Three Topics

There are three items on my plate this morning and I'm just not sure which direction to take. I'll dwell on it for awhile but I will give you hints: (1) Carol Browner, former head of the EPA under Clinton and now a part of the Obama group is a member of an International Socialist Association. After this info was exposed yesterday her name was taken off of their web site; (2) the flap over Prince Harry and his use of a supposed "racial" slur(this may be the one I write about and you can read the inside scoop on Mr. Cirucci's blog) and, (3) global warming and the lies surrounding it. This is down on my list since whenever I hear global warming my eyelids automatically droop. Besides, tell my friends in Wisconsin about global warming. Those poor folks, in December, received 40" of snow with an average temperature of 15 degrees. They broke all-time records that date all the way back to LAST YEAR!
In the meantime, I signed up for and went to a Muirfield Village member group luncheon last Friday. I thought I might meet some fellas to pal around with; possibly find a golf partner or two. It's quite elite, you know. They don't let any ol' outsiders in. I had to prove I'd paid my association fees before I could sit down with the boys. A guy asked if I'd paid and I said, "Yep". Case closed.
The group calls itself the "Empty Nesters". Actually, "Enjoy Your Late Seventies" would be a more accurate name. It looked like two of us were in our sixties but it's difficult to tell. I have more hair than Big Foot so when I'm around someone with a bald dome I can't tell ages. I had have a very nice time and all were cordial to me.
One of the fellas brought along his twenty-three year old son. The lad graduated from a university in Ohio last spring and was hired by the Bose Corp. He lives and works in the Netherlands, just north of Amsterdam. My calculations tell me that he's been working six months and a couple of days so I said, "that's interesting that you're back home so soon. Is there a special occasion"? He told me that all first year workers in the Netherlands get twenty-five days of vacation and he needed to use up some time. Isn't twenty-five days close to a month? There must to be other holidays in that country to add onto the twenty-five. My son took a big time job in the states two years ago and started off with one week. Oh, now I remember. The Netherlands is socialistic, cradle to grave. I feel sorry for the kid after all. I hope he takes the time to look at his tax stubs.
Give me a few minutes to coordinate by thoughts on Prince Harry. I saw a brief TV segment from Matt Lauer on NBC this morning. I started yelling at the set when Lauer began pontificating about this international incident. (Elizabeth hates it when I talk to the TV) It seems Harry called a friend "Paki". Lauer should visit Toronto someday. "Paki" is a part of every day conversation. Harry also caught a lot of grief for smoking, and using the F word. Isn't this what normal 24 year-olds do? He is not the King of England but he is in the army, serving his country. "He's just a kid, Lauer". But the NBC morning host is making an international incident out of poor Harry. Thank God the prince's name isn't George W. Bush.