Free Diet Plan for FAT Butts
May 31, 2008
~~or as I can it, “The Tuff Love Diet”~~
If you are sincere about losing weight, these are not tips that you are going to find inside of weight loss for dummies or some $17 E~Book online. This is a direct, no holds barred, straight to the point, free diet plan that will help anyone who is serious about tackling this issue of too much weight once and for all.
Push-Aways
Let’s start with a simple but vastly misunderstood exercise of “push-aways.” Many of you may have already heard about how beneficial push~aways are as a daily exercise while others are hearing about them for the first time. So, let’s get to how they are accomplished. Read more
GOLF Shoes - GOLF Jokes
May 31, 2008
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Playing Golf
Once upon a time a married man was having an affair with his secretary. One day, their passions overcame them and they took off for her house, where they had passionate relations all afternoon. Exhausted, they fell asleep and awoke at around 8 p.m.
Baby Boomer Queen’s 7 Bean Chili Recipe
May 31, 2008
This is my Fabulous Quick and Easy 7 Vegan Bean Chili
OK, Baby Boomers, It is time for me to “SPILL THE BEANS” and give you my 7 Bean Chili Recipe.
Ingredient’s:
Use ORGANIC when possible!
2 tablespoon virgin olive oil
1/2 to 1 medium onion, chopped
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons of parsley
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 tablespoons dried oregano
1 tablespoon sea salt (I do not use with salt, I use garlic power instead)
1/2 teaspoon garlic power
2 stalks celery, chopped finely
1 green bell peppers, chopped
Optional…2 jalapeno peppers, with out seeds, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 (4 ounce) cans chopped green chile peppers, drained
3 (28 ounce) cans whole peeled tomatoes, crushed
~OR~ 2 pounds of blanched, peeled Roma tomatoes
1/4 cup chili powder
1 tablespoon ground black pepper or 1/2 tablespoon red pepper if you like it HOT Read more
Wal Mart Stores SAVES Discount Prices
May 30, 2008
Wal~Mart puts the squeeze on food costs…
Wally World, as a retailer, is using its clout with vendors to hold onto its everyday low discount prices.
I, for one, am proud of them! I am NOT a big Wal~Mart fan. And haven’t been since Big Daddy Sam Walmart, went to big retail heaven. I can not remember when the last time I was in one…I think two years ago Christmas, doing an errand for a friend.
For those of us in the real world, the price of gas has effected not only our pocket books and wallets but what we are buying and how much. Those cupboards are not full as they used to be.
Wal~Mart has rolled back prices on hundreds of items this year, by as much as 30%. And that means savings passed directly to you, the consumers!
YEAH WAL~MART!
Here are some ways that Wal~Mart is keeping their discount prices down…
You know Baby Boomers…I think I am going to head over to Wal~Mart and get one of their Wal~Mart oven baked, “sugar free” pies. They are almost two dollars cheaper than their competitor and now I know why!
HOWEVER…and those of you who read my blog on a regular basis knew this was coming…My biggest rant about Wal~Mart is that they are knocking the little and medium businesses out of the game. They can not compete with Wally World. Cutting the competitive field to a virtual zero! BOOOoooo bad Wal~Mart!
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
Oldest DOG in the World…”BELLA”
May 29, 2008
Bella, the oldest dog in the world with her humans, David Richardson and Daisy Cooper
BELLA considered to be the oldest dog in the world, lives in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.
Her human counterpart, David Richardson, 76, has no documentation to prove her precise date of birth and so Bella’s extraordinary longevity will never enter the record books.
PAW Note: that it is not something that Bella cares about.
She is happy to have her favorite spot in her English garden and get the extra attention.
203 years young in Doggie years or 29 years young in people years, Bella is a Labrador cross and as you can see from her pictures she is graying as all of us do and not the bouncing dog she once was, since she has a bit of arthritis in her legs. (don’t we all??)
But, do not cut her short. Only last year at the Dronfield show, Bella competed in a team with three other “family” dogs and beat younger pedigrees to the top prize. GO BELLA!
Mr. Richardson SAVED Bella by supporting his local RSPCA Rescue Center for £70, on June 21, 1982, when she was “about three years old”. And they have been best friends and companions ever since. Three cheers for saving Bella, Mr Richardson!
And with most of her teeth missing [only two front teeth remaining], she can no longer manage to gnaw on the remnants of a leg of lamb. So, her diet now consists of shredded chicken, fish, boiled liver and best tinned stewing steak, mackerel and sardines. Bon appetit, Bella!
Bella still manages her favorite daily treat, sucking a toffee sweet while lying in her basket.
Mr Richardson, is also owned by a Border collie, has won a number of prizes at dog shows during their “26 years together”.
The world’s oldest ever official dog was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey. He was eventually put to sleep in 1939, aged 29 years and five months.
Until his death in 2003, the only other official Guinness World Records holder was Butch, a 28 year old Beagle from Virginia, USA, who held the title of “oldest living dog”.
Good luck Bella! Who cares about that stinkin’ Guinness Book of World Records!
BOW WOW
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
Sources and PICs: The Daily Mail.co.uk
Bella is a good dog…but if your dog is like my Wired Haired Fox Terrier, Hannah…you might want to refer to this link! Dog Lovers…for easy dog training, for any breed of dog, I recommend it!
Political Propaganda Campaign~Manipulated Public Opinion
May 28, 2008
Now here is something that will not surprise at least one third of the population.
The American public has been lead around by the nose ring for almost eight years.
Sucked into war, that has lost our friends, children and loved ones.
Our country on the verge of a depression if not actually in one.
We are so far in a sink hole of national debt that if you shoved 7 buses and 7 caterpillars and 7 mini vans down into the abyss, you would still have room left over.
Old people, children and homeless (which the numbers are steadily climbing) are going to bed hungry every night.
We are financing a war instead of helping Americans who financially down, hungry, ill and infirmed.
People are losing their homes faster than you can say “Jack Flash.” And still interest rates are high, building is down as well as sales of homes and products.
Business are closing right and left.
Energy is at an all time high and NOTHING has been done for 8 years to levitate or change that situation!
The average person can not afford health care.
The average person can not afford gas for their car.
Educational needs are being met for teachers or actual schools.
College education is NOT affordable for the average American.
Old Americans and the poor are dying during the summer because they can not afford air conditioning and dying from the cold in winter because energy is to high.
Even the price of rice and flour are sky high. Food is a privilege for only half of the nation.
And yet you wonder why crime is high. And drugs are rampant,
Yes, Baby Boomers I am on a rant today and it is articles like this that make my blood boil. If this article is not something that will get your butt up and go vote, nothing will.
Continue to be complacent, choose door one…keep the old regime in or go choose door two and get someone who has a new out look, new vision, new ideas and the balls to use them. Do not choose a puppet who only gain is self centered and not that of the Nation that he was sworn to protect and serve.
I say it is time for some spring cleaning!
OUT with the old and IN with the new!
Now here is the article that has me flipping out, like pancakes in a hot skillet…
When I first heard about Scott McClellan leaving his position in the Bush Administration, I thought…”the rats are starting to leave the sinking ship!” And when the rats start to leave a sinking ship, Baby Boomers…you had better have your life jacket on! Baby Boomers, that ship IS going down! And if you have never seen a sinking ship…just remember…that it creats a vortex with it and it will SUCK everything and anyone around it down with it, as well!
Scott McClellan, I do not give you clemency! You will not go down in history as the man who blew the whistle…but as the man who stayed to the last minute. I give you the same evil eye that I give President Bush, his den of thieves, pirates and cut throats.
You stayed, you took and you are only now coming clean. You could have had this book come out earlier so that the primaries would be different. If you are not part of the solution, you are still part of the pollution!
I end my comments with two old sayings or additives…
The apple never falls far from the tree…!
and
Birds of a feather, flock together…!
FEED UP, Stired up and put off…
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
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Ex~Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” and “downplaying the major reason for going to war.”
McClellan includes the charges in a 341 page book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” that delivers a harsh look at the White House and the man he served for close to a decade. He describes Bush as demonstrating a “lack of inquisitiveness,” says the White House operated in “permanent campaign” mode, and admits to having been deceived by some in the president’s inner circle about the leak of a CIA operative’s name.
The book, coming from a man who was a tight lipped defender of administration aides and policy, is certain to give fuel to critics of the administration, and McClellan has harsh words for many of his past colleagues. He accuses former White House adviser Karl Rove of misleading him about his role in the CIA case. He describes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as being deft at deflecting blame, and he calls Vice President Cheney “the magic man” who steered policy behind the scenes while leaving no fingerprints.
McClellan stops short of saying that Bush purposely lied about his reasons for invading Iraq, writing that he and his subordinates were not “employing
out~and~out deception” to make their case for war in 2002.
But in a chapter titled “Selling the War,” he alleges that the administration repeatedly shaded the truth and that Bush “managed the crisis in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option.”
“Over that summer of 2002,” he writes, “top Bush aides had outlined a strategy for carefully orchestrating the coming campaign to aggressively sell the war. . . In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president’s advantage.”
McClellan, once a staunch defender of the war from the podium, comes to a stark conclusion, writing, “What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”
Scott McClellan resigned from the White House on April 19, 2006, after nearly three years as Bush’s press secretary. The departure was part of a shake up engineered by new Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten that also resulted in Rove surrendering his policy management duties.
A White House spokeswoman declined to comment on the book, some contents of which were first disclosed by Politico.com. The Washington Post acquired a copy of the book yesterday, in advance of its official release Monday.
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(Sott McClellan=PAID Manure Spreader, PIC cartoons and byline by ~The Baby Boomer Queen~)
Responding to a request for comment, McClellan wrote in an E~mail: “Like many Americans, I am concerned about the poisonous atmosphere in Washington. I wanted to take readers inside the White House and provide them an open and honest look at how things went off course and what can be learned from it. Hopefully in some small way it will contribute to changing Washington for the better and move us beyond the hyper~partisan environment that has permeated Washington over the past 15 years.”
The criticism of Bush in the book is striking, given that it comes from a man who followed him to Washington from Texas.
Bush is depicted as an out~of~touch leader, operating in a political bubble, who has stubbornly refused to admit mistakes. McClellan defends the president’s intellect, “Bush is plenty smart enough to be president,” he writes, but casts him as unwilling or unable to be reflective about his job.
“A more self~confident executive would be willing to acknowledge failure, to trust people’s ability to forgive those who seek redemption for mistakes and show a readiness to change,” he writes.
In another section, McClellan describes Bush as able to convince himself of his own spin and relates a phone call he overheard Bush having during the 2000 campaign, in which he said he could not remember whether he had used cocaine. “I remember thinking to myself, ‘How can that be?’ ” he writes.
The former aide describes Bush as a willing participant in treating his presidency as a permanent political campaign, run in large part by his top political adviser, Rove.
“The president had promised himself that he would accomplish what his father had failed to do by winning a second term in office,” he writes. “And that meant operating continually in campaign mode: never explaining, never apologizing, never retreating. Unfortunately, that strategy also had less justifiable repercussions: never reflecting, never reconsidering, never compromising. Especially not where Iraq was concerned.”
McClellan has some kind words for Bush, calling him “a man of personal charm, wit and enormous political skill.” He writes that the president “did not consciously set out to engage in these destructive practices. But like others before him, he chose to play the Washington game the way he found it, rather than changing the culture as he vowed to do at the outset of his campaign for the presidency.”
McClellan charges that the campaign~style focus affected Bush’s entire presidency. The ill~fated Air Force One flyover of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina struck the city, was conceived of by Rove, who was “thinking about the political perceptions” but ended up making Bush look “out of touch,” he writes.
He says the White House’s reaction to Katrina was more than just a public relations disaster, calling it “a failure of imagination and initiative” and the result of an administration that “let events control us.” He adds: “It was a costly blunder.” McClellan admits to letting himself be deceived about the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, which resulted in his relentless pounding by the White House press corps over the activities of Rove and of Cheney aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in the matter.
“I could feel something fall out of me into the abyss as each reporter took a turn whacking me,” he writes of the withering criticism he received as the story played out. “It was my reputation crumbling away, bit by bit.” He also suggests that Rove and Libby may have worked behind closed doors to coordinate their stories about the Plame leak. Late last year, McClellan’s publisher released an excerpt of the book that suggested Bush had knowledge of the leak, something that won McClellan no friends in the administration.
As McClellan departed the White House, he said: “Change can be helpful, and this is a good time and good position to help bring about change. I am ready to move on.”
He choked up as he told Bush on the South Lawn, “I have given it my all, sir, and I have given you my all.”
Bush responded at the time: “He handled his assignments with class, integrity. He really represents the best of his family, our state and our country. It’s going to be hard to replace Scott.”
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Source: The Washington Post, Michael D. Shear and
Michael Abramowitz,Washington Post Staff Writers.
LAUGH IN, Dick Martin dies
May 28, 2008
You did not grow up in the 60’s and not watch “Roman and Martin’s Laugh In” therefore, you simply could not know who Dick Martin was!
“Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” took TV by storm in the late 1960s. And this Baby Boomer, was one of their fans!
Personally, of Laugh In’s cast, Goldie Hawn, Arte Gibson and Lily Tomlin were my favorites…
But it was Dick Martin, who created such national catch~phrases as “Sock it to me!.” Other catch~phrases were “You bet your sweet bippy” and “Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall’s”…were spoken all across the US. You just couldn’t say them and not laugh or remember something hilarious about the show!
“Laugh-in,” which debuted in January 1968, was unlike any comedy variety show before it, the show offered up a steady, almost stream of consciousness run of non sequitur jokes, political satire and madhouse antics from a cast of talented young actors and comedians that also included Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Jo Anne Worley and that great voice announcer, Gary Owens. And many great guests, even President Richard Nixon!
Presiding over “Laugh In” was Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, the veteran nightclub comics, whose stand up banter put their own distinct spin on the show. Dressed in suits or Tux’s, more then not.
Like all straight men, Dan Rowan provided the voice of reason, striving to correct his partner’s absurdities. Dick Martin, meanwhile, was full of bogus, seldon non~risque theories about life, which he appeared to hold with unwavering certainty…which my Mother could not tolerate! She would not watch the show! That was proof enough to me it was totally COOL and Groovy…it was happening!
After Laugh In stopped in 1973, Rowan and Martin capitalized on their fame with a series of high paid engagements around the country until they parted amicably, in 1977. I for one, never got to see one of them, but would have gone, had they been in my area.
Dan Martin who had severe diabetes, slipped out of show business after his doctor advised him “to cool it,” and became a sailing enthusiast, spent his last years touring the canals of Europe on a houseboat. He died in 1987.
Dick Martin however, moved onto the game show circuit, but quickly tired of that and soon became one of the industry’s busiest TV directors, he worked on numerous episodes of “Newhart” as well as such shows as “In the Heat of the Night,” “Archie Bunker’s Place” and “Family Ties.”
Dick Martin died Saturday night, May 24, 2008, just after 6pm, of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica. He was of course, surrounded by family and friends.
Survivors include his wife Dolly Reed (an ex~Playboy Bunny from London) and two sons, actor Richard Martin and Cary Martin.
At Martin’s request there will be no funeral.
“You bet your sweet bippy,” I will miss Dick Martin. May he rest in peace and may his family and friends know that there are still fans out here, like me, who will always remember him.
“Sock it to me…”
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
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