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Peanut butter and peanut butter products are being recalled practically daily. The FDA has a list of recalled peanut products on their web site.

They keep saying that the regular jars of peanut butter sold on grocery shelves are not part of this recall. They say that the recalled products are food that contain peanut butter like commercially made peanut butter cookies, crackers, cereal, candy and ice cream.

I’m a fan of peanut butter and I don’t like the way new products keep being discovered each week and get added to the list. Some things you thought were safe last week are now not safe and should be destroyed. What is taking them over a month to discover the tainted products that keep getting added to this list? WTF?

I’m sure my parents generation is just astounded that a black even ran for President, much less won the election. I hear the old timers making side bets on how long he will be in office before there is an assassinaiton attempt. I think that is an awful thing to say and I get riled up when they start talking redneck trash like that. The man is a good man, a family man, god-fearing and obviously very intelligent. I say give him a chance to deliver on his promises and wish our new President well. It’s a tough job and he just might pull us all through this bad stretch of economic mess that wall Street got us into.

Well my favorite team didn’t win their playoff game so they are out of it. Now I have to cheer for my second pick and they don’t have a very good record in playoffs. So I am cautiously optomistic about the Cardinals winning their game. I think the Steelers and the Ravens are stronger teams. Nastier defense players anyway – they take a lot of cheap shots and really try to hurt the other guys, not just tackle them for the sake of the play. I don’t like that. It’s not a prissy game by any means, but it’s not about thuggery, either. Whatever happened to good sportsmanship? Why don’t these guys get it?

This weekend is big doings for football fans. I have cleared the deck so there are no errands that have to be run and no distractions planned for the 8 hours of football games tomorrow and Sunday. I want to focus on the football games and enjoy myself – chores can wait. After all, there are only a few weekends owth football left and then a long drought until August and next year’s preseason games.

I wonder how getting ready for a night out is different for a girl than it is for us guys? I know that I’m making plans to go out and checked the movie schedule, the car has a full gas tank, I showered and groomed (of course!) and I’m not even going to show up all that hungry – I ate a sandwich so I don’t look like a pig when we get to the restaurant. I wonder if I cleaned up the house and bought some breakfast foods if that would look like I was being presumptious or insult her? So I didn’t do that. LOL