Jack Link's, Projectile Bleeding, and Hate Mongering

I have four different topics to touch upon today…a quartet of musings if you will, on this Tuesday. So, I call today…

Matt-Man’s Tuesings.

First off…

Monday of last week, I wrote a sweet little post about how excited my 16 year old Ryno was by receiving some Jack Link’s Beef Jerky from me for Easter because he loves the stuff and hadn’t eaten it in about eighteen months because of his braces which had recently come off for good.

Well my friends, the fine folks at Jack Link’s read my post and last Thursday I received a very nice letter from Kristina Phernetton who works in their Consumer Relations Department.

Along with the typical form letter, there was a nice personal note from Ms. Phernetton as well as a coupon for some free Jack Link’s Beef Jerky which my son has already happily utilized.

I want to thank Jack Link’s and Ms. Phernetton for taking the time to read my blog and send a nicety along to my son. It’s proof positive that while not an everyday occurrence, good customer relations are not dead.

Because of their fantastic response, Jayman and I have named Jack Link’s Beef Jerky the Official Beef Jerky of our Blog Talk Radio show, I’m With Stupid. Here’s to you guys, and of course, ladies.

Speaking of I’m With Stupid…Jayman and I produced another award winning show this past Saturday.

We recapped the Royal Wedding, and previewed the Saturday visit of our Bagwine guests which unfortunately although I was here for it, was unable to attend due to premature unconsciousness due to an early imbibing of Wild Irish Rose.

Please give our show a listen by utilizing this handy dandy BTR machine. It’ll be worth your while. It was pretty funny:

Listen to internet radio with Im With Stupid on Blog Talk Radio

Lastly…

I heard the question asked many times Sunday night and Monday, a question similar to what was asked on and after 9/11.

Where were you when you heard that Osama Bin Laden was pronounced dead?

You know where I was? I was in the hall of our apartment building on the phone with appropriately enough, 911!!

You see, my neighbor and I’m With Stupid’s fave intern Little Jimmy Stewart had just rung my doorbell. He was standing the in hallway bleeding profusely from his right hand.

I’m talking projectile bleeding folks, utter pain, and apoplexy due to a kitchen accident, he pleaded with me to call the paramedics.

I did, and I stayed on the phone with the dispatcher as I sat Jim down on the floor and tightly held pressure to his bleeding hand with two dish towels as I raised his arm above his head.

The paramedics arrived quickly and whisked Little Jimmy to the hospital. He has a few stitches and all is now well. Once again, Matt-Man saved the day. I am such a giver.

Speaking of the killing of Bin Laden…Monday was both quite an amusing and somewhat depressing day.

On the blogosphere, Twitter, and Facebook, political ideologies once again yet not unexpectedly to me, raised their ugly and cynical heads.

Some chick who is bitter that Bin Laden was killed during Obama’s presidency defriended me on Facebook. Another kooky chick ranted on Twitter about what a farce and “mediawhore” Obama is.

Talk radio downplayed Obama’s success in the action taken.

I voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary, and although not a huge fan of President Obama, voted for him in the general election, and this past day and a half I have discovered something.

Some people question Obama’s patriotism, his “Americanism”...in fact, some doubt his origin of birth.

Some of the comments I heard from hateful, ideological clowns who loathe Obama prove at least one thing…

President Obama is far more "American" than are they.

Cheers!!

Osama Bin Laden Dead !! Donald Trump Demands To See Death Certificate !!

Today, Bagwine Ruminations takes a back seat to the news of the elmination of a bit of evil in the world with the death of Osama "Dead Eye" Bin Laden.

Here's to the the Administration, the Intel Community, and the U.S. Navy Seals.

Enjoy the news...Bagwine Ruminations will return to normal abnormality tomorrow.

Cheers!!

(I want to thank Jayman for turning me on to the amusing picture.)

Countdown to Maturity

Six days folks…Less than a week…

A mere 144 hours until the McCain and Obama campaigns refrain from talking and turn the podium of the voting booth over to you and I.

We not only get to send a message as to whom we would like to govern this great land, but also send a message to the rest of the world…

And more importantly, to ourselves.

In the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, we as a country united. We shared a common grief, a common confusion, a common outrage.

And then…

President Bush led us into an unnecessary war in Iraq, and paid for it by borrowing money from an oppressive government comprised of Chinese thugs.

Division among Americans became wide, deep, and often personal.

The unity that had been born from tragedy, fractured and dissipated like splinters in the wind.

Much like kids on a playground we let that unity of purpose go by the wayside. We formed our own cliques, picked up our toys, and headed home for supper…for seven years.

Now, here we are…A mere 144 hours away from electing a new President.

I am voting for Obama. He wasn’t my first choice, but over the course of the last couple of months, he has become my only choice.

I see him not only as a man who is thoughtful, curious, and hopeful. I see him (and in him) as a 232 year old America reaching maturity…

An America who after a history of legalized slavery, the disenfranchisement of women, and the quiet (and not so quiet) hate and bias towards different ethnicities after 9/11, even among her own citizens…has finally grown up.

In spite of the incredulous lies that he is a Marxist, a Muslim, a non-citizen that are spread about him, for once, many voters are saying, “Shut the hell up!! Will he try with everything he has to move us forward?”

I am confident that he will try. I am confident that Obama, more than John McCain, will put country first. And more importantly…

After our history and the anti-Muslim, Arab hatred that some Americans displayed after the attacks on 9/11, an election of a black President with the name of Barack Hussein Obama sticks every painful bit of rubble of the World Trade Center right back into the jaded eye of Bin-Laden and others like him.

I leave you with this.

As Obama is being referred to by McCain/Palin as a Marxist, I think I can sum things up with a quote from Karl Marx.

“History repeats itself…First as tragedy, second as farce.”

The Bush administration has been the tragedy, a McCain/Palin administration would be the farce.

I for one, do not want to see Marx’s words become a reality…once again.

Cheers!!