DISPATCHES FROM THE GHOST MOOSE

Remember when.... Easter was the most solemn Catholic holiday...Jesus died for our sins on Friday was reborn on Sunday....a joyous holiday...everyone dressed up in their easter finery.....then the scandal exposing priests as an organized group of child molesters....that pretty much did it for me and recoginzing Catholocism as the way of God.  Remember when.... downtown Chicago was a place to go and look at the tall buildings.  look at the hustle and bustle.  look at a city that worked.  now this: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/03/30/breaking-chicago-police-swarm-mag-mile-wilding-scene/ mobs of wild, uncivilized urban youths descending on the loop and attacking all in their way.  of course, it is not reported as if it were a heinous crime like someone getting slow service at Denny's. wow - America has become a shithole beyond salvation, hasn't it?  and we have 4 more years of social justice to look forward to. Happy Easter, all.

still chilly out there.  the weather is going to be cold for the Sox opener on Monday.  baseball starts a month too early and ends a month too late.   day 8 of the health club.  I didn't do much yesterday, so I will push it a bit today.  I used the new grill yesterday - very nice.  once I took the grates off the old one to move it, I could see it was pretty much done.  8 years of cooking hamburgers will do that.  hopefully the new one will last 8 years.  will any of us last the next 8 years?  the golf swing is coming along.  well, at least hitting balls in an inflated dome.  playing on a real course will be the true test, and with the weather we are having, it may be july before we play for real.  or fo realz.  our president says America can do better.  does he mean we can do better at picking a president? http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-america-can-do-better_712212.html he has a plan to s...

Good Friday.  I remember when, at catholic school, Good Friday was a big deal.  now, not so much. day 7 in a row at the health club.  last day of vacation.  back to the grind monday.  and 2013 will be 25% gone....wow.  did I ever tell you how fast time flies????  maybe I did. besides me and Kazz, there probably aren't too many Get a Life fans out there.  there was an episode where Chris orders a submarine, and 10 years later a huge box is delivered to his house.  he opens the box and hundreds of parts fall out.....I just spent about 3 hours putting a new gas grill together, and that is what it felt like.  the grill looks great in the store, and when you buy it, they bring out a huge box.  when you get home and open the box, you quickly realize what hell you have taken on.  but it is together.  and ready for use.  grilling....just the right thing to do with your idle hand while drinking beer.  excuse m...

My week off is slipping away.  I guess I should keep my streak of consecutive days to the health club alive....5 and counting.  remember during the presidential campaign, michelle obama touting obamacare, saying "the medical tests will be available at no extra cost"? well, look at the story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/obamacare-medical-claims-costs_n_2956986.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular i guess in her world, the cost to a parasite will not go up...because those who are actually paying for things will just cover the cost of the parasites.  just like a cell phone will be available to parasites at no extra cost - because the rest of us (the 50% actually paying for things that they use or consume) will be taxed so their parasitic lifestyle continues unabated.  we, in no way, want our parasites to feel any obligation to pay for their own keep.  that goes agaist the credo of parasites.  our parasites are entitled and aggressive.  an...

The sun is out, but still too chilly to golf.  I have been working on my taxes and was ready to efile, but i kept getting an exception. so, I called the ss number and was told my ss# did not match the ss on file...which makes sense SINCE I HAVE ONLY HAD THAT NUMBER FOR 52 YEARS.  so, they told me I had to go to an ss office to get the change made, so I can pay my fair share.   so, I go there, park and walk in.  and every one of the 100+ chairs in there occupied by a non-american.  obama's amerika...welcome to it.   i would imagine not too many were there to get set up to start paying taxes.  these were the new crop of parasites...climb aboard, all....plenty of welfare and phones for you. what a shithole this country has become.  I suppose michelle obama is proud of it...or, she will be when she gets back from vacation.  again...america - what a shithole it has become...well, 47% of it, anyway.  but, obama will shit all o...

we're in the home stretch of March.  just feels like January.  and I am off this week and can enjoy this shit weather.  but, good to be off.  maybe I will clean out the garage.  I was at the heath club at 7 am today, so that is a start.  didn't do much when I was there, but I was there.  if you haven't seen "Alone in the Wilderness" I highly recommed it.  a guy that spent years alone in the wilderness, dropped trees, made logs, built a cabin, and lived up in Alaska for decades.  watch it - it is a fascinating film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss so on Saturday, I was going to use 8 landscape timbers I had, cut 2 in half (with a power saw) and make a planter box, just in case it ever warms up I can plant the pumpkin seeds to be dug up by squirrels.  but anyway, after cutting 2 timbers, drilling a few holes, and screwing the now 8 pieces of wood together, I was ready to take a break.  watch the film and see wha...

I haven't posted since Wednesday.  time just gets away if you let it.  still no sign of spring.  may snow today.  enough already.  I'm off this week.  weather will suck, but it will be good to be off.  maybe I will find something constructive to do.  or not. http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/23/us/georgia-baby-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 funny how obama weighs in on the trayvon martin case, but nary a peep when a white, defenseless baby is shot by a black kid for no reason. as I have written before, scumbaggery knows no race - there are shitbags of all colors.  but, why would the president have an opinion on one situation, but none on a similar, yet reversed circumstance?  I guess the baby is too young to be part of the 47% or to rely on govt handouts and free phones. what a godless shithole this country has become.  the days of the norman rockwell america are gone forever.  those nice paintings rockwell must have offended the...