"It's awfully cold out there," Blondie said this morning. "I don't think we want to go anywhere today."

Fine with me. I rarely want to leave the house, anyway. But she kept fretting herself over this and that, and decided that she had to leave for some reason or another, about 10:45. Fifteen minutes later, she phoned me. "You need to move your car, or you'll get a ticket." Within no more than 7 minutes of careful calculations, I determined that the 28th, a Thursday, would be the 4th Thursday of the month. Fardles!

So I got dressed, and headed for the bakery, since I was about out of bread. Then I went to do some other errands. Along the way, I listened to WHP radio.

Enemies Lists, Redux

Glenn Beck was telling us all that Obama was one of them, and when they made up their enemies lists, all of them (including Nixon) had the same people on their enemies lists, including the bankers.

I thought that was an interesting observation. Wasn't he palling around with the terrotist son of a banker, Bill Ayers, just 18 months ago? And now he's turned into a Nixon clone, creating enemies lists with bankers on the lists.

As best I recall, I was rightly disappointed that my newspaper editorials didn't put me on Nixon's enemies list. I kept pointing out that Nixon was not a proper Republican, but a corrupt warmonger who made a piss-poor substitute for an outstanding Republican president.

Hey! Don't Forget Me!

And I was pretty outspoken back then, about the disservice that bank managers were doing both bank customers and bank stockholders. Was Nixon really against the bankers?

I bought a pair of kitchen shears and a digital thermometer at the Restaurant Store on Old Philadelphia Pike. Rush Limbaugh was on the radio when I came out from the store. He was talking about how Obama said "I" something like 73 times in the State of the Union speech. Then he played a clip where Obama was saying he never claimed that change would come easy, nor that he would be able to do by himself. Hmmm. That sounds right. The slogan was "Yes we can!, if I recall.

Then he played a clip from the campaign, and talked about how the SotU speech was such a different tone than the campaign speech. A couple of minutes later, he would be complaining that the SotU wasn't really a SotU speech, but actually a campaign speech. At this point, though, he was trying to make the point that Obama did say he was going to do it alone.

It Was A Campaign Speech

I listened carefully. Obama congratulated the voters on starting the change, and didn't mention the word "I" once.

OK, so it was a campaign speech last night which didn't sound like a campaign speech, which is how you tell it was a campaign speech, and he was lying when he was claimed he never said he was going to do it alone, because the clip he played from the campaign never contained that claim.

And then he went on about how Obama was in bed with the bankers, and all the talk about taxing the bankers was just a smokescreen, because he was a puppet of the bankers.

Who, as Glenn Beck reminds us, are on Obama's enemies list, because they are on everybody's enemy list.

Boy, I'm Glad I Listen

Boy, I'm glad I listen to talk radio in the car. I would be terribly uninformed if I hadn't paid close attention. I would have completely missed the fact that Obama had put himself on the enemies list, and that he promised something that didn't appear in his campaign speeches.

I think I need another appointment with my doctor. This Mad Cow Disease is catching up on me, quick.

Oh, yeah, just for the record, an "all american meal" at McDonald's is now $4.03. When they opened their doors, 2 burgers were 15c each, small fries (the only size they had) were 12c, and a small coke (the only size they had) was 10c. That's 52c. As they used to advertise, all this "and change back from your dollar."

But back then, the guys in the white shirts, black slacks, bow ties, and paper hats had your food in front of you before you got your change from the cashier. Today, it took 3 minutes, 12 seconds of waiting. Not that I had anywhere else I needed to be. Just a marginal notation on this american life.

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