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Two significant events are happening tomorrow. First of all, it’s my dad’s birthday. Second, it’s Willie Nelson’s 76th birthday.

I hope that I can be as a quarter of the way cool at 76 as Willie Nelson is. Willie, for whatever reason, gives me a happy.

So I whined yesterday from my Mucinex induced coma. I’m allowed to whine occasionally even if it is annoying. The good thing about this stuff is it works quickly. The bad stuff is that it will slowly kill you as it’s fixing you. I can only give you a few words of advice. As my insurance is wonky right now and I can’t use it because it won’t pay for anything, sometimes you just have to suffer through it. Do I still feel like residue on a cat’s hiney? Yes I do. Will I be a bear at work today? I will try not to be as long as my day isn’t like Monday’s was. I need to be allowed to feel like regurgitated swill, thank you.

And I have court this morning that I need to go to.

Will I cough on the judge? Let’s hope not.

On to Hoots information, as I know this comforts you. Dirk Diggler saw a guy pull out a trumpet in a church parking lot on Monday. He got out of his car, pulled out his instrument, played for a bit and got back in his car. As this was very random, Diggler thought there was some significance in the action, as did I. The moral of the story is that Diggler needs a camera.

Arlen Specter changed parties yesterday. I’m going to say it at the ire of my liberal buddies, but this was a political move to remain in office instead of a passionate change of heart. I’m very leery of politicians’ motives right now.

An attaboy to Ward Cammack for saying no to mountaintop removal. Good job on a couple of levels in this story. First of all, Mark Brown, the man of many Fedoras, sent an email to GoldnI regarding the issue. What does this mean? It means, A.) Cammack is making the right choice and B.) his team is engaging bloggers. I like that.

Random: Why is Rudolph Guiliani on CNN right now? Like he’s the go-to guy about Obama’s first 100 days in office? Has CNN forgotten man on the street interviews? I realize their I-Reports is supposed to fill that void but they only use about two minutes of that footage every three hours if that much. Oy.

Gun bills are the most important thing in the state of Tennessee right now as I say with a great deal of snark.

More important that practically anything else other than fighting over the TNDP. I want it to be known that I’m a second amendment girl. I don’t own a gun but my parents/grandparents did and we were threatened to be flogged if we ever touched them. I have no problem with folks having guns as I know a lot of responsible people that have them and a lot of people feel they need them, although I don’t feel as if I need one. They have permits and SQ’s sister hunts and I have benefited from deer season from her hunting prowess. However, I don’t understand the whole guns in bars thing. I talked to several parents and bar owners/bartenders in Hoots, and not one person was for this bill and many of them were guns owners. Their biggest complaint is that no one had surveyed or talked to them about this bill at all. Here’s the part they do not like and that is that, yes, you can’t serve someone who comes in who has a gun, but what if they come in hammered. I offer this to you without further comment other than our elected officials should have talked to the locals who own/run bars and restaurants or if they have, it’s been selective.

I’m sure there would be a differing of opinion from several of them, but what’s wrong with a conversation?

And, for the record, the folks I’m talking to are primarily right-leaners.

Geez, this session of the General Assembly has been the biggest joke in recent history.

Our political overlords sure know how to talk during a campaign season, but they can’t return a timely call in the middle of a situation to save their lives.