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Halloween… a time for kindness

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Maybe, it’s because I once worked for two different candy companies (chocolate)… or maybe it’s because I had my own ‘grim reaper’, ‘Spock’ and ‘fox’ canvassing the neighborhood each year, but I have always enjoyed Halloween. It is one of my favorite times of the year.

It is a time in which we can show kindness to children, stranger’s children and just plain strange children.

Year after year, our neighborhood grows grayer and with that less and less children come to call… or at least that is true of many of the homes in our neighborhood. This year, we had a steady stream of young people… some had ‘heard of our house’, or wanted us to remember they came last ‘year or years ago’. You know you are getting old, when your one time trick or treaters’ kids come calling.

See's Candy... simply the bestMany people miss the joy in the eyes and the excitement of children as they place their eyes on a big piece of chocolate…. and it’s free!

I buy popularity.

My secret? I buy See’s Chocolates in bulk… so it really isn’t that expensive… and as long as my ‘competition’ continues to hand out individual ‘tic tacs’… I can still be a hero. The cost of being a hero on this holiday is easy… as compared to Christmas.

Over the years, I have discovered what the REAL favorite bars are… you can see it when you observe what the kids take … when they are free…. and what they leave behind. Nutrageous is still king of the modestly priced bars.

If you are living in an affluent community… you might try Ethel M. Chocolates…. Forest Mars, Sr. really got this one right. Legend says that Forest Senior didn’t want to go down in history as the inventory of SNICKERS and M&M’s… but as a purveyour of quality confection… and in the company named after one of his two mothers ( both named Ethel).. he achieved perfection! Ethel M Chocolates

Next year… instead of watching kids look at their treats and say ,’yuck, raisins!”… go to the next level with something Chocolate that says, ‘thanks for stopping by!’

 

Roger Freberg

 

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John Kerry … the gift that keeps on giving!

Happy Halloween!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gosh, I thought that this would just blow over. Usually, most thinking people recognize their boo boos and apologize… but oh no… not more ‘money than sense’ John Kerry.

The fine Senator and veteran from Arizona John McCain asked John Kerry to apologize for his remarks to those men and women serving in Iraq…  and John ‘three and fly*’ Kerry has gone on record by saying:

“I refuse to apologize!”

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any creepier… the crypt opens… and he can speak…. but can Kerry earn top good grades?

Happy Holloween!

Roger Freberg

* three purple hearts qualify a soldier during the Vietnam Conflict for a transfer stateside… the ‘reasons’ for his purple hearts has always been a question.

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John Kerry… relishing his award!

the coveted Big weenie Award... only presented to those most worthyIt is hardly a day that goes by when someone doesn’t do something worthy of being awarded the coveted ‘big weenie’… but one man continues to stand out day after day as inspirational. He is a true piece of work… in progress.

Aspiring to still yet another term term as presidential ‘runner-up’, John Kerry continues to find it hard to remove his big spoiled silver foot out of his mouth. Recently, he has managed to insult just about everyone… and now, he throws a below the belt punch to our men and women in uniform. I guess it worked for him during the Vietnam War… so he thinks it’ll work again.

John, the committee was unanimous, this slippery weenie is for you! It’s a full three inches.

Thanks to YOUtube, we, too, can see & hear exactly what he said… and here is the link for as long as it lasts… I have also tried to faithfully transcribe the text below…

… you know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, do your homework, and make an effort to be smart…uh… you can do well… if you don’t… you can get stuck in Iraq.

John Kerry ... working hard to take us down... again

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

I really didn’t expect to see you wear an American Flag lapel pin… it’s not your…er … style.

Thanks for the Halloween trick… fortunately most of us are beginning to see through your mask.

 

Roger Freberg

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WHO beat San Diego State? er… ah… Cal Poly?

Cal Poly Over San Diedo State! ... WHO beat San Diego State??? And to think that Bear Bryant’s widow moved to San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) to escape college football!

Who would have thought?

First, I have to tell you that I am NOT a big fan of Cal Poly on many levels… however, I am impressed that sandlot kids from C.P. playing in their street clothes could whoop San Diego State!

The local paper did a fine job covering the unusual event… with some of the expected hyperbola:

“Saturday’s victory not only ensured a fourth straight winning season for Cal Poly but cemented its place in the top 10 and keeps the Mustangs’ playoff plans in order.”

Gosh, I just wish they wouldn’t write about playoffs or National Championships… someone outside of SLO might actually read this! However, the ‘talk’ is bound to leak out as their sports writer is now a blogger.  On his blog he has a few links to how others view the debacle…

The Cal Poly Coach — who I defended in the local paper for getting a modest salary increase  might have been reading too much of his own press when he was quoted:

“In assessing the talent gap between his team and Division I-A schools last week, Cal Poly coach Rich Ellerson said he believed the Mustangs had reached a point where they could be competitive against middle-of-the-pack programs from the Mountain West and Western Athletic conferences.”

Ya think? Hmmm….  well, I did read the Cal Poly Athletic web site… and it looks like a good site… if you compare it to any univesity circa 1996. I can’t understand why their athletic site is sooooo cheap… it’s not like the better schools can buy more electrons. In any event, they tell of the rivalry between the two school that has recently been reenacted in this great duel… but that was different times and long long ago.

Today — I hear — that a so-called ‘full-scholarship football player’ at Cal Poly recieves a 1 shirt and 1 pair of shorts for free… but he must buy anything else he needs. As you can imagine, the other ‘sports’ get less. Oh, if you ‘letter’… you are awarded a Cal Poly T-shirt… just like the ones you can buy in their student store. whoo-hoo!

Maybe yuo guys could lend Cal Poly some of your nice clothes... facilities, shoes... and a ride home.So, San Diego State, nothing good came out of this meeting for you. To be humiliated by guys who have to buy their own shoes has got to hurt.

Cal Poly is a funny place where the President of the College actually makes three or more times as much as the football coach.

In my opinion, Cal Poly’s program died 20 years ago thanks to a President who has tried to turn Cal Poly into a quaint college… the kind you see dotted in the North East of our country. However, there are those individuals and a few teams from time to time that hang in there… hoping to make it something more.

Congrats to Cal Poly’s Football team… that won in spite of it all.

Roger Freberg

 

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October is Vegetarian Awareness Month… gotta have something for soccer players, former dictators and wackos

Let's have soe REAL FoooOOOoooOoD!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USA TODAY via Yahoo.com had a fun article written by a guy who reported the funny fact that occuring in football season is ‘Veggie Month”…. the guy writing the article summarized the position of most real men….. thusly:

Two reasons why I won’t join the “Eat No Meat Club”:

•As a country boy in South Dakota, while in high school I worked in an old-fashioned “butcher shop.” Owner Tom Rosser paid me $1 a week and all the salami I could eat. He also taught me how to cook a steak rare.

•In Europe in WW II, we all knew that that Nazi nut Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.

Please pass the meat.

There are many reasons that being a veggie boy is nuts. Besides taste, let me say, cobalamin is one of the only things that comes only from animal protein. Several surveys have shown that most strict, long-term vegetarians are vitamin B12 deficient. The Scandanavian researchers have demonstrated clear intellectual deficits from children reaised as vegetarians.. enough said.

I don’t want to pick on the vegetarians too much… I have fond memories of vegetarians giving me their tickets to ‘steak night’ while I was an athlete at UCLA… however, it does seem like it is a ‘religious experience’ for some women. Vegetarian men? Oh, they may exist… but they play soccer.

Other Strange american Holidays in October

Here’s a word from the veggie supporters:

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Horray for Female Vegetarians  huh?
YELP!

Well, I also found a few sites that extolled the virtues of vegetarians with a philosophical and political message. I even found ‘poetry’… words like’ when I look into a plate of meat… I see a baby crying for her mother.” ….pllleeeeaaassseee!

So… to celebrate this month… I’ll fix an extra large TURDUCKEN next month for Thanksgiving… it’s a lot better than one made from ‘Tofu”.

Roger Freberg