State Of Union 2016

Ok, so this is the annual state of my union address, which coincidentally is the night of our President's final State of The Union for the USA. I don't pretend that my state carries any of the weight that emanates from the White House, nor do I feel that any great decisions or comments will be arrived at from my state of affairs. First of all my use of paragraphs and proper grammar has obviously not been a factor during the past year, nor will it improve over the remaining days of my life. I am also aware that my thoughts and beliefs will have no impact on our community, state, or nation, not unlike the true politicians that guide us and our future. Polls show that our national Senators and Representatives are at an all time low for public trust and effectiveness, something they have all earned repeatedly over the past decades. Again I am amazed at the Republican Presidential candidates . This is probably the most inept and self serving bunch that I remember in my lifetime. Well maybe Michael Dukaksis and Willy Horton come close. We have Hillary and The Socialist running for the Democratic seat. The girls over at Planned Parenthood like Hillary or her pantsuits and are donating $20 million for her Campaign. Bill is flittering around the perimeter looking for ways to help his woman . Any way the election of 2016  pans out will be more of the same. Our stocks are ready to drop out of sight again and Red China is on the ropes. North Korea's Pillsbury Dough Boy says he set off a hydrogen bomb., and the dumb-assed Iranians have captured 10 American Sailors on the day of Obama's State of the Union Address. Are the Iranians that dumb , or are they just incredibly unlucky and inept ? Iran capturing 10 American Sailors shows a very short memory in world events. Seals are Navy. That wasn't Avon calling on Osama Bin Laden. You dumbasses need to take a deep breath and remember Iraq and its famed Republican Guard. Warthogs have a good track record on Middle Eastern elite soldiers. Our own little piece of the world is doing as well as to be expected. Gasoline is down to $1.65 in Knoxville, and politicians are crying big tears because road usage taxes on gasoline is way down. Now they want to raise taxes to pay for road repair. The Powerball lottery went up to $1.5 Billion for tomorrow night and everyone is making secret pledges to help the world if they could only win. The chances are 1 in 292,000,000 for a person's ticket to be drawn, about the same odds that Rand Paul will become President, or that Kentucky will have a winning football team. Stoops fired some coaches and hired one new one for $625,000 a year, and another for $400,000. That is total insanity paying some dumb jocks that kind of money to help Kentucky have a losing season. My brilliant idea is let some junior college and high school coaches take turns coaching UK football. They would do it for free just to be seen on the sidelines wearing UK caps, and I'll bet they would win as much as these high paid nimrods that Barnhart keeps bringing in. Eastern Kentucky has huge unemployment because of Washington killing coal, and UK keeps building athletic Taj Mahals. David Bowie died yesterday and I will miss him. It's like he was a part of my generation, and those of our age sense our own mortality when a fixture like Ziggy Stardust passes on. Speaking of mortality a recent trip to the emergency room cost me almost $600 for a MD to tell me that I was ok and that there was nothing wrong with me. That's almost equal to a new Offensive coach for UK. For my clients who think I'm expensive the Doctor saw me for 15 minutes and charged the equivalent of $2400 an hour, topping the 6 stitches in my thumb last year that cost $1800. Another debacle the past year was when my Doctor's nurse practitioner gave me a hearing test that consisted of her going to a corner of the exam room, covering her mouth, and whispering while I was across the room with my finger in one ear, looking in a corner and waiting expectantly for a  sound to reach my ears. A sound that never came. The Gestapo nurse failed me for my hearing test, something that didn't surprise me. I hear what I want to hear; I'm just sorry I didn't live up to that sociopath's expectations. Alabama beat Clemson, something that doesn't mean much to me, and a private company sent a rocket into space and the brought it back to earth and landed in one piece, something NASA hasn't been able to do. I guess they're not the only rocket scientists on the block. We went to Chicago and drove, since it's about as fast as flying considering trips to and from airports. We saw a monster field of wind powered generators in Northern Indiana. Research says there are over 600 of the things in the area. They were pretty impressive. We happened to be on the sidelines of the march because of the police killing of a young black man. We watched it on Randolph Street as we were going to a theater. It seems our hero homophobe Kim Davis is attending Obamas Speech with her attorney. Now won't that make some noise in Washington? Does anyone understand this Golden Globe mayhem and a bunch of foul mouthed actors and actresses? Ricky Gervais needs some kind of lessons in good behavior. Is this what we have come to expect of entertainment, and haven't we really had enough of Star Wars to last us a lifetime. Han Solo and Princess Leia have gotten old. Give the franchise up. Sean Penn cannot talk literately so why does Rolling Stone Magazine pay him to interview a drug lord? It's a confusing world out there for people like me. We were in San Antonio between Christmas and New Years and saw the Alamo. The city downtown and the river area was neat. I can't say as much for the food. I never ate as much red rice in all my life. Don't expect to go back to San Antonio, just like Davy Crockett didn't return. My world is fine and I'm happy to still be here and with a good amount of business for my company. Left Knoxville today, number 4 in line for take off on I-75 runway, and touched down 2 and 1/2 hours later in Mount Vernon. Passed a bunch of snowbirds headed to Florida and had unlimited visibility all the way home. Life is good except for occasional hearing faux pas.