I Was Just Thinking . . .

  Greetings Faithful, been a while.  Going forward when the blog goes silent check the surf report.   If the conditions are flat call 911 and tell them the Lovely Old Lady (LOL) is a person of interest.  Fortunately, after a long flat spell I found some tasty waves over the weekend.  In addition to two solid surfing sessions Donovan Frankenreiter performed a mesmerizing "Sunday Service" last night up at Salisbury Beach.

  Sitting on your board waiting for your set provides one time to think.  A couple of things crossed my mind.  Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's husband runs a government subsidezed, Christian counseling center.  One of the services he provides is transforming through prayer "gay" (or sinful) patients into "straight" (sin free) people.  Forgetting this utter lunacy for a moment a counselor was caught on hidden camera telling a gay male that, "God had trained our eyes to the attraction of a woman's body and breasts".  Now I'm no biblical scholar but I thought lust was one of the seven deadly sins.  

  Speaking of relationships the Bachelor couple of Brad and Emily didn't work out.  Shocker!  When you are traveling the world first class on ABC's dime you can overlook certain things.  Like Brad was an unemployed, petty criminal, alcoholic.  When the lights fade, however these traits apparently become a little more glaring (and problematic).    

  The Bachelorette, Ashley isn't having much luck either.  If we didn't have gravity here on earth the Bachelorette and Emily would drift back to their respective planets of origin.  Ashley is that girl that gets drunk and then starts sobbing uncontrollably.  Who wouldn't want to come home to that every night?   Of course the good news for Ashley is The Bachelorette started with twenty guys and there weren't two testicles to be found in the whole group. 

  Of course reality TV is actually a reprieve from the reality going on in Washington.   I think we should start paying politicians based on performance.  We'd owe President O so bad for me and my mama a couple of bucks for the health care bill and that would be it.  We wouldn't owe Congress a dime.  How cutting Medicaid and Social Security is a live discussion and taxing the rich or Big Oil is not up for debate has me a little perplexed to put it mildly. 

  As little Bobby Dylan said, "It ain't dark yet but its getting there."

  KOKO