ENOUGH ALREADY & A PACIFIC MOMENT

IS IT ME
OR IS NEWT BEING A JERK?

     One of the hot and trending topics of the day is that 

failed Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is still getting

Secret Service protection. According to published records, that is at a cost of about $ 42,000 a day.  $42 K a day to protect Gingrich?!! 

      The porcine and largely unpopular former Speaker of the House was never a serious candidate, other than in his own mind.  His staff abandoned him.  Voters rejected him. Party leaders despise him.  Comics mock him. It seems the only thing he's qualified for is to be a stand in for the Pillsbury dough boy.

       I have long suspected this whole candidacy  farce is about feeding his considerable ego, trumping up his profile so he can earn bigger dollars as a lobbyist and "advisor" and to sell what ever book his swampy mind conjures. 

       I hope the GOP convention planners ice Gingrich.  In the meantime taxpayers should demand this demagogue not only no longer get Secret Service protection, but pay back what his coverage has cost since he "suspended" his pathetic campaign. Can you say contemptible? 

ANOTHER FACE OF THE PACIFIC

   It is evident some of you didn't care much for the video of the Slime Eels posted yesterday.  
     They are oddly fascinating, but I was taken by surprise they are being harvested in the local sea bed.

    Well for those of you, some who posted a reply and some who sent me an email, not so positive about those creatures,

here is a more tranquil short on the Pacific, just a few miles north.

See you down the trail.

RUFFLED-CAMPAIGN FEATHERS AND CLOUDS

GET OVER IT NEWT, IT WAS A JOKE!

     The latest flap in the presidential wars underscores a

couple of things.  1)As a nation our sense of humor is rapidly diminishing.  2)Newt Gingrich becomes more sanctimonious 

by the moment.

     Actor Robert De Niro cracked wise at an Obama fundraiser and the desperate Gingrich sought to make some political hay.

      Here is the "offending" joke:

    "Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white First Lady?" he asked the crowd. "Too soon, right?"

      Even the Obama camp, when pressed for a response,

said it was inappropriate.  Well, what else could they say?

It was "edgy" I suppose, but if we can't laugh at ourselves

we are taking it all too seriously.  

       I think if one can joke about color, ethnicity, sexual preferences and yes even religion in appropriate, non offensive language, then it shows maturity and real cultural health.  Isn't that coming closer to being color blind than Newt's little hissy fit would be representative of?

      Accept facts for what they are. If you are a person of color the line may have been funny for reasons beyond the fact it was a good line and made even better by the edginess of it. Both the edginess and the personal color matters fueled the effectiveness of the joke, and obviously the Gingrich lack of humor.

      You know what they say you can do if you can't take a joke. Humor is a balm for frayed nerves.  We should all laugh a bit more.  Lighten up!   

DAY BOOK

RUFFLED SKY

Heard any jokes about thrice married candidates?

See you down the trail.