Controversy!

President Obama is going to chill with the ladies on The View! Stop the presses! We can't have a sitting president do an interview on a day-time TV show, the scandal. What will the rest of the world think?

OK, we have Joy Behar - funny, straight forward, plain speaking who hits the nail on the head every time. 

Whoopi Goldberg - one of my all time favorite people on earth; she brings humor to really serious issues serves it up on a platter and makes you think about it. I've been in awe of her since the first time I saw her at the Guthrie theater in Mpls years ago. 

Sherri Shepherd - I know nothing about.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck - complete redneck, born-again christian dumbass.

and...

Barbara Walters- serious with a dry sense of humor. Let's see Barbara has interviewed Boris Yeltsin, Jiang Zemin, Margaret Thatcher, Moammar Qadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Vladmir Putin and every American President since Richard Nixon, not to mention Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Fidel Castro just to name a few. 

I think the women on The View can handle an interview with President Obama, hell I might even plug my TV in to watch it!

What do you think???

Up In Smoke

OK, so Rhory likes to pick up the local ghetto paper "BU$TED" and of course I have to read everything that I see so tonight while eating dinner I browsed through it! If you are not familiar with this paper I recommend picking one up, although I'm always afraid I will recognize someone. BU$TED is your local weekly mugshot newspaper. It's about 20 pages filled with mugshots of people arrested for a variety of reasons, I would say domestic assault, DWI and theft are the most common. There are also a few short clips, stories whatever in the paper as well. 

The "Mug of the Week" is a picture of a young male DOB: 5/26/1992 actually just a kid, from the picture he looks like a girl, make-up and long hair, he was charged with Drugs 5th degree. 

Anyway, the story that caught my fancy today was "Up In Smoke"

St. Paul- According to reports an apparent marijuana grow house went up in flames this past week. The Payne-Phalen home apparently caught fire due to overloaded electrical wiring from the high wattage heat lamps...(Big Surprise)

Police seized nearly 100 pot plants after fire fighters alerted them of the plants in the basement of the home. No one was injured in the fire and it did not appear as though anyone was living there. No reports of anyone in the neighborhood getting high from the fire. 

And after perusing the paper I have to say racial profiling does NOT work! the majority of the people in the paper were white guys.

Well I Ain't No Popeye

The sailing lessons have ended, I really enjoyed them but I can honestly say I am not Popeye or Skipper; more like Gilligan. I don't think I'm cut out for sailing. I would do good as a crew member, I can tie knots and hoist the main sail. On our last day of sailing I was able to ride along in the big boat, I was in charge of the jib sail, now that's more like it! Bigger boat and only responsible for one thing.

Sailing ended just in time for me to get hit with overtime madness as work! It's Sunday night and I've already worked 24 hours by my end tour tomorrow I'll have in 36 hours, nearly an entire weeks worth! I'm doing my best to suck it up but I gotta say I'm not liking it. I'm working 0400 to 1630, getting up at 3AM is not fun. Even tho it's only an hour and a half earlier than my normal time it seems really early. I think the fact that I haven't gotten to bed before 2200 makes a difference too. Tonight I plan to get to bed by 2030, read for a while and turn out the lights at 2100.

Friday night I went to a Twins game at the new stadium, that was lots of fun! I'm not a huge baseball fan but watching a live game in an outdoor stadium was great! I would love to take my folks sometime, they both like baseball. But I'd have to buy some expensive tickets I don't think either one of them could climb the steps to the cheap seats.

My week looks pretty open so hopefully I can finish some of the yard work and get my car washed and the oil changed. I have a cabin party to go to this weekend but I have a feeling that I'm going to have to cancel, I'm sure I'll be scheduled to work 12 hours again on Saturday and Sunday. Guess I'll wait and see.

I have a convention to go to next month in Detroit so it's time to surf the net and find something to entertain myself with for a week. What the hell I'm going to do in Detroit for a week is beyond me. I know I'll be doing union stuff for most of the day but I'll need to get out in the evenings. Maybe I can convince someone to come along with me???