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Moon Over Angel Island
Sausalito, Moon over Angel Island, Tiburon, California
TSA Tyrannical Shameful Acts
(T)otally (S)enseless (A)ntics
C.S. Lewis said that the worst tyranny comes from the people or persons who claim that the thing they are doing to you, is what you need for your protection and your own good.
Our government has deemed it necessary to protect us. In the most nasty humiliating, disgusting and inefficient manner, they posture, gesture and on the whole, monkey around as they direct us, sheep and cattle, down one aisle or another to be groped and fondled, scanned and ogled.
This ineffective, ineffectual way of dealing with their own inadequacy has inconvenienced millions of people so that the manufacturers and the thieves who made those scanners would profit from the fear they instill in our feeble hearts. [Read more…] about TSA Tyrannical Shameful Acts
Groundhog Phil Breakfast, even.
Ancient traditions have used animals to predict the weather for centuries. But Groundhog Day is a relatively new thing.
Farmers in Germany, waited for late winter to watch the hibernating hedgehog, to come out of his burrow. If the hedgehog saw his shadow, on a bright, sunlit day, he quickly returned to hibernate…therefore, solidifying the prediction, of six more weeks of winter, for German farmers.
When the Germans, settled in Pennsylvania, they brought the old belief with them; replacing the hedgehog, with the more common American, Groundhog.
In 1993 Bill Murray made the delightful movie called Groundhog Day, which is well worth watching, always. In it, he visits, as a reporter, the town that celebrates this day with gusto, where he gets stuck there for days; but meets the famous Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog.
Punxsutawney Phil is a celebrity, or may even be, the most famous weather forecaster in the USA. Every year, the world’s paparazzi are in attendance in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on February 2nd; as all of America, awaits with frosty breath for Phil to appear.
You can visit the official website for the Groundhog Day celebration. This year they are even hosting a yearly Breakfast with Phil! Yum….
Enjoy!
http://www.groundhog.org/
Nightmare Flight Passengers
Dear Baba Rumcake,
As usual, at the airport, the line was long, the passengers irritated and the workers at their wits’ end. No one to blame, just the way things were.
But, when some annoying, disgusting, family of four, decided to cut the line, in front of everyone else, getting to the agent, before all of us, it was ugly.
“Do we have to go to the end of the line,” asked, the annoying, whiny female of the group.
Who are these people? Where do they come from? Who taught them manners?
Exasperated in Exeter
Dear Exasperated,
Standing in line, to get on the airplane, is never fun, anymore. It used to be, so much, fun to fly. Those people you just mentioned are the same people who cut in line at the grocery store, or the movie theater or to get on a bus.
Those are the same people who have no manners, chewing with their mouths open and wipe from back to front because no one taught them any better.
The agent, I am sure, did not want to engage these lovely creatures. Those are the same people who having too much luggage, they trudge, down the walkway, bumping every wall, on the way.
Where do these delightful people, end up sitting? You got it! They sit right behind your seat. No room for them, so, they kept bumping their knees against your seat, over and over again. Making the whole flight, a bump and grind.
They will try, to get out first, but alas, it might be impossible so they proceed to discuss their upcoming holiday, which no one cares about, in a loud voice. Waiting for the rest of the plane to unload, they complain, bitterly, about the crowded quarters.
Four fully grown adults who are pricks. I’m sorry. You were telling me, about your, flight. No matter.
They may be the same family that I flew out with the other month.
Blessings on your next flight.
Baba Rumcake