TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
DREAM WORLD SERIES
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Happy, what has you so perked up this morn?
Happy: Dodgers won Man, can ya dig it?
KD: Dude, I can...Should be an interesting World Series
Happy: Dogger Man, there's another series?
KD: Yep, can you stand it?
Happy: You see this face, this is the face of exuberance; it's also the face of disappointment but who's counting.
KD: Happy, boy you crack me up...You like both teams don't ya?
Happy: Yep, gonna be a helluva Series.
Morning Peeps,
TRYING TO MOVE TO PEACE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Bart, what up?
Bart: Just give some peace, all I want is some peace…
KD: Lennon this morning?
B: I’m sick and tired of hearin’ things from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites…
KD: But wait, I thought it was all I want is some truth, just give me some truth.
B: Dude, we blew past truth 6 or 7 years ago…
DIVERTING ENERGIES
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Pietro, you look a little freaked.
Pietro: Dude, you don’t know the half of it…
KD: What gives?
P: I’m looking for more house plants, I don’t think we have enough.
KD: What do you mean? There are scads here…
P: Well, we’re gonna need a lot.
KD: Why?
P: So much killing now, humans killing each other…just thought since most peeps kill house plants anyway, I might divert the energy.
KD: Let me help you look…
ADJUSTING
Ken-Dogger: Hey Brutus, what up?
Brutus: Can ears express?
KD: Wha?
B: Well, with these masks, I can’t see your whole face. I was just wondering what to focus on.
KD: Not sure about ears expressing, I guess they can, but the movement seems limited.
B: Well then, how do I know you’re kind when you are wearing a mask.
KD: You know it by how I act, you also know it by my eyes.
B: Ah, the eyes, windows to the soul…Guess I’ll have to adjust.
KD: We all are Brutus, we all are.
There ARE still places where learning and love go together
Morning Peeps...you seen Will?
Ken-Dogger: Hey Oscar, you working?
Oscar: No, I was seeing what you were doing.
KD: I was scrolling through the scores of the Div II/III games.
O: Took you a while, there’s a lot of ‘em
KD: Yes, places where players largely play because they love the game.
O: Wow, there are still places where learning and love go together?
KD: Yes, all it takes is will
O: Well, let’s go find it then…
GETTING UNSTUCK
Morning Mellow Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Melo, what’s going on?
Melo: Dude, I just stepped in somethin’, not cool.
KD: Then, why are you winking?
M: I’m not winking Bro, I’m showing frustration.
KD: Oh? What frustrates you now?
M: Dude, I should recognize these pitfalls and adjust, will keep my paws cleaner.
KD: Wow, you can make adjustments?
M: Bro, if you don’t adjust, you get stuck.
KD: Melo, teach me how to make that face.
WHAT DOES get out the vote REALLY MEAN?
Ken-Dogger: Hey Puffer, why the long face?
Puffer: Went down to the polling station to vote, they wouldn't let me.
KD: Why? Didn't have picture ID?
Puffer: No Dude, I couldn't remember my street address...peeps knew me there as I had bit a couple in the past, but no vouching allowed.
KD: Damn, they know how to get out the vote don't they?
Puffer: Yea, but GET OUT to them has a whole different meaning...
CONSERVATION...Some don't see the value.
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Charlemagne, you okay?
Chalemagne: Dude, come on, I’m fine…why you ask?
KD: You’re just up there and not moving.
C: I’m moving, I’m conserving.
KD: Really, you’re going with that?
C: Bro, that’s the trouble with conservation, peeps don’t see it, so they don’t think there is value in it.
KD: It’s just a matter of ensuring something’s left when you need it.
C: Hence, my conserving…
KD: Hence, my understanding.
SOMETIMES, THEY'RE MAN-EATERS, WATCH OUT BOY, WATCH OUT BOY...
Chuckles: Oh here I come, watch out boy I'll chew you up, oh here I come, I'm a man-eater
Ken-Dogger: I wouldn't if I were you (but it does look like you did already), I know what she can do, she's deadly man, and she could really rip your world apart, mind over matter, the beauty is there but a beast is in the heart
Chuckles: The Mikster's not gonna be happy
KD: Not so much...
(Hall & Oates - Maneater)
HEED THE FLOWERS LIFE GIVES YA
Ken-Dogger: A flower Cleo?
Cleo: Yea Boy…I’m bringing you one.
KD: And why is that?
C: Well, I noticed early on, you tended to me, we took long walks, we cuddled…now, not so much.
KD: Well, relationships grow and they change dynamics
C: I want to sing songs again, play again, all the stuff we did when flowers were fresh.
KD: I miss that too…
C: Hence the Flower Bro, heed the Flowers life gives ya…
BUNDLES OF JOY
Ken-Dogger: Hey guys, you...oops, didn't realize you're still sleepin'
I'm just gonna sit here and watch these two bundles of joy, this is peace for me...
BUILDING KON-TIKI
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Cato, again with the questions…
Cato: How do I become a Kiwi?
KD: A piece of fruit, you wanna become a piece of fruit?
C: No Bro…A New Zealander, you know someone who ‘gets’ managed isolation.
KD: Oh, you mean a country who has a plan, who has used their resources to stop the spread, not to politicize it.
C: Yep, a Kiwi…
KD: They’ve beat it twice now, we haven’t even tried once…Can I be a Kiwi too?
C: I’ve started building Kon-Tiki II…
Morning Indigenous Peoples Day Celebrators,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Trixie
Trixie: Peeps are off today, what’s up?
KD: President Biden declared it Indigenous Peoples Day.
KD: Celebrations remind us of our cultural heritages.
T: We need to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ contributions to US culture.
KD: They have one of the highest group rates of Military Service, they honor security.
T: And They value a reverence for life.
KD: Perhaps, we should have more of these days.
PROTECTION AIN'T THE SAME FOR EVERYONE
Ken-Dogger: What do you want Cato?
Cato: Oh snap, I forgot that’s a signal to you…
KD: Well yeah, I worked in schools.
C: Okay, so how’s the robbing going?
KD: Robbing?
C: Well, every time you go into a store, you are masking up…just thought it was a stick up
KD: Oh, no, just masking to protect others…
C: I think Jesse James said the same thing…
KD: That was different…
C: Guess protection isn’t the same to everyone
KD: Apparently not.
ALTERING
Ken-Dogger: Morning Fabio, what you got there?
Fabio: Uh…A Box…I’m playin’ in it.
KD: Oh, but I mean, what came in it?
F: Not sure, it said LT-Meter on the side…
KD: Oh, that’s my new Lie-Truth Meter, I was looking for that.
F: Cool, so you can tell what is true and what is a lie?
KD: Naw, sold exclusively in America, the meter doesn’t sort anything, half believe it’s a lie, half believe it’s the truth, it’s altering the toy world.
F: And it’s altering the real world too.
TOPICAL
Ken-Dogger: Hey Hoot
Hoot: Did you see that story on climate change yesterday? Kinda said we’re not really doomed.
KD: Saw that, but it did say we need action now.
H: Oh Crap, you mean legislators have our fate?
KD: Yep, and they will wait for the 11th hour for someone/something to save ‘em.
H: Like some technological improvement?
KD: Yes, a tech breakthrough, but it needs to be a real one.
H: IKR, the breakthroughs we’ve been having are ‘Give Me a Break, I’m Through.’
TOO BUSY TO PHILOSOPHIZE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Jake
Jake: Hey KD, what are we headed for today?
KD: Not sure Jake, I’m gonna spread some more stone.
J: You go Dawg, I’m diggin’ the improvements.
KD: So what are you going to do?
J: Not sure, think I might sit a spell and just ponder…
KD: You are quite the philosopher.
J: Someone’s gotta be, you Humans aren’t showing much capability lately…
KD: Too busy just eking out a living Jake…
WHEN ALL OF US MEAN MORE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Theodore, that’s a look…
Theodore: Hey Bro, just wondering about the climate.
KD: What exactly?
T: Well, we don’t seem to want to do anything about it.
KD: Mostly due to costs, the elite like their money.
T: Do they think they will avoid the devastation?
KD: I think so, mostly because they’ve avoided other devastation.
T: Will we turn things around?
KD: When ALL of us mean more than ANY of us, only then.
WHEN MORALS MATTER
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Dutch, you’re looking down.
Dutch: I am Bro, it’s Monica…
KD: Oh, you mean Lewinsky, she’s back at it.
D: Must be a down news day, the scandal returns after 23 years.
KD: So, they made a show about the affair, and it’s Breaking News.
D: When you let scandal define you, it’s all you’ve got.
KD: Truly USA right there, your history might suck, but you can still make money off it.
D: Morals only matter when profit no longer works.
IF THE THUNDER DON'T GET YOU, THEN THE LIGHTNING WILL...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Roxie
Roxie: Morning Dogger, a question…
KD: Okay…
R: Am I an individual or am I a group?
KD: You’re always an individual, but sometimes part of a group. Why do you ask?
R: Well, when I’m an individual, peeps take to me; when I’m in a group, trouble starts.
KD: The personal becomes impersonal…
R: So, we need more personal touch?
KD: Yes, the Hammer doesn’t seem to be working to bring peeps together.
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017