Guard Dog

Wow looks like the US has been spying on everyone, not just it's own citizens. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100854854. So President Obama, tell me, you said you were going to restore the USAs standing in the world. How's that going? Hmmm did I just hear a drone fly over?

Hitting the road tomorrow for work. I've got a meeting with a potential customer in Louisville, then it's back to Dyersburg for throughput testing on three more schools, then an e-meeting with my business partners on Friday. Busy busy. See you guys next weekend.

No. Just.... no.

A sophisticated chap like Wals, it shouldn't be too hard. There's a biker bar in Covington where hookups between biker chicks and non-biker guys are common enough. The drinks are on me if we all split a plane ticket for him! Hmmm, starting a "lil obsidianites slush fund" to pay for things like this might be a good idea. That's what we said when we all thought about getting mail order brides, but that idea also went nowhere. I think Oby can help us with that! You get a line on a Russian mail order bribe we'll get him to go check her out!

I've got women. Just none I can allow myself to go near for fear of triggering a lifestyle apocalypse. I've always thought that myself. Now I'm rethinking that notion. Maybe a lifestyle apocalypse would not be so terrible if there are better things on the other side of it.

I don't know what Obama is. Moderate certainly does not come to mind. I would not call him a liberal in the classic sense of the word either because he does not give a damn about individual rights and is nothing short of hostile to anything resembling freedom. I guess the two words I'd use are authoritarian statist. But hey, he once said that all money was the property of the government before he became President. Given everything he has said and the people he has surrounded himself with (Van Jones anyone) if you are surprised by anything he's done then you were not paying attention.

A sophisticated chap like Wals, it shouldn't be too hard. There's a biker bar in Covington where hookups between biker chicks and non-biker guys are common enough. The drinks are on me if we all split a plane ticket for him!

I just got home from taking her home. Wow, I had no expectations going into this. I don't know if she planned it out this way but I made it easy for her if she did. She actually broached the subject of coming back to my place. She always loved my dogs. We talked about how Tommy is doing and she said she'd love to see him again. I took that as a big hint. She spent Saturday night, Sunday all day and Sunday night with me. We had the "where are we now" talk this morning. I told her to look at it this way, we never really split up, we just took a break. It was a three year break but still. Since I got divorced in 2004 I've dated five women including her with anything one might call seriousness. I've run them all off when they started getting "too serious". Maybe it's time I stopped doing that. You know what is really sexy? Black hair, blue eye, a white top, blue jeans and white heels. You know what's even sexier? Taking her home two days later wearing only those jeans and one of your t-shirts!

Ros's dating supremacy, counted by the amount of dates, is now under a firm assault by the veteran Guard Dog, who dominates all in the length of his... individual dates. Must have been the phase of the moon or something, I don't think I've ever gotten a booty call from someone I wasn't "going steady" with, never mind two from two different women in the same weekend. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that, I guess. Also, work computer's stalling every minute or so. I think this is 5 years old, it certainly is the largest and heaviest laptop I've ever had the displeasure of carrying. Maybe GD scores a few extra points for dating responsibly, recycling his dates. Ros seems to be into the disposable dates I don't think I've got anything on Ros in THAT department! Besides, my periods of "activity" have been few and far between the last year.

Taking my old girlfriend out to dinner turned out to be a lot more complicated than I expected. She's still here! This is what Seinfeld called a dating decathlon. Not complaining mind you. It turned out much better than expected!

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't republicans essentially in favor of PRISM?It doesn't seem to me like there is much of a split in political circles. They were indeed. Originally it was intended to spy on Americans communicating with potential terrorists overseas. I was against from the get-go. Now it spying on us and yes the republicans are all for it for the most part. The only thing that is more despicable and repugnant than a republican is a democrat. Every two years I have to hold my nose and pick one of them and I usually choose the lesser of the two evils.

Stop, turn around, and go look at the documentation of the IRS stuff. That was handled 1 or two offices TOTAL and done without the presidents knowledge of authorization. The assumptions that it went to the presidential level was created by Fox and friends to get viewers hooked and ideologically on their side. Wrong: http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/irs_employees_say_supervisors.html And while the president himself probably did not give the order I refuse to believe for a second he was not aware of it at least after the fact. You and KP would be wailing and gnashing your teeth if this was a republican president and the IRS was targeting liberals. Like I always say, you guys are an example of everything wrong with this country. You are willing to accept, even endorse to most horrifying malfeasance as long as it's "your guy" doing it.

There is another one!

There are so many posts in this thread that prove just how right that article Alan linked in the OP really is!

Apparently no pitchers showed up at US Cellular Park on Friday. The Indians and White Sox played a double header and between both games combined there were 46 Runs, 59 Hits, and 2 errors. Please tell me they were using the batting practice pitching machine!

Under other USA regimes he might not have been safe but under the Obama presidency its highly unlikely, I would say almost impossible, that the USA would send a special force raiding party into Ecuador to kidnap Snowden. That's why he will be safe as that's the only way I can think he would be forced to leave Ecuador. But as Walsie mentioned Ecuador risks economic penalties from the USA and that will effect the poor in Ecuador. Not the president who is enjoying his moment of anti-American sentiment in the limelight Are you freaking serious Bruce? As an American I have NEVER felt more threatened by ANY administration than this one. Just a few weeks ago this man asserted that it would be perfectly legal for him to use a drone to kill an American citizen on US soil, not due process, no judicial review, if he determined they were "involved in terrorism". Yes, they took it all back afterwards when they saw how upset everyone got. And of course his idea of what terrorism is has nothing in common with what most folks think it is. He has talked about raising a "new national security force, as well trained and as well armed as the military". Really? Who the hell do you think he means this force to fight? He is using the IRS to shut down political speech he does not like. In 2009 he joked about auditing his "enemies". In 2013 we found out he was really doing it. And that, all that is nothing when now we find out he has turned with massive NSA spying apparatus at the people he really distrusts: us. I would not be surprised if we hear that Snowden committed "suicide" any day now. I make light about politics but I want you to know I am being serious right now. We may get past all of this. We may throw that man and his miserable cadre of authoritarian freedom-hating statists out of office some day. Or we may not. But if there is a schism, if the country does break up, or God forbid, if there ever is a second Civil War, history will record that is began with him.

Taking ex girlfriend out to dinner tonight. For some reason I'm a little nervous. And I never get nervous about anything.

Wow, everyone is doing something interesting tonight, except me. But that's ok. I'm going to put Radio Margaritaville on my XM, pour a glass of nine year old bourbon and watch the sun set from my porch. For Ros and the rest of you folks... don't do anything I wouldn't do.

Hitting on lesbians is like trying to sell ice trays to eskimos. They don't need what you're selling!

Is this actually true? (I haven't really done much analysis on what the hobbies are of gay people - my assumption was that the distribution would be not a whole lot different) I have no idea. I'm generalizing. I'm guessing they would not be popular among the really gay. The regular gay folks probably as much as any other.

Sure: frustrated

Is it that you don't know any gay people, or that you don't know that they are gay? (I literally just learned that some people I have known for a long time are gay). More likely the latter than the former. It only stands to reason. But you have to figure, I live alone in the sticks, most of the friends I do have are married which does not eliminate them but certainly reduced the likelihood. My only vices are fishing, hunting (not popular sports among gay folks), and going to Redbirds games with the aforementioned married friends. Heck I spend far more time with canines (my dog and coyotes) than people. So it is at least very unlikely that I do know any gay folks. Certainly not impossible though. But I wouldn't care if any of my friends were gay or I made a gay friend as long as 1) They don't criticize my dog, 2) They are not Yankees fans. I won't put up with that!

I'm quite certain of my own. The thought of being intimate with another man does NOT appeal. Not that there's anything wrong with it....

Hetreroflexible = 1 or 2 drinks away from trying anything

You know it occurs to me that I don't know a single gay person. I'm sure I've met one or two along the way. It only stands to reason. But I've never asked and they have never told. I'm sure there are gay bars in Memphis. I could not tell you where one is. To me gay folks are sort of like vampires. I see them on TV and movies all the time. Other folks I know claimed to have seen one once. You hear rumors about places they can be found but since I never see any I'm not 100% sure they really exist.