Occupy Wall Street - NOW I Understand

For a bit of amusement, I occasionally read the minutes from the Occupy groups.  Nearly all the the minutes from their General Assembly and now this new Spokes Council (which may or may not hold the purse strings depending upon which day of the week it is) are quite entertaining and make you realize those "interviews" on the street are actually are geniuses compared to the General Assembly and Spoke Council meetings.

HOWEVER, I did find one idea this afternoon that should be implemented the world over.  It's from the 11/25/11 minutes of Spokes Council where they report from the various working groups.  The PoCC is the group representing the People of Color Caucus. 

Below is part of a transcript of the "minutes" from that group.

"*PoCC: Mon + Wed at 4pm, only women get to talk and men have to listen"

Wouldn't you love to know how many men end up at their Monday and Wednesday meetings at 4pm? 

I'm guessing zero.

But it's a brilliant idea.  Think I'll try this at home.

USA Weekly - Give Me a Break

From this.....

To this....

Like Michelle has ever cooked a turkey or worn an apron.

It Was Almost as if They Were ORGANIZED

Maybe because too many of my offline and online friends are dealing with losses in their families this holiday I feel the need to try to find some things that help to make me smile.

I hope this video gives you something to smile about too.  I loved this show, but it was one of those that was frozen in time, so doesn't translate well as reruns.  Hotair.com reminded me of this episode tonight.  It was just CLASSIC.

If you need a good smile, watch it all the way through the end, especially when Les Nesman delivers the line that made me think of the OWS crowd.  "It was almost as if they were.......ORGANIZED."

And then Carlson delivers the infamous line, "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Hope You Celebrated in Your Own Style.

My brother, Rumbles has a post of our Thanksgiving tradition.  Not exactly Martha Stewart, but we have more fun than Martha ever dreamed.

Hope I have enough aluminum foil for the holidays

Tin Foil and Chicken Broth

So, is it paranoia IF someone IS really stalking you? 

I filmed this after this guy made several low flying loops just above the treetops and my roof top.   It was a little freaky after the 10th lap around.  Finally he flew off into the great unknown.

A couple days later another sounded like it was about to land on my roof.  I ran to the window to watch him fly past.

Different plane, so "they" are attempting to be incognito.   Now I've noticed "they" are buzzing my house once or twice a week.

I've taken to wearing my tin foil hat around the house, someone suggested I needed to fold it in a pyramid for it to work properly.

When commenting about the increasing paranoia on facebook, my niece put me on to the REAL reason of the spy planes.  And it made perfect sense because it coincides with the increased hits on this blog.  Once again I am getting visitors from all over the world who are googling, "chicken broth". 

So my spy planes are actually trying to steal my homemade chicken and noodle recipe because I'm pretty sure they were flying over at the exact time I've been making the homemade chicken broth.  

Of course!  Perhaps it a big conspiracy by the evil Swanson's corporation because those people have no clue how to make a good chicken broth.

If you think I'm kidding, I give you further proof.  Last week, my family went down to Huntsville, Alabama, home of Redstone Arsenal Base to visit my aunt and my cousins.  There at the space museum was evidence of the spy plane.

Yeah, looks just like those spy planes that have been circling my house.  And I climbed up and could see the spies had scratched part of my broth recipe in the interior.  All I can tell you is that the main ingredient was "chickens".  At least they got that part right.

Wait, here come the blog hits again, all searching for "chicken", "broth", "thanksgiving". 

Gotta run.  Not sure where I put my pyramid tin foil hat.

Coffeypot apparently doesn't believe me.  So I've added some additional proof.

Called the Blackbird, which we all know is code word for chicken.

And they stole the design of the spy plane from Madonna's bra.

Well, I suppose there's a possibility I'm wrong.  Maybe it wasn't this plane.  Come to think of it, the spy planes trying to steal my recipe did look more like this fully functioning rocket, conveniently disguised harmlessly inside the museum.

And contrary to popular belief, Wernher Von Braun was NOT born in America.

Thanksgiving PSA

Shatner may be a hack actor, but he's great in certain roles.  Boston Legal being his best.  A couple of music videos and this commercial from an insurance company.

Call me a sexist,  turkey frying is great, but should only be performed by a strong male, able to lift and lower the turkey VERY slowly.   Use peanut oil, ONLY to the recommended line and lower the fully thawed (and seasonally injected) turkey very, very slowly. 

Check oil temp and turkey temp OFTEN.   Best turkey, bar none.  It's a lot messier than roasting, mainly because it involves men and worrying about waiting until the oil cools back down and can be safely stored away, but it really is more tasty and moist. 



H/T Hotair.com

My Thoughts After Hearing Bob Costas' Interview with Sandusky

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

If you think evil does not exist, just google Sandusky's answer to Costa's question, "Are you sexually attracted to young boys?" 

The cover-up of these incidents are truly disgusting. 

Personally, I think a Lorena Bobbit procedure followed by a baseball bat to the skull would be light sentence.

Why Should a Date Like 11/11/11 Be Remembered?

According to History Channel documentary on Vietnam, over 2.5 million people served in that war. Surely all of us can thank at least ONE of them this Friday. 11/11/11 should mean more than just another random date, it should be a Veteran's Day we remember, a day we appreciate our freedom and a day to thank our brave Veterans from every war.

God Bless them, every one.

Thank you Bobby, Thank you CoffeyPot, Thank you Greybeard, Thank you Chris. Thank you Tom.  Thank you to all our fine, brave Veterans.  And thank you to anyone I might have missed.

One Man's Nightmare

is another man's fantasy.

Here's to you Coffey.

Enjoy. (privately I hope.

I Am Shocked

SHOCKED, I tell you.

That all my male readers never made even ONE suggestive comment about sucking the gravy off Giada's pinky.

I would have bet $100 every single one of them would have.

Well, except for Jeff, he never gets out of line (at least online). ;)

Not asking for any suggestive comments on this post now, but I would still bet $100 that they all THOUGHT it, just never wrote it.

JUST BECAUSE SOME IDIOT POSTS THINGS ON FACEBOOK DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE TRUE, Al Roker did NOT SUE Giada.

DISCLAIMER: Apparently there are some people online who cannot tell the difference between a legitimate news story and someone who writes a tongue-in-cheek post on a blog. This was originally a post to generate a discussion regarding what is and is not sexual harassment and some idiot only looked at some heading on a search engine and began to post this headline all over Facebook saying Roker actually sued Giada. Even the notion is ridiculous but if it's anyone on the Internet, it must be true, right? PLEASE go set that person straight wherever you read it and tell them to not post rumors online.

November 1, 2011

NBC Today's Show host, Al Roker today announced through his attorney that he would be filing a lawsuit against world-renowned Italian Chef Giada de Laurentis for sexual harassment.

de Laurentis refused to comment on the lawsuit, even though live video filmed during this morning's episode clearly showed her making a suggestive gesture toward Roker.

Roker's attorney, Ida Chaisder alleged that due to the live filming, Roker was forced to participate in de Laurentis' overtly sexual gestures toward the beloved news/weatherman. NBC has refused to release the video which allegedly shows Giada forced Roker to suck gravy off of the chef's little finger.

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OKAY, ONLY THE LAST TEN WORDS OF THAT STORY ARE TRUE.

I was watching the Today Show this morning where Giada, who is one attractive woman I must say, was filming with Roker a segment on making gravy.

I was in tears watching Roker's reaction to the situation. What made it even funnier was they had just had a segment on whether casual flirting was harmful or harmless.

Giada was demonstrating making various gravies and switching to the previously prepared gravy, she casually stuck her pinky finger in the gravy and offered it to Roker for a taste. A split second elapsed with Roker's eyes widening before he took her up on her offer and sucked the gravy off of Giada's pretty little - little finger.

I'm sure every other happiliy married man would have refused Giada's pinky. (YEAH, righhhht!)

You could nearly instantly see Roker's face begin to turn just a bit red and he was doing everything, and I mean EVERYTHING to NOT say something that would get him in hot water with the FCC.

Giada, realizing his quick embarassment continued on, both were smirking and finally Giada said good-naturedly, "Oh, I do that with my husband all the time."

Roker, again just stiffling what he really wanted to say laughed, "But HE's your husband."

You could tell Roker could barely get through the rest of the segment. The off screen muffled chuckling of the crew wasn't helping Roker. It was probably one of the funniest segments I have ever seen on the Today Show.

So, it begs this question.

What exactly IS sexual harassment?

Working in a predominately male environment for nearly all of my career, I have encountered some of the most inappropriate comments from males that could have easily been interpreted by some precious female as sexual harassment. Joking with male friends at work, even when it is entirely inappropriate has never, in my opinion been sexual harassment. Legally, I could have sued nearly every male I worked with in some frivilous lawsuit if I was so inclined.

I have heard of lawsuits in some of these companies being settled because some guy mentioned something about some woman's hair. And I have watched one young girl get smacked on the rear with a file folder by some married old guy who was obviously infatuated with her. She never filed a lawsuit.

I have watched some creepy guy staring directly at a woman's chest. He was seated, she was standing. He reached up and pulled a hair off of her turtleneck that had landed on her chest. She never filed a lawsuit.

I heard that same creepy guy, with an infatuation with another young girl make overtly sexual remarks to her that she complained about to me. When I suggested she actually go to HR because it was very apparent, she did not. She never filed a lawsuit.

I would never discount true claims of sexual harassment, but I've seen too many women get upset over completely harmless comments and threaten or actually file a lawsuit because it was easy money for a settlement.

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Roker's wife, ABC News' Deborah Roberts was not available for comment.

p.s. I tried googling a slightly suggestive image for this post and....well, except for the cute baby pics, the rest were X-rated. I think google just sexually harassed me.

H/T to Joan and the Today Show for post idea.