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I broke my trip down to 2 days of travel. I left the Easter dinner around 3 p.m. and drove to Litchfield Illinois to spend the night. This is the first time I stayed there on the way home, but I’m no stranger to Litchfield. It’s just under 300 miles.

4:30 found me on the road again and it was nice making it through St. Louis before rush hour. With all their continuing construction, rush hour can be hell.

Just outside of St. Louis, it started raining and I drove through varying stages of rain for the next 5 or 6 hours. I did not enjoy that, but my Jeep is now almost bug free. I finally broke out of the rain after passing through OKC. I was rain free until I was almost home and then I drove through light showers.

All in all it was a fairly pleasant trip home.

My Stay in Illinois

I stayed at Casa de Beppe, my favorite lodging facility when traveling to Illinois. Mom and I played many games of Scrabble and Mom even won a game. Sorry Mom, in July I’m sure you’ll be back on your game.

While in the Chicago area, I stopped and visited Archie and spent an hour chatting with her. She always seems to come up with another Marylou or A & S story that I can bring home to Nina. It was a nice visit and I always enjoy visiting with you Archie.

I also went to an Easter egg hunt at Kleyweg’s daughter’s house and saw Fat Ass and Johnson. I found out that both Don and I are fluent in signing. We held a very animated conversation just using our hands and fingers. I’m glad you finally learned a new skill Don. Of the 3 of us, Ed looks the oldest, like real old. I mean liver spot old. I also saw many of Susie’s family members, and Sue too.

Mom and I went to visit Mrs. Johnson while we were out and about too. She looks great. I’m guessing Ed took after Mr. J rather than Mrs. J. Or maybe not, last time I saw him, he looked pretty darn good too. We spent an hour with her and Mom and Mrs. J seemed to enjoy chatting together. I was just happy they didn’t start comparing “Glen Notes” in front of me.

Saturday night was dinner with Nan. We had a nice evening together and even went for a short ride in the Jeep. She was surprised how comfortable it was.

Other Shit

Happy earth day to all you hippies that read this blog. To celebrate I may bury some mercury.

I just saw a commercial for Lithia Chrysler Dodge and Jeep and I have to tell you, their commercials make me think of moving to Ford or GM.

Erin seems to have missed me while I was gone. She spent the night and she was always in contact with me during the night. Tonight she goes with Tori. She’s getting so big, to big to share our bed. So tall, so pretty.

Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with people who waste your time.

• Safely even.
• Without getting a ticket.
• Or killing a deer.
• Or construction worker.
• Or angering more than one person.
• Or getting into a fight with the person I did anger.
• Or falling asleep while driving.
• Or even taking a short nap while driving.

Thanks for caring enough to check.

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said:
“We have to pass it, to find out what’s in it.”

A physician called into a radio show and said: 
“That’s the definition of a stool sample”.

One of my favorite things about coming to Chicago is playing Scrabble with my mom, but she’s getting mean about it lately. I feel I need to blame Keith, since she’s been playing with him recently. She even accused me of cheating and that’s pretty hard since she keeps the score!

She recently won a game and the gloating was overwhelming. Keith, what are you doing to my mother when you play her that turns a sweet woman to a heartless gamer?

Oh well, I guess I’ll have to take comfort in the 16 or 17 games I won and hope she doesn’t start hitting me again.

I wonder how long this one’s been brewing  . . .

Don’t pooh-pooh the Nat’l Enquirer, since it was
first to run the Lewinsky/Slick Willie story in ’98 . .
then the Drudge Report broke it . . and it turned out
to be true !!

View the original article at: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/exclusive-michelle-walks-out-obama-divorce-battle-explodes

EXCLUSIVE: MICHELLE WALKS OUT AS OBAMA DIVORCE BATTLE EXPLODES!

By Steve Herz, NATIONAL ENQUIRER

Photography by: Getty Images News

IN a major behind-the-scenes blowout, President BARACK OBAMA and first lady MICHELLE waged their worst White House fight ever over her lavish vacation trip to China!

Sources tell The ENQUIRER that Obama exploded when Mi­chelle refused to cancel her pricey getaway – even after White House advisers warned him that the first couple’s six-year string of extravagant vacations had already drained the U.S. Trea­sury of a whopping $150 million in tax­payers’ money.

Instead of postpon­ing her trip, a furious Michelle – still seeth­ing over the embarrassing “selfie” Barack recently snapped with a leggy blonde head of state – announced that she was taking her mother along for company.

She further declared that she didn’t want reporters covering her activities overseas.

“This was a blowout of epic proportions – probably the nasti­est White House fight they’ve ever had,” a Washington, D.C., insider told The ENQUIRER.

“They were both screaming at one another.

“The president was infuriated when advisers told him that they’d added up the costs of all their ‘vacations’ and China was putting them over the $150 million mark.

“But he’s defenseless to stop Michelle be­cause their marriage has collapsed. She’s doing what she wants – and that’s seeing the world on the American taxpayers’ dime.”

The embattled commander in chief flat-out begged his wife of 21 years to postpone the trip, according to a family insider.

“But she refused,” said the source.

“Then, when Barack asked why she had to take her mother along, Mi­chelle ripped into him. She screamed  that he was ‘lucky’ that she hadn’t left him after that embarrassing ‘selfie,’ and then she stormed off.”

Michelle arrived in Beijing with her mother, Marian Robinson, and the Obamas’ daughters, 15-year-old Malia and Sasha, 12, on March 20 for a planned seven-day, three-city trip.

They checked into the lavish presidential suite at the Beijing Wes­tin hotel, costing a whopping $8,350 per night. The 3,400-square-foot suite included 24-hour butler service and a steam room.

One published report quoted hotel employees grumbling about Michelle’s mom “barking at the staff ” and added that the first lady’s party was “inconveniencing pretty much everyone.”

And it quickly became clear that Michelle had apparently won the battle to avoid media scrutiny.

While she was scheduled to de­liver a speech to students at Peking University, “The Weekly Standard” reported that “she won’t be accompa­nied by the press” because “she does not plan to give interviews.”

As a result, the White House went into spin control, noted the D.C. insider.

“They’re defending Michelle’s trip by calling it ‘a people-to-people exchange’ and emphasizing ‘the im­portance that both nations place on education,’” said the source. “But the fact is Michelle specifically demanded that reporters not follow her every move.”

Media were granted access to only two of the 22 events on the first lady’s schedule, and sources say Michelle’s media ban hid her secret agenda to split from the president.

Besides being humiliated by the president’s “selfie” photo with the sexy Danish prime minister at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service last December, sources say Michelle was further outraged when she learned the Secret Service had been covering up the president’s cheating.

The first lady has already met with divorce lawyers and is planning a separate life after her husband leaves the White House.

“Obama’s advisers told him he must try and keep Michelle ‘under control’ until then,” divulged the D.C. insider.

“They explained that if Michelle walked out while he was still in office, the impact on his presiden­tial legacy would be catastrophic.”

And Michelle isn’t doing him any favors by traveling like a queen.

Besides the family’s annual Au­gust vacation on ritzy Martha’s Vineyard and Christmas holiday in Hawaii, Michelle jetted off to Mexico and Spain in 2010, and kicked up her heels at a posh ski resort in Vail, Colo., in 2011.

In March 2011, she spent five days in Latin America with her mother and daughters. Three months later, they were joined by Michelle’s niece and nephew for a safari in South Africa.

In June 2013, the first lady spent two days in Ireland. That trip re­quired booking 30 rooms at an exclusive hotel for her staff and security detail, costing taxpayers a reported $5 million.

According to one published re­port: “The president’s pricey travels have become so controversial that ‘Judicial Watch’ was forced to sue the Secret Service and Defense De­partment to get them to turn over records on the amount of taxpayer money used to fly the first family all over the world…”

But Michelle couldn’t care less, said the D.C. insider.

“It’s clear to everyone at the White House that Barack has completely lost control of his wife,” said the source.

“Michelle does whatever she wants and goes wherever she wants. It’s as if she’s tacked up a map of the world and put pins on all the places she wants to visit. The sad part is that taxpayers are paying for her bucket list.”

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Sen. Reid, one of obama’s senatorial co-conspirators yesterday called supporters of of Nevada rancher Bundy, “Domestic terrorists”. Now we who support a fellow citizen against governmental bullying are terrorists? Our government is definitely now against the citizens. This country has officially turned to a them against us mentality, on both sides.

For my liberal friends, I don’t feel that this is a direct fault of the obama administration, but this has been coming for many years previous and with  cooperation of the right. We are screwed. There is no difference between the left and the right, they’re all against us.