It's getting tougher for the geese who flock to the beaches in Lake of the Ozarks State Park.

My blog today is a part of the Children in Film Blogathon hosted by the wonderful Comet Over Hollywood, May 24-26, 2013.  I decided to focus on Jane Withers, who is still alive and thriving and who herself is a fan of classic films.   I was most familiar with Jane from her tv commercials as the bubbly,  helpful plumber, Josephine, extolling the cleaning virtues of Comet Cleanser.  I was not as familiar with Jane’s early beginnings in the...

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7 Ways to Save Money on Memorial Day written by Sydney Alcala for BillCutterz Money Saving Blog.Memorial Day is just around the corner and that means it’s almost summer time. Kick your summer into gear by having a fantastic three day weekend without blowing your budget. Here are...

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There is one strong similarity between Watergate and the slime oozing out of the Obama White House that can’t be ignored.

Just in time for the busy Memorial Day weekend, the Missouri Department of Transportation and its contractor have opened the Route 54 bridge over the Osage River in Miller County. One westbound lane on the bridge has been closed since work to replace the bridge deck and paint the structure began in March. APAC-Missouri, Inc. of Columbia, Mo., was the contractor on...

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Wow, over 17,000 hits on my site! wow! What a fantastic compliment…thank you to everyone who takes time tostop by and read it:) Tonight was a good night. It really made feel that my blog was worthy and a great thing I’m doing. John had an awards banquet for the hospital. He wanted me to go with him, and I was so happy I felt good and could go!

?Modern conservatism comes in two distinct architectural styles. The first seeks to build from scratch, using accurate ideological levels and plumb lines, so every wall is straight and every corner squared. The goal of politics is to apply abstract principles in their purest form. But there is another type of conservatism, often practiced at the state level, which attempts to build out of flawed, existing materials, resulting in some odd angles and incongruous additions. These conservative...

You can have a great time getting caught up in the outrageous action of the sixth entry in this money-making machine of a series without having seen any of the previous films. But you wouldn’t understand the nuances of the characters and their interrelationships, you wouldn’t get why they all keep talking about the importance of family, and you wouldn’t really know who you’re supposed to be rooting for, or why.

“The Hangover III” takes forever to get started and then never wants to end. Farewells are always tough, but the end it is, as the “Wolf Pack” embarks on one final off-the-rails road trip.

Scott Blagden worked in real estate after being shown the exit door when a college prank found the wrong audience – apparently humor wasn’t in the offering that semester. Today, he lives on Cape Cod, is still in the real estate biz, is the father to two teenagers and he has just seen his first book published.

  The lake level was 658.6, with heavy generation scheduled through the weekend the lake should rise to over 659.0 by the weekend. Surface temperature at Bagnell Dam was 66 degrees; tributary temperatures are 62 to 68 degrees depending on location and time of day. Truman Lake is four feet over pool and releasing at maximum flow.  BLACK BASS – It took 21.3 pounds to win the Wednesday Nite Tourney, Big Bass was 6.78...

President Obama addressed many important issues in his speech Thursday (transcript here), some of which I’m writing about for Sunday’s column.  The speech also included some remarkable political theater involving Obama and a protester in the audience. If anyone finds the clip and can link to it, you should check it out.

Notice how this wonderful woman deals with the sick grief-mongering reporter in this video which is now making the rounds. "Oh, I know exactly what happened," the woman says as the reporter shamelessly angles for tears, or at least some self-pity. 

The Ohio Secretary of State ordered that any suspicious ballot out of the 5.6 million cast in Ohio be investigated. They found only 135 suspicious ballots, and those votes weren't organized in favor of one party or another. The entire notion that there is massive voter fraud is false. Republicans used the fear of fraud to introduce voter ID...

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