Little Miss Confused’s Neighborhood

We had a great Turkey Day, Ma and I handled the cooking(turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, cranberry orange relish, green bean casserole, crescent rolls, broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce) it was a great meal.
 I invited a few friend from the barn over, Dena is a single lady with no family in the area, also Elsbeth and Jesse, they went to Elsbeth's family for T Day last week and she was not planing on making an entire dinner just for them.
After stuffing ourselves with a late lunch we needed a while to digest, so we decided to play some RayMan Raving Rabbids, and was it FUN!! if you don't know that is a Wii game that consists of many mini games, you compete for the best scores in silly things like pulling worms from bunnies teeth, flinging cows and "dancing" to a beat, we looked retarded I'm sure but we had fun, LOTS of fun.
Once our arms were too sore to fling the WiMotes around anymore it was time for the deserts, Pumpkin Pie(of course) Apple Cranberry crunch top pie with caramel sauce and the best No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie, delish!

Today was for rest, all I did was till the indoor arena and then take Holi mare for a nice trail ride, probably the last day that will be nice enough to head out there.

I hope all of you(who celebrated) had a great Turkey Day as well :D

I've often considered what attracts different people to religion and what purposes religion has served in society.  Recently, I've been thinking of the converse: what makes people reject religion and the different reasons why people are either atheists or agnostics.

I think there are several reasons, often depending on each particular person's personality and outlook on life.  A few types immediately came to mind:

First, are the scientific types, who reject religion because there is no proof as to its claims, because it defies reason and logic.

Second, are the "pull yourself up by your own boostraps" types, who view religion as a crutch and a haven for the weak who refuse to stand on their own two feet.

Third, are the hedonists and non-conformists who view religion as a series of lists with arbitrary and outmoded rules about moral behavior that are negative in nature.  To them, religion can be summed up as "Don't Do This" and see religion as a way to suck all the joy out of life.

These are the three types that most readily come to mind.  Personally, as an agnostic, I'm a mixture of reasons one and three.  I'm not so much the second reason, because I have no problem with whatever gets people through the night, as it doesn't affect my freedom to do differently.

Feel free to chime in with more types of skeptics and unbelievers.

Can you imagine this bimbo explaining this one to her grandchildren forty years from now?  That is, if she can get laid to bear any children in the first place!

Another “classy” tattoo

Bible verses and tramp stamps — the perfect combo!

This last one isn’t a tramp stamp, but I’m guessing the owner of these tattoos has absolutely no desire to ever get laid again:

http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/11/20/first-birthday-and-vocalisation-course/

Tis tasteh, you should try it
Soup

The other day while out driving, I was monitoring the Neal Boortz show, looking for ranty blogging fodder.  And, as is almost always the case, I found what I was looking for.

Because it was Veteran's Day, he was relating anecdotes with that theme in mind.  He told a story about a man attacked by four muggers in an alley in Milwaukee.  They stripped all his belongings from him, but when the gang's leader went through his wallet, he found the man's military ID card.  Seeing this, he told the other muggers to give everything back to the man.  After this had been done, the leader apologized to the man and thanked him for his service before leaving him to go about his business.

I'd thought this was a nice feel-good story -- and it was -- until Boortz had to open his big mouth at the end and turn it into a political opportunity.

I don't recall the exact words, but he said something to the effect that wasn't it something that these criminals had more respect for our troops than most liberals did.

What a fucking moron.   Many liberals may not support the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it doesn't mean we don't support the people over there putting their lives on the line every day.  Many of us have family members serving in the military and who have previously served or have served themselves at some point in time.  My father served in WWII, as well as several of my uncles.  I had cousins and younger uncles who are Vietnam era veterans.  The fact that I am proud of their service doesn't make me any less of a liberal, nor does my being a liberal make me any less proud of their service.

I did find it interesting, however,  that on the highlights of November 11th's show on his website that the reference to this story did not include the crack about liberals that went out over the air.  Instead, it said:

  This story caused me to think ... to wonder if all of us give our men and women in uniform and our veterans the respect these criminals did.  I think that generally we do ... I certainly hope I'm right.

If he'd said exactly this on the air, I'd have had no problem with him and I'd not be reporting about it today on my blog.

The difference was that the printed version was inclusive and the broadcast version was divisive.   But Boortz doesn't gain listeners by simply reminding everyone that our veterans deserve respect; rather, he appeals to the lowest common denominator by appealing to their baser instincts, thus throwing the jab at liberals in so his listeners could project their feelings out onto some group they could be self-righteously against.  He doesn't inspire people to think, but rather he whips up the amorphous outrage of the masses.

Styles is gone, blah, blah, blah

Horses are good, blah, blah, blah

Have to cook things for Thanksgiving, Blah, Blah, Blah

on thing of import to post, my friend Pam(who moved here from my home area and then moved back there this summer) had to put one of her horses(Spice) down yesterday, it is very sad and very shocking, this was the younger of her two horses and while she was mentally preparing herself to loose Sheba(at 29 with cancer) she was planing on having Spice(17 and no health problems) for a good few years yet and to have her through the loss of Sheba.

What follows is a trivia quiz about American Presidents:

1. Who was the shortest president?

2. Which two presidents share the tallest president title?

3. Who was the last president not to have a college degree?

4. Who was the only bachelor president?

5. Who was the only two-term president not to serve consecutive terms?

6. Which president published his own version of the New Testament?

7. Who was the last president not to leave the White House at the end of his term as a millionaire?

8. Who was the first president to be born in a hospital?

9. Who was the last president to be born in the 19th century?

10. Which president was married to a woman young enough to be his daughter?

11. Which president was married to his cousin?

12. Who was the only president who wasn't elected to be either president or vice president?

13. Which president sired an out-of-wedlock daughter with his mistress in the closet of his office when he was a senator?

14. Which president was the cousin of one president and the uncle of a first lady?

15. Who was the heaviest president?

As soon as this post has several comments, I will post the answer key in a comment at the bottom.