Something I Just Have To Say...

As I approach my twilight years, I am struck by the inevitability that the party must end. And one clear, cold morning after I'm gone, my spouse will awaken in the warmth of our bedroom and be struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't "anymore."

No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat, no more "just one minute."

Sometimes, what we care about the most gets all used up and goes away, never to return before we can say good-bye, or say "I love you."

So while we have it, its best we love it, care for it, fix it when it's broken and heal it when it's sick.

This is true for marriage and old cars, children with bad report cards, dogs with bad hips, a aging parents and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.

Some things we keep -- like a best friend who moved away or a son-in-law after divorce. There are just some things that make us happy, no matter what.

Life is important, like people we know who are special. And so, we keep them close!

Suppose one morning you never wake up, do all your friends know how you really feel?

The important thing is to let every one of your friends know your true feelings, even if you think they don't love you back.

So, just in case I'm gone tomorrow, please rest assured I voted against that incompetent, bleeding heart, socialist piece of shit Obama.

I agree with you Norman and for some reason have for the last 14 years or so (if you still remember the early days)

And I hope to read your Odes for another 14 years or more

A sunny day here and I am taking the day off and right now watching the mom duck bring her babies over by me to eat the cracked corn I just gave them over next to a couple palm trees.......and the other 20 or so quackers.

Have a fine weekend

I voted for Barry....

And I feel fine


For the life of me I dont get what any bitching is done by the middle class, Havent seen one penny increase or decrease in my pension for 2 years, and I just returned to work, part time, and Im more than comfortable...

So I guess you all bitching make more than 250,000 a year? wow where did I go wrong?

I know Hussein had nothing to do with it, the Bush's did

Just hope your pension fund is still well funded and made it through the blood letting unscathed...


Because if it hits 80% the federal government takes it over and you are flat out fucked.

It's a good thing for Cravn that his idol has failed to push for his 2013 cigarette tax of 94 cents/pack. Obama's budget called for this as the means to fund a new preschool education initiative. Of course, it was all political fluff (otherwise called bullshit).

Remember the cigarette tax hike President Barack Obama proposed in his big budget rollout?

The White House barely does.

Presidential budgets are all about theater. But this year’s was more theatrical than most: Its biggest single new proposal — the sin tax to generate $78 billion to fund a preschool education program — vanished almost as soon as Obama announced it four weeks ago Wednesday.

The president hasn’t mentioned it. The White House didn’t coordinate with outside anti-smoking groups. Tobacco companies never worried about putting together a lobbying strategy to kill it. Obama’s political arm hasn’t sent an email calling on Congress to consider it. Not even Obama’s surgeon general, who calls curbing smoking “the single most important issue for all the surgeons general of the past five decades,” put out a press release applauding the idea.

That’s the attitude within the West Wing, too — rather than a marquee idea, aides say the 94-cents-per-pack cigarette tax was in fact not a priority, and there are no plans to build a public case for it. The tax was just the most politically palatable idea they could come up with to pay for their big new entitlement program — and in the context of a budget debate they never expected to get serious, that was enough.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/obamas-cigarette-tax-proposal-goes-up-in-smoke-91043.html#ixzz2Vk1ZkeLy

Cigs, gas and beer the most heavly taxed items we have

Blue, that was classic.


I love the pace and texture of your post, and how it perfectly blends with the last sentence of your post