Filed under: Bureaucracy, Entertainment, Fun n Games, Humor, Politics, Pop Culture | Tags: All My Loving, Every Part Played by Remy, Remy's Beatles Show
Here is Reason’s Remy with a parody of the Beatles, with Remy playing the whole band. Making fun of the Left is always great fun, and Remy is good at it.
Filed under: Entertainment, Fun n Games, Humor | Tags: Knows His Dogs, Makes Me Laugh!
Dog Poker!
Filed under: Entertainment, Freedom, Fun n Games, History, Latin America, Politics | Tags: Las Bolas de Fuego, Nejapa - San Salvador, Way Better Than Sparklers
I don’t know about your town, but in mine, fireworks are banned. No more fireworks stands, no more roman candles, whistling petes or anything else interesting. That isn’t to say that there are not explosions everywhere on the Fourth of July, but they are illegal explosions. There are formal fireworks displays, big spectacular ones if you are willing to cope with the drive and the parking. If you miss that excitement, take off for Nejapa, San Salvador on the 31st of August.
There is a festival in Nejapa, called Las Bolas de Fuego. (Balls of Fire) There are two stories about the festival. The historical story is about a local volcano called El Playon which erupted in November of 1658, it found the people in the old village and forced them to flee in terror to what is now the location of Nejapa.
Then there is the religious version, where you have San Jeronimo who was fighting the Devil with great balls of fire. I know, it looks like a riot, but look carefully— they’re all wearing protective gloves and having a wonderful time!
Filed under: Fun n Games, Humor, News, Progressives, Sports, The United States | Tags: I'm Not Watching, Olympics Humor, Ultra Spiritual Life
“What I Love About the Olympics”
from the Ultra Spiritual Life, Episode 38
(h/t: Maggie’s Farm & Never Yet Melted)
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Domestic Policy, Fun n Games, Health Care, National Security, Pop Culture, Progressivism, Sports | Tags: A Western Skill, Broken Bones, Cutting Horses
This is the first time, despite my advanced age, that I have ever had a broken bone. Right foot, 5th metatarsal, spiral fracture. I get a fancy ski boot with all sorts of Velcro and canvas and buckles that I apparently have to wear for months and months. It lets me walk on my injured foot, which makes life easier. No cast, for which I am grateful.
I didn’t even break a bone when my horse pitched me off trying to show off her ability as a cutting horse. She was pretty good. I wasn’t all that much as a cutting horse rider.
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Energy, Freedom, Fun n Games, Pop Culture, Sports | Tags: Boring Playgrounds, Kids Looking for Challenges, Not School Lunches?
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Freedom, Fun n Games, Humor, Sports | Tags: Instructions on How To!, Marshmallow Roasts, Nosy Intrusive Bureaucrats
Saturday was apparently National Roasted Marshmallow Day, who knew? Obviously must be a promotion by marshmallow makers. Nevertheless, the occasion brought forth a 700-word publication from the U.S. Forest Service on how to safely roast marshmallows.
Well, let’s take it as a given that the U.S. Forest Service is not real enthusiastic about campfires, and wants you to know how to put your campfire out properly. No problem. We don’t like forest fires either. So they want you to obey the rules for fire restrictions which are put in place for your safety.
I grew up in an era and place of weenie roasts, frequent and great fun.
If campfires are allowed, use an existing fire ring or pit. Be sure you are at least 15 feet from tent walls, trees or other flammable objects.
Most importantly, ensure you work closely with children and talk to them about fire danger, proper behavior and rules – then expect nothing less. No one knows how many children are burned in campfire incidents; however, you don’t need statistics to know precaution is a key to great camping experiences. Some experts advocate a 10-foot rule between young children and a campfire.
This is the Forest Service’s idea of wonderful childhood memories. Sigh. The bureaucrat who wrote this crap was clearly never a child. Then we get into all of Michelle’s ideas of what constitutes a reducing diet for fat kids. “Think fruit.” Oh please. fruit is just pure sugar. The object of roasting marshmallows is not eating lots of marshmallows. I’m not sure it’s possible to eat lots of marshmallows. But they deem plain old marshmallows or s’mores as unsuitable for today’s children.
Another way to limit the amount of marshmallows used is to substitute them with marshmallow crème, a spreadable version of marshmallows that helps you more easily regulate portion. For healthier treats, use large strawberries, apple slices, banana chucks, pineapple or other fruit. Put a piece of fruit on a roasting stick, dip quickly in the crème and roast over indirect heat until a delicious golden brown. You’re still having campfire fun, but the focus is on a healthier evening snack.
A little common sense would be useful here. In High School or College, we did lots of weenie roasts, but “lots” translates to 2 or 3 a year, at most. You need good weather, reasonably warm, and a free weekend. Summer camping trips with the kids, you don’t do marshmallow roasts every night. Even at summer camp for kids, every night is not s’mores night. Two or three occasions are not going to ruin a child’s nutritional health and well-being. A little perspective please.
I am becoming extremely offended by this administration’s intrusive efforts to manage every element of my life. I do not require and I don’t know of anyone who does require instructions on roasting marshmallows. We can do fine without the bureaucratic input from a bunch of unionized public servants whose jobs depend on lots of useless busywork. Vote them out, and abolish the Department of Agriculture. They don’t do anything useful anyway.
Filed under: Blogging, Domestic Policy, Entertainment, Fun n Games, Music, News of the Weird | Tags: Feeding the Woodpeckers, Festival Weekend, Household Calamities
Sorry about the light blogging. Labor Day weekend here is the time of Bumbershoot, a festival of umbrellas? It is, not surprisingly, raining. This is the greater Seattle area, and that’s what it does here. But, music, entertainment, food, vast crowds, and all the hippies come out of the woodwork — great fun for festival lovers.
Blogging is light because I went out yesterday to refill the suet feeder upon which all my woodpeckers, pilieated and flickers, depend. The clay soil was wet and slippery as all hell, and I went flying. No broken bones, but a remarkably sore backside. Standing is fine, sitting is fine, and sleeping is fine. It’s getting from one position to another that is troublesome.
Filed under: Entertainment, Freedom, Fun n Games, Humor | Tags: A Very Funny Man, All about Children, British Commedian Dave Allen
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Education, Energy, Freedom, Fun n Games, Heartwarming | Tags: Education Bureaucrats, Mindless Obedience, Zero Tolerance Policies
There are many things wrong with our public schools, a good percentage can be traced to the fact that our school administrators—the principals — are idiots. The damage done to little kids in the name of “zero tolerance” policies mounts up.
A 5 year-old kindergartner in Surprise, Arizona was told to pull down his pants on the playground by another kindergartner. This is not a remarkable happening. The other kid told Eric Lopez that if he didn’t pull them down he would pull Lopez’ pants down for him.
Eric Lopez pulled his pants down, as instructed, and was hauled off to the principal’s office and forced to sign a “sexual misconduct” form. Eric, a bright little kid, knows his letters so he signed. So now he has a label and a file that will follow him for the next 12 years. Eric did not know, and nobody told him— was that he had a right to have his mom present.
His mother didn’t find out until after the forced confession. She has since filed significant paperwork to appeal the label attached to her son of “sexualized minor.” Oh please! These are some people that are supposed to have some familiarity with kindergartners. They’re only 5 years old! They don’t have any idea what a “sexualized minor is.”
The Dysart Unified School District insists that it was simply following standard procedures in the case of “indecent exposure.”
Read that line again. This is “indecent bureaucratic behavior.” This is follow the rules, even when you know that the rule is absurd, and makes no sense, and you are damaging a five-year-old child and his family.
How did we get to the point where bureaucrats are so fearful of unpleasant consequences for not following the rules exactly as stated, even when some tiny mote of reality must exist in the bureaucratic brain that this is really, truly, monumentally stupid?
In a world where a kid gets expelled from school for biting a pop-tart into a shape resembling a gun — or the State of Idaho, if you turn it barrel-up—it’s clear that we have slipped a cog. Actually the pop-tart looked a lot more like the state than it did like a gun. Similar educational bureaucratese pops up frequently. We have all seen way too many examples.
Lenore Skenazy has a blog about “Free Range Kids,” and has written a book by the same name. I was a free range kid, as were my children. The nonsense is fairly new, and quite ‘progressive.’
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Freedom, Fun n Games, News of the Weird, Pop Culture | Tags: Artery Clogging or Taste Treasure?, Everything Bacon, Who Knew?
I assumed that I was done with the food posts, but the current mania for all things bacon interfered. I made the mistake of searching for an image of bacon on Google images. Ooops! We have bacon dresses, bacon bras, a bacon man’s suit, a bacon basket for scrambled eggs, bacon candy, bacon ice cream, bacon gumballs, a child’s bacon costume, bacon cupcakes, chocolate covered bacon, a bacon attaché case, bacon soda, bacon toothpaste, Kevin Bacon, bacon deodorant, and a few other things that would spoil your taste for bacon for some time.
Another search produced a cooking site: endless simmer which features” 100 ways to use a strip of bacon” (with pictures) and recipes to go with each picture, some of which look really good. The Food Network does “50 Things to Make with Bacon” again with recipes.and delish.com has “Bizarre Bacon: 12 Weird Bacon Products You Won’t Believe.
At that point I’d had enough. I knew that there was a major food fad going on with bacon, but I had no idea how extensive it was.There are websites just about bacon. There are uses too embarrassing to mention. We never quit bacon during all the talk about saturated fat, but it was more Sunday morning with sourdough pancakes. Long ago I used to stuff a hot dog with a long skinny piece of cheddar cheese and then wrap the whole thing in a slice of bacon, but that was a really long time ago. It was really good too.
ADDENDUM: I should mention that the price of bacon is climbing sharply from bacon enthusiasm and a virus that affects baby pigs with a fatal diarrhea. As they say in the investment business, buy on dips.
Filed under: Entertainment, Fun n Games, Humor | Tags: Animal Crackers, Ellen! Ellen! Ellen!, Talking Animals
Excerpts from the BBC One show Funny Talking animals “Walk on the Wild Side.” Do not watch while drinking hot coffee.
American Elephants 