Stupid bird tricks…

Scarlet O'Hare is back…well not really. Christmas eve my son got his bird. He wanted an African Gray for Christmas and Santa was good to him. He lost Gary about 6 weeks before Christmas and was devastated by it. So this is his new bird, Scarlet.

Only 4 hours and she seems to love him as much as Gary did…sits on his lap while he plays his games…lets him take pictures of her without flinching and only bites him once in a while…J

Open letter to Senator Reid

Senator Reid,

I see that you are proud of your healthcare bill you are pushing through the Senate before Christmas. Sir I believe you are ether a simple minded fool or your are corrupt beyond my wildest imagination. This kind of legislation does nothing more for helping health care in the nation than unions do for workers in the modern day.

Please give everyone an early Christmas gift and postpone the vote until after the holidays, this headlong rush into socialism is foolhardy and dangerous for our country.

Senator Reid, I call you Senator because that is the position you hold, not because I believe you deserve any respect for holding it, when you respond to me please use Mr. Petty as I'm damn sure I deserve what little respect that offers.

Mr. Petty

Sleeping with the dogs or no rest on vacation

My ex and kids went to Wyoming to visit grandparents and do a little snowboarding. I sure hope they had fun. I can't wait until they get home. I miss the kids and believe it or not I miss the ex. My ex wife has spoiled our family dogs to the point of me not being able to sleep while they are gone…

They left on Thursday evening, when I got home from the airport the remaining dogs we have at the house greeted me like I was their long lost brother. It's a wonderful thing to have an animal love you like that, and we have four today. I said today because my ex rescues miniature pinchers and from one day to the next you never know how many we may have. Anyway we have four while they are gone. Two dogs sleep in crates under blankets. They have no problem at all going to bed, as a matter of fact if I stay up later than they want to they will go snuggle up under their blanket and go to sleep without me tucking them in at all. I just have to remember to lock the crate otherwise they will get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom, or kitchen or living room…wherever they decide they want to pee.

It's the other two that inspired the title, they don't have any trouble going out in the middle of the night if they want to pee…good thing…they don't have a problem going to bed when its time. The problem is where they go to bed. Now my ex didn't want to sleep with me because I snored (her words, not mine) and I agree they dogs don't' snore but I'm not sure how she could get any more rest with what they do (maybe snoring wasn't the real reason…;-). They are min-pins if I didn't mention that before and they are short haired which means they are cold by nature, they want to be under the blanket and because they love attention they want to be under MY blanket. And at first I thought it was that they wanted it all, it isn't so. I have a California King and they are min-pins after all (hell both of them could curl up on my laptop). They want to be where I am, curled up against my butt or legs.

Good thing its winter, otherwise I'd be sleeping naked…even wearing PJ's by the time morning rolls around, my sleeping area consists of about two or three inches on the edge of my California King. Hence its 4 am and I'm writing a blog entry. These little shits are hot, they slide up against me and I slide away. The only place left to go is the floor so I wind up getting the laptop out and letting them snuggle and sleep while I write. Now my bed smells like dog, my PJ's smell like dog and now I know why the first thing in the morning my ex has to take a shower, cause I smell like dog.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when I get up in the morning the first thing Misty does is rub her sent onto my pillow, real refreshing when I come back to bed tonight…shit.

prp

Just another reason to keep governments out of the climate change science

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-summit-disarray-danish-text

Takes you to a report of how the big powerful governments of the world continue to use the science to figure out ways to control the world populations.
At some point in this climate change debacle we will be taxed to the point of the times of Robin Hood where someone will have to stand up to the oppressive governments. If this kind of things happen it will cost millions, possibly even billions…not dollars but lives.

We of course would be better off if we stopped the governments of the world now by vote as opposed to guns. If we don't then I'm afraid that my kids or their kids will have to use the gun option.

A letter to the President

Mr. President,

I am deeply saddened that you are going to Copenhagen in light of the recent email scandal about global warming. You are trying to get health care reform passed in this country that will cripple our economy, you are trying to get cap and trade passed that will take the other leg from under us and now to try and get a treaty signed in Copenhagen and ratified here which will put us to a great extent under UN control.

Mr. President we are trillions (yes that is plural) of dollars in debt and you and the congress still have our check book, we want it back.

prp

Seals vs. US Navy (Ahmed Hashim Abed)

I do understand you have not personally brought charges against our Navy Seals for the so called brutality against Ahmed Hashim Abed but I do implore you to make sure the Navy understands the consequences of their actions in pursuing this Courts-martial. While there may have been a minor infraction of the UCMJ, this kind of publically available proceeding is counterproductive to the good of the country as a whole. Secretary Napolitano of homeland security has already proclaimed me (an armed, self proclaimed conservative) as a possible domestic terrorist, but what the Navy is doing by putting these three Seals on trial, is pushing ex-military further toward the line of no confidence in the government.

Does the Navy think that by punishing these Seals for this, it will endear other citizens to want to join this organization? I can't imagine that being the case. You train these people to be the best of the best at fighting and surviving and now you consider the criminal in this case as the victim. Though you are military and have heard it all before, I will refrain from getting vulgar here and just say this case should be dismissed for lack of evidence, or as in a case where trying to sue the government, a citizen of this country was found to have 'NO STANDING' to sue (over taxes). If a citizen of this country has 'NO STANDING' to sue the government, why in the world would the Navy find Ahmed Hashim Abed to have standing to bring charges against the Navy Seals…even if the Navy is the plaintiff, charging the Seals, it still stems from someone with NO STANDING in the American system.

To me, depending on a statement from Ahmed Hashim Abed, the Navy has based its case on the Fruit of the poisonous tree. Abed has no legal standing therefore there is no basis to bring into question the actions of the Seals.

prp

Off to Copenhagen

Well our President is off to Copenhagen to promise our futures to the global community… Let's get real about global warming here. It just isn't happening like the big brains said it would. The sad part of that is that they knew it wouldn't happen the way they were telling it, even when they were telling it…

Spent the afternoon with the bird tree again

I put the base on the tree for the Christmas Parrot and my ex and my son fought with it until we wrestled into his room. Below you can see the semi finished product.

My ex will wrap some rope around the trunk so the Parrot can climb it, we have already drilled holes in it so we can hid goodies for the bird to dig out…we hope this will make her want to hang close to her tree. We have ordered natural light lights for the lamp, apparently birds need sunlight just like the rest of us. Heck I'm almost as excited to get this bird as he is…

Christmas continiued

A picture of his new bird...well again not 'the' bird but this is the new one coming home for Christmas.

They say these birds are the best talkers of the bunch and I'm sure hoping so...I'm going to wait until after my son goes back to school then I'm going to teach the bird to say 'Welcome home asshole'. I know it's something I'll live to regret but I've lived with regrets for years and this is only a little one. Besides how funny would it be for my son to come home from school and open the door to his room and the parrot say 'Welcome home asshole'.

Ok, I may not really do it but it would be funny. The worst thing that could happen though is completely different.

My ex-wife rescues miniature pinchers and currently has one she is looking for a home for. While I don't have too much trouble with that, this little dog barks at everything and has the most irritating bark I've ever heard, it may be because I've heard it so damn much but...I sure as hell don't want an African Gray Parrot 'barking' too...

prp

Christmas is on its way

As bad as it is, my son lost his beloved cockatiel, Gary, the other day.  Its always really hard to figure out just what impact that will have on a person but after the fact I found out just what the bird meant to him.  Gary really was a good bird, and loved my son as much as my son loved him.

This really wasn't a picture of Gary but it is almost an exact likeness.