March 28, 2013 - Seven Years and ....

Seven years ago, on March 28, 2006, I started this blog: “Jay’s Jabberwocky.”  After I exited the workplace and airports for a calmer environment, I would get countless calls and emails every day asking me: “What do you think?, What would you do?, Is that legal?”

I was inspired by people always asking me what I thought. (BTW – they’ve stopped asking.)

I’ve posted 803 blogs in the past 7 years.  Most weeks, I have a PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) and a FRIDAY FUNNY.  Sometimes I declare a LOSER OF THE WEEK.

The beauty of my Blog has it has left a timeline or online journal for my children.
  

It also will prevent me from ever seeking political office.  That is a shame.  Because by some accounts, I’m a much better “Community Organizer” than some that have put that on their resume.

That was NOT a PEEVE.

March 18, 2013 - PPM - Spring Draining

This week's PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is the length of baseball's Spring Training. Do we really need 6 weeks of practices and exhibition games?

The Cincinnati Reds invited 60 players to Spring Training this year. There were only 2 roster spots that were in doubt. How about a simple game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to determine who goes to Cincinnati or Louisville?

Everyone complains about the NFL for having 4 pre-season games, where no starters play, yet the fans pay the full admission price.

In Baseball, the fans pay less, see less, and NEVER complain, until NOW.

Years ago, baseball players had winter jobs selling cars, working in factories, and would do anything to "make ends meet." With the advent of guaranteed salaries they have one job: PLAY BASEBALL!!!.

MLB players employ personal trainers, have set diets, and are in game-shape when they arrive at Spring Training. Every professional baseball player's contract has restrictions against doing anything fun during the off-season for fear of injury. No basketball, no motorcycle, no laser tag. Thank goodness, golf is still allowed.

I've witnessed what really happens at Spring Training. It has turned into more of a College Spring Break for many of the players: Hangover 4 and Hall Pass 2 plots come to mind.

Let's reduce the needless experience of Spring Training from 6 to 2 weeks and get on with the GAMES!!!



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March 15, 2013 - Friday Funny - Bombs Away

This week's FRIDAY FUNNY is why I was never allowed to joined our Armed Forces.

Some will say it was because of my poor eye sight. Others will say it was because of my lack of respect for authority.

I believe it was because no one could appreciate my sense of humor or timing.

I thought I could have been a specialist like the bomb munitions expert in The Hurt Locker.

Or Not.



Bottom line, I liked to reduce stress and keep things "light" when I was working. I tried to make every day a FRIDAY FUNNY.

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March 13, 2013 - WH is Closed for Despair

This is an update to an earlier Pet Peeve about the Sequester.

The early reports of cannibalism, food hoarding, and the end of civilization as we know it have proven false.

However, that doesn't mean Obama hasn't tried to affect the narrative.

The White House has decided to "SAVE" $18,000 per week by canceling tours of "The People's House".

Obama has admitted he wasn't good at math.  $24K a week is $600K per year,  Based on the 2012 figures, when we added $1,200,000,000,000 to our national debt, we add $600K to our National Debt every 16 seconds.

Now the only way you can be a visitor to the White House is if you run a labor union.

In April 2012, I wanted to tour the White House, but I and my family were denied for unknown reasons.  Ironically, we wouldn't have had that "awkward" moment in the hall way had Obama and I run into each other.  He was on a golf vacation at the time.  What are the chances of that?
 

 

The Most Transparent Administration Ever now literally sequesters itself from public view.

The Obama administration is instructing agencies to make the sequester cuts as painful as possible.

The fact checkers are finally doing their job and debunking the doomsday scenarios about the Sequester that Obama was projecting.

 
The best thing about the Sequester is that it's promoting discussion of government waste and establishing priorities.  It's called SETTING A BUDGET.

 

Leaders lead and take responsibility.  Losers make excuses and blame somebody else.

March 11, 2013 - PPM - TSA IQ MIA

This week's PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is about the recent TSA announcement.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that starting April 25, airline passengers will be allowed to bring small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment with them when they travel.

Really? In the "Era of Government Intrusion" around the size of soda drinks and how we cook our fries, we are going to lessen the rules? And why these rules?

Why can you now carry a knife, but 4 ounces of shampoo is banned? This HAS to be a government operation.

Is Oscar-winning actor Jack Nicholson now on a "Do Not Fly" list? Jack smashed the windshield of the another driver's car with a golf club because he believed that driver had cut him off in traffic.

The issue of souvenir bats should also be addressed. A Major League baseball game had to be cancelled one time in NY when the "Free Bat" promotion went bad. Sure, alcohol and wooden weapons are always a great combination. Also, how many airline passengers ACTUALLY need to transport a souvenir bat?

In all seriousness, the tragedy of 9/11 was enabled by poor National Security Intelligence and box cutter (knifes). The TSA has been incompetent in making us take off belts, shoes, and to forfeit our water and hand lotions. Don't even get me started on "random" pat-downs of grandmothers and infants.


How about we add some COMMON SENSE to our government programs?



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March 8, 2013 - Friday Funny - Horse Sense

This week's FRIDAY FUNNY is the power of "Creative Thinking."

When the Government tries to box you in, think outside the box.



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March 4, 2013 - PPM - High Valued Recruits

This week's PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is about College Recruits.

A couple of weeks ago we "Celebrated" National Signing Day.

All the national AND local TV stations were focused on "who was going where."

I agree that college athletics and especially college football is big in this country.

My PEEVE is why we don't celebrate the signing our our high school scholars.

These people will be OUR FUTURE long after the sun has set on the athlete's college experience. As a matter of fact, the spotlight will just begin to illuminate AFTER these scholars take their college educations and start to apply what they have learned into their field of choice.

I would love to see a press event when a HS senior has three textbooks and playfully decides on which university to attend AND what they will study.

As a disclaimer! I was able to participate as a proud parent when my son signed a letter of intent to play college baseball. But I would have been as proud had it been an academic scholarship.

Everyone wants to argue that their school has the #1 recruiting class this year. It doesn't matter, till they prove it ON THE FIELD.

Always remember: The #1 Recruiting class of all time has to be THE Mickey Mouse Club Season 6 with Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, Keri Russell. (pictured below)



Just saying.



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March 1, 2013 - Friday Funny - Facebook Likes

This week's FRIDAY FUNNY is an all too often phenomena. It's the belief that the power of Facebook LIKES is now equivalent to the previous power of prayer.

Somehow, Mark Zuckerberg is the new Deity. I love the, obvious to some, sarcasm of the below post.


Unfortunately, yet FUNNY, some believe that enough LIKES, will make it so.

It's the reincarnation of the CHAIN LETTER. Maybe that is what caused the downfall of the Post Office: the Facebook LIKE.


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