Category Archives: Loose Pollen

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back tomorrow night.
The political stuff is in the comments, as always.
Thought you’d enjoy a little Halloween fun, just because the alternative is so depressing. Keep in mind, Christmas is 8 weeks from today.

THESE KIDS HAVE SOME AWESOME PARENTS

“And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.” –Ecclesiastes 3:13 ‪#‎HappyLaborDay‬

Since Barack Obama began his reign of terror, the food stamp ranks have swollen to 47 million. There are 93 million people not in the work force, the highest rate in 38 years. He has bragged about 200,000 new part-time low wage jobs in the same month that 400,000 better-paying full-time jobs disappear. Since those who have not found work and have run out of unemployment are not counted in the ginned-up unemployment numbers, he brags about a 4.7% unemployment rate when the true figure is in excess of 19%.

My last full time job was in 2011 when I worked as a transporter for Medicaid recipients until, as they do with all their small vendors, the state of Illinois forces them into bankruptcy by not paying them. They don’t even pay lottery winners, even though the money is supposed to be there. It was exactly one year between the business closing and my social security benefits to begin. I was fortunate to be close enough to early retirement that we survived. Millions of others are not so fortunate. There is no reason to believe that the situation will improve anytime soon.

HERE ARE A FEW WORK-RELATED VIDEOS FOR YOU TO ENJOY ON YOUR DAY OFF.

AHHH,DISCO

I HAD TO THROW THIS ONE IN BECAUSE MY BAND PLAYED IT
I USED TO LOVE THE OLD DANCE SHOWS LIKE HULLABALOO, SHINDIG, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL,  AND OF COURSE, AMERICAN BANDSTAND.

This video is AWESOME!! Watch as well as listen. You’ll probably end up dancing too. I did. 🙂 These are the songs I heard when my older sibs were teens. I like them better than the music that was popular when I became a teen. LOL

The Jersey Boys at the Vietnam Memorial 2014 [10:20]

St. Jude’s Medical Center says it has four core values that guide everything they do: “Dignity, Excellence, Service and Justice.”  It also claims to be “synonymous with exceptional care that extends beyond good medicine to a commitment to caring for you – mind, body and spirit.”

So why do they have this hate-filled resident in the PSYCH department?!

Sources:

• https://twitter.com/harrietbaldwin
• http://www.stjudemedicalcenter.org/About-Us.aspx
• http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2015/08/23/reneh-karamians-st-jude-doctor-deletes-twitter-account-wishes-death-on-conservatives/
• http://www.weaselzippers.us/232359-doctor-jerk/

Today is National Aviation Day, and so thoughts turn to our fathers who burned through tons of aviation fuel to keep America safe and make global warming possible. Somebody had to do it. And they did it with style. Here’s my pop, not long before he died, getting ready to do some dog-fighting just for fun with the SkyFighters at the Centennial Airport in Denver.

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Last week we commiserated (at least I did,anyway) about the comics we used to read and enjoy. All of the superheroes fought and ultimately defeated evil. Those were the halcyon days when actions had consequences.
I came across this and I was horrified. Superman is now a #copslivesdon’tmatter as he joins the homeys fighting the eeevil poe-leece.

Superman fights the police in new comic paralleling Ferguson riots
The latest issue of Action Comics finds Superman battling a foe on the streets of Metropolis, but this time he isn’t taking on his rival Lex Luthor. Instead, he’s battling the police, which has some people outraged.

“There’s some fans that are alienated, a portion of the older fans,” said Dimitrios Fragiskatos, the manager of Midtown Comics in New York City. “[But] younger fans seem to be embracing it.”

In the issue, Clark Kent’s secret identity has been revealed, he has been stripped of most of his powers and he’s ditched his tights. Instead, Kent wears just a T-shirt and jeans, along with tatters of his Superman cape over his fists.

The downtrodden hero returns to a town that is fearful of him. Although a group of his supporters decide to celebrate his return, the police department soon arrives to break up the party. One of his supporters gets unruly, the police get angry, and before long, a full blown riot breaks out. The comic ends with Superman punching a police officer in the face.
“[Some of] the earliest stories involve [Superman] fighting corrupt landlords and businesses and that was to give depression era people something [to relate to],” he said. “When you look back it’s not surprising that he became popular when there was no real world hero to look up to.”

Colligan, however, argued comic books should go back to the basics.

“Comic books are taking on social issues lately and maybe they should get back to taking on superheroes and making people laugh,” he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/07/31/superman-literally-bashes-police-in-new-comic/

EVEN ARCHIE ISN’T IMMUNE TO POLITICAL LUNACY

Archie Will Die Taking a Bullet for His Gay Best Friend

This photo provided by Archie Comics shows the cover of the comic book, Life with Archie #36

Archie Comics/AP
By Associated Press
07/14/2014

They’ll make him gay soon enough.