Some of my favorite rock stars over the years have been women.

Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart
Shirley Manson of Garbage
Pat Benatar
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders
Tina Turner
Joan Jett
Stevie Nicks
Debbie Harry
Patti Smith

I remember moments sitting there in the audience wondering where all the riffs and licks being belted out originated. I remember the wild applause. I remember coveting their attentions otherwise as well.

So today is Women Rock Day. It is held each January 3 to honor the women of Rock music and to take note of them in all their glory !

While I hear mention of these women being pioneers of their art I prefer to simply refer to them as veterans and I will always take a moment to hear them out.

Women Rock !
 

Today is 55 MPH Speed Limit Day. It commemorates the fall of 1973 whereby President Richard Tricky Dick Nixon issued an executive order mandating a 55 mph national maximum speed limit. It received a one year continuation the following January.

President Richard Nixon started it.

President Jimmy Carter made it worse.

The 55 mile per hour speed limit was a blight on the land in the name of some "fuel efficency" concept which really wasn't there.

So the stupid politicians are allowed to punish the taxpayer and subject us to their stupid law breaking whims ... often by decree in likes of the lamer Biden and his regime des idiots.

Can I get a DUH stupid human beings running The Republic into the ground ?

The present administration not withstanding Jimmy Carter was the SINGLE stupidest president yet.

Richard Nixon was merely a crook, but not stupid.

Regardless, the 55 mile per hour speed limit was a stupid idea propagated by those who would take undue liberties with we who pay their salaries.

I don't observe any 55 mile per hour speed limits these days because I decline to be some stupid dolt in the vein of Jimmy Carter.

I'm not a crook like Richard Nixon either.

The Biden administration with their innumerable woke morons is FAR worse. The democrats need to go.

See Also:

What do you love about America Day 2022
What a FOOL Jimmy Carter has become
Anniversary of Trump Inauguration
 

Auld Lang Syne

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

And surely you'll buy your pint cup!
and surely I'll buy mine!
And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

We two have run about the hills,
and picked the daisies fine;
But we've wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

I have liked fruitcake my entire lifetime.

While I admit to being a 'fruitcake bigot' as it were early on, I am happy to report a cultivation for the various flavors afforded by different recipes I have been permitted to taste over the years.

The candied fruit and nuts permeating a fruitcake appeal to me personally. My exposure to less mainstream recipes happened over time primarily from interacting with coworkers.

I recall my mother making fruitcakes then steeping them in rum and recalling how I couldn't taste the booze at all.

I also once had a piece of fruitcake that burned all the way down.

•  I like dark cakes.

•  I like light cakes.

•  I like any combination of more fruit and more nuts.

•  I like any combination less fruit and less nuts.

•  I even like those more exotic varieties.

Things like cakes that don't appear as the traditional 'fruit cake' ... such as those my late grandma Ida used to make from time to time and set upon the dinner table.

Today is National Fruitcake Day. Whether you're a fan of the mainstream fruitcake or one of those exotics December 27 is your day to get out there and experience those flavors which piqued my interests early on.

Happy National Fruitcake Day !