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Sunday, March 1, 2009 12:23 PM

If you really want a friend, get a dog, man's best friend.

Cats are wonderful companions too, especially if you often have a few moist cat treats ready to hand out, they will rub against your legs and jump up on your desk while you work and stare affectionately into your eyes with those wonderful big green eyes of theirs.

Taking your dog out for a walk is a nice way to get fresh air and a little exercise too.

I think Jim Cramer must have a dog because, at the start of every show, he says he is not there to make friends, he just wants to make money.

Young children are even better than dogs and cats. We should spend hours and hours reading to them out loud and taping the readings too. Taping the readings, everything from "Little Bear" to "A Series of Unfortunate Events" to "Harry Potter" will keep them well occupied when you are busy with your other work around the home. Children raised like this actually have attention spans and vocabularies which help them get into the finest schools. They also develop imagination and wonderment, and an abiding affection for the parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts who read to them when they were young.

Sunday, March 1, 2009 01:40 PM

Ohh, M00ey

That was code and you were not supposed to understand it and of course you will never be able to decipher it. We must be careful to speak of dogs, cats, and even the birds of spring arriving here on this snowy day. Can't you see today's topic? Eavesdropping, eavesdropping, hint hint hint!

The children in your life are hopefully well, and not like those kindergarten kids in Gaza with their little suicide vests marching around their classroom, sir. I hope the children in your life don't mind the stench of stale cigarette smoke, not to mention the brown stained teeth and the overpowering bad breath.

Like Hillary, my life is all for the little children, and my advice on children is good advice. Too many spend too much time in front of TV's and computers. Their attention spans are often shot, so read to your grandchildren, "00000 N000000 it's My Ex!" Sit far enough away from their delicate nostrils, and read to them on tape, sir. It will give them fine memories of you after you die and go to Hell, my frem.

Sunday, March 1, 2009 01:52 PM

@Myrna Minkey Poo

Not good timing now honey bunny.

Anyways, you should like the "KITT" much better. He's play fiddle and banjo real good, just like Pete Seeger and Sara and Alvin Carter, no less.

I flunked out guitar in high school, no less.

Just so you know, when the Kitt comes around to wear the cheerleader skirt, OK?

Sunday, March 1, 2009 03:58 PM

Rocky, hopefully from Philly, you should inderstand that they are having group flasbacks.

The Bush Derangement Syndrome coupled with too much of the drugs is giving mob flashbacks even tho Bush is back on the ranch, Cheney is snowshoeing in Wyoming now, and Rumsfeld is writing a book on a beach somewhere private with turquoise seas and gentle breezes.

They want big big big cradle to grave nice government where every thing is predictable just like we have in Chicago, with no worries to sweat, as long as the big government don't catch them cheating on their taxes, growing their own unregistered smoking vegetables or buying little cheerleader skirts.

They are not worried about terrorists because that too was Bush's fault. Terrorists have magically poof disappeared because they are afraid of Michelle 0bama. They wouldn't dare getting her pissed off, never mind Oprah Winfry.

They are like the rooks flocking in circles at dusk, Rocky.

Sunday, March 1, 2009 04:28 PM

@Kitt -- I do agree with you about many many things

Next to the little children, music is my life. I even wait on tables at Village Gate long long ago, and get to see Nina Simone and Arsenio Rodriguez making the peoples dance between the tables spilling drinks all over the place. Monday Night was Latin Night, and was my favorite though the people from Spanish Harlem did not have too much money for drinks and tips, they understand rhythm and percussion better than anybody I think.

Pop Music used to include Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Neil Young {"Cortez" my fav}, Stevie Wonder, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding too. It all got horrid in the '70s for some reason. I was there in Haight-Ashbury at the Panhandle for free Grateful Dead concerts and the Human Be In at GG Park, Mister Kitt. I would not marry her, but Madonna is one heck of singer, dancer, even actress in Evita which I like very much, and one thing I got to hand it to 0bama is for stopping Hillary from being the next Evita. I think Madonna puts Brittany to shame, tho I would not love either of them at all because they are both way too high strung and very very shallow. Stevie Nicks is more my type. Nicole Kidman is very wonderful too, and she sings like an angel very soft and sweet. She will always be most beautiful woman in the world, which tells you all you need to know about Mister Scientology, Tom Crewz.

Sunday, March 1, 2009 04:38 PM

@mary steyr

I hope I am not outing you, but if you are Marc Steyn, Canada's greatest living treasure, please raise your hand.

I bet Glennn thinks you are "intellectually dishonest" too. I think you are the funnyiest political satirist of our time, much better than Jackie Mason.

I know that even though you have a vaguely Jewish name, you are not Jewish.. You are blueish though, a righteous gentile if there ever was one.

Please tell them to get Neil Young to write a better anthem for your country, please. That OHHHHHHHH CANAAAAAAAAADUUUUUU is so boring boring boring makes you want to puke.

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