Junkmans Gems

The World Series of Poker just finished up this week. Poker has become a major spectator sport. Like championship wrestling it can be seen on several channels. I caught on real quick that all you needed to watch was the last five minutes to see an outcome.
About the time the show should end one of the other players goes, all in, so you always have an immediate winner right after the commercial. This year s winner was a college dropout, Peter Eastgate, from Denmark. The 22-year-old won $9.15 million, making him worth more than several small countries. Second place paid around $5 million so this figured out to be nearly as good an hourly wage as a GM employee makes.
About every Wednesday Newsgram has an Indian Casino insert that you can get ten dollars. I thought if I could mooch a ride over there, I could get the ten bucks. Then I read the small print. In order to collect, you have to cash in a ten-dollar ticket to get the second ten. I guess I will just stay home because as unlucky as I am at gambling, it would cost me lots more than ten dollars to cash in my voucher.

The Obama jokes are running rampant. Some of them would be funny whomever they were about. The ones that are truly tasteless I politely listen to and then put them in the delete bin in my mind.
Comedians will have a fine line to walk the next four years. Two young men, one from Arkansas, the other from Tennessee, were arrested for plotting to assassinate the president-elect. I suspect there are bookies making bets on how long he will last.
Keep in mind that several other presidential assignations, some successful, happened to white Americans. Stupidly, craziness and ignorance have no color boundaries. I do not care whom you voted for; the majority of Americans picked Barack Obama to lead our country. What we need to do is get behind him. First to show the world we support our leaders and second to show each other we ARE Americans. Sure enough against my advice, Yahoo news had a picture of a possible 2012 GOP candidate. It s sad the GOP is more concerned about whom to run next election than focusing on our real problems. I wanted to write some about the pending GM and Ford bailouts but I am so disgusted I m not sure I can get my thoughts down without resorting to bad words and finger pointing.
A bit of food for thought. Who is going to bailout the American taxpayers?
Bubba is no dummy
Each Friday night after work, Bubba would fire up his outdoor grill and cook venison steak. But all of Bubba s neighbors were Catholic and since it was Lent they were forbidden from eating meat on Friday.
The delicious aroma from the grilled venison steaks was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their Priest.
The Priest came to visit Bubba and suggested that he become Catholic. After several classes and much study, Bubba attended Mass and rosary making kits as the Priest sprinkled holy water over him he said, You were born a Baptist and raised a Baptist but now you are a Catholic.
Bubba s neighbors were greatly relieved until Friday night arrived and the wonderful aroma of grilled venison filled the neighborhood. The neighbors called the Priest immediately, and make a rosary as he rushed into Bubba s yard, clutching the rosary, prepared to scold him, he stopped and the rosary prayer watched in amazement.
There stood Bubba clutching a small bottle of holy water, which he carefully sprinkled over the grilling meatchanted.
You wuz born a deer, you wuz raised a deer, but now you is a catfish.