gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

we are being deluged by tv commercials for the mid term elections...in may!!!...what the fuck...this isn't presidential for Christ's sake...each repellent... lizard like politician swearing to be the next re-incarnation of the unconnected everyman...and the everyman...give me a break...the only "everyman" talking politics these days are the conservative right...who as i have told you before are just incredulous at the fact that a black man is president.. ...we have huge issues...crude... pumping oil is about to change the earths surface...forever...cause unless you missed it...nobody...including the president has a clue on how to stop this mess...19000 barrels a day ...gushing...into the gulf...pretty soon we won't need pumps...we'll just skim all the oil we need off the fuckin surface...we can burn oil drenched pelicans for light...snapper ala crude...oysters British petroleum...a whole new culinary genre... the Arizona immigration thing...is this america???

Alright...call me maladjusted but I really don't get the whole dancin with the stars thing...i have to admit to a certain licentious interest in watching Pam Anderson jiggle or Kate Gosslin slither around a stage...semi clad.. I know....its like driving by a car wreck...you know a good person wouldn't look for the blood under the blankets...but......get a fuckin life people.... there are books...check your kindle And another thing...the liberal media??? any time I hear that, I know I'm about to get an earful of someone who hasn't read anything in print but a flyer at a right to life rally...Its called news...it happens daily...and just because someone writes a story about global warming or gun control or calls Sarah Palin retarded...yes I said it...that doesn't make them liberal or atheist...it makes them ...a reader...pry your eyes away from fox long enough to let your iq raise 5%...and join the rest of the civilized world...we're waiting... Finally...the Yan

Commercials for the mid term elections in fuckin may...really...the most recent one here in florida is a laughing president Obama...it is about the Arizona law...the second part of the message is...conservatives want change...to what...seriously...back to the last regime that filled the pockets of the rich while keeping the boot on the average american's throat...to the banking deregulation that caused the credit collapse...and by the way... the law... unconstitutional...you cannot target a group of people for racial scrutiny...that is racial profiling..which the high court has already ruled against...do you have any idea how many law abiding third, fourth and fifth generation Mexican Americans live in Arizona...or any of the boarder states for that matter...millions...all of which have to be looking over their shoulders for some policeman to pull them over because of the color of their skin...bullshit..."where are your papers"...sounds alot like the old soviet union, d

I think you gotta live on the gulf coast to really get it...there is this giant mass of oil...somedays the size of Jamaica...being pushed around the bathtub that is the gulf of mexico...I live and work on the beach...and we all... from texas to the keys are sitting here waiting for the destruction to hit us...and we are used to this...when there is a hurricane in the gulf...we wait...where will it go? do I board up the house and go inland?... we are a prepared group...but this is different...the florida control center ...set up by the feds is here in st. pete...we have volunteers ready...rags and dawn in hand to help save the sea birds and dolphins and giant sea turles...the fisherman are all signing up for bp's " turn your boat into an oil skimming rig" program.. because soon there will be no fishing.. they say the el nino might push the oil down the center of the gulf towards the florida straights... through thousands of miles of sea beds with long grasses...through pri

By now most of you have read about the once republican governor, now " non party affiliated" candidate for senator of the sunshine state...chucky christ...bizarre is the only way to describe his ascension ( possible vp select for McCain) to his toss into the trash bin here in florida...the repubs, doing their best impersonation of headless chickens have tossed their weight behind an unknown, ethically questionable, nobody from Miami...Maaarcco Rubio...now this guys slithers like a like a siding salesman with a bad product...he could never debate because, wisely, his handlers only let him speak on talking points...obama ruined this, obama ruined that...when asked what he thought about the rise in jobs...he responded...thats great but obama is responsible for everything from climate change to to the bad fashion of clam diggers...now charlie was vapid, unenvolved and wishwashy...the new guy is corrupt, purchased by the big lobbies here in floreeda...oil, insurance and healthca

thanks to all the mothers, everywhere. .but like all restaurant people I am sooo happy that I am closed today...last night was bad enough...alot of once a year diners....that couldn't make brunch...for whatever reason...showed up with little to no notice and packed my little place...the two of you who read this must think..."why is he always bitchin about being busy"...well for one thing ...thats what we do...chefs bitch...its part of the training...you bitch at your suppliers...you bitch at your staff...you bitch at the servers....you bitch when you're empty and you bitch when you're not....you even bitch at your owners!!!...unless you are the owner and then...you guessed it...you bitch about owning it...we are a tired and surly lot...who drink too much and work more...but we love our moms...but they know to never show up on mothers day...even if its to see us...