karinpepita 109 F 62  questions	Oh where??? - 3/7/2012 Oh where has all the flowers gone, oh where oh where... Nobody at the Porch anymore...Miss all the good notes and interesting blogs... 7 response(s), 4 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	The tax man commeth - 2/22/2012 Not a question but to let you know I shall be busy for the next week or so getting ready for income-tax time. Hope you are all ready and will get a hefty return this year. I shall drop in from time to time. TTFN 2 response(s), 3 votes
Kassr 228  questions	Happy Birthday Oregano61 - 1/16/2012 A quick HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ms Oregano61...enjoy your day! Make a wish - Blow out the candles - assume the position for your birthday spanking...LOL Kassr 1-16-2012 1 response(s), 1 vote
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Friday the Thirteen - Bad Number or Otherwise - 1/14/2012 Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday 13th This Friday the 13th was fairly Ho Hum other than a Winter Storm - I have enough of a metaphysical trait to actually like Friday the 13th. I fed the Black cat in the house and no bad luck followed. I even fed the obnoxious gray one. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13 - Some buildings will eliminate the 13th Story and ... 3 response(s), 2 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	Before I made an Idiot of myself, what is a blog, what is the main thing in writing a blog. - 1/14/2012 A very good friend of mine told me sonething the other day, I'll pass it on to you to find if it's true. He said, we're here for a good time, not a long time, so have a good time the sun can't shine every day, so write a blog. Ok, so the original song is much better, but the point is, what is the main thing of a blog. Is it to ask questions? Is it a personal thought you right down and ... 4 response(s), 3 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	Did you ever have a dream that felt so real? - 1/10/2012 Last night I had a dream that seemed so real. I dreamt that I had a phone call from a SFF member about Destiny. I do not remember who the person was, but the conversation was that Destiny had recovered from this current chest problem and was in the best health she had ever been in. Her doctor wanted her to move into the recovery care unit for 2 years for a special treatment that would cure her ... 4 response(s), 4 votes
bigblock 77 M 251  questions	Best Wishes - 1/1/2012 Mrs Block and I want to wish all of the porch dwellers the HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS!!! You all are the greatest and the most loyal friends anyone could ask to have. 5 response(s), 4 votes
bigblock 77 M 251  questions	Occupy Arrests - 12/29/2011 Yesterday 7 Occupy Protester's were arrested at Mitt Romney Campaign Headquarters in Des Moines. Today at Ron Paul Headquarters here in my city of residence Ankeny 5 more were arrested.These followed last weeks arrests of 8 at the State Democrat Headquarters. There are rumors that they are planning to disrupt the caucus next week. I was thinking that they seem to think that they are completely in ... 2 response(s), 2 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	How was your Holiday Celebration. - 12/27/2011 Keep it Simple is my usual mode. I found a 12 Dollar Charlie Brown X-Mas Tree at Kroger. I had no particular plans until my older who surprised me and came to West Virginia from Georgia. I was invited to a Christmas Breakfast with several of my 12 Step Friends. Josh came along. He had to leave early to make it to his job in Atlanta by 3am. Later on, my ... 4 response(s), 3 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	Lost tribe - 12/25/2011 Have you heard of the lost tribe of natives in the Amazon call the phacowwe? All day long they wander around in the jungle saying "were the Phacowwe". 3 response(s), 6 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	Where is JKH's stuff? - 12/25/2011 I cant seem to find any of Kurts posting any where. How did that happen? Can a person delete all the stuff they have posted? Just strange I say. Any how, hope you are all having a good Christmas and that Santa was good to you. He was very nice to me (and I was not that good this year, ROFLMB. The place where my works, gives turkeys to the staff every year. In the past it was ... 4 response(s), 5 votes
bigblock 77 M 251  questions	not a question - 12/24/2011 To all the wonderful people here on the porch. HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a WONDROUS and JOYOUS NEW YEAR1111 From Bigblock and Mrs block 1 response(s), 1 vote
Kassr 228  questions	Have you been naughty or nice? - 12/24/2011 To all of you folks that are here, no matter if we have met or not; for those who I have had the pleasure of sharing a seat with on our porch just yakking about this & that: No matter if you have been naughty or nice, from me to you; Thank you for being you! MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Kassr 12-24-2011 4 response(s), 6 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Japanese Internment versus Isamic Apologist? - 12/16/2011 Japanese American or Otherwise were interned to relocation camps in the Wake of the Pearl Harbor Attacks in the 1940's Years later, Ronald Reagan apologized to the Japenese American and Heirs and Apology Money was paid to them and the Heirs. This did not happen to the Islam Community when the 9/11 Attacks happened. I remember getting spammed with "Thou Shalt Not Be Bigots" ... 5 response(s), 6 votes
Kassr 228  questions	Did "Lowes" Get It Right? - 12/14/2011 Recently "Lowes" pulled their sponsorship from the TV series "American Muslims". Personally, I applaud the Lowes Corporation for doing so. I am wondering what is your take on this action? Kassr 12-14-2011 8 response(s), 12 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	Haunted Gingerbread House Indeed. - 12/9/2011 Many Christmas's ago, back in the 1970s, we (my family) had an unexplainable event one Christmas morning. Christmas evening we went visiting friends and neighbours with our in tow. At one home, there was a gingerbread house and gingerbread men as a decoration on the table. It looked really good. The wanted to have one of the gingerbread men, but were informed it was for ... 1 response(s), 2 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	Why the Vitriolic? - 12/8/2011 ....In a recent blog I posted was about same sex marriage asked the question was banning it discriminatory. I said it wasn't because no one can marry the same except of course in places that allows the practice. Discrimination is allowing one group to do something and not allowing or excluding another group to do the same thing. If heterosexuals cannot marry the same then why is banning ... 8 response(s), 20 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	DUMB 2 - 12/4/2011 Big dump of snow in the area last night, today roads are in bad to even badder(ok, worse) condition. Ice covered and some blowing snow, travel advisory is to stay off Highway 2 from Olds to Didsbury, a distance of 11 miles. Mind you, it is midway point between Red Deer and Calgary which is just over 100 miles. Cars in the ditch, trucks in the ditch and many fender benders. Dumb enough that the ... 2 response(s), 0 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	DUMB 1 - 12/4/2011 The Occupy net work is slowly becomming a big head ache, a danger to health and safety, a damage to the environment and a big COST to the taxpayers. When the portie pots are in use or full, people are relieving themselves in the bushes, trees and behind poles. They are lighting small fires in the tents to keep warm. They are trampling down the grass and turning the earth to mud, garbage here and ... 3 response(s), 3 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	Those Little Red Kettles........ - 11/28/2011 .....Last Christmas season the Salvation Army collected 142 million dollars in those red kettles outside stores. 90% of that money went to the poor and needy no questions asked.......By contrast only 30% of Government (taxpayer) monies earmarked for the poor and needy reaches them as long as they correctly fill out the required paperwork....... I pay my taxes with a heavy heart because so ... 5 response(s), 12 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	Black Friday and Retail Therapy - 11/26/2011 I supported the Capitialist Dream by Cashiering for Wal-Mart on Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Black Friday started a ten pm on Thanksgiving. I got off work at Six Pm on Thanksgiving and drove over the boarder to Virginia to celebrate the Holiday with some Friends. Coming Home - I drove by Wal-Mart. The Parking Lot for Wal-Mart, the Malls beside and across the street from Wal-Mart ... 1 response(s), 2 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	A loss for words - 11/23/2011 WTF are some people thinking. I get soooo mad at times I just can't speak. Picture this if you will. Two days ago, I was driving home on the highway, keeping my eyes open for deer that seem to jump out of now where right in front of you. It was -19C with a wicked wind chill that made it about -26.2F. Out of my right peripheral vision I noticed slight black movenent in the ditch. Yep I was right, ... 6 response(s), 5 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	November 22nd 1963....... - 11/21/2011 .......Tomorrow is the 48th anniversary of the assisination of President Kennedy in Dallas Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oh how that event changed the course of history and is certainly something to ponder. Many questions about that event still remain in my mind. The one that keeps going around is would he have treated the VietNam Crisis any different than President Johnson? Would we have ... 7 response(s), 5 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	Penn State - 11/17/2011 .....Having visited State College Pa many times this Penn State scandal has me upset. Like any scandal that involves sex the media jumps all over it, tries and convicts the accused before any facts are known. I have seen to many times when its gone far to wrong. Years ago it was the Little Rascals Day Care center and recently the Duke Lacrosse case and even the Michael Jackson Trail, all ... 9 response(s), 12 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	Obama Can Win in 2012 - 11/16/2011 .... FDR was easily re-elected for the unprecedented 3rd time despite double digit unemployment, massive gov spending and programs which failed to stimulate the economy and the depression only deepened. Like today nothing the Obama administration does seems to have any affect on the economy. Unemployment has not reached Depression levels but remains high. People may lament the number of ... 4 response(s), 13 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	Denying Logic - 11/14/2011 .....Seems like I got in trouble again over in blogland. A poll was posted objecting to 1-2 persons posting 4-5 blogs every day as "Clogging the Blogs" which he said that they cause other blogs to be removed prematurely from the first page. T did a response to that premise saying why wasn't Photo Friday Blog clogging as well? If 1 person robs a bank or 20 people rob a bank the outcome is ... 11 response(s), 16 votes
starwomyn 70 F 376  questions	How Compatible am I with this Conservative? - 11/13/2011 He is a West Virginia Hillbilly and I am a California Left Coaster. He was a bit surprise to discover the tattoo on my "chest." He told me that he forbids his grown to get tattoos. I remarked that he had not seen the "rest" of my tattoos. I am a former biker chick. I was telling him that I suspect I will have a bi-racial grandchild considering my younger 's fondness for ... 3 response(s), 3 votes
dinty3 79 M 116  questions	A mothers love that touched my heart - 11/12/2011 I attended our local Rememberance Day ceremonies and later watched the ceremony from the Canadian National War Memorial in Ottawa. All somber affairs. BUT the one in Ottawa brought tears to my eyes as the Silver Cross Mother laid her wreath on the cenotaph. In the past, it has always been a little old mother in her 80s or 90s who was escorted up laid a wreath and was escorted back to her ... 4 response(s), 6 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	Happy Birthday - 11/10/2011 .....Today 10 November is the Birthday of the US Marine Corps. For 236 years they have answered our Country's call in every clime and place. They have been often tested and are always faithful and each are brothers forever. God bless every Marine and their families, past and present and God bless the United States of America for so proudly we hail...... ......Eternal Father strong to save ... 4 response(s), 4 votes
60minman2 84 M 26  questions	Why Do People play the Lottery - 11/7/2011 ......The other day I was watching a program that featured how winning the lottery has changed a persons life. One person they highlighted won a 79 million powerball. The segment said he had beaten the 1.7 billion to 1 chance of winning. The winning amount was the total value if taken over time but he opted for 44 million one time payment. Then after federal taxes were deducted he ... 8 response(s), 15 votes