HAPPY HALLOWEEN.........................

The day of ghost's and witches riding broomsticks. Oh,  I will never forget the running door to door collecting candy, apples, pennies and other goodies.

My mom and dad, would even dress up to make their little darling feel comfortable as I ran around in my little homemade  "BUM" costume.  My dad would, year after year, go out  in his work clothes and my mom would go as a housewife.................only difference is ...............they would both wear a  "Lone Ranger" mask........................guess they didn't want the neighbors to see who they really were................or that they didn't want to associate with this kid dressed like I just arrived on a freight train.  Anyway it was always good fun.  They use to walk me up to the door  FORCE me to ring the bell.....(since I was the type that didn't want to interrupt anyone eating dinner or anything)  and in my very little soft spoken voice I would mutter those famous words....................."twick or tweat?"   Now, as time goes by in years I began to think for myself...............why would anyone in their right mind say            "TRICK"    I would be totally unprepared to perform any trick and would probably have run away from the scary house crying and never would go back there again.
As the years passed, mom and dad would be reluctant to go out with me...............since they discovered that while they were out with me..............there was no one home to greet................these little bastards...........that if no one answered the door, they would just sit there and continuously ring the bell.   My dad would swear that that's how our bell wore out.   Dad,  it's electric!!!!  it can't wear out by using it to much..............." how do you know..........mr. know it all.....................it could burn up the wires inside the walls"     He was the type that always had to have the last word..................no matter how stupid it would sound.

Well, as the years passed I was eventually allowed to go that ghostly night with my friends, I think I was 15 at that time since it was dark.           No, just kidding.        I was about 7. A gang of us kids (4 or 5 kids) would simply watch the parents bringing their little "baby kids" (4-6 years old) up to the door and as soon as the door opened we would all run up screaming "TRICK OR TREAT"  that way we were always guaranteed to get something that the cute adorable little kids would get and not that lousy hard, left over Christmas candy from last Christmas.

Fast forward to the time to take my kids out................along with the dog..............who had to go out in her costume.....OH glory.                what's next.     I would bring my whiskey glass with me go get filled up and usually by the10th house we visited I would just want to go home, sit down and have Margot continue.  Only problem is I had to sit on a hard kitchen chair next to the front door with a bowl of candy in my lap...............and just let the kids pick out whatever they wanted....................well,  finally its all gone.  SHUT OUT THE LIGHTS, pull the drapes closed and sneak into the kitchen and have my dinner by candle light.

What a glorious life.!!!!!  now, we just shut off the front door light, pull the drapes and head to the casino for our.............free money.

SOMETIME IT'S GOOD TO TALK TO YOURSELF.......

               (my opinion)
Something I've always wondered about is "how all these polls taken can reflect contradictory effects"
"WHO OR WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO KEEP OUT"

It seems to me that if you take a poll.......the answers provided would either reflect one point........or another. Having said that.....I can understand why our country is so divided in opinion's.  To have 4 different polls reflect 4 different answers is beyond my capability to even try to understand "what is really going on".   I found, after 5 glasses of wine, 1/2 of a 5 meat pizza and 2 pepperoni  sticks......that not only did I feel sick.............but I figured out just how the Polling crap worked.   It's totally in " How the question is asked"  Just by moving one word you can get ........THE ANSWER YOU WANT!!!!!. WOW,  maybe it is true that wine stimulates your brain................or is it your blood pressure...............or is it you view of life,,,,,,well no matter what it is. I answered the question.......................my way. Therefore the result is....................It is better to talk to yourself than to some other people if you want to hear the CORRECT reply.
Now to carry this one step further, I have developed a test which I will name  Vito's law.  It consists of 50 questions where there is no right or wrong answer.    Try it on for size.

Now, before you start................I must confess................I tried this out at the Dooney, Tooney house of rubber walls.  As a result of this I had so many answers bouncing off the walls I could not list them all.
These questions have no right or wrong answers.
Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
50. Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!!!!!!

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?????

Now!!!  I finally realized where our stupidity comes from in our voting habits.  We have no one but our own stupid selves to blame for the ugly truth. I'm giving NO reference to our political system ...........in this case.  That's a subject of another brain teasing event.   What I'm talking about now is............................DWTS  ( short for Dancing with the Stars) or better known this time around as Dancing with a celebrity or NOT?  How the voters or in this case the nobody crazies kept  Chaz Bono, who happens to have NO RHYTHM AT ALL in his/her oversize stretch pants, Carson Kesslley who prances the floor like a riderless merri-go-round pony and Nancy Grace, who happens to be the better of the three but not by much and vote off  Kristin Cavallari who has shown that she can certainly do more than the box step  must not only be the dumbest voters but also totally blind.    This .................my tea bagging, half brainers is a DANCING CONTEST.  It is suppose to show who has a little capability of being able to perform in a dance contest.  After all, if it was a popularity contest, we could simply line them up, walk them around the floor (to see who can make it all the way around .......without falling on their face)  and declare a winner after one week. What program were you dizzies looking at.................certainly not the same one  I was watching.

In the case of AMERICAN IDOL or THE X FACTOR where public voters would actually be needed, I can understand when the screaming, yellin' bimbo's can actually win .............since this is the music that a certain group of people like and they will let you know it.............but will also go out and BUY it.   Remember back when with Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra would croon out a tune that melted the hearts of many or Tom Jones as he would "tight pants " his way through a song that sent many a woman over the edge, then again we ended up with the King  Elvis who's bad hip drove women up a wall....................but they went out and bought the records.  What will they buy if Chaz Bono takes home the Crystal ball.   What a complete farce. 

Now along with DWTS, I also watched the interview of NJ Governor Christie.  I must admit........that if I was to vote for any Republican, Christie.....could be that person.  What did I like???  I like the kind of persona.........that  Joe Stilletto  type..................you get what you see attitude.  then again, I ask myself.....am I getting anything that I did not get with the last choice I made?  Obama, had little experience, that I could see................Christie, the same. Obama promised to lead me to a promise land.... that promise failed (much of it at the hands of a Republican controlled house) other wise known as the house of NO! The thing that really makes me howl with laughter is that these people running for President all have the same line.............When I'm elected President......I promise to get things done, I promise to bring people together, I promise to bring peace to the world, I promise, I promise I promise.  If we as voters just calm down from all these promises and think about it for a moment, all they promise is exaggerated, they cannot do any of that stuff they just promised to do.......and we believed them.........what fools we are.      The Governor, gave his reply weeks and weeks ago, why was it necessary for him to have this hour long Q & A  session.    Seems, the media .........and perhaps a few Republican donors could not take the Governor for his word the first time around.

Now that's what I like about Christie..............he realizes that negotiation is what really happens.  You may want something but have to settle for half.  The only thing that worries me is that Joe Stilletto attitude and the way he sometimes looks at you with that  sad  puppy dog look.   Well, give him more than the 20 months to work on New Jersey,  if he can get that state cleaned up ..........PERHAPS,  just PERHAPS he could get something done for the nation. 

AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK!!!!!!!!

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

Sarah Palin has just announced that she will NOT run for President in 2012.   Wonder how long it will take the Media to realize her  NO   NO   NO   running??