fault.

My sister and I both started out poor. Our father was an alcoholic who got fired from jobs because of his drinking problem. My mom had to work after my sister and I started school to help support the family. But, both of us are now rich.

If he stays poor, he is to blame because it is his fault. Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from high school.

One of my three rules to avoid poverty. Get an education. My sister won a scholarship. I joined the Navy and learned electronics. I went to college on the GI Bill. I didn’t finish, but my Navy experience got me hired by IBM. 31.5 years later I finished up as a systems programmer. I would have worked longer if not for my CDSM©. I loved my work, but I hated my job.

Second, get married before you have children, and stay married.

My rule is don’t have children you cannot afford. I once asked my mom why she and my father didn’t have any more children. She said it was because they couldn’t afford more children. D’oh! What a concept! My mother stayed married until my sister was on her own and I was in the Navy. She was just getting ready to file for divorce when my father died in an auto accident.

Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage.

Yet another of my rules. It’s called developing a work ethic, sumpin’ today’s Dimocrat Party, in supporting the unemployment due to Obummercare, no longer values.

And finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior.

Not one of my rules, since that should go without saying.

It turns out that a married couple, each earning the minimum wage, would earn an annual combined income of $30,000. The Census Bureau poverty line for a family of two is $15,500, and for a family of four, it’s $23,000. By the way, no adult who starts out earning the minimum wage does so for very long.

True. Unlike what the Dimocrat Party sez, the minimum wage is not supposed to be a livable wage. It’s entry level. It’s for unskilled labor. I worked below minimum wage when I started delivering flowers part time in college. Very shortly, I got a raise to minimum wage. Within a year, I was making more than that because I became his best delivery driver. It wasn’t rocket science. Read a freaking map and plot the best routes for delivering the merchandise. (This was before GPS) All of the other drivers could only do one route. I don’t know why. I did them all and I did them faster than anybody. I worked full time delivering flowers after I dropped out of school until I got hired on by IBM. The guy who owned the flower shop wanted to match what I would get at IBM until I told him how much I would make and what the benefits were.

Since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, the nation has spent about $18 trillion at the federal, state and local levels of government on programs justified by the “need” to deal with some aspect of poverty. In a column of mine in 1995, I pointed out that at that time, the nation had spent $5.4 trillion on the War on Poverty, and with that princely sum, “you could purchase every U.S. factory, all manufacturing equipment, and every office building. With what’s left over, one could buy every airline, trucking company and our commercial maritime fleet. If you’re still in the shopping mood, you could also buy every television, radio and power company, plus every retail and wholesale store in the entire nation” (http://tinyurl.com/kmhy6es). Today’s total of $18 trillion spent on poverty means you could purchase everything produced in our country each year and then some.

Amazing! What do we have to show for that? Our poverty rate is about the same. But at the same time, our “poor” live better than most people in the world. But, they are totally dependent upon gummint for almost everything. What happens when that falls apart? Nawlins after Hurricane Katrina. The dependent class didn’t have a clue. Of course, they did know how to loot.

There’s very little guts in the political arena to address the basic causes of poverty. To do so risks being labeled as racist, sexist, uncaring and insensitive. That means today’s dependency is likely to become permanent.

Exactly. We have a permanent underclass of leeches, looters, and parasites dependent upon gummint who reliably vote Dimocrat.

We’re doomed!

Many readers have sent me this.

Lucy admits she’s a parasite and it doesn’t bother her one bit. She can stay home and smoke weed and guess who gets to pay for it? This is Obungler’s America. This is the America that the Dimocrats and the RINOs have given to us. And now Obungler, the Dimocrats, and the New York Slimes (Motto: All the news that fits our views) have started a war on work. They’re trumpeting the fact that Obummercare is killing jobs and they say that’s a good thing. Mothers can stay home with their children and the gummint will give them healthcare. Work? Who needs it? Horatio Alger? Nope. Live off the gummint teat. The social safety net has turned into a hammock. What do you want to bet that Lucy has a flat screen TV and cable?

This is no longer the America that I grew up in. Sad. Very, very, very sad. And there are millions and millions of people just like Lucy out there. And they vote. They vote for Dimocrats. Why not? They get free stuff and those of us who do work (or did work) get to pay for it.

Haven’t posted a rant from Ron in a while. I’m posting this on Tuesday and scheduling it for today in case I have no power. The first storm that was supposed to consist of freezing rain and sleet was only rain. The schools closed anyway, just in case. I was at the dentist on Monday and they were closing Tuesday. During the Atlanta Snowpocalypse, it took my hygienist 4.5 hours to get home and my dentist 6 hours to get home. They don’t want a rerun. Tuesday night is supposed to be the bad one with as much as an inch of freezing rain. Here’s Ron.

Haven’t gone full-rant mode for a coupla weeks now . . . builds up in the system, y’know, and you gotta let it out or your spleen attacks your liver. This one got a little longer than my standard spiel — kinda developed legs of its own and ran off in all directions — but it’s still in my style and voice, so . . . .

The Obamaneria pandemic that went wildly and globally metastatic in 2009 may have run its course. I read this morning that Lech Walensa called Obama a “dangerous disappointment,” and have heard that Kenya now claims he was born in the US. Lech Walesa is disappointed.

It’s entirely possible that we will see far less of the genuflecting and salivating by limousine liberals and brainwashed blacks at the mere mention of his name. Rumor has it that the South Chicago African-American Children’s Kazoo and Marching Band declined an offer to accompany him in a jazzed-up version of “Ol’ Man Ribber.” But it’s too little too late, I’m afraid.

Many Dimocrats don’t want him to campaign for them this year.

Liberals still do not seem to realize that it’s counterproductive to raise children in an environment where consequences for their actions and decisions never materialize. And in any case, even if they did, their fallback credo would be “We want our children to think outside the lines, to be creative, independent, innovative – and to do exactly as they’re told.” That credo, of course, applies to all illegals in the country, particularly where it comes to voting once full amnesty and citizenship status is bequeathed them.

Which the Stupid Party seems willing to give them.

To paraphrase Cicero, Liberals are not born; they are excreted. The typical liberal is one who believes that Obama and Pelosi and Clinton have been doing a great job for us, but if asked to list, for example, the accomplishments of Hillary Clinton as SecState for FOUR YEARS they suddenly become mute. At that moment they realize they’re not clever enough to argue with an informed conservative, but they still intractably believe that the conservative is wrong, despite facts and reality.

But we need a woman president because of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) just like we needed a black president because of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). Have I ever told y’all how much I hate that word? It’s just an innocuous sounding synonym for affirmative action. Don’t believe me? Look who is in charge of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) at your company. I’ll be willing to bet the person is black.

Washington is a small but entrenched enclave of parasites camped on the Potomac who believe that total central government is far superior to any amount of self government. Most of their efforts go into activities for which they feel entitled and are obscenely overpaid, and for which most people would expect to be horsewhipped if caught at.

Soetoro is a non-native moron with unverifiable credentials and an unavailable, untraceable history. He’s living, well-dressed proof that education is not wisdom and doesn’t necessarily correlate to ability or understanding. Put another way, attending prestigious schools is not the same thing as becoming educated.

He’s also an example of what happens when you cross affirmative action with the Peter Principle. His sole talent ios reading words, written by someone else, off a TelePrompTer.

He’s accomplished nothing constructively noteworthy that I can detect in his 5 years in office. He came in with majorities in both houses of Congress, and the only thing he got done was his “signature” piece of legislation, which came out of the gate after three years’ planning and preparation like a drunken penguin sliding down a glacier toward a whirlpool.

And he has postponed, illegally I may add, certain parts of the bill, like the employer mandate, until after the 2014 elections, because if he didn’t it would be a bloodbath for the Dimocrats

He had the entire mainstream media with their tingly legs and their nerf-ball questions trumpeting his audacity and hope, but the economy still floundered like a disposable diaper in a K-Mart parking lot and his staff of geniuses had to cook the books to skew unemployment figures down below 8 percent before the election. He also had to have Sweet Rice Pudding throw herself on the altar with unending echoes of the Benghazi snafu’s resulting from a cheap video disparaging a 7th century dope addict and child molester.

Piss be upon him!

He was re-elected because he lied to the American people at a critical time just before the genelec, and he’s been lying to blacks since he set up squatter housekeeping at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Pay equity and unemployment have both worsened for blacks since he took office, but he shucked and jived his way into getting the ethnic loyalty vote, along with the ignorant liberal (para 4 (above)) vote.

Obungler has been a disaster for blacks. Black work force participation hasn’t been this low since the Carter administration which is fitting since Obumbler is the black Jimmah Carter. Now we know what Jimmah Carter’s second term would have been like. I read somewhere that someone asked why Dimocrats could do so well politically in winning elections but were so incompetent when it came to economics.

Soetoro has gone from shining inspiration to undisguised burlesque to cheap melodrama to abject farce in shorter time than it took for Germans to realize they’d been had by a paranoid megalomaniac back in the 30s and 40s. But people still adored Schickelgruber, and any disagreement with the Obamessiah is shouted down as overt racism by the Sharptons and Jacksons and other left-wing acolytes.

As I predicted in 2008 when Oblamebush was running for president.

I wonder if it’s because he didn’t have a nemesis, a foil, a worthy opponent to highlight his strengths. After all, Beowulf had Grendl, Hamlet had Fortinbras, Sherlock Holmes had Professor Moriarty, McEnroe had Borg, Clay had Frazier, Evert had Navratilova, Bush had the mass media, and Clinton had his penis.

Along those lines, of course, Hillary has her penis envy, and I won’t be surprised if after she becomes our second “first” she reveals that her choice of romantic partners is the same as her husband’s. But what does Soetoro have?

Oh, sorry . . . he has the Affordable Care Act. Lost my head there for a moment.

But back to reality here. I just don’t think we’ll ever be able to vote ourselves out of this disaster that extended life expectancy combined with nanny-state mentality has plowed us into like an overloaded 767 trying to land on Mt. Rushmore.

As I keep saying, “We’re doomed!”

While we have more than half the people in the country dependent upon welfare and food stamps and MedicAid and unemployment checks and fraudulent workman’s comp and Social Security disability claims, we have a socialist dilettante flitting around grinning in permanent campaign mode, basking in his ignorance, bloviating in his racism, and pontificating in his conceit.

And taking selfies with a blond Danish prime minister at a funeral. Oh! And there’s golf. Lots of golf.

Even when the popinjay has to go by law (and I’m not entirely comfortable with the idea that he’ll go quietly into that good night of PotUS Emeritus with 6-figure speeches and 8-figure manuscripts and endless appearances), voters will very likely not sweep out the deadwood and drive out the tapeworms in D.C. next November.

Oh, sure . . . if asked, they all say they think Congress is the problem, not the solution, and we need to throw out the whole bunch of ‘em. But when the ballots hit the box, they’ll continue to vote in the Schumers and the Reids and the Pelosis and the Boxers and the Feinsteins . . . . ‘cause it’s always all “those OTHER bums who are causing the trouble, but MY congresskritter, MY senator is bringing home the bacon, and I’m not gonna throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

Nope! As Ron Paul said a coupla days ago, we now have 40,000 NEW laws taking effect this year. I spent half the morning yesterday trying to determine just how many laws we had on the books as of LAST year, but that figure is not calculable. Nobody can tell you how many federal laws we have, not to mention state, county, and city laws which either contradict or conflict with those federal statutes.

So we’ll go through the motions this fall of a mid-term election, and there’s a chance the Republicans will maintain a House majority and either achieve parity or a small majority in the Senate, but nothing will change because the same schlemiel will be there to veto any changes to entitlement programs or debt reduction, and the cruelest of cuts will be suffered by the military

I predict that the Stupid Party will find some way to blow the election. Of the six red state Dimocrat Senate seats up for election, the Stupid Party will figger out some way to lose three of them. Pryor in Arkansas will prolly be one of the dudes reelected.

The KKK (Kapitalism Killers Klub) will remain intact, certified by the Comics Code Authority and backed up by the members of the Ivory Tower Genius & Expert Club and funded by the Secretary of Moneyprinting. The same CEO of Socialism will wield the pen and rule by EO, creating or discarding law as if by royal decree.

We’ll live for another 3 years of left-wing Carpe Dipshit with the 5 Horsemen: Debt, Spin, Food Stamps, Wiretapping, and IRS. Why? Because Americans have short memories and the DNC knows how to support and promote a candidate with lies, buzzwords, skewed graphics, and history revisions. Shrillary is the de facto nominee, and all the GOP can offer right now is Krispie Kream, and he’s as RINO in many ways as McCain. The guys who run the RNC are about as reliable as the guys who run the BCS.

I don’t call it the Stupid Party for nothing. Todd Akin, call your office.

The 5th Horseman’s name is Hopin Ciange, mes amis. And if Harry Reid comes back to Washington and sees even a glimpse of a Tea Party Shadow, we’ll have six more months of bullshit storms and D.C. manure lock.

O.K. I’m out.

Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade’s new mantra is income inequality. Ironic isn’t it that the man and the party most responsible for income inequality are the ones who claim they want to fix it? Obummercare is destroying jobs so the new spin is that it’s a good thing. People shouldn’t have to work according to the Dimocrats and the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party. Work ethic? Bah! Who needs it? Stay at home and sponge off the suckers who do work. That’s the position of Paul Krugman and the editorial board of the New York Slimes (Motto: All the news that fits our views). And now we find out that Those who strongly agreed that “the government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality” gave away $140 on average to charity. Among those who strongly disagreed, the average gift was $1,637. Link from Instapundit.

The 2008 election marked the return of progressive politics in America. For the first time in 16 years, Democrats won both houses of Congress and the White House. They wasted no time in articulating a progressive agenda they claimed would offset the Great Recession and turn America toward greater fairness and compassion. Lifting up the poor, decreasing inequality, and curbing runaway income gains among the wealthiest Americans ranked high among their stated priorities.

It has been five years. How has their project turned out?

Since January 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has more than doubled. Last year brought the largest annual increase in the S&P 500 since the late 1990s. And the vast bulk of this sustained market surge has accrued to the extremely wealthy. According to New York University economist Edward Wolff, the top 10 percent of earners own 81 percent of stocks and mutual funds, 95 percent of financial securities, 92 percent of business equity, and 80 percent of non-home real estate. So it comes as little surprise that nearly all the real income growth that President Obama’s “recovery” has generated would flow to the wealthiest Americans. According to University of California, Berkeley, economist Emmanuel Saez, 95 percent of all recovery gains have accrued to the much-vilified “top 1 percent.”

Yep! I’ve done great! I’m a SRF© after all.

At the same time, the poor have become even more desperate. The number of Americans receiving aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (known as food stamps) has increased by almost 50 percent since January 2009, from 32.2 million to 47.7 million. One in six citizens in the richest country in the world now rely on food aid from their government.

WTF? After five years of Obummernomics things have gotten worse? No surprise. Dimocrats love poor people. That’s why they favor policies that create so many of them.

The rich get richer because they continue to do the things that make them rich. The poor get poorer because they continue to do the things that make them poor. One of my three steps to avoiding poverty is developing a work ethic. That means starting to work at a young age doing things like cutting lawns, babysitting, raking leaves, flipping burgers, shoveling snow, all things I did, with the exception of flipping burgers, when I was a teenager. I worked three jobs when I went to college, which is one of the reasons I burned out and dropped out in my junior year. I even worked a part time job my first two years at IBM. I also delivered flowers on major holidays my first year working for IBM. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I’m a SRF©. When I transferred to the Field Engineering Division of IBM, I worked third shift for 5.5 years and saved and invested the additional income I got.

Of course, every time the Dimocrats raise the minimum wage, they make entry level jobs more expensive, thus reducing the jobs for unskilled labor. Have you seen the unemployment numbers for black teenagers after five years of Obungler? Obumbler has been a disaster not only for black teenagers, but for black males. You’d think he would care more about his base.

But now, to defend Obummercare, liberals are telling people they’ll be better off not working. Un-frickin’-believable! No wonder there’s income inequality and it will remain that way as long as the Dimocrats deride having a work ethic. They’re telling future SRF’s© that having a work ethic is a waste of time.

Today, a lower percentage of Americans are in the workforce—63 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—than at any time since the infamous days of Jimmy Carter.

Oblunder is the black Jimmah Carter so it’s understandable.

This has the effect of reducing the official unemployment rate, which led Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times to quip: “We are basically ‘recovering from the recession’ by reducing the share of Americans who participate in the labor force. Hurrah!”

I feel like I’m living in the world of Alice In Wonderland. All that’s missing is Thunder Rodent Thighs screaming, “Off with their heads!” That will happen after she’s elected crowned in 2016. I mean we had the first black president. Now we need the first woman president. Long live the Queen!

Anyhoo, buried down in this article is this little tidbit.

Conservatives eager to reverse these facts naturally reach for their checkbooks. As I found in my 2006 book Who Really Cares, the average conservative household contributes significantly more to charity than does the average liberal household despite earning less income. According to the 1996 General Social Survey, those who strongly agreed that “the government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality” gave away $140 on average to charity. Among those who strongly disagreed, the average gift was $1,637.

I remember when Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW was running for VP his released tax forms showed that this “caring liberal” gave less money to charity than my mother. He was a millionaire. My mother was worth about $200K and had an income of around $18K. Remember, liberals are generous with other people’s money, not their money. Red states give more per capita to charity than blue states. Liberals really, really want to help the poor, but they want gummint to do it.

The reviled Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler and his wife give a lot of money to chairity. Much more than comparable Dimocrat politicians. That’s what gummint is for.

Don’t work! Don’t worry! Be happy! The Dimocrats will keep you poor and dependent upon gummint. Just hope that enough suckers continue to work to support you and conservatives continue to give to charity. The liberals won’t.

Remember Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW and all of his acolytes saying that the North Pole would be free of ice by now? Yeah. Me too. Instead, it’s getting thicker.

Satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice is getting thicker as Antarctic sea ice extent continues to expand to near record levels, according to a report issued by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, in Boulder Colorado, today, 5 February 2014.

Uh oh. Another chink in the armor of AGW.

Satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice was 50 per cent thicker in Autumn 2013 than it was in Autumn 2012, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

Data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) CryoSat satellite which is equipped to measure the thickness of sea ice using radars shows that Arctic sea ice volumes grew by 50 per cent last year. This is due to an increase in ice thickness, since sea ice extent declined by around 3 per cent.

I can hear it now. Remember how the true believers said that the record cold we are experiencing in the continental US was because warming at the North Pole pushed cold air South? Yep. Me too. Our pet liberal told us that. I guess now that sea ice at the North Pole is thickening, it’s because warm air in the continental US is pushing cold air North and that’s what’s causing the sea ice to thicken.

Remember, to the true believers in the Church of AGW, global warming causes everything.

My buddy Pres sent me this horrible nightmare he had recently.

In a recent nightmare I found myself nude in bed, and I was looking at
a mirror on the ceiling, and I discovered that I am a Negro, and I’m
circumcised!

Quickly I sat up, found my pants and looked in the pockets to find
my driver’s license photo and it was that same color, black. I felt
myself being very depressed, downcast, sitting in a chair.

But it’s a wheelchair!

That means, of course, besides being black and Jewish, I’m also
disabled! I said to myself, aloud, “This is impossible! It’s
impossible that I should be black and Jewish and disabled!”

“It’s the pure and holy truth,” whispers someone from behind me.

I turn around, and it’s my boyfriend. Just what I needed!!! I am a
homosexual, and on top of that, with a Mexican boyfriend.

Oh, my God ….. Black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican
boyfriend, drug addict, and HIV-positive!!!

Desperate, I begin to shout, cry, I try to pull my hair, and Oh,
nooooo ….I’m bald!!!

The telephone rings. It’s my brother. He is saying, “Since mom and
dad died, the only thing you do is hang out, take drugs, and laze
around all day doing nothing. Get a job, you worthless piece of
crap… Any job!”

Mom? Dad? Nooooo ….. Now I’m also an unemployed orphan!

I try to explain to my brother how hard it is to find a job when you
are black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican boyfriend, are a
drug addict, HIV positive, bald, and an orphan, but he doesn’t get it.

Now this joke is really going off the rails since in the age of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!), this guy is very employable. Companies would be lining up to hire him since he would help them make multiple Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) quotas.

Frustrated, I hang up. It’s then I realize I only have one hand!!!

With tears in my eyes, I go to the window to look out. I see I live
in a shanty-town full of cardboard and tin houses! There is trash
everywhere. Suddenly I feel a sharp pain near my
pacemaker…Pacemaker??

Besides being black, Jewish, disabled, a fairy with a Mexican
boyfriend, a drug addict, HIV positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed,
an invalid with one hand, and having a bad heart, I live in a crappy
neighborhood.

At that very moment my boyfriend approaches and says to me, “Sweetie
pie amigo, love, my little black heart-throb, have you decided what
you are going to wear to Washington to meet Obama?”

Say it isn’t so!!! Now I can handle being a black, disabled, one
armed, drug-addicted, Jewish homosexual on a pacemaker who is HIV
positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a
Mexican boyfriend, but please…..

Oh dear God, “please don’t tell me I’m a Dimocrat!”

Sandy sent me this one.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

For today we have an Olympics pun from Tom.

I thought you should know … some interesting history to share at an appropriate time for the Sochi games.

A slave call girl from Sardinia named Gedophamee was attending a great but as yet unnamed athletic festival 2500 years ago in Greece ..

In those days, believe it or not, the athletes performed naked.

To prevent unwanted arousal while competing, the men imbibed freely on drink containing saltpeter before and throughout the variety of events.

At the opening ceremonial parade, Gedophamee observed the first wave of magnificent naked males marching toward her and she exclaimed: (more…)

I have to admit that I’m in love with Tatyana Ryzhkova. A while back I posted her playing the fugue from this sonata. Today she is playing the allegro movement.

Another one with black hair. Thanks AlphaDelta! (more…)