When my friends seem depressed, I care, I worry and I but in.

Today’s Wichita Eagle’s opinion are interesting.

“America does not need immigration ‘reform.” It needs immigration reversal.”

(JRM Comment: Shall we reverse it back to the year 1620?)

“If women want to be on the front line of combat, all women should be in the next draft as well.”

(JRM Comment: Not all women want to be in the military, and not all military women necessarily want to be in combat. When we actually had a draft, not all eligible men wanted to be in the military, and not all male military draftees wanted to be in combat.”)

“It’s hard to see the necessity to be able to record five TV programs at once when I can’t find one program to watch.”

(JRM Comment: Who claims it is necessary, rather than just being possible? But it is possible to record five different programs simultaneous, even if the person who wrote this poorly expressed opinion can’t find one show that he/she is interested in watching.)

The caption to one opinion reads as follows: “Immigration action leaving Kobach behind.

(JRM Comment: This is wonderful. Not only do I think Kobach is A behind, I’m happy to think his ideas are being left behind.)

“What would Sgt. Carter say to Gomer Pyle about Pyle’s recent marriage to the man friend in Seattle?”

(JRM Comment: Carter and Pyle are fictional characters, and I doubt the subject would have come up on the sitcom, Gomer Pyle, USMC, that aired from September of 1964 to May of 1969. Frank Sutton (Sgt. Carter) died at age 50 I 1973. We can’t ask him what he thought.; especially since Jim Neighbors and his partner have been together for 38 years, and Carter has been dead 39 years. Perhaps we can intuit what the person who wrote this opinion things about the matter.)

The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that exotic dancers are employees of the club(s) where they work, not independent entertainment contractors.

I predict that some team will win the super Bowl before the clock stikes midnight.

Truth will out …!

I generally walk my neighbor’s dog twice a day.

It was 11 degrees at 7:30 this morning. I’m waiting until noon to fetch the pups for their first walk of the day.

Above, Mack and Murphy are featured on the little stuffed bear’s sweatshirt.

Miss Dolly Dalrymple is sitting in the chair watching Mister Marshmallow and Miss Pumpkin at play.

Dolly had a viral infection a few months back. She had partial paralysis in her back hips ad legs. She had lost weight. She was bony at 4.2 pounds. She responded to medication and hasn’t had any further problems with her over-all strength and agility, other than she thinks she should have been born a slipper chewing dog.

Last week she started having diarrhea on a daily basis. I took her to the vet and got her some meds. Her weight, BTW, was a strapping 7.3 pounds. Yeah!  She eats and drinks well, and is feisty as all get out.

The vet said she wished I’d have brought a stool sample.  Dolly must have understood what was being said. She deposited a stool specimen on jeans – my right thigh – as she sat in my lap. I wonder if having her temperature taken from her south end had stimulated that response?

I hadn’t planned to do laundry, but after I got Dolly back home, it was definitely time – actually well past time – to do some laundry. I did not tarry over much.

The Wichita Eagle needs to have some proofreaders on staff. The image above  is part of today’s Wichita Eagle Sports page. My morning paper is generally in my driveway by 3 in the morning. This is most likely the early edition. WSU actually lost the game, the score was WSU 55 to Indiana State’s 68.

The paper had corrected this in a later edition. I know this because when I went to have coffee with my friend, Larry, his paper had reversed the scores.

I have never really contemplated why/how the paper determines where to place a college’s logo.This was a home game, so would that fact dictate where the school logo would be positioned? Perhaps the wining score should come first, thus that score would be on the left hand side of the page, with the winning team’s logo next to that top score. 

I doubt the earth’s axis will change because I don’t know the answers to my questions.

Mister Marshmallow basking in the morning sun.

KANSAS DAY, 152 years old today! From a Free State, through the age of being one of the most progressive states in the Union, to the idiocy of “Reverend” Sam Brownback.

How far the mighty have fallen in just 152 yars.

Global cooling? Global warming? Today it will be 75 degrees in Wichita; tomorrow it will be in the mid-40′s. That’s surely a sign of global yoyo-ing.

A commentator on the morning news was discussing immigration reform. She said: “The Democrats want it. The Republicans need it.”

John McCain says he wants immigration reform because the Republicam Party has always been a friend to Hispanics. I paraphrased what McCain said, but it doesn’t matter. McCain is so full of BS that he reeks.

John Boehner worries that Obama is out to destroy the Republican Party, but the Republicans don’t need Obama’s help. They are doing a fine job on their own.

J. J. Abrams is at it again. If I only had a fraction of this man’s talent – say, as much as he has in his left ear lobe –  I could be happy and successful. Abrams is going to direct another Star Wars film.

Phantom of the Opera turned 25. That is, it has been on Broadway since 1986.Some 130 million people have seen the stage production. It has earned some 5.6 billion dollars world-wide.

I wonder what Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux would have to say about this. Leroux wrote the book, first published in 1911, and there is no way he could have imagined any part of where his story is at the beginning of 2013. 

In loving memory of my mother,

Dorothy Elizabeth Barret Maxwell Keeler,

October 11, 1913 – January 24, 1998.

*****

Oe v Ade just celebrated 40 years.

Barely.

Various state laws and federal tweaks have eroded Roe V Wade significantly.  I fully expect the likes of Reverend Rick Perry and Reverend Sam Brownback to end up arming men and  women with micro chips to determine the exact moment of conception, then to declare the resultant ferilized egg a full citizen, with everything except voting rights.

Sam Broiwnback, ands several other Republican governors hosted so-called Pro-Life – workshops, just as they were NOT constitutionally elected to do??? Hardly.

Evidence now exists to show the Republicans may be softening on immigration questions. I guess the recent election helped persuade this change. When a significant numbers of people vote against you for because you don’t seem to like their color, or their life-style, or their gender or their religion, it is prudent to change your public face and posture, even is you are still, at heart, racist, bigoted, mysogenistic and otherwise in lock-step with ideologies that don’t invite cooperation.

Life is about compromise and cooperation.   Wherever two or more are gathered, there will be a variance of opinion.