manlypoodlekip

The DOW is around 14,980 as I write this. That’s good for the teacher’s pension fun and what’s good for the fund is good for America. Now about Kobe, he is in a legal battle with an auction house as his mother is selling some of his old sports stuff. To me it is all sort of sad and it’s too bad this had to happen. Who is right? I don’t know. What if my mother tried to sell the basketball jersey I wore while playing for the 902nd Radar Squadron or the LACES jersey from 1986? Could they be worth more than a half million? Actually I lost them or worse so we will never know. Anyway Kobe it would be great if this were settled before Mother’s Day. Now to some really important health news. A study in Sweden found that infants whose parents cleaned their child’s pacifiers by sucking on them lead to a decrease in food allergies, asthma, and hay fever in the child. So glad that as an infant I was allowed to eat the good earth of Eastern New Mexico. That brings me to comment on the upcoming Lone Ranger movie.I grew up listening to the Lone Ranger on radio.I never pictured Tonto looking like Johnny Depp. That being said I look forward to the movie. Must see Iron Man 3 and the new Star Trek. I really like these art house productions. Enjoy the rain. Oh, one last thing, just read that the earth may have been totally covered with ice about 650,000,000 years ago. I hope this rain is not the start of a new such ice age.

Just got back from another walk through the hills of Eagle Rock with Manlypoodlekip. As I walked I began to ponder what happened to life on Mars. What if the intelligent life on Mars had become extremely germophobic and were all using a solution that killed 99.99% of the germs? Now as centuries passed that .01% evolved and combined all the traits of bacteria, fungus, virus and prions. And perhaps some even worse Mars stuff. The creatures burrow into the soil and grow and grow and finally all emerge on one day as a 200 pound mass of bulgy eyes, poison hairs and a giant mouth full of long teeth. Within minutes they have eaten everything on the planet and began to eat each other. A few giant creatures become bloated and float high into the atmosphere before exploding and destroying the CO2 layer. Now you know what I think about on the walks. Just read that some meat suppliers in China were passing rat meat off as mutton. That doesn’t bother me as I eat neither.

JCPenney is back! I feel that this is important for the cultural continuity of our great nation. It was bad enough when Kentucky Fried Chicken morphs into KFC. When I was young, sometime after the Big Bang, there were three department stores that just were. Wards, Sears, and JCPenneys, Wards has become extinct and Sears struggles and JCPenney became JCP. And the masses turned away. No more sales and a new CEO. You can imagine my joy today to see a Sunday ad for JCPenney and there were sales. On that positive note I leave you all to bask in the joy of a cool Sunday.

A big news day. First the economy. The DOW was over 15,000 for a bit and closed at a record high. The unemployment rate fell. Maybe it’s time to give retired teaches a big bonus but only if we agree to spend it within hours. This might help to get younger Americans back to work. We could only spend it where they are working or would be hired. You can now see why the President
has not hired me as an economic advisor. France is going into recession and the the Eurozone unemployment rate may reach 12.5%. Egypt’s birthrate is climbing. Egypt has a population of 86,000,000. It has a lot of land but a lot of sand. And tourists are staying away. I wish them well.
Read an article on GM crops in Scientific American. There are some super weeds. In my next movie retired teachers superheroes will battle the weeds to save the world. Iron Man gave us a middle aged superhero. It’s time for the oldies.

The good news is that we just keep on and you have babies, adopt animals, find new loves , new places to eat and great adventures around the world. Kip and I both agree that the positive greatly out weights the negative. The solar powered airplane has taken off from near San Francisco. One negative note on solar power several workers on a solar panel project have come down with Valley Fever or something like that. I used to think that just effected those who disturbed the final resting places of mummies. On that note I close and wish you great weekend.

There is a giant storm on Saturn and it’s eye is 12 times as big as the UK. The winds are over 330 miles per hour . That is fast but I read that someone was trying to make a car that would go 1000 MPH. What a fast and furious way to get to work if it would drive itself. Oh just say the movie, Mud. I don’t give stars in my reviews.But I felt that it was DURN GOOD! And speaking of storms just read that a number of people were killed in flash floods in Saudi Arabia. All the papers ran a story of cannibalism in Jamestown in the terrible winter of 1609-10. Those were some really tough times. And one of my big crisis is not finding a mate for my socks.

Good news for feral hog lovers. It seems that wild hogs are now present in 47 states and are causing significant damage to crops and the environment. Rules about messing with these wild porkers-don’t. They are big, aggressive and meaner than a teacher in the morning who hasn’t had their 7-11 coffee. But if you love to hunt them it is good news. Also just read in a study that women liked men with a heavy stubble. Apparently, the study says, women feel they would make better fathers. A light stubble did not have the same effect. No study of the appeal of a white beard except children liked it when connected with reindeer, presents, and a ho! ho! ho! from the rooftop. Oh, almost forgot about the Tiger Sharks. Apparently they fight to the death before they are born. Only the baddest live to help the species be the more baddest. It would probably not be wise to be a passive unborn Tiger Shark. On that note I wish you a wonderful May Day.