Old Jokes

Don Hasler's old dark jokes as I remember:

Many a day  a Factory Worker left the factory pushing a wheel- borrow filled with saw dust.
On those days  the guard at the exit door would search through the saw dust to make sure that the
Factory Worker was not stealing anything .  Years went by.  And years the Worker's wheel borrow
filled with saw dust was searched.
After both the factory worker and the guard retired the two men ran into each other at a local Pub.
The Guard said to the Worker, " I know you were stealing something--all those years, but I could
never figure out what it was.  Would you tell me, now--I won't tell.  The Worker smiled and replied,
"Wheel-borrows."


A friend of Don's told Don that his Father had taught him how to swim in the St.Clair River by
taking him out in a row boat and throwing him over-board and yelling "Sink or Swim."
Don said to the kid, "Gee,  You must have been scared!   "Nah, Swimming to shore was  easy,
Getting out of the gunny sack was the hard part."


This prisoner had been in jail for forty years.  The prisoner, while in jail, to pass the time , had
taught an ant to do summersaults, and back flips, and hand stands.  He kept his pet ant in a match box.
The convict was finally  released from prison.  He went into a nearby bar and ordered a beer.  The Ex-Con pulled out the match-box in which he kept his pet ant.  He wanted to show the bar-tender his pet ant.
The ant crawled out of the box.....the ex-con said to the bar-tender..."See this ant?" And the
bar tender said,    "Yup, and came down heavy with his big hand, "Got him."

President Obama - Hold the Banks Accountable!

1/22/12     2:00 pm

President Obama:

Don't cut the Banks any slack.  The Scam Artist don't need a break.  The victim's do.  The poor.

Hold them to the same standard as everyone else.   Fraud is fraud.  Nail them.

Bush's housing/mortgage policies were a joke.  Or an opportunity for fraud.  Or intentional fraud.

Stop the bad guys.

P.S.  There are 99% more poor votes than rich votes!

Respectfully,

Janet Blanck
Real Estate Broker

The Casual Observer - 1/21/12

The Casual Observer - 1/21/12



The results of the Republican South Carolina Primary -  Newt wins.  Thus Obama wins.
The result  of N.H. - Mitt wins - Thus Obama wins.  The results of the Iowa Primary- Rick wins-
Thus Obama wins.
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The schools are not failing.  We now have our genetic pool damaged by free-flowing drugs.

Druggies having children - having  damaged children, having damaged children.

Stop the drugs.  Dah!

Drugs beget violence.    So much sadness.    So much sorrow.

The law has to be changed---Make entrapment legal.
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Sex education when left to parents often does not happen.
Attention  --Listen up:
Sex Education:  Sex often creates a baby.  Most sexually transmitted diseases are curable.
Aides is not curable.  HIV is treatable - not curable.

"A CONDOM,  A CONDOM - MY KINGDOM FOR A CONDOM!"

Birth Control Pills increase a womens' odds of breast cancer by 50%.  DON'T TAKE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS!

 Much talk about abortion.  Making abortion illegal  can't be enforced.  Abortions can be made safer--
If done legally with  M.D.'s in charge.  Grandma Bell told me that her friends that got illegal
abortions from the back alley butchers never had children.  Lack of money is usually the key factor
in woman seeking an abortions.

No one is talking about Child Support.
 DNA is now making identifying the  absentee father possible.  Collecting Child Support is a Huge
Problem.
Avoiding these problems is better than trying to solve them.

No education in --How to make a good marriage.  Rule #1  -  Know who you are.
Rule #2- Find a match.  If you are a good honest person you will be happier with someone
with the same values.  Values, cultures, age, attraction--  similar--  will be an easier match.
(there will always be exceptions.)  But like one old world person said "A bird can marry a fish--
but where would they live?"

Kindergarden -1946

"Born Annoyed" - Ch  4  -  "Kindergarden -1946"


Eddy Elementary -Kindergarden, Sixth Street, St.Clair, Michigan, USA - 1946.

World War II  was  Over.

I was 5 years old.  I walked from my house on 8th & Jay around the corner and knocked on Chuckie
Eggars" door so we could walk to school together.  I had to wait for him because his Mother had to iron his shirt.   Almost always I had to wait.  I sat on his back steps. The school was only about a block away but we were always  late  and almost always had to
sit in the corner.  I didn't mind sitting in the corner because I got a lot of spankings at home for not
minding.  Sitting in the corner wasn't that bad.

Kindergarden was mostly about  learning  to fear.  Stories about the "Three Bears",  "Little Red Riding Hood"-The Big Bad Wolf,    Witches - Hansel and Gretel  and Trolls - The the "Three Billy Goats Gruff."  These stories were told in Germany and the British Isles to the children to make them afraid
of wondering into the woods.
I never in my life saw an actual Witch or Troll or a Wolf that looked at all like either Grandmother.

I learned to color with fat crayons on newsprint.   I laughed when I heard about the child that had to go see the school psychologist because all of his pictures were black.  They thought he must be depressed.
The good Dr. asked why all his pictures were black?  The child said that when they passed the box of crayons around - he was the last one to get the box - and only the black crayon was left.

We had nap time and laid on a thin old rug.  I think the "Quiet Time" was to give the Teachers a break.  Mrs. Gleim was the teacher and
and Miss Buckmeyer  ( Mrs. Alma Yost)  was the Assistant Teacher.  She was beautiful-with
real long brown hair, and long finger-nails painted red, and red lipstick.  She was nice.
She played the piano and we sang nursery rhyme songs. - "Farmer in the /Dell"  We would stand
in a circle - a boy would stand in the middle and have to pick a wife.  The Girls would giggle.
I wonder --if today if either a boy or a girl could be the farmer and could they pick either a boy or
a girl?   Other play songs were "London Bridges", and  "Ring Around The Rosies, And "Itsey-Bitsey
Spider"
In Kindergarden Carol Butlin and I were the tallest  girls.  Carol was pretty and wore pretty dresses and saddle shoes that were always polished and shined.  I wore dresses too but my shoes were brown high tops with
scuffy toes with brown shoe laces that had broken many times and had to be tied together.

Canadian Trash

Under the Law - NAFTA,  Trucks haul Canadian trash to Michigan.

Michigan people do not want Canadian  trash. (Canada has much more land mass than Michigan.)

Change the law.  Immediately if not sooner.  If our Congress cannot make Canadian Trash in Michigan
Illegal - Vote in a New Congress that will.

Michigan  is known as-  "Water Wonderland"     Not- " The Wonder-Waste -Wallow"!

Carl and Debbie --make it happen!  NO MORE CANADIAN TRASH!

Canadian Trash/illegal drugs are not free trade---- but sabotage!

NAFTA ---except for TRASH/ILLEGAL DRUGS!  CHANGE THE LAW!

Happy/healthy New Year!

1/1/12

Happy/Healthy -New Year!

Dr. Furman recommends  the following 5 foods be in your diet.-  dptv.org.

Greens.
Onions.
Mushrooms.
Beans.
Seeds.

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"Bean Soup"  1959 Farm Journal Cookbook - (A graduation gift)
2 Cups  dried beans, ( Any type-I like Navy)
    Wash beans, add 6 cups cold water and boil 2 minutes.  Remove from heat and let stand 1 hour.
     ( or overnight with a little baking soda)
      Simmer beans without draining until tender, about 2 hours, adding more water if necessary.

1 ham bone or 11/2 lb. ham butt  - water to cover.  Simmer.   Let cool.  Skim fat from the top.  Add tender beans.
Add  apx. 1/2 Cup chopped onion, apx. 1 Cup chopped celery with leaves, 1 qt. Tomatoes-(home
canned-best), 3/4 Cup diced potatoes, (If no one is diabetic),  diced carrots, 1tsp. apx salt, 1/8 tsp -apx. black pepper.
Simmer apx. 20 minutes  .  Makes 10 servings.  Served with corn muffins- for a perfect protein.



Saute'd mushrooms:  Clean and peel pink- under-sided button caps and stems;  Saute in fresh butter.
Great over steak or multi-grained buttered toast.  Also good flavor for gravies.

Onions in almost all meat dishes and bottom of Turkey Roasting  pan -for better tasting gravy.

Seeds:  Flax seed in your oatmeal and other hot morning cereal.
             Seeds in your salads - add a healthy-crunchy touch.  (Any type)

P.S.  The bean soup recipe was used when most Mothers were full time home-makers.
         Now with most women working outside the home I would recommend getting handy with the
         Chinese wok.  Quick and easy.  ( My son wokked his way thru college.)
         (Regarding woman working- My Dad always said -"If a woman wants to work--Let her."

         Health is high trump.   When bad health is fate - attitude is still a choice.  Keep the faith.