Chopadictamy

This is a story that touched my heart and I had to share. It has been edited for brevity and to protect the inocent.

Renee is recovering from the surgery that she's been dreaming of for decades.

"Since I was about 13, I always knew something was different”.

She used to be Richard; a green beret specialist in Vietnam. A tough guy who privately dreamed of wearing dresses.

"It was weird cause as much as I wanted to dress like a lady, I didn't say anything.

She was in the military for over 20 years and married twice. She says she (at the time he) eventually started to dress like a woman, but switched back into the uniform for official duties.

"A lot of these transgender patients who try to be men, they take on masculine jobs they become labor struck, drivers, police men, soldiers," said Dr. Sherman Leis, with The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, says people with gender identity issues often try to over compensate.

Here’s the kicker, she is 77, and while genital re-assignment surgery is complicated, age, as long as there are not medical problems, usually isn't an issue.

Renee says she waited until her wife died to have the surgery, and finally feels normal.


"I'm happy good, as happy as any woman could be," said Renee.

The surgery can be expensive, $20,000. It's something that Renee has been saving for almost all her life. Transgender surgeries are not tracked, but Dr. Leis says his numbers are up.

So that's the story....Uncle Bob's Take:

One of the main components of Obamacare will be the treatment of late in life health needs of our seasoned citizens. There will be procedures that will be denied based on age and cost of treatment.

Government will ok the spending of "X" on a procedure for a young person yet to experience life (or should Uncle Bob say pay the huge increases in taxes that will soon be coming to pay for this boondoogle). On the flip side our seasoned citizens (who are sucking funds out of social security) will be denied that same procedure due to the cost as they've already lived the good life. Pop a pill as Obama said during one of his many new conferences.

Obama surely got the majority of the transgender vote last fall, yet Obamacare will show no favorites. Sensing this concern Renee knew she/he needed the Chopadictamy sooner than later. Same is probably true for the reverse, sister...er rather brother... procedure, Addadictamy. Will keep a sharp eye out for that story.

1st and 2nd Ex-Wives

Hope I haven't frighten any small children out there taking in Uncle Bob's blog. If so I apologize and sympathize.

Is Hillzilla catching a glimpse of the former Horn-Dog-In-Chief, Slick Willy, chatting up some Asian babe? Possibly.

Or could it be the front page headline in The Wall Street Journal Thursday?

"The battle to get rid of Cankles".

Uncle Bob wonders. You see...

When it comes to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's fashion choices, women often talk about her trademark pantsuits and speculate that she wears them to hide her "cankles" -- slang for chubby ankles.

During the 2008 election, the hilarious Saturday Night Live parody of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton (Tina Fey and Amy Poehler) defending women in politics had this exchange: Palin/Fey, "So please stop photo-shopping my head on sexy bikini pictures," and Clinton/Poehler responds: "And stop saying I have cankles."

The takeaway from years of public comments about her ankles is that Clinton's leg coverage has made American women fixated on their own cankles and that they're resorting to plastic surgery and new workout regimens to get narrower ankles.

According to the WSJ, the wave of women hating their cankles has reached such heights that gyms are coming up with new ways to specifically tone cankles; plastic surgeons now offer $4,000 to $6,000 liposuction procedures to slim them; and shoe companies are offering special models designed to minimize them.

Gold's Gym has declared July cankles awareness month! We can't get Obamacare soon in enough!!!

So, what's Uncle Bob's take? Whether Hillary has caught Bill with an intern or is concerned about her cankles, one thing is certain:

She sounds and looks like your 1st and sometimes 2nd Ex-wife.

Chasing Tail Around the Office

For followers of Uncle Bob's Take it is known that Uncle Bob is an insurance agent. More specifically he is an independent insurance agent with an office. That's an important distinction in the insurance business.

Well, an unusal (for Uncle Bob anyway) occurence happened in his office recently. Uncle Bob was chasing tail around his office!!!

There's an old saying when chasing tail around the office, "last thing we need is my wife showing up". Well for Uncle Bob that's just want he wanted and needed.

You see as Uncle Bob was putting in a little OT (wink wink) he heard the unmistakable purring of the North American Wild Pussycat. Hijinx would soon ensue as Bob chased it around the office, trying to sheppard it out of his life for good.

Sometimes Pussycat chased Uncle Bob hissing now, purring no more. Finally, Uncle Bob had to call the in the Mrs.

Now Bob and the Mrs. was chasing tail around the office. There's another saying about those who chase tail around the office with the Mrs. stay with the Mrs. but I digress.

Finally as with all of these extracurricular activities a good thing had to come to an end. tsk tsk.

We got Pussycat into a trash can, put a lid on it, and headed for the river w/o the benefit of a tiny life jacket.

The End.





(Actually we took it to another neighborhood and turned it loose).

Uncle Bob's Take??? Never chase tail around the office w/o first consulting the Mrs....

The End.

Can't See the Lines...Can you Russ????

Something about Democrat Commanders In Chief that make them Horn Dog In Chief. Someone's saluting. Ahem.

Michael Jackson has died.

Uncle Bob has had a hard time pulling this feelings together on this topic. I think I now have gotten my arms around it. Please be advised that this is a bit racy. You'll be okay however, if you don't speak German or cannot read.

Celebrate the 4th .... With a Fifth???

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured
before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons servingbin the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the
Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their
sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters.

He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.

So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they
paid.

Remember: freedom is never free!