The Ol' Fat Guy Blathers On

If We Do What 'They' Do....     Well here we are.... back from the CHRISTMAS and New Year's holiday seasons-survivors, all!!  Although there was some speculation on my part.  The "Young Miss Lovely" and I were invited and attended her side's family Christmas Eve dinner.  Normally this gala is a gastronomic delight... this time, not so much.  Rather than cook~ the best cook in the family ~decided that he was going to strike and made reservations at a local Chinese restaurant where we all eventually met.  I think that's where I contracted some kinda' ' bacterial virus ' which laid me low for over a week [just today~ Monday ~I'm feeling like I might~ just might ~survive].     OK, back to the point of this rant: I'm kinda' guessin' that you've seen the latest on the militia-persons occupying that national wildlife refuge in Oregon, in support of the " father-son " Hammond s' who are to report to prison today~ M...

"Clown Prince" obama's Weekly Blather barack INGHAM PALACE , District of Corruption , April 26, 2014     In my State of the Union Address, I talked about pizza.  More specifically, I talked about a pizza chain in Minneapolis – Punch Pizza – whose owner, John Soranno, made the business decision to give his employees a raise to ten bucks an hour.  A couple weeks ago, I got a letter from a small business owner who watched that night.  Yasmin Ibrahim is an immigrant who owns her own restaurant – Desi Shack – and plans to open another this summer.  Here’s what she wrote.  “I was moved by John Soranno’s story.  It got me thinking about my … full-time employees and their ability to survive on $8 an hour in New York City.”  So a few weeks ago, Yasmin put in place a plan to lift wages for her employees at both her restaurants to at least $10 an hour by the end of this year.      But here’s the thing – Yasmin ...