WARNING FOR OLDER MEN!!!!

Something to beware of around the Holidays

 BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!

Warning for Older Men!
Clever Scam . . . warn your friends!!
This is very serious stuff!



Women often receive warnings about protecting themselves at the mall
and in dark parking lots, etc. This is the first warning I have
seen for men. I wanted to pass it on in case you haven’t heard
about it. This will only become more commonplace as the holidays
get closer.. This is a “heads up” for those men who may be regular
Lowe’s, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Target, or Sam’s Club customers. This
one caught me by surprise.

Over the last couple weeks I became a victim of a clever scam while
out shopping. Simply going out to get some simple Christmas gifts
has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to
think it couldn’t happen to you or your friends.

Here’s how the scam works:

Two seriously good-looking 20-something girls come over to your car
dressed as Santa’s Helpers as you are packing your shopping into the
trunk. They both start helping you pack your stuff into your
vehicle. What catches your eye is the very short bright Red Santa
helper miniskirts they are wearing and the tight fitting Deep “V”
neck red top shirt with their breasts almost falling out. It is
impossible not to look..

When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say “No” and instead
ask you for a ride to McDonalds to get some hot cocoa and a snack.

You agree and they get into the back seat. On the way, they start
undressing. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and
starts crawling all over you, while the other one steals your
wallet. I had my wallet stolen Nov 24th, 26th 28th 29th, 30th,
twice on Dec 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, and very likely again this upcoming
weekend.

So tell your friends to be careful!! What a horrible way to take
advantage of older men during this holiday season. Warn your
friends to be vigilant. These girls will not give up; they have
proven it over and over again with me.

By the way, Target has wallets on sale for $2.99 each. I found
cheaper ones at Wal-Mart for $1.99 and bought them out. Also, you
will never get to eat at McDonald’s. I’ve already lost 14 pounds
just running back and forth to Lowe’s, Home Depot, Sam’s Club,
Wal-Mart, and Target.

So please, send this along to all the older men that you know, and
warn them to be on the lookout for this scam.

PS: (The best times are just before lunch and around 4:30 in the afternoon)


I am planning just one more posting before that night when the fat guy arrives with all his reindeers ....... who by the way............left all kinds of footprints on my roof last year along with knocking some shingles off.   This year I have set up a reindeer trap on the roof.

talk with you next week/

DANCIN' AND PRANCIN'

TURN UP THE SOUND!!!!!!!!!AND LET'S GET DOWN

Margot and I went dancing at the senior DANCE HALL......................YAHOO!!!!!


Each one of you, reading this blog have touched our lives, one way or another. Either individually or as  a couple.  I sincerely have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy bringing you, my life of days gone by, present days and how I view the future.  I hope you stay on line with me.

For me, it seems that my life is getting shorter.

The days are just not as long as they use to be. (less daylight)  Margot keeps saying not to worry..........it's just standard time we are on now...................but I think there is more involved.  She also tells me it will get better in the spring when we move our clocks forward................but  I'm not really sure that will work either.   Seems we went through that last summer but for some reason I always missed the 7th inning stretch along with the 8th and 9th innings of the games.   The eyelids just seem to close early regardless of what time of the year it is.

Now that it's dark at 4:30PM  I just seem to automatically curl up on the couch and miss the next 6 hours of the day before Margot tells me it's time to go to bed. OOOOHHHHH   where does the time go.

A friend of mine sent this video out to me and after watching it I discovered there was so much more to stay awake for.  It brought back memories of days gone by................when some of my moves.........were just as impressive.      Start it up and think back, my friends, to those days of the JIVE.!!! 

IT MAY TAKE A MOMENT TO START......................AFTER ALL      WE ARE OLD!!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/eSKCi9ml4ME

IS WHAT YOU HEAR..........ALWAYS TRUE????

I'm really reaching the point where I am getting fed up with the BS happening in Government.

People just flapping off where apparently they are not checking things out,  then calling the system corrupt or broken. Now, I'm giving reference to firstly our dysfunctioned leaders in Congress, then to the "followers" that they have that are just flat out ignorant.   Yes, my friends, you are entitled to YOUR opinion as I am to mine.................but for the sake of a half of a brain.................take the time to check out what is being said before you jump out of your skin.  One thing is this controversy on illegals collecting social security.  Here is the scoop on that!!!!!!   


Q.    Is it true that some people are collecting Social Security benefits who never paid into the system?

A.   Social Security is an earned benefit. In order to collect a retirement benefit, a worker must pay into the system for at least 10 years. In some cases, nonworking family members, such as a spouse, may be eligible for benefits based on the worker's record. Tough rules in place assure that only legal residents can collect Social Security benefits.

Now, if you know or have absolute proof of any case.......then perhaps you are the problem by not reporting it.  Take this one step further.  If you are aware of your next door neighbor.....or a relative of yours  still  collecting social security of a dead relative you should also be hung and charged for a crime.  Don't be a complete jerk and complain about one case and not another. Here is more to read about that.

http://www.aarp.org/work/social-security/info-11-2011/5-social-security-myths.html#.Tr3FNV0V8pM.email

DE  BATE     OR    NOT   DE   BATE!!!!

So far, I have listened to ..................oh...................perhaps half of the Republican debates.   As far as I am concerned,  listening to the same stuff just proves ..................that only one debate is necessary.    If you listen.................closely...................you will never hear an answer to the question.  This would never go over in "Judge Judy's" court.  Rick even went to the extent to say to the moderator.   "You ask your question, I will answer it my way"    I simply cannot understand ...............why a supposedly smart person..................takes 15 minutes to answer a question.  I remember doing this in high school.......................but..................in my defense it was because I did not study and did not know the answer..............so I went 3 blocks further around the question to try and say something to make it sound like I had opened up the book.  Now , these politicians are doing the same to us .  Only thing is there are a lot of people that are thinking that same way.

The other thing that really gets me going is when our politicians begin this crappola about, "It's not in the constitution"    Have you ever really listened to their interpretation to some of what's in the constitution?    It's absolutely mind boggling to hear their thoughts about that. 

Listening to these 8 potential Republican candidates and what they are promising to do if........elected President....................makes me shutter with laughter.......................and there's a lot of me..................... to shutter, then again it does open up the possibility of the Democrats to use their....................."""".liar, liar..................your pants ARE ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!""" when they finally realize....................they have not got it done.

Get with it folks,  you had better begin thinking out things for yourself...................if you depend on our leaders to do your thinking .................your going down..................

FASHION ...............AND MORE!

It wasn't long ago when I would see guys walking around with their pants down to their thighs..................I always wondered just how they could do that.  I came home one day and decided to give it a try just to see what it felt like...................didn't like it ................but found out that if I took short steps I was able to make it across the bedroom without tripping on the belt............so I decided to take the belt off.  Now, to me if it's so in style to have everyone see your underwear....why wouldn't you just wear your underwear over you pants. Hence the song
"Pants on the ground
Pants on the ground
Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground"

As one ages, you simply start to pull your pants up........until you reach the age of retirement, when you not only can cut your suspenders in half but you can give yourself a "weggie" like you never had experienced before.    AHHHH    just right!!!

Guess all ages have had their style of fashion.  I remember quite vividly, that in high school there was basically two styles of dress. If you were in with the athletes, like most of us all wanted to be, you wore chino's that were approximately 2 cuff widths off the top of the shoes........in order to show your white athletic socks.  Shoes of the day were either white bucks or the sand colored bucks better known as  "dessert boots", and a letter sweater. ( I not only lettered in basketball and baseball but also marching band.  Now there was also a group (not necessarily nerds) they were the projector guys who would wear chartreuse socks or shocking orange. Plaid cotton shirts. and always had a pen or pencil protector in their shirt pocket.
 For that "special night out"  I had a charcoal gray suit, pink shirt with a pink piece of cloth in my breast pocket and pink socks (here again the pants were 2 cuff widths short)  and my shoes were either penny loafers or tassel loafers (I still may have the tassel loafers).  I think that suit lasted me all 4 years of high school...............just goes to show you how many "special nights" I had.

After taking a shower and getting dressed this morning, I showed up at the breakfast table.  Margot looked at me kind of funny.  Here I was dressed in my very best...............purple shirt by POLO,  my green pants by  DOCKERS................underwear by .....................FRUIT OF THE LOOM.   red socks by  .....NIKE and shoes by  REEBOK        I asked Margot what her problem was..............her only response was that I looked like a walking  Ad for something.

Just checked out my closet..................I do have those tassel loafers...........................and they still fit.  At least my feet are loosing weight!!!!!

SOMETHING ELSE TO GET THE COBWEBS OUT OF THE BRAIN: Take a look at this video


http://www.youtube.com/v/uNE3YSr_o2A%26feature%3drelated

Have a nice day.......................see you next week

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??