Neanderpundit

For quite a very few years I carried this knife:

Earlier this year, I got my hands on this knife:. It allowed me to park the old one.

And then the friday before my vacation, it disapeared.

I had to put dad’s knife back in my pocket. I was terrified I’d lose it.

See, I have only one wish at the end of my life, and that is to be buried with as little cerimony as possible, with the knife dad gave me in my pocket, wrapped in the wool Hudson’s Bay point blanket the Ogwife gave me while we were dating.

Anyway, I was trimming some trees today, and stumbled onto the replacement knife, half buried in the grass next to the hickory in our front yard. I’d mowed yesterday, and probably missed mowing it by less than an inch. I might well have dropped it from my pants when driving the mower. Had I walked a foot to the right or left I would have missed it altogether.

And Dad’s knife went back into the gun safe, and the replacement back intpo my pocket. All is right with the world.

Over here, Eli’s own son is talking about unintended consequences.

Now, I know most people are gonna get their panties in a knot about this, and I don’t give a shit. This isn’t a discussion about abortion, but about something a whole lot more important.

I also have no desire to go on at Eli’s site, because I consider it rude, and I would not be rude to Eli at gunpoint. I disagree with him, and here’s the whys and wherefores.

If you’re a cabbie, and you don’t want to carry around someone who might be toting a BLT on whole wheat, because it’s not halal, good for you. Go wash cars instead. At that level there are LOT of jobs available.

If you’re a doctor, and you are a practicing Catholic, performing an abortion endangers your very soul.

First and foremost, a doctor- even a Catholic one- would NEVER refuse to perform an abortion on a woman whose child endangered her life, so let’s leave that aside. It’s a non issue, period. The issues is, a woman goes to a doctor she knows has a problem with abortion, he refuses, she sues him/her. This is not happening because not enough doctors are performng abortions. This is happening because people have an ambition to destroy religious people by forcing them to commit mortal sins.

We can make accomodations for the handicapped. Gay people. Rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. How about a little love for doctors trying to do their jobs?

New weight loss plan

Having been around the weight loss merry go round forever, until I finally got off and had the lap band, I can empathise with all the folks who haven’t gotten that far.

So I have a new plan.

Weight Wise Guys.

Guy shows up at your house

“Hey, dere. T’anx for joinin da weight wise guys. I got dis here scale and I wants youse to have a step up on here please.”

“Oh, two-seventy. That’s fine. Youse really needed some of our help dere. Now I’m gonna come back here in a couple weeks with Vinny. See Vinny? yeah, he stays outside. He kinda has problems coming in through doors. In two weeks, we’s gonna step you up on dis here scale again, and if youse isn’t down to two sixty Vinny’s gonna hang on to your windpipe and I’m gonna break a couple of your fingers makin it more difficult for youse to eat so much, kapeesh? Now you got any ice cream in the house? Vinny likes rocky road special. Yeah, put some Bosco on it, if you got some. ”

I know better than I ought to say how the threat of torture will cause people to mortgage their homes and their children’s futures to pay gambling debts, imagine what an effective weight loss program it would be.