Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Dang it Chloe,,,,,,I was gone,,,and had to come back to sneak a peek,,like u say,,,,and now I find myself Numero Uno,,,with nothing to say,,,,,,so my first act of being # 1,,,is to say,,,,Carramba,,,

Craig,,,as usual,.,,nice flick,,,,,,Cheney,,,,as much as I can't stand the man,,,,keep him out there ,,,on all of the shows,,,and being the M, D, weekend,,,,what the dems need,,,is the bulldogs to come and tell us how,,he never did any time in the Military,,,and how he dodged it,,,,,,,Cheney is the gift that keeps on giving,,imo

Pelosi,,,,,,,,I thought she was tougher than she has been,,,haven't seen too much of it,,,,she needs to go after the Republicans,,just as fierce as they are comming after her no??,,,what would Newt have done? I think that he would have been fighting back,,,and enjoying it,,,,while every one else (this is what the Dems lack) would take up talking points ,,,and sticking with them.

I put up my Memorial Day blog early and in consideration of our previously discussed "poetry time" it includes a great poem by Jake Thackray about the type of send off I want some day

http://jdurward.blogspot.com/

I could have said,,,,Not my Job Man,,,,,,,

Happy Birthday Scatman Crothers

http://www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=898

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlVvZxYBZU

Jamie,,,,I really like that poem,,,last will and testament by J. Thackray ,,,sort of say's it all for me,,,

"Let best beef be eaten, fill every empty glass,
Let no breast be beaten, let no tooth be gnashed.
Don't bother with a fancy tombstone or a big-deal angel or a little copper flower pot:
Grow a dog-rose in my eyes or a pussy-willow
But no forget-me-nots, no epitaphs, no keepsakes; you can let my memory slip.
You can say a prayer or two for me soul then, but - make it quick."

If all is ready,,,and there is no quality to life,,,,I would rather go back and join all of the other passing stars,,that shone a little lite,,,join the rest of the universe,,and come back another day,,,another time,,,maybe on our new,,,Planet that we will inhabit,,,,,I like the Life after Humans Series,,,,,but I believe Mother Earth will be vacant in part cos of ,,,we have found some where else for evolution to take part or ( major part),,,going to be a lot of green eyed ladies,,hey thats a song no?

part of ,,,that should read

Just a little more Scatman with Mean Dog Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOhBjavJkk

About the time this was recorded at a Los Angeles club, I used to spend Wednesdays at the Musicians Union in Los Angeles. You never knew who would be rehearsing - If you ever just want to hang out around a great parking lot, the one at 817 N. Vine in LA would be one of the perfect ones to pick.

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Solar --

Thank you for that heads up on Roger Tory P. He had or has no peer in the birding world; his loss is still felt keenly.

Mournful in my bird world today. Made a sad discovery last evening, found a little wren crumpled and dead on the garage floor. Had seen her flying in and out a few days ago. Silently prayed she would pick another nest site, if that's what she was seeking. Wrens are such inquisitive little creatures.

For several days, I checked thoroughly each time before closing the door for the night. Maybe when I didn't hear her anymore, I figured she had found her way out? Maybe I forgot about her? Maybe hubs shut the door one night and didn't know to look? I only know my heart sank when I discovered her little body.

I've been asking myself did I do enough? How could I have prevented it?

A Minor Bird

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.

The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.

Robert Frost

Solar,

Jake Thackray was a British singer and poet. There is a great deal of his material on You Tube, but the accent makes some of it difficult when sung which is a shame since he could be so comically obscene when he wasn't being wise and witty. He has a dedicated web page where some of the lyrics live on:

One of the "scandalous" ones: Isabel Makes Love Upon National Monuments

http://www.jakethackray.com/content/view/67/27/

http://tweettoremind.org

Bob Woodward's campaign to assist brain injured and PTSD veterans

Ivy,,,welcome,,,,,,but don't take it so personal,,,,,it is sad,,,,but there are so many ways that a little bird---wren,,,I don't know ,my birds (differences,,,but maybe I will pick up a book at the library,,and start,,,,I get so many diff 1's in my yard,,,) but I do pick up a little body every now and then,,,and put it in little bag,,,and bury it,,,,,,,,had one a cpl of weeks ago that was in my fenced in garden,,,,,,it could not fly away from me,,,it sorta limped from one corner to the other,,,I decided that in the fenced in garden,,that it was safe,,,,,,we do get a very large black cat ,,that comes into our yard from time to time,at night,,,,,for the next two days,,,I gave it some bread,,,,12 grain Ha!,,,,he wasn't there the third day,,,,and I saw no signs of a struggle,,,,I was just starting to get attached to her,,,,,and was going to name her Sue,,,,,thats my only bird story that I can tell.

Made breakfast,,,,,,and got Judy off to a multiple choir practice,(diff choir's,,from diff churches,some big thing coming up for the city ,,),,,did my chores,,,cut the grass,,,it's a beautiful day here,Im going to see how I can get myself in trouble,and maybe go over to the park,,,to see if I can sneak in on a basketball game or two,,with the teenagers there,,,If not go and hit a cpl of bucket of golf balls,,,

Jamie,

,thanks,,,booked that,,,,,between,,you,,Pat, and Ivy,,,,Chlo,,,Renee,,Sturg,,,and all of the others,,,Im starting to pay attention to poetry,,,,I have to read it all a cpl of times ,,to get it,,,but if it catches my interest,,,(thats the trouble,,,,there is nothing that does not catch my interest,,and I don't have the time for it all,most of the times),,I will think about it meanings...thanks

Already starting to remember some of my buddies that did not come back,,,so Im going to get out of here,,,,,,later!

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"was just starting to get attached to her,,,,,and was going to name her Sue"

Ha, Solar...you were already attached (^_~). The first job God gave Adam in the Garden was to name all the animals. The act of naming something is a bonding process - something only humans can do. lol

"The act of naming something is a bonding process - something only humans can do."

ivy, not so sure about that, my dog calls me "ralph" all the time.

Of birds and beavers the thread did flow
The political talk had all but ceased
Inquiring minds want to know
Oh pundit, Oh sage
Please tell us if can

What gives, what's up. with all this nature talk
I brought my axe to grind
But all I see are pruning hooks
And for a change that's just fine

WOW
I am at a loss for words, a rare event folks , enjoy it while you can.

http://cbsolaroven.blogspot.com/2009/05/wow.html

Hello everyone. I've actually been around, but busy with moving and organizing stuff, my job stress is high, and the situation with my niece can now be referred to as "nieces". I do not have any clear explanation for this, but my niece Anna, who has non-hogkins lymphoma is now joined by her 23 year old sister with the EXACT SAME DIAGNOSIS ! Talked to my sister on the phone, she was crying, and my Mom cries at the smallest thing so that didn't surprise me. We are all pretty much in shock!

I watched part of Cheney's "address" the other evening and I got the feeling that he was not at all well. Mind you, I dislike the man totally, but the heavy breathing and the pasty skin suggests to me someone not doing so well.

My friend Mauro mentioned something that made sense regarding the Mexican Flu or Swine Flu. He believes that in Europe it will not be as disastrous here than in USA. Reason? Because almost all of us here have exceptional health care coverage. In the states many people cannot always go lickity split to the doctor because they are not insured. I agree, but also, the sick leave policies in the US also makes people hesitant to take what little sick leave they have.

Craig, really dug your appearance on Today! GOOD STUFF! I think between Cheney and Limbaugh, the GOP will continue to be swimming in the toilet of political dinosaurs! I think Pelosi is a problem though.

Oh yeah, Belgium has offered to take in some Guantanamo prisoners here. I have to be honest... I wish they wouldn't...

That's it...

Cheers all.

I once had a parakeet who called me "pretty bird". No joke, he knew who I was. He never called Sweetie or anyone else pretty bird.

Pretty interesting the pictures of CT's owl camp are better than the ones in my head. That almost never happens. Same goes for this shot from Blonde Wino's garden of rain falling at Las Cruces :

http://cbhopibluecornexperiment.blogspot.com/

I Have Rain Jealousy

Euro -
Your nieces -
That is damn curious , can you check the neighborhood where they grew - up , and anymore people with this same aliment ?
I know it may be just a very long shot, but this may be part of a larger problem.

This out from MSNBC ...

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on tonight's "Countdown" pledged to donate $10,000 to charity after disc jockey Erich "Mancow" Muller was waterboarded today on live radio, in an attempt to prove the technique was "not torture." After six seconds Muller said it was "absolutely torture" and that were he to be interrogated by the use of waterboarding he would "confess to anything." Olbermann promised to donate $10,000 to the charity Veterans of Valor, founded by Sgt. Klay South, who administered the waterboarding to Muller today, and withdrew his offer to Sean Hannity to make a donation to the charity of his choice if he followed through on his offer to undergo waterboarding.

If you haven't seen the Mancow waterboarding, you can see the full video here. It's powerful on a number of different levels.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/05/from_olbermann.php?ref=fpblg
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Mancow settles the torture debate ?

c is corn sent coast to coast
b is blue, a true hopi hue
o is ovens-r-us
b is buddy holly street art

what more can you ask of life

The Vogues - Five o'clock world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXKRwqBmC4A

above is meant in celebration of jobs well done.

Farewell Friday for Frankie Manning

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/nyregion/23lindy.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

and Manning dancing in Hellzapoppin 1941

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTg5V2oA_hY

and his Tony Award Winning choreography for 1989 "Black and Blue"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPuhVWiC4ZI

Lawrence Wilkerson tells CNN's Rick Sanchez just who he thinks was running the show in the Bush administration, why the Cheney family is out in full force defending torture and suggests that a number of members of the Bush administration should avoid travelling.

Sanchez: You know the idea...I was struck by that because I heard the term "lawyer up" and I was trying to figure out what she meant, because it seems there's an implication with the quote lawyer up implying that these suspects shouldn't be allowed any kind of representation. And it makes me as an American then wonder, given the legal system that I know that we have in this country, if they don't have lawyers and there aren't any courts, then who decides that they're guilty or innocent? Did anybody ever ask that question?

Wilkerson: This is absolutely Orwellian. His speech yesterday was Orwellian too and George Orwell when he was with the BBC talked about this a lot--when lying drives out truth telling. And Mark Twain of course said a lie will make it around the world before the truth can pull its socks up. That's what they're involved in. That's what Karl Rove taught them. That's what they've been involved in for some time. And her bona fides scream at me that what in the world is America's media doing listening to this woman? This woman has absolutely no bona fides to talk about this.

Sanchez: She has made eleven appearances in nine days, so she certainly has been getting...um...a lot of us....

Wilkerson: They're scared. I think they're frightened. And I don't blame them for being frightened.

Sanchez: Why? Why would Dick Cheney be frightened?

Wilkerson: Well we've got the possibility, I realize the political will doesn't exist, but we've got the possibility of domestic problems for him, and we've certainly got the possibility of international problems. Judge Baltasar Garzon in Spain has started a case and if I were Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jim Haynes and a host of other lawyers in the administration, I wouldn't travel. I wouldn't travel anywhere.

http://crooksandliars.com/node

ET

There have been several studies indicating a possible link between NHL and various types of pollution

http://www.ehjournal.net/content/7/1/51

http://www.biomedexperts.com/Abstract.bme/19159450/Study_of_non-Hodgkin_s_lymphoma_mortality_associated_with_industrial_pollution_in_Spain_using_Poisson_models

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230085

Very clever, as always, Patd
...in honor of CBobs great works (he may need a longer name if he doesn't slow down the good deeds) :)

Tom, Sorry to hear about your nieces having lymphoma. I don't know much about it, but it sure seems weird they both had the same diagnosis so close to the same time.

This is another good article on Lymphoma, which considers environment factors, as well as genetic risk factors.

What Causes Lymphoma?
http://www.lymphomainfo.net/lymphoma/causes.html

CT, Don't know if you are still here, but you were kind enough to ask where I hail from a while ago -- I had stepped out. You're recollection is correct, I live in Northern Virginia near DC. My family is from Ascension Parrish, and New Orleans. My grandfather was a cotton broker who moved to New York (doggone him.)

I believe Dick Cheney's conduct is reprehensible. His motives are not enhancing national security, but rather they are to gain political advantage should there ever be another terrorist attack on the United States.

If he truly believed what he was saying, and if he were motivated by keeping the U.S. safe, he would be working feverishly, but quietly behind the scenes to try to advance his viewpoint within the current national security apparatus. By making his case so loudly and publicly, he knows that he will be ineffective at influencing Obama administration behavior.

Instead he is positioning himself to gain politically when and if a terrorist strike the United States again. He is betting against the interests of the United States for his own political gain.

And, to remind -- the worst terrorist attack on the United States to date occurred on his watch.

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Tom, that is terribly devastating news, and my heart goes out more than I can adequately say, except that I have sadly learned that lightning can strike twice.

On a more optimistic note, a good friend is entering her third year of remission from lymphoma. She is young, healthy, and strong, plus all her hair returned beautifully. She will tell anyone, attitude is everything.

Hugs for ((((Tom's Nieces))))

Two of out daughters came to the house this morning. Ostensibly to put wood preservative on our mailbox post and that of the disabled vet up the street. But, I knew they were really here for some of Stinky's home cooking.

In any case, when they arrived I was in the midst of mixing nectar for our new hummingbird feeder which was to be suspended above the wildflower garden under the cherry tree out front.

Squeaky took over that job while I found the preservative and brushes, etc., for Toots. Within minutes, both girls were painting the posts.

After everything was done, Squeaky told me that there are two blue robin's eggs in a nest in the cherry tree. I processed that information asking her if the feeder was so close to the nest that the robins would abandon. She said no, she didn't think so.

It wasn't until a while later that the thought occurred to me as to how she knew that there are two blue eggs. So, I asked her. She told me she climbed the tree and took a look. Good work for a 'girl' 4-foot 10-inches tall and 47-years old.

I didn't work hard. But, I took a nap anyhow. :)

Pat and C-bob, clap, clap, clap, for your original poetry today.

C, I want you to know I have spent considerable amount of time and energy on your corn project even though I have nothing to show for it. Will send a blog comment later.

First it was fixing the tiller, then preparing and planting, then fighting critters and I just finished a scavenger hunt for the materials to make my protective enclosure to protect my next planting. I'm whopped.

I found the chicken wire easy but I needed those little hog clamps to connect my creation. I was at a huge retail lumber store and they didn't know what I was talking about. I finally found a woman who did but she couldn't find what I needed.

Then I had to find a feed store. Drive all over town. They didn't have what I needed. Then I went to Tractor Supply. The guy I asked didn't have a clue what I wanted so I found a woman. She did, and finally I got what I needed. Plan to start working on my enclosure when I catch my wind.

So Cajun, you never got to live in La.? That's both good and bad. We rank pretty much at the bottom of the list for just about everything except food, scenery and hospitality. IMO we are pretty high on the list for those three.

ET, your news really sucks. You and your family just have to hang tough--there aren't any other options.

With all the flapping of his gums, all cheney is trying to do is to save face. One look at it and we all know that ain't going to happen. Actually George is looking much smarter. He's keeping his mouth shut and praying history may break a little in his favor one day.

I think it's more than that, Carol. He's trying to build a record so that when an inevitable stumble occurs, he will be able to rally Republicans saying, "I told you so".

It's mostly preparation for the mid-terms with a little bit of malice tossed in.

Very sorry for your sad news Tom.

Many distractions today (for which I am grateful) but as I was about to say when Flatus said it first (and better), "Pat and C-bob, clap, clap, clap, for your original poetry today." Such wonderful creativity! Thank you.

C-Bob --

When I first came on this site some dozen full moons ago, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth..."where's Colorado Bob... whatever happened to Bob...has anybody heard from Bob."

Well, C-Bob, wherever you were I'm sure you had good reasons, but I'm glad you returned, and I hope you won't even THINK of leaving us ever again.

Ivy, I agree with everything you said, but the quote shouldn't be attributed to me. :)

Carol is the articulate one!

Now I have to run off again, but not before saying Craig was a sharp-dressed man on that spiffy library-looking set this morning (where was that, anyway?) and packed a lot of good stuff into his three minutes and nine seconds.

As far as who wins the "swearing contest," it all comes down to credibility, and who has the best track record of candor and truthfulness. D. Sidious? Nope.

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Sorry, kudos to Carol...I am so distracted today (I'm over the wren because I saved the life of a chipmunk today).

(^_~)

I know your sadness also Ivy. I didn't want to mention last week the little Prothonary warbler I may have lead to it's death while weedeating.

I found the little egg in a hole in one of the pipe supports under my camp. I watched mom work sitting on then raising that child. Noticed she was bringing bugs to something so I figured it had hatched.

When I was pushing my weedwacker something flew out of the grass. It was a baby bird and it jumped down below this new little boat ramp I had recently built. Don't know what the outcome was but I hope it was OK. I didn't want to mention it because I was trying to maitain my denial. You had to bring up your little bird.

"I think it's more than that, Carol" I know Flatus but one the Drs. I worked with in ER, my first NP job, taught me KISS. That's "keep it simple stupid", so I try and keep it simple cuz I'm stupid.

But I learn a lot here everyday. This is a good place for the intellectually curious kind of person. My world is expanding by the day.

I have all the comforts of my hideout and still I'm able to experience so much more.

You guys have given me what was seriously missing in my life, people who cared about more than what was directly in front of them from day to day.

MG Carol. I can only assume you're kidding.
It takes a very intelligent person to simplify things. To wade through all that muck, all those lies, all the detours and dead ends thrown out there, and to come out the other end understanding what's important and what's not. You're as smart as they come Carol.

That's "keep it simple stupid", so I try and keep it simple cuz I'm stupid. "

This is what I was referring to

Cajun, that is something you, fortunately, didn't miss out on not living down here.

"I have all the comforts of my hideout"

... I don't think I ever heard you call it a hideout before. That's what my little piece of land out here feels like too. Safe.

thanks for the kind words folks. can't take credit cause cbob, the muse, does all the work. i just sit back and comment on it.

flatus, yes i agree "He's trying to build a record..." but like someone said earlier (kgc, warren, pogo or cajo?) that it's more for defense purposes and to obsfucate... sort of an oral "cya"

We can have it all Chloe.

When I talk about you guys like you are my best friends, my friends down here think I have lost a rock or two. I just smile which make them feel even more sure they are right.

"i just sit back and comment on it"

.. but you do it so well. :)

Ha Carol. So you want them to think you're short a rock or two? That's always fun. You know and they don't.

"He's trying to build a record..."

He's just their mouth piece for the time being. Probably not a lot of guys around that want to do it.

That's our little secret Chloe.

shhhh...

Now off to see if I can build my little rabbit excluding enclosure without cutting off a finger or two.

I hear you guys little stories about the sadness when we lose one of the little birds, or chipmunks, or god forbid, a beloved pet, and I understand completely. I have had my heart feel like it would break so many times over accidents that could be avoided in hind site only.

Carol, If you have to cut off a finger, make sure it's the one you got the hook caught in!

Hey Carol,

,,,,getting a little tired of you putting yourself down,,,,,don't do it any longer!!! you are just one of the many,, many intelligent people here,,that's why this blog survives,,and will continue to do so,,,we all bring something of each other to this experiment, and YOU bring plenty lady!!!!

"Now I have to run off again, but not before saying Craig was a sharp-dressed man on that spiffy library-looking set this morning (where was that, anyway?) and packed a lot of good stuff into his three minutes and nine seconds" Ivy

I was just thinking the same thing - Craig Crawford cleans up real good

Memorial Day

The guns are silent now.
Though they haven’t been for long;
Nor will they remain so.

The armies will collect
and bury their dead
will bind the wounds of those
not ready to be buried.

(The navies will have less to do
The indifferent sea takes care of its own.)

Birds, flies, crabs
will feast.
They’re not to blame
God did know what he was doing
when he created the flies

He knew the nature of man.
And that nature is to stand and fight
for home or family, for country--
Or for god.

Strange how god can be so clearly
On both sides.

Blood from foes
Will enrichen the earth
Even the trees that have been striped
of their leaves by artillery will be reborn.

But new lines will be drawn on maps
And young men – now women too
(And not just those who are mere victims)
Will heed the call to defend the homeland
And slay the infidel.

I wish Obama wouldn't be so profosorial all the time.

He needs to tell Cheney to shut up and be grateful he isn't in prison with other war criminals.

I hope I spelled profosorial correctly..

How dense is the RNC? It wasn't enough to throw out the moderates. Now they are eliminating every single woman they might have left.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/Pelosi_Galore.html

"Pussy Galore" was a funny name in a male oriented '60s era James Bond thriller, but for the woman third in line for the presidency?

She is way down on my list of favorite politicians, but the GOP has truly hit brain dead.

I think it is "profesorial"

I'm starting to like Nancy Pelosi more every day..The quality of her attackers allow me to overlook the things about her that have annoyed me for years.

OD - it's professorial - you know, like professor.

I agree about Pelosi - hope she stands pat. If she called the CIA a liar, they're calling her a liar - it's moot.
I wish someone would just say that in those same words.

For those in D.C., this has the makings of an interesting event :
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event&event_id=533862

Bethyboo..thank you for the spellsing help..

Beautiful day in the Willamette Valley..Time to take flowers to departed family members...I've noticed that past few years that fewer and fewer flowers appear during Memorial Day..

That is "spelling"..I should spell the thank you correctly..

Carol - I'd like to look at your entire photobucket album again - may I? If so, how do I get in?

I drank most of the bottle of champagne last night. Think that might have something to do with my lack of energy today, and my hope I stay in tonight??????????

It's nice here today, too, but coolish. A friend came over and potted up some plants for me and a few acorns that really want to live to be trees.

"Tony lets go here,,this will get the cardio work out done Huh?"
http://img36.imageshack.us/my.php?image=br45566.jpg

Solar- Beautiful photo and yes it sure would get the cardio job done! I did mine today at the gym as the rainy weather continued for a fifth day.I think in some places here we have received between 20 an 28 inches of rain.Thankfully I think its finally clearing up.I'm glad your back after your little break.I finally caught up,I was days behind...I hope your weekend is going great!!

Carol
The photo's of your place are great and a lovely place it is...Sure enjoy you,thanks...

Chloe-HELLO

OD,Bethy
I so agree with you regarding Nancy Pelosi.Nancy up until the last few weeks had been a major disappointment to me and she still is really but now I'm tired of the right wing smear job!! Go Nancy

ET
Nice to see you again!!

A Big thank you to all the TMixer's you bring me joy......

Hey Tony ,,,,,,,,,,your boy Pat,,,,good article,,,,and about all of that rain,,,,sorry about that,,,,all of the snow that I sent you during the winter,,was a little slow in getting there,,,and is melting now,,,,,boy I must of been a little angry,,,about the 70-80 degree weather,that I heard so much about,,,,,,here in chicago ridge,,,,perfect,,,with just the right amount of rain at night,,,,hahaha,,,,hey how are you dillos',,,are they gone yet,,,or do they control,,of the tv remote now?

http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-did-bibi-box-obama-in-1547

Did Bibi Box Obama In?

On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to “a mushroom cloud over an American city,” The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight for an atomic bomb.

“This is a dictator who is … feverishly trying to acquire nuclear weapons,” wrote Bibi Netanyahu, former prime minister of Israel.

Target: Tehran. And Obama may just have boxed himself in.

In return for Bibi’s willingness to talk to the Palestinians, Obama agreed to a December deadline for progress in talks with Iran. If the talks are not fruitful by then, America will step on the escalator.

“I’ve been very clear that I don’t take any options off the table with respect to Iran,” said the president.

Bibi got what he came for.

By setting a six-month deadline, Obama has given an incentive to Israel, AIPAC, the neocons and even al-Qaida, which wants Shia Iran bombed back to the stone age, to provoke collisions with Iran, until December, then demand that Obama keep his word, suspend talks, impose severe sanctions and start us on the escalator to

Obama is not going to get our troops home,,,he is going to take more of them away ,,to fight in more wars,,,the depression should give him a lot of voulanteers to die for what,,,,

Meanwhile we give 1/3 of our total forign cash to Israel,,,,and what is that war for?? Land and the water that runs thru that river,,I forgot it's name,,,but we will be spread out pretty thin,,,and will slide back ,,,in the economy,,,one step forward,,,,five steps back,,,it this all planned,,,or does one party take the lead from the other,,,and continue down the same road,,,,,Hillary Clinton,,,is starting to worry me,,,I never thought I would say that,,,she is calling for Iran to give up its nuclear weapons,,,,,what weapons,,,there arn't any,,,is she going to be all for wars,,,without proof,,,just like C Powell,,,when he was in the same office??

OK guys, here it is. If it doesn't work this time I'm blaming the Hopi. I gave it my best shot.

http://cbhopibluecornexperiment.blogspot.com/

I've worked up and must forage for food before I can catch up with what you guys having been doing since I left.

Just remembered,,,,,,,,The Litini river,,,in Lebanon ,,,,Israel,,,is almost out of water,,and this is why there will be no stop to their extension,,,,,,,Go West Young Man,,,Mexico and it's riches await you,,just for the taking,( it has all been planned ,,,waaaay back, I think),it all clear to me now,,thats the real reason for all of the people dying,,,,I was wrong to say,,,it was mostly religious,,,it is mostly Water,,,going to get some info on this,,,gotta do some reserach,,and how far away this fresh water river is from Israel.

This is what the Britts,,,threatened to do to the people at the Island,,,that is now a military base,,,,Diego Garcia,,,,they did it for Cheney/Bush,,,,told them that they would be starved out of there,,,and killed,,,dogs,,,goats,,any cows that they had,,,the people left,,,and we now own one of more than 750 military bases,,,most probably needed for our protection,,and interest,,,I guess,,,,when the Israels take Palestine for themselves,,,we will be blamed for it,,,and we will see a lot more terrorism ..Nope Obama will not bring the troops home.,,,now all of the Congress,,and Senate critters sons,,,and daughters should go into the war areas,,,,then we might see a slow down of wars,,

That was supposed to be I've worked up an appetite. I guess I was just too hungry.

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HA HA,Solar
Your funny!! The remote control is mine!HA ,the Armadillo's have taken a few nights off thankfully....Oh yes paybacks are a bitch! I just hope no hurricanes this year I've had my fill of those since I've been down here,weeks without power and all the cleanup....Thanks for the PB link,i usually get to him but I've been severally running behind.I hope you got some basketball or golf in today...

Got to run, but I did mention four months ago that Gitmo wouldn't fly, Pelosi and Reid would self-destruct and the tables would change a bit in the Middle East and in the Obama camp.

Up next, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,626412,00.html

Obama goes to Egypt with some pretty harsh stuff in his daily briefing regardong Iran, Hamas and Hizb'Allah. He is also aware that numerous bloggers on both near sides of center are pointing out the disconnectedness of Obama's sales pitches from the substance of policy. Those who can't fathom the shifts from Obama neither noticed this behavior during the primary or the landmines ahead.

Enjoy the weekend holiday and thanks to all who rose in the defense of Liberal Democracy and rescued the world from tyranny. We have a bit further to roll.

Max NYC

97th Regimental String Band

Goober Peas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_d9Qe76Hg

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OHIO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT_1h8HMPRk

Tony,,,,,,,sorry to rub it in,,,,the dievlo made me do it,,,,hope the the rain stops soon,,,you don't need it ...Yes I got in a game of basketball,,,was thinking about a 2nd,,,but after hitting the hard court,,,,I did the smart thing for a change,,and listened to my back,,and sat out that one,feel pretty good sport,,,and sometimes the let me show them some old moves,,,in slow motion mostly,,,but I go for play making,,,and try to stay away from the boards,,,some of them (the kids) get pretty rough under em,,,but had a lot of fun,,,then when I got back,,,,Judy was home,,,so I sorta rubbed all over her,,,she screamed at me,,,I told her that it was M D weekend ,,and to take easy on an old vet,,,,lucky I didn't get the finger,with that one,,HA

Tony,,,I meant that I was all sweaty,,,and rubbed against Judy,,,she did not appreciate it,,,at all

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Jack --

This was adjacent to your goober clip...oh, the things I discover here!

Roll Alabama Roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6UAeimOWc&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama

Hey Jack,,,que ay de nuevo?

I think the reason Craig looks so good -- he has a healthy glow about him -- is because he quit smoking. I notice it more with each new clip. It's progressive.

Now I'm all better.

Thanks Tony. I love my little hideout. It is my refuge from the crazy world. I used creative visualization for many years to get a place like this and now I have it. It aint the Ritz but is is cozy.

Bethy, here is my photobucket album. They are the pics I have posted either here or at C-Bob's place.

http://s656.photobucket.com/albums/uu286/cithorn/?firstLogin=true

Hope it's not too late to have my corn come up. Most of you will be harvesting yours before mine even comes up if I am able to beat the critters this time.

I have 4 of the cutest little armidillos, damn them, that I run into almost every time I go home. I could probably wack them but I don't have it in me. They are doing a real number on my yard. I do know someone at animal control so maybe I will check with him to see if he can help.

I am whipped. Doing aerobic corn enclosure building really wore me out. Got through it with only one puncture wound. That chicken wire was really flimsy. Couldn't tell from the roll I bought until I opened it. I think a chicken could rip through it.

Are you sure he really quit Chloe? You know it is harder to kick the smoking habit than it is to kick a heroin habit.

Carol --

Your river makes my little creek look like a trickle. I will come hang out at your place. How's the humidity?

Great, Carol - thanks. We don't usually hear about you being beat - you have so much energy thanks to your hyper-thyroid! You have certainly accomplished a lot. I love your little cage you have over your garden! T/he corn will come up fster than you expect - don't worry.
Relax and enjoy your river tonight.

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Chloe -

Craig's suit color is very complimentary to him and he paired it with a great looking tie and blue shirt. That backdrop is very classy as well, to good effect.

A Sharp Dressed Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EFdod4YDo

(^_~)

Carol - just took another gander at your river and your place. I'm sure my bp dropped twenty counts! Thanks.

Humidity is usually terrible Chloe but it wasn't too bad today. It was supposed to rain off and on also but I didn't get a drop. No water coming out of the sky but a lot coming off of me.

I think my thyroid finally hit the wall. I stopped my antithyroid meds over a week ago and no shake, rattle and roll. I will get a level at the end of next week to see.

My neighbors didn't even come out today to check on their tree. I guess they don't care if it comes down. I was up until the wee hours of the morn watching for them beavers or the one giant beaver.

The chicken wire I bought was so flimsy it wouldn't stop a beaver. They would use it as dental floss.

Does it come in different thicknesses?

Sorry that was Ivy not Chloe.

"The chicken wire I bought was so flimsy it wouldn't stop a beaver. They would use it as dental floss."

LOL Carol, There you go making me laugh again.
If it works for our horses, it should work for the beavers (I think?). Just wrap it a couple or three times around. There's also a type of brush on tar (at least it looks like tar) that is to stop the tree from being damaged from the loss of bark. They have it at TSC, where you got your stuff for the fence. What I read about these deterrents, is that they move on to another tree, if they can't use that one anymore.

As to why Craig looks so good, I guess we'll just have to ask him.

Craig, Did you quit smoking or give up? (sorry if that's too blunt) :)

You know I have been at the job I have now for over 4 years and haven't had a week of vacation. I get 20 days a year but I can't take a week off because there is no one to take my place.

I was in the hospital twice last year with my three compression fractures/surgeries and I was out for a week each time but was on call the entire time.

I actually work for the local charity hospital and am considered a satilitte clinic at the jail. They just don't have anyone who can relieve me and we just can't close down for a week like the clinics do at the hospital. No one would really blame me if I just left and said hell with it but I just can't do that. Who would take care of my peps?

I take my time as an extra one or two days attached to a weekend. I think God gave me this camp so that I am on vacation as soon as I get off work each day. It was sort of a thank you for my sacrifice.

Chloe,,,taking a look before shutting down,,,,and saw that you were here,,,have any plans for the M weekend

Carol,,,yes they have it in diff size gauges,,,,but it is all wire mesh,,,don't get stuck with the name chicken wire,,,if they say that ,,that is the only size that they have,,,,,but the thicker ,,,the wire,,,the harder it will be to cut and shape it,,,,there is a wire mesh that they use for concrete,,,if they can cut you out a piece,,,,that would be strong enough to keep the beavers from doing any more damage,,,it is about 4-5 times thicker than the one that you have,,,I think?

I spent part of my $50 WW gift card on some better flashlights today. One to better see the giant beaver with. I will be on watch tonight at least until I konk out.

Now that it is coming up on hurricane season I will need those flashlights. We won't have a hurricane this year, we won't have a hurricane this year, we won't........

"It was sort of a thank you for my sacrifice"

That's a nice way to look at it Carol. And gratitude is a very healthy emotion - I'm not sure it's actually an emotion, but it feels like one. The way I see it, you got it because you deserve it. That, and because 'you' made it happen. Like you said you visualized it. That's the same way I ended up where I am, no doubt. I saw these trees, this forest, the space and the privacy, the freedom, long before we actually got here. We came half way across the U.S., but we got here eventually... but not without visualization.

Carol, I feel the gratitude, but I don't think I got what I want because I deserve it. I think we get what we expect to get, or at least if we can hold hope long enough, until it turns to belief.

The one that you want is about a 12 gauge,,,,the lower the # the thicker the wire,,,even a 14,,,you should be able to handle pretty well I think.

Hi Solar. No particular plans. Just lunch and a movie.....don't even know which one yet. How about you? Any plans?

Oh, And Tony, Hi back at cha....Sounds like you're doing well

Where is your hideout Chloe?

Just going to have breakfast,,with some friends to remember other friends,,the were in the service,,,but that is all,,,,,,and will see a movie,,,that is on,,,with N, Cage,,,Dangerous Bankock,,or something like that,,,is that one good?,,,last movie I saw,,was ,,,the Reader,,interesting.

Do you know what a hog clamp is Solar? Maybe I am using the wrong term.

It is those little half circle thingys that you put in this cheap looking little pair of plyers with little grooves in them. They clamp two pieces of the chicken wire together. When I had my crawfish pond and made crawfish traps I used them.

The chicken wire I used for the traps was heavy duty with a plastic coating.

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Carol --

Did you ever share with us where you and Maggie were during Katrina or any of the other big storms? (If that's too inquisitive of me, forget I asked.)

There is all thicknesses of wire you could use, but I don't know if there is any made specifically for such toothy varmints as beaver. You'll have to see what happens with your set-up. Just because your corn fails to thrive, does not automatically mean you have not produced valuable data for C-Bob's project. Thomas Edison supposedly invented thousands of ways not to make a light bulb. He rejected the concept of "failure."

Before I came up with my current "cat proofing cage" consisting of a thick wire mesh for the bird box, I was so peeved at the neighbor cat who repeatedly destroyed my baby blue birds that I wanted to string the post with razor wire. Hubs' more rational temperament prevailed and I was stopped in time. This year all nesting birds were kept safe with a simpler method, and no cats were tortured.

It's where we live, not a get away like yours. And no river.
But it's a little more than an hour northwest of Houston, before you get to the national forest. So we're close to everything, including work. It's getting more crowded up our way by the minute though. But that's ok, it doesn't affect us except a lot more traffic when we get out and about.

I am beat. Time to pick up a book, and read myself to sleep.
See you all tomorrow.

Yes Carol,,,thats the way to go,,,and I bet they are a 14 gauge,,,go with the one that you have worked with,,and has worked out for u,,,,, the clamps are called something diff here,,,they are called wire ties,,,but should be the same,,,and see if you can get that neighbor to help stretch the wire,,if you think that it is too heavy for you.

Solar, That sounds like a good day. I'm not sure what movie you're talking about. I'll try to look it up tomorrow to see what it is.

Enjoy!

You are not that far from me Chloe.

Ivy, Maggie and I had to stay at the prison during Rita. It was no picnic. No AC, no fan, not even a breeze. We were trapped in the sweaty bowels of a concrete and steel building. Temp was soaring outside and with menopause and hyperthyroidism, I tied the Magster to my leg at night, slept on a new prison mat and cried myself to sleep each night.

8 miserable days/nights before I could get out. There was a 10 ft surge that came up the river but when it went down and they cleared all the trees off the camp road I came out here to set up camp.

I had gone for a generator, heavy gauge power cords and a chain saw when we went for first aid supplies. I was one of the few medical personal in town. The law enforcement that came in to help set up shop at the jail.

I closed off everything to my little kitchen/dining area to live in. I had a little TV, a light, and a little AC. It was heaven compared to the jail. I cooked on the BBQ pit and a propane stove.

Each day I went to those help lines with thier goodies to give away. It was the only entertainment in town. Couldn't wait to see what kind of surprises I was getting for the day along with ice and water.

Long gas lines to get gas for the generator. The town was evacuated so I felt pretty much all alone out here. The place stunk of dead fish. Dead fish everywhere. Destruction everywhere. It looked the result of a war.

It was a very long 23 days with no electricity. I have a real appreciation for electricity now.

and I sincerely thank all those who contribute food and supplies to victims of hurricane. They saved our lives. I just recently threw out those MREs. I didn't eat many of them. Poor soldiers.

and thank the National Guard for being here to help.

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Thanks for sharing your compelling story, Carol. I will go to sleep with more gratitude tonight because people like you are in the world.

Hugs to (((Carol)))

The prison has since purchased three huge generators. One for each building.

Ivy, remember we didn't get Katrina. We got Rita. It was a stronger hurricane than Katrina but didn't get the news coverage that Katrina did. It hit us on the worst side of the storm.

It was the broken levies/ floods that killed NO, not the hurricane. They thought initially that they missed the bullet until the levies broke.

I sat in my comfortable living room, crying while I watched the hell of Katrina. A few weeks later I was living the hell.

We had evacuated all our inmates two days before the storm. Had 1300 inmates out within 24 hours. They did a lot of arresting after the storm.

We were mainly here for those helping out. My entire hospital, except me, hit the road. Most of the hospitals evacuated. There was a triage at the Civic Center.

When we went out for supplies there were no vehicles on the road but there were National Guard with big guns at every intersection. It was an eerie site. Like a really bad dream.

Hope I don't have to repeat it. Every time now that there is a mention of a storm in the Gulf, I get PTSD, we all do. Tony and anyone else in hurricane country can relate to this story.

Where were you Chloe with the last year storms. Even though they didn't get us, the storm surge was worse than it was with Rita. It came up 11.3 ft.in the river. Only a centimeter from coming in the lower part of owl camp.

Solar -I hope you saw my post thanking all you vets for your sacrificies and years. It always leaves me speehless (almost) to bring to mind the selflessness of people who jump to business when trouble raises its various heads. I am in awe of you and Flatus and all the others here who did that for us.

I watched a history channel show of dogfights during WWII in Leyte Gulf as MacArthur was trying to keep the
Philippines safe. A small fleet was mistaken by the Japanese for our main fleet under Bull Halsey. They interviewed some of the sailors and pilots - the matter-of-fact way they told their stories....well, they were regular people doing very un-regular things; made me gulp.

Carol - your work schedule is worrisome to me. You should take better care of yourself! You're doing wonderful work, but you can still do it at less cost to you. Can't you make a deal with some other medical people to trade off?

Sorry you asked Ivy?

Oh, the roof over where I am sitting now was in the front yard but this room was already a mess when I bought the camp. I didn't finish it until a year later.

Looking from my view from the couch now, that hurricane is only a distant bad dream. Maybe it never really happened.

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Not at all, Carol. (^_~)

(I knew you had an amazing story to tell. You are a great inspiration.)

Each of us at some time will or have gone through our own particular version of hell. It is part of life. It helps us to really appreciate all the other wonderful times we have. It helps us to grow spiritually.

Thank you again to all those who service this country. They willingly volunteer for their version of hell. We didn't.

and those who died have gone to their reward but those who are still here still have to live with those awful memories. Here's to you guys and girls.

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Carol, I would say while you have been busy restoring your camp, it has been busy restoring you!

Speaking of hurricanes, I need to stock up on bottled water. My mother lives with me, and she used last years bunch to keep her cat's water dish full. She said it was easier to reach. But the way she treats that cat I'm surprised it wasn't Perrier.

Hit and run. Hey solar, I never seem to get by the same time you're here. Hope all is well. And everyone else as well.

The camp has done it's job but this blog has done a lot also. You guys have inspired me. All the unique, interesting and talented people here.

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Carol --

In a way, you have hit the nail on what irritates me about Cheney's condescending attitude that his style of governing is all that can "keep us safe." What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Putting bubble-wrap around us and "protecting" us from facing crises and overcoming them makes us weak, not strong. It is enfeebling, not strengthening.

I probably haven't said that with much clarity because it's late, and I may have clearer thoughts and better words by tomorrow. Time to say nite-nite...

Nite girl.

Just put together and tried #1 big WW flashlight, made in China, no workie. Have you guys noticed that so much of that stuff, made in China, either no workie or quit workie, after short time.

no catch big beav without big flashlight.

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Don1 --

It's probably just as well to use up the old supply and replenish. I thought "expiration dates" on bottled water was silly, how could water go bad? Then I learned it's not the water that deteriorates, it's the bottles. Ever notice how squishy they get after being stored a year or more. They can even spring leaks and are probably leaching toxins into the water. Lucky it was the cat drinking, not your mom (heehee, I don't bear a grudge against cats for eating my bluebirds.)

Now I really have to go, even hubs is heading to the barn...

Planting the last of the Blue Corn here tomorrow. Many plots all over the place. The last spring planting here. Best 1/2 pound of anything I ever bought. Who would have guessed it would be stubby corn with blue kernels.

Big Audio Dynamite - Rush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJxbe3tKf4

Intel experts: Dick Cheney was wrong about Bush administration moves

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_05_24_Intel_experts:_Dick_Cheney_was_wrong_about_Bush_administration_moves/

Go ahead Dick write a book.

In the market place of ideas, Cheney's shit is selling for about 2 cents a pound. And the stuff only grows weeds.

""Each of us at some time will or have gone through our own particular version of hell. It is part of life. It helps us to really appreciate all the other wonderful times we have. It helps us to grow spiritually.."""
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Carol - you just said what I meant re my sad story the other day, and how Richard Bolles helped me. It does grow to be a part of the past that doesn't seem to be part of you. As I've said, I know the feeling.

Book and sleep time.

all this constant consistent cheney /bush bashing
doesn't seem very productive . it will get you through the day i guess'' might even be fun for some people''
but it ain't any future in it

Night Watchman calling it a day here...too much shish-kabob (steak), too much sun, too much car-driving...but early Saturday I did check into my doctor's office ...had a physical exam last week and got the labs back... A-OK, no indications of my rapid demise...guess I'll be night-watching for a good long while!....

good morning all you slug-a-beds

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ct, just like our good old american automakers used to do.... planned obsolescence.

eine kleine morgen musik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJTycleWrc&feature=related

morgen? yeah, my girlfriend.....morgan........uh, morgan fairchild......yeah, that's the ticket, my girlfriend morgan fairchild.......

eine kleine morgan musik:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNCcedtmhRM

eine kleine lenny and squiggy musik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8fQh04tjo

"You don't have to get into a big rush.......but every now and then when you think of it---hurry."

---advice given by the old man welder to me old dad when he was a 17 yr old beginning welder in B'ham. As reported by said old dad......being something he remembered one day thru the alzheimer's.

Sturge, this used to be my theme song. It went well with hyperthyroidism. I am trying to change that.
Hurry to get things done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slibTD9MF0

"..just like our good old american automakers used to do.... planned obsolescence."

Pat, do you think it is part of a plan? I was just asking someone in the line at Walmart that yesterday. Ya know that is also something good about La. You can talk to some stranger in the grocery line without them looking at you like you just molested their child.

shirley mcclain on being menefreghista and the end of the rat pack.

Dean didn’t move. He never liked being ordered around. He fell silent. That made Frank mad. He picked up Dean’s plate of sphagetti and dumped it on his head. Dean did a Buster Keaton and sat stone still. That made Frank laugh. Frank thought Dean was being funny, but he wasn’t. Dean was making up his mind to walk...again.

There were 3 shows in a row in Chicago, which Dean was willing to complete. But on the last night Mort arranged for a private plane to take Dean back to California, where he checked into a hospital to make it look good. Dean needed some rest anyway.

Dean and Frank had just come to the end of their road, just as Dean and Jerry had. Frank called to enquire how Dean was doing, but Dean never took the calls.

Dean left our entertainment industry in much the same way as he had come in: quiet, stoic, resolved to be left alone, essentially uninvolved with the passions of life and work. He was a menefreghista, the definition of which is one who simply didn’t give a f..., and because of that the was happy now. I miss him more than I can say.

Frank couldn’t bear to observe Dean’s deterioration. But the more he pursued Dean, the more Dean retreated. Frank went in the opposite direction. He knew in his heart that If he let go for a moment he’d die. He still needed to be appreciated, adored, and acknowledged.

I had big flashlight in a bag, all ready to go back to WW today. I tried everything to get it to come on and nada. I came back in in room later and the bag was beaming brightly. It must have just been the flashlight gremlin or those people from China heard me complaining and realized I was on to them so they remotely fixed it.

those two:

http://imagecache.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/165559~Frank-Sinatra-Dean-Martin-Posters.jpg

Good Morning all
Thanks for the shout outs last night,i went to bed early.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/us/24benefit.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

"Diplomats’ Same-Sex Partners to Get Benefits"

“Like all families, our Foreign Service families come in different configurations; all are part of the common fabric of our post communities abroad,” Mrs. Clinton said in the memorandum, a copy of which was provided to The New York Times by a member of the gay and lesbian association.

“At bottom,” she said, “the department will provide these benefits for both opposite-sex and same-sex partners because it is the right thing to do.”

yay hillary

I'm sitting here in my Hillary, Madame President, t-shirt right now. I can only sleep in it now. A friend who went to DC last year bought it for me. When I walked Maggie down the road, I got some strange looks. Very conservative neighborhood.

Whose doing the sermon this morning?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24rich.html?th&emc=th

"La Cage aux Democrats"

"And yet the changes aren’t coming as fast as many gay Americans would like, and as our Bill of Rights would demand. Especially in Washington. Despite Barack Obama’s pledges as a candidate and president, there is no discernible movement on repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy or the Defense of Marriage Act. Both seem more cruelly discriminatory by the day.

When yet another Arabic translator was thrown out of the Army this month for being gay, Jon Stewart nailed the self-destructive Catch-22 of “don’t ask”: We allow interrogators to waterboard detainees and then banish a soldier who can tell us what that detainee is saying."

christmas in the fifties..........red ryder or daisy bb guns, bicycles tricycles electric trains, baby strollers and dolls dolls dolls, pogo sticks and hula hoops, cowboy outfits and cap guns.....

I think you are up for the sermon today Tony.

and a town full of roller skaters on metal wheels........

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24sun1.html?th&emc=th

"The Sorry State of the States"

"Is California next in line for a bailout? Facing a $21 billion budget gap, California has asked for federal aid, probably in the range of $5 billion to $10 billion. Whatever form it might take, say loans or loan guarantees, taxpayers nationwide would be kicking in to help clean up California’s mess."

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Ha,yes Carol it seems I'm on a NYT roll this morning!!!
The Sun in finally back in the Sunshine State!!

or you Sturge...

i vote for tony...........

Carol (from last night)
I so understand not being able to swat those pesky Armadillo's.I want to but I just don't have it in me!! I don't feel the same regarding snakes though...I didn't lose a minutes sleep over killing that Coral snake on my Lanai a few weeks ago....

if you gonna be doing the sermon, ya sposed to pick them snakes up and carry 'em around awhile...........

Sturge
I appreciate your support! HA HA

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Oh well , that's it for me!! I feel now like one of those shamed televangelists...

speaking of dead televangelists.......what's up with Liberty Univ. kicking out the democratic party club......that's like, really really weird.......even weirder than their usual weird, I mean.....

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I hadn't heard that,yes weirder than usual....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24gourevitch.html?th&emc=th

"The Abu Ghraib We Cannot See"

"We did not fully know this before the photographs came out, because our leaders hid it from us, and when it was revealed they denied it. “We do not torture,” Mr. Bush kept saying, even as a stream of official documents leaked to the press contradicted him.

Had a journalist taken the photos, there would have been prizes. Instead, the photographs were used by the administration and the military to frame the soldiers who took and appeared in them as rogues acting out of their own individual perversity. In this way, the exposé became the cover-up: the soldiers who revealed our corruption to us were made scapegoats and thrown in prison."

Coral snake will kill ya, graveyard dead, Tony. They gotta go. Now, as for the non-poisonous ones, if you kill the nice snakes you get bad snake karma. Not good to have bad snake karma. May wake up one morning with one smiling at you from the pillow.

Just found this creature from the dirty sink this morning when going to wash dishes. I tried to rescue him but his tail came off and he got away. Darn.

http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu286/cithorn/100_0201.jpg

How will we pay for the trillions?

put it on the credit card Buford.

Father,,, TONY Baloney ,,,saying the sermon today,,,,,with snakes and all,,,if that isn't biblical ,,I don't know what is,,,,,,,and as long as were are talking about holy people,,,,,,,,,HEY,,,,,,

MAX,,,,,I need an answer,,( you like protecting the pope),,,,,What the hell was all of the Popes doing all the while that the Catholic Irish priest,,were putting all the kids to work ( since 1930 and before) making rosaries for them,,,aint that child labor,,,and they were beating them,,and molesting the little girls,,,and little boy's,,,,,the Nuns did it also,,,but not as much.,,,now they are closing them down,,,,the end is near for organized religion,,,it;s coming,,,now that they can't hide anything from us,,,,and we can see the truth,,,,,gotta go now,,,,time for Mass on the t v...on the shopping Chanel,,,,,mmmm which religion to buy,,,,there are so many gods to choose from???

Carol,,,,,get some rechargeable batteries,,,,,and do you have a back up system for electricity,,,like,,a generator ?

MQW

,,,,,,,I normally would say ,,,move on Cheney is old news,,,,,but here is why he will always be vilified imo,( he keeps it all fresh,when he goes on tv,to talk about national security),and the Dem's should put this out there every time he opens his mouth to speak to our safety

Back in 1993 Cheney was S O D,,,,,his last year,,,,in that year,,,a guy from Kuwait named Rami Yousef,,,,and nephew of a high ranking Al-Qaeda,,,,,came to U. S. in sept of 1992,,seeking political asylum ,(,Isn't this taking your eye of the ball,,,or ignoring it) any way this guy wrote and mailed letters to many leading newspapers,, that he was going to bomb,,,bring down the world trade center,,,if we did not stop giving $ to Israel and stopped interfering in the middle east,,,,,,A few weeks later,,, a rented truck exploded at the w. t. c.,,,where was Cheney/Bush

In 2001, the Cheney/Bush Presidency was told that Bin Laden was determind to strike in the U.S.,,,,,Bin Laden himself said he was going to follow the example of Ramzi Yousef (he was from Quwaiti,,,,why didn't we go and bomb Quawait?,,he was not from Iraq) in a tv interview,,back in 97 or 98 I remember watching it,,,,don't you think that they both should just STFU,,,and not put your party in the trick bag,,,,,,,,,but the dems are to dumb to keep bringing this up,,,every time that he opens his mouth,,,,sorry hope you are well,,,,,,HEY,,,,watch out for the floating tree in your way,,,,,,Wake Up Man.

Max

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Over at Ireland that is,,,and they were moved from parish to parish,,just to hide the offending molesters,,,,just like here int the States,,,,,this makes the pope a terrorist or something like that,,,,all of those beautiful babies were terrorized no?

Yep, Solar wisdom.

Morning Carol,,,, got some well deserved rest?...don't you sleep much....and no you are not talking too much,,,that one of jobs too.

one of my jobs too,,,,,that should read

I'm enjoying the Carville / Matelin counterpoint on CNN. Keep having the feeling I would love to be having dinner with them a few times a week.

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What's ever weirder is the statement that the Democratic Party isn't "Christian".

While having my coffee and one of Patsi's peanut butter and jelly (chose apricot today) french toast,(once in a while is ok right?),,out at my back yard,,,,I have a lot of diff birds,,,rabbits,,lots of squirrles running around,,,I have a big red oak tree that I planted years ago for shade,,that has a lot of siging every am,,,,even in the winter some times??,,with all of the talk here about birds,,,I have noticed more and more the diff sizes,,,and what comes to my mind,,,is not the type of bird that they are,,,,,,but what type of dinosaur that they evolve from,,they also found the missing link,,,a little D,,with very fine feathers,,,,,So Ivy watch out for the T rex,,(* _~)

Jamie

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Same here,,but then I just saw a commercial ,,,,same chanel,.,with A hot looking Rachel Welch ,,,,not that is my Idea of a dinner date,,oh oh,,bless me father for I have sinned

Jamie,,,,Mary M,,,,,looks good today,,,relaxed,,,except for that 50 lb wight around her neck,,,I do like them together,,,her alone,,,not so much,,,,,,,but I waiting for Fareed's show today,,,should be very good.

Jamie,,,,,,I bet they miss Tim R. I always tuned in when I knew that they would be on,,,,,they made his show fun,,when they were on,,,,and a little special,,when they would bring all of their kids,,,,,,thats what a Mexican would do,,,,bring the whole tribe,,,even the mother in law hahaha

It looks like Mary has gone the face lift or at least eye lift route. I know the way things are that she has to look "young" for the camera, but I wish some of these public women would go on strike against the culture that demands it. She is a lovely woman, I would like to see her lovely and looking her age.

I left until almost 7A this morning. I woke up with a sleep hangover. I, however, didn't get to sleep until after 1A. Ya'll kept me up late.

Jamie, I want you to explain to me how a extreme liberal and an extreme conservative can have a happy marriage? I really have a hard time even hanging out much with someone with very different philosophy. That is why I chose to spend much of my time alone. This place is stacked with extreme conservatives.

They're conservative even when it goes again't all of their best interests. Don't make sense to me.

Thought for the day :
" When all else fails, read the directions. "

Don 1 One

"Hit and run. Hey solar, I never seem to get by the same time you're here. Hope all is well. And everyone else as well."

Yeah,,,been kinda of missing the talks with you too,,,but don't give me that miss and run stuff,,stop twittering so much,,,and talk like a aby normal human,,,just like the rest of us,,,or do I need an appointment,,or supin?,,,and lay off my string theory,,,lots of fun,,,if you consider what it says,,,it is always a work in progress,,,thats what I like about it,,,,,and you can always drop me a note at solarcrete at comcast.net,,,,stay safe,,and I hope all is well with you too.,,catch you later.

Not left, but slept. My eyes are still having trouble waking up.

That's a man thing C-Bob. We women usually read the directions and follow them. When I first got a chain saw I read the book, put on all the appropriate gear and followed the directions to a T.

0015 Julius Caesar Germanicus Roman commandant

1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written
1844 Samual FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive

Only problem is that when they translate the directions from Chinese to English, they lose something in the translation. It still reads pretty much Chinese.

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Carol,

My guess is that neither of them is an "extreme" anything. He is your basic Huey Long style Louisiana populist/progressive so has some conservative leanings and success and wealth have driven him more to the middle.

As far as I could tell she was never a hard right conservative. There was always a brain behind the facade that made her phrase the talking points without the mean edge as opposed to the empty headed parrots who don't have a clue what they are saying but just read off that morning's memo.

I often don't agree with her, but I think I would like her. At least the conversation wouldn't be dull.

Makes sense Jamie. They do have their paid for roles to play. It's what pays the bills. They probably have a good chuckle about it when they get home each day.

I don't like being negative about our situation & truly wish we had something happening good & honest something to say that has really helped Americans hardest hit ,we can only hope for a change. The only legitimate argument the GOP really has & it is a biggie is the fact all this money has been borrowed & SPENT with almost nothing to show for it. All we have is there word that their actions kept us from going belly up. Individual personal incomes won't be taxed further (so we can buy the products which are taxed further) but EVERYTHING else is going to sky rocket -look there goes gasoline ,cigs, alcohol ,food everything we as Americans consume & I can't wait until heating season. Its hard to believe Obama honestly didn't know that most all of his promises couldn't be kept.. If so then maybe he wasn't as prepared as told.

Buford, you thought that politicians mean what they say? I never have. It is BS contest and the winner is the one who can present it where the most people fall for it.

and I often think they probably all think the same and the game is to make sure they get what they need and the rest of us get the bill. I KISS.

All the loopholes are designed for us little guys to fall into.

think I'm a little too cynical?

Carol,

I think you and I are members of Cynics R Us. I just like to be a shade more positive in hoping that those in charge are not so evil as to let the country be completely destroyed as long as they get theirs without putting up some sort of protest.

For those who missed the announcement, the Google Map tribute to the troops shows every soldier who has died in Afghanistan and Iraq

http://www.mapthefallen.org/

Available on 5/26

It looks like a must read book

Reckless!: How Debt, Deregulation, and Dark Money Nearly Bankrupted America (And How We Can Fix It!)

http://www.amazon.com/Reckless-Deregulation-Nearly-Bankrupted-America/dp/0312383037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243183701&sr=8-1

Jamie, that is why I have avoided discussing politics. I turned into an instant A-hole. I will shut up now. I was so hyped when Obama got in and then when he chose Geithner I thought, oh no......

Deep cleansing breath. I think I see a fish out there that needs catching.....

another distraction for the masses...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/24/jfk-secret-affair-intern-book

the girls weren't the have sperm will tell/sell type back then.

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Nor did the stalkarazzi constantly invade privacy in hopes of a big payoff from the entertainment shows.

So, we have Roosevelt,Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon?, Carter (in his mind), Bush?, Clinton, Bush, Obama?

I'm of the opinion if both people involved are of legal age then it is a problem between those two and their respective families.

I wouldn't want to be the wife of anyone who is powerful or has tons of money. Too many temptations for them.

What I found was amusing back after Clinton was caught with his too invasive cigars, The guys who were the biggest critics were those who were also the most guilty of the same or at least they wished they could be. Most of them were Drs.

Working in the medical field, living in La. and being a liberal is hazzardous to ones mental, even career, well being.

I had a problem with anger back then. People actually enjoyed saying something just to set me off. I finally wised up when I caught someone with a small smile a nano second before I had my conneption. It took a long time but I learned and now I'm the one to just smile.

flatus, think you have a misplaced ? on ghwb... wasn't there a jennifer whispered about for a long time?

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jennifer_fitzgerald

These days with the kiss and tell attitude, Fox News if you are a Democrat, the Internet, etc, any politicians would be nuts to do it now.... but there are a lot of nuts out there.

I would recommend against it for Obama because I just bet Michelle has a very mean right hook and she would use it.

Carol, it's almost a combination of alcohol and ego.

And it's almost always with 'girls' young enough to be their daughters.

Tom Fogerty
Cast The First Stone lyrics

Let he, he without sin, he without sin
Cast the first stone
Hey you, you with your halo, you with your halo
Why don't you cast the first stone?

& if you never ever do no wrong
You must be an angel, you don't belong
Hey you, you better Sunday, you better Monday
Cast the first stone

& if you never ever do no wrong
You must be an angel, you don't belong
Hey you, you without sin, you without sin
Cast the first stone

(whistling, fading out)

tom fogerty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQzs3o6zcTc

fogerty - rocky road blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvqqx8AarE&feature=related

ct, there's the sermon, the choir sang, time to pass the collection plate..... and give solar a nudge to let him know services are over, he's been asleep in that back pew all day except for when he was pulling the girl's pig tails and putting frogs down the backs of those holier-than-thou types.

Thanks Pat, I was waiting. Now I feel my Sunday is complete.

Someone slap that boy up back there.

"And it's almost always with 'girls' young enough to be their daughters"

Flatus I think it is nice to have it the other way around. Older woman/younger man(couger) only because the guys in my age bracket around my parts wanted a woman who was quiet, subservient, and dependent. Those qualities didn't ever fit me very well so I'm single.

I can handle a little subservient only if it is my idea and only for a short while.

and pardon me it is cougar.

and that was also out because many of the young men here are dorks and they want someone to support them while they fish/drink. So I settle for the Magster. Great companion but right now she is hiding under the bed because of a thunderstorm.

Cookie trick didn't work because when she did venture out and I tried to give her a cookie, she was just too nervous to eat it.

"You don't have to get into a big rush.......but every now and then when you think of it---hurry."

Sturge, Priceless. Love that your dad remembered that and love that you told us. I think I'll type it up, frame it, and put it on my wall.

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"guess I'll be night-watching for a good long while!...."

Dexter That's good to hear! Keep up the good work on your health.

You speak good sense, Carol. It makes life much less complicated.

"Have you guys noticed that so much of that stuff, made in China, either no workie or quit workie, after short time."

All the time. It usually breaks after I've discarded the receipt and packaging though, then all I can do is throw it in the trash.
I don't think it's planned obsolescence.... I think it's shabby workmanship and no quality control (like we had in the old days).

It's all dark and rainy outside. It has been threatening rain all weekend but this is the first time it has.

It is actually nice because while I get to see everything going on outside I am all cozy inside and the owl camp is filled with the aroma of a simmering chuck roast smothered in onions and garlic. Ummm ummm good.

Not bragging, just savoring my current state of good karma. And Flatus is it OK that my flag is getting wet? If not, too late.

"Great companion but right now she is hiding under the bed because of a thunderstorm"

Carol, One of our little dogs is like that - the male. Terrified of thunder, but doesn't hide under beds. Instead claws on the door if we're in another room and wants to be held the entire time. He shakes like a leaf, and nothing will comfort him, except the thunder stopping.

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... another perfect day. We're have a little rain too.... but no roast in the oven. I did just finish a slice of hot apple pie though.

Keep the reciept Chloe. It's insurance and WW will usually take it back if it is not too old. But like you I usually don't have the receipt because I put it somewhere but can't find it ....until I've given up looking for it.

And where have you been little girl?? I happen to know it is raining up your way also, at least off and on. I'm psychic.

Not in the oven Chloe. It is in one of my numerous/assorted cooking options. This time it's a 5-6 quart electric stew pot, I'm pot roasting it.

My friends say I need an oven/stove like normal people. First of all I'm not normal and second, I like to have all these assorted choices. I can go home if I want to do things the normal way. No chance.

Cooking is one of my passions in life. Our family saying has always been we don't eat to live, we l i v e to eat!

Carol, We've been out doing errands, etc. most of the day. There's a little rain, but not much. Just enough.

I don't know why I assumed your roast was in the oven. I like to pot roast mine too, but in a pressure cooker. No cooking today though, we ate and that's it for the day, except snacking.
Rarely eat dinner.

No Beaver pictures yet?

"...is it OK that my flag is getting wet?"

Goodness. I guess we'll find out if our colors run, or not.

"we don't eat to live, we l i v e to eat! "

You'd never know it to look at you. We love to eat too, we just start early in the day (this morning we went by our favorite donut shop).

Chloe I think the red hot pepper sauce may have discouraged that giant beaver but after the rain it may be a different story. Until I have to go back to work and have to go to bed early, I'm on beaver patrol. No sightings yet. When I do and if I get a pic, C-Bob will be the first to know. Keep checking with his joint.

Remember I have been cheating that weight gain with my under treated, on purpose, hyperthyoidism. I haven't gone thru those awful symptoms for nothing. Now that I let them kill it, it may be a different story. I may have to get a new hobby.

I'll have to join Tony and Solar on that damn ellipical machine or whatever they are using.

I do have quite a bit of exercise equipment, treadmil, Sears weight contraption that the only time I got exercise with it was putting it together, and out at owl camp a gaselle. They make good places to hang clothes and it is a little more work cleaning around them.

And with no one to help much with yardwork or anything else I do get in lots of activity. That dang corn garden worked me pretty good.

You know every time I push send I get to see Craig's cute face again looking at me. That's nice except that I think I heard him say STFU Carol.

"I think I heard him say STFU Carol"

LOL Carol. Don't even think it We need you around here.

"They make good places to hang clothes and it is a little more work cleaning around them"

...that's all I ever use them for too (and I'm not kidding).

I wasn't either Chloe. I think many of us think that we have done enough just to buy them and put them together. Then you have those people like Solar and Tony that make us all look bad.

I bought that movie "The Fog" yesterday thinking it was the old one with Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis. It was only 5 bucks but didn't have anything on the little container. It was at a grocery store. They fooled me. It was the new one, the one that got 5% rotten tomatoes, not the 69% the old one had.

And thanks Jamie for the RT site. I like it.

"Culture of Truth" translates the Sunday talk shows for your edification and amusement

http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2009/05/meet-press-with-dick-durbin-and-newt.html

"Broadsword calling Danny Boy"

Pat,,,,,,Never,,,,I repeat Never tell that witchie Cajun women to gently wake me up in church,,,,she whopped me a good one,,she enjoyed it too!!,,,,about that choir singing ,,,,Judy did go to special,,( after lots of practice) to sing along with about 200 people,,don't know how many choirs that is,,,but lots of em,,,,,it was for a ordination of 7 Catholic priest,,she said that it felt like she died and went to heaven,,the singing was so great,,,,,,of course it did,,,,they had the best of the best there,,,singing in Latin,,,,Cantate Domino,,,,,( Sing to the Lord),,,Im very cordial with the people that comes here to practice,,on our piano,,,and with the phone calls that she gets,,,,but very few of them,,,actually talk to me very much,,,,wonder why??

Carol,,,,,all the gym equipment I need, great scenery ,,,,a dog that doesn't bite lol,,and my own nurse,,,,Im coming over,,

Chole,,,,,,just had a slice of apple pie with a little ice cream on top,,,strawberry,,,,that and chocolate are my favs,,,,Its Sunday,,,if my Hoss did get a little apple pie,,or an apple,,,,slice one up for next Sunday and don't forget.,,,,

Hey Pat I owe you a joke ,,,,will get one latter on.

"You'd never know it to look at you. We love to eat too, we just start early in the day (this morning we went by our favorite donut shop)."

Hey Tony,,,,,a pic of Chlo,,,with little E,,,eating a dozen donuts,,,would be a good un Huh,??? she has seen us all,,,but nooooo,,,,,where is the donut girl!!!

Solar, who said she doesn't bite? I told you she sometimes even shows me her teeth when I try to remove a burr from her face. They're cute little choppers.

That was cute KC. I think we ought to do that here. Actually I think we have.

and Solar, nurse is off duty when she is at home. None of that Nancy Nurse Does Dallas.

Do you have a photobucket Chloe?

Patd,,,U said that I was,,,,,,

"putting frogs down the backs of those holier-than-thou types."

There is this guy,,,,Dan,,,that comes,,,or call on the phone to talk to Judy about the choir,,,,and always tells me god bless when he starts talking to me,,and when he finishes,,,,he doesn't do this any more,,,,Judy suspects that I told him off or something,,,,,he cought me in,,,not a very good mood once,,and told me god bless you,,,and I told him,,,and may the devil damn you,,,he now just says hello solar,,or good by solar,,,,,,,solar likes that,,,and will see if it works on others,,,,its only fair no?

"and Solar, nurse is off duty when she is at home. None of that Nancy Nurse Does Dallas. "

Like my buddy Tony like to say,,,,,,,you funny!!!

latter,,,been hogging it up again today,

Rain check in. Sun's shining and Froggy said I got 6/10 of an inch. What about you Flatus? Chloe? Tony? If you don't have one, you need to get a rain gauge.

3/10 - short duration showers

"Father,,, TONY Baloney ,,,saying the sermon today,,,,,with snakes and all,,,if that isn't biblical ,,I don't know what is,,,,,,,and as long as were are talking about holy people,,,,,,,,,HEY,,,,,,"

HA Solar
Father Tony has a nice ring to it but does the organized religion have to go with the title??HA HA,you funny!
Oh and your still working on Chloe for that photo...Good luck with that.. :+)

Carol
Come on board the the elliptical training machine...Its hard work but taken in 5 min increments till you build up your stamina..I for the most part use the Life Cycle Stair stepper at my local Nautilus by The Sea gym an its even more intense..I started about 10 years ago doing 5 minutes on a low level and now I'm up to an hour or more on level 9 with a 1000 calorie burn or more in a session...Its also the very best for stress relief.I took care of the ladies for 4 and half years and i never needed anti-depression medication...

Tony,

I heard that elliptical is kick ass. My substitute guy secretary at work, I prefer to call my bitch, you know we do work at the jail, is rehabing after back surgery. He said he was on the elliptical for 5 minutes and it was the toughest workout yet. He runs on the treadmil with no problems.

He usually works for the transportation department but he loves being our secretary. Our secretary is out going to the Academy. I want to keep him. He's a go getter.

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I hope you can keep him.I agree its so much more intense that a treadmill..Can you believe it a thunder storm which isn't unusual this time of year but we just had between 20 to 28 inches of rain last week...Oh the tropics, lets keep our fingers crossed for no hurricanes this year Carol....

http://cbhopibluecornexperiment.blogspot.com/

jack, good luck with the bank's gardners... your trespassing plants look nice and healthy there. and maybe the albino will produce a shiny silver cob.

Lord Buckley and Groucho Marx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw1eSo8-Zns

just checked the weather and looks like cbob has a 30% chance of rain tonight.... everybody, positive tho'ts and white light goodness toward lubbock way. cbob said on his video report last night they really need it.
tony, sounds like you guys can spare him a drop or two of that 28 inch deluge.

Carol,
You asked if I have a photo bucket. I opened one to post a picture of Emma with my daughter when she was born. But when you asked about it, first I had to remember my user name, then I took my phone out and ran around the front part of our property and clicked some pictures. The bad part is, they all look pretty much the same, because it's mostly wooded. I tried to get in the height of the trees, but it was rough.

I'm shamefully bad about not taking pictures...never do, and am in serious need of some practice. Which I will work on. I owe it to Emma to take more pictures at least of her.
http://s613.photobucket.com/albums/tt216/Chloe-Emma/

tony, sounds like you guys can spare him a drop or two of that 28 inch deluge.
Pat
I can spare him a lot of drops...

I'm not caught up yet, but tarol, we don't have a rain gauge.... but we got very little rain today.

tarol=carol of course

Good evening Chloe
Beautiful pictures of your property! Oh and the horses,just beautiful...

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Jack, I agree. Your plants look great.

Thanks Tony, Still playing catch up here. What you doin' tomorrow?

"always tells me god bless when he starts talking to me,,and when he finishes"

solar, bet you scare the devil out of him, so to speak. poor guy he probably says that like the people who make crosses when they confront vampires.
and get that frog out of the baptismal fount! you should of heard that priest when it dripped on the babe instead of the holy water.

Beautiful place Chloe. Really nice hideout. How many people does it take to keep that place up? Where is the pic of you Chloe? Are you hiding behind a tree out there?

You can call me Tarol.

Ha Carol, You know where I am. Behind the camera.
It's can be a lot of work, but we don't keep it all cleared. The properties around us are more cleared off than ours. I like to keep a more natural look, plus it provides a lot more privacy. Nothing manicured around here (including me).

Nice crop Jack. Did you tell your wife it was sacreligious to stand on your sacred Hopi corn plants? You've had more luck than I've had.

"Nothing manicured around here (including me)."

Pic,,,to prove that statement ,please,,,Tony,,,keep askin,,,she just might break down some day,,,and give us a little peak HA!

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Hi Chloe
I have 1 job early then I'm off for the rest of the day.I plan on stopping off at my aunts house because there's some cousins in town for a visit.I had them here earlier and they made me feel good because they liked my house and everything I have done with it...I made 2 dishes for my aunt, my mom's potato salad and my version of coleslaw.I also made a cherries jubilee for desert...What's up with you?I agree with you also you owe it to little Emma to take a lot of photo's of her and of course share them with us...

sturge, being the musician in residence, could you tell me if i'm just imagining things or does the song "i have a dream" from momma mia here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Gdyuz57M0

not sound a little like "i talk to the trees" from paint your wagon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFp2OgH9SuE

just saw the movie and it's been bugging me... can't believe abba would lift from lerner & loewe

Chloe I haven't even manicured myself for the day yet. I haven't showered yet and my hair is still sticking up on my head like it was when I got up this morning. I took the day off. I didn't have to go anywhere.

After being out in the heat for a while I look the same anyway so why bother. Whoops I forgot how I look and I was out there talking to my neighbors.

Tony I will stick to walking Maggie down the road or doing the Gazelle. I would injure myself on that elliptical.

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Solarman you are the Man!!
Persistence pays off...I like your style...

"Tony I will stick to walking Maggie down the road or doing the Gazelle. I would injure myself on that elliptical."

Carol
From your photo's you look wonderful.Why argue with success keep doing what your doing..Doesn't your pool need some tending too...HA HA,sorry it was on my mind as I vacuumed mine today after all the rain and wind...Its enclosed but all my potted flowers blossoms blow right in the pool...

"Whoops I forgot how I look and I was out there talking to my neighbors."

LOL Carol (again).

Solar, first you quote me earlier talking about how I was scarfing on donuts this morning, now you quote me saying I'm not manicured. Can you find something a little nice to mention? :J)

Tony, 'Why wouldn't' your cousins like your house. From what I've seen, it's beautiful. And all that cooking you do. You're too perfect Tony.... I don't know how you do it.

Well Tony I do have most of the leaves out. It still has a little that I have to vacuum to waste. I vacuum to waste because it still has some mustard algea in it and I don't want that going thru the filter. When I vacuum to waste I can only do so much before I have to stop and fill her up again.

I have treated it twice now with the copper algaecide. It is clearing up. It may take another week to get it there. Then I need to balance the chemicals when I get thru losing the water from vacuuming to waste. Not living at the house makes it more difficult. I do the work while I'm washing my clothes.

Yes,,,,Maam,,,but I love every little thing about you,,,,even the white powder,,,that you forgot to wipe off from that one powdered donut,,,on you!

How'd you know that I love powdered donuts?
You can't wipe that stuff off, it gets on everything, especially if you're eating it in the car, and I love eating in my car.

There is this one little thing that you do ,,that really bugs me,,,,but never mind,,,,I can live with it,,,I guess!

I know every thing about U,,,just can't see you,,,,,but I know what you look like,,exactly,,,,just want to verify this,,,,is all...and don't say that it doesn't matter ( about the pic) it does,,,cos I think that the nose that I have pictured,,,might be little too__________but like I said I can live with it,,,and may be the ears are not just right,,,,but that's ok too,,and

"but like I said I can live with it"

It doesn't matter, cause all you'll ever have is that pic in your mind. I know you really hate the word no Solar, and I think you may be used to getting your way. But, not this time.... sorry.
(just kidding around with you, but I do mean it) :)

Susan Boyle tonights performance on Britains Got Talent singing "Memory" for Cats

Went outside and my neighbors were lurking around in the dark and scared me. They spotted the beav.
At least one of them and it wasn't the giant one. Dang it. Well actually that is a good thing except I won't get all those riches from finding a 13,000 year extinct creature. Sorry C-Bob.

Well the beav guard watch will start early tonight and for the first time in a while the mos Qs almost carried me away. Must have been that rain that awakened them critters.

What's that Jamie? Boyle is singing to some cats? I quess Britains got some weirdos too.

Well Then,,,I will just have to adjust my photo memory sensor,,and repair any little defects,and make them perfect,,,like you R,,here on the blog,,I can live with that,,,,,,I hope that,,,,that is nice enough,,,after all the teasing,,,and rough time, that I gave U...,

,,,Watching an excellent foreign movie,,tell you about it later on,,or tomorrow,,,hope that it is on again,,,I want to tape it.

Susan Boyle Sings Memory on Britain’s Got Talent [YouTube Video]
http://mashable.com/2009/05/24/susan-boyle-memory/

Solar, I don't mind you kidding with me at all.... I may give you a serious sounding answer, but I'm laughing.

Get your testosterone under control Solar son. This is a platonic website not the sex hotline. We wouldn't want to have to put you in the corner or worse yet give you a hit of estrogen to cool you off.

5 clicks to enter here.

Here's a time saver for repubs.

http://www.allgeektome.com/republicanmadlibs.asp

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Jamie, Thanks for the heads up on that Susan Boyle appearance.

Yes I know,,,,but I ,,,,you wanted me to find something nice to say,,,after all of the other things I said,,,,,

This flick is about a Mountain village art ( models) teacher,,that goes blind,,,,,feels sorry for himself,,for a very short time,,,he can still see blurs,,,so he color coats things,,,mean while there is a Nun ( good looking ) that comes to help him,,,he ends up teaching her to dance,,,and no they are starting to fall in love,,,meanwhile there is the life of other villagers,,happy music,,,dances,,,,,people,,,and the usual A hole,,,but you get to know them,,and like them,,,,,,not sure but from the mountainis in Bogota Columbia ,,,fun,,funny and sad ,,all at the same time....thats life huh?

Oh, from the musical Cats. I thought she was singing to some cats. So sorry Ms. Boyle.

"I thought she was singing to some cats."

I do that on occasion, sing to my cats.
Are you telling me you don't sing to your pup?

You were busy with beaver and all,,,,and I was afraid that I teased Chloe a little too much,,,,stop messing around with them critters out there,,,,,and take care of the animals in here HA!

",you wanted me to find something nice to say"

Just joking Solar, you don't really have to say anything nice. I like you just the way you are.

",,,fun,,funny and sad ,,all at the same time....thats life huh?"

... you nailed it there Solar. Fun, funny and sad.

... all at the same time.

Little Maggie was sitting next to me just like a little lady with her little feet crossed. Her so cute.

http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu286/cithorn/100_0203.jpg

Oh Carol, to die for.... what a doll.
You're so luck to have each other.

ROSSINI. Duetto buffo di due gatti.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyGaOSb-_y8

Obama should be so lucky. Maggie found me out in the woods. Someone dump her out there and God gave her to me. I needed her.

I think you needed each other.

Did you noticed my big flashlight which I bought to catch big beav but only normal beav. snif, snif

Those big flashlights are always good to have around. It'll be a good one to have handy when you take Maggie out at night. Carol, she really is sweet. It's warming just to look at her.

LMAO Flatus. Where did you find that one? It couldn't have been easy or was it on your fav list?

I'm going to turn on my favorite sound track and read for a while, then conk out.

I'm watching the Memorial Day Concert. They just did a piece on a young man injured with the signature injury of this war - a massive brain injury. Confined to a wheel chair and after three years of therapy only able to say a few words. His family is overjoyed he lived and now he is lauded by a "greatful nation".

Is it horrible of me to say this is a waste and the people who sent him into this war deserve to have the same done to them repeatedly in their families until they learn to stop sending young men to die for their greed and lust for power.

"Are you telling me you don't sing to your pup?"

Well Chloe we both do karaoke and slow dance sometimes. People do talk since we are both girls but we don't care.

Amen, Jamie.

I found the concert Jamie on my limited selection out here. Thanks for reminding me.

Leave it Jamie to get some culture into this group.

Carol,

It is one thing to lose limbs or be wheel chair bound because of a spinal injury, but to lose a brain and leave 10,000 families as full time care givers ... that is an obscenity.

and leave it to Flatus to get some cat singing into this group.

Jamie

"Is it horrible of me to say this is a waste and the people who sent him into this war deserve to have the same done to them repeatedly in their families until they learn to stop sending young men to die for their greed and lust for power."

No just honest,,,thats, what i would wish for,,,,,but it would be on the Congress,,and Senate leader,,,and all of the city governors,,,,,if it was thier own,,,we would not be in this mess,,imo,,,and what is even more maddening to me,,,is that they way this economy is,,more,,and more of the poor,,,are likely to enlist,,and get killed over a war,,that they don't even know what it is about,,,,,,,You said it just right,,, is it time for the draft again,,?,thanks

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I think you feel like that Jamie, because you know they'll never understand, unless it happens to them. They don't really get it, the sacrifices that are being made.

Carol, I picture that to be more of a mother, daughter relationship. That's how I feel about Emma, that she was sent to me too. So I know just how you feel. And I've felt the same way about many of my pets, some I've lost to old age, some I still have. Animals are every bit as important to me as humans.

Technology can keep them alive Jamie but at what cost to that soldier?? If your going to take my brain, take the rest of me also.

http://s634.photobucket.com/albums/uu65/tonyb39/?albumview=slideshow
Hey I don't have any photo's of Jessie by himself(at least not without Pepper my mom's dog that drowned in my pool)but how's about a photo of my Bill Clinton doll along with my original Clinton/Gore button that sits on my bar....

Carol,

That is from one of my all time favorite albums, "Homage to Gerald Moore".

Moore was arguably the most famous accompanist of his time. The standing line when he was playing, was his asking the artists. "Am I playing too loud?". Of course he wasn't.

De Los Angeles was one of my favorites as well--did absolutely the best, to my ears, Madama Butterfly. Schwarzkopf was also a magnificient artist.

The album, I have it on vinyl, is a treasure.

Yes, if I could love anything more, like a child, it would be scary. I'm already so overprotective of Maggie. God knew what she was doing when she didn't give me one. I would never have been able to let that child out of my sight for one moment. That wouldn't have been good for a child.

Tony, Thanks for that great slide show. That lake and land behind your house is beautiful (as well as your pool).

Last year when we had the hurricane scare they said no dogs at the prison. I told them no Maggie, no me. I didn't care if they fired me, fat chance they would.

I stayed with a friend here in town. I said if you need me call me. They called later and changed their minds at the last minute but that is when I had lifted that generator 4 times and stirred up the two other vertebral compression fractures I didn't know I had or got lifting that generator. I literally couldn't move.

People we could hear less from

http://firedoglake.com/2009/05/24/stfu-please-or-not/#comments

I'm sure there some additions

Great pics Tony. You need more, get that camera out. You are a handsome young buck there son.

The other artist on the album is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He is absolutely my favorite artist for Mahler.

KGC

That is funny. Just the other day we were discussing the sense of "entitlement" and I was thinking that Morning Joe seems to think he is entitled to be rude to every one. So "twin set" mika fits right in.

Just this morning I was mentioning that Mary Matelin may have over done the surgery - She isn't in the Bay Buchanan class yet so still has time to stop.

Here's one of him doing some Mahler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtRombx5DM

Jamie
Mary Matelin has been the frozen face of the goopers for some time. Her lips do not move when she speaks let alone the rest of her face.

KGC

Lay off the collagen and get a few wrinkles in the lips and she will look human again ... except for the wide eyed stare. Cheek implants? Who knows

Botox, collagen and fat injections ... it's a wonder any of them can still talk.

Another good one KC.

Flatus, after the meowing lady singer I was half expecting this guy, Mahler, to do some barking. He did have that mischevious look on his face but he was serious. I kinda wanted some barking though.

north korea just had a successful underground
nuclear bomb test. combined with their recent
missile test ' i guess they are testing the obama
administration also to see what they can get away with

Don 1 one,,,,thanks for the shout out,,if you come by tonight,,,

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Carol,,,,nice pic,,of the magster,,,,but I think that you are wrong,,,you would have been a great Mother,,,you would have figured out the right balance of raising a child of your own...nite

Carol - I remember your posting about staying home if they wouldn't let you take Maggie with you, and I didn't really know who you were but I agreed with you. I always wondered what happened, and when you posted yesterday re that experience in the hurricane, I knew you'd won. Salute!

It didn't get to even 70 here today. My sister is in Cabo and is thrilled to be missing the cold! I still haven't put my corn out - not mcu sunshien or warmth.

Flatus - I don not at all remember your making a mistake with my name when I first started coming around here. Now I'm curious - what did you call me?
HA!

The death scene on "Breaking Bad" was brutal last night...that show plods along and then kicks you like a mule...very graphic vomit-choking heroin death last night on the show.
I remember back in the 1970's when I lost two acquaintances to vomit-choking drug deaths.

So is Amy Robach a permanent "Today Show" person? I have lost track.

Crank up the volume and play this little dittie.
When were in training in 1969, these are the words our army company sang to this tune as we marched around Fort Sam in San Antonio:

Class 116 is goin' to Nam, hurrah hurrah
Class 116 is goin' to Nam, hurrah!

Class 116 is goin' to Nam
We'll lose a leg
We'll lose an arm

And we'll all be sead
By the summer of '71.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJTycleWrc

Thanks Solar. I'm in, I'm out. My hours have been crazy lately. While I might have all kinds of ambitions for the yard and garden my body is saying I'm not 20 years old any more.

Or as they say, I can do anything I could do at 20, it just takes a lot longer to heal.

The Night Watchman has some marching music to dedicate to his fallen comrades who lost their lives in that river in Vietnam, and who died when their light observation helicopter was shot down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMyuZIH-js
I'll never forget you.

marchon, marchon......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOCxegQupMU

Good morning all! I wish for you all a wonderful Memorial Day. We'll have a barbeque this afternoon and of course I'll be calling my dear Da to thank him for saving the world. They really are the greatest generation. We didn't make our deadline with Liberation Status, but it now appears that they liberated a subcamp of Buchenwald so I have faith in Obama's pr gang that they'll pick up on this for his trip to Buchenwald.
We finally got the corn planted last night.. What a relief to finally have it done, just couldn't wait for the next new moon.
I've got one maybe two more weeks of work from morning to night and will then be back in the kitchen and will have more time to check in with you all. Gotta go make a batch of buttercrunch right now, enjoy the day!

Jamie- I'm with you, what a curious couple. Although I think I'd rather have one too many drinks with them than dinner. Too bad about the surgery, hope she stops.

Maggie is beautiful, Carol!

Jamie -- your post of 10:52 is so on target!

And I love your new photos, Tony!

Good morning Patsi, Sea, Sturge and anyone else crazy enough to get up early

or have you just not gone to bed yet you bad girls.

I went to bed fairly early -- had a Memorial Day barbeque at a friend's house and left before I drank too much wine!

I turned down a couple of parties, didn't invite anyone over, to hold up here, play by myself, and with Maggie of course, and talk to you guys. I think that something may be wrong with me.... I just won't tell anyone.

Even when the neighbors were out yesterday, they wanted me to come over and visit and I said I'm busy. The problem is that there's a lot of real conservative people around and usually someone always starts some nasty comment about Obama. He may not have been my first choice but I go into that protective mode if anyone goes after him. I probably wouldn't come out the winner if I went to fist city.

I really had fun the day that all the river rats dropped by, even the x-inmate.

What are ya'll doing today? Got plans? Wanna drop by? The frig is full, we could cook up just about anything. I make a mean BBQ sauce. People say it would make you want to slap your mamma. Mine's safe, she's gone.

memorial day from mom's pov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEUmJR3-Um8

Did ya dose off Patsi?

Had to run outside and get my flag at half-staff this morning like Flatus said to do.

That was a strange video Pat.

You up Flatus? Thanks man for your service to our country. Thank Stinky also for putting up with it.

Good Morning, and Happy Memorial Day from the Outer Banks.

arent the outer Banks closed for the holiday?

anywhere near Eliz city?

Patsi, you know Maggie is a Heinz 57 give or take 1 or 2. I used to have registered dogs and they were never as healthy and hardy. I did pick breeds, however, that were over bred. They all had skin problems which lead to having to use cortisone, which lead to eye and ear problems. They lived to be around 15 but it was a struggle.

Maggie, age about 5, has had no health problems except that I can't put anything around her neck. She chokes. I have to use a harness.

She is a drama queen. One look at her pic and you can tell that. She will sometimes act like something is wrong and I'll get excited and she was only kiddin. I try to tell her the story about the little boy who cried wolf but it's no use.

I guess it's a bank holiday, Sturg. I'm in KDH.

Are you guys also Vets?

I guess it's a bank holiday, Sturg. I'm in KDH.

it's nice up there....kdh, etc....went there a bit when i lived in E-City for a few months.......

I'm a vet, CT. RVN 68-69

Thank you also for your service!

What's RVN?

Republic of VietNam. Used to be a well known hang out for college drop-outs.

For many/most/even those who never made it, this is probably the most meaningful song of the Vietnam era.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6d03gbmAzc

I'm a vet but just barely.......USCG.......

CJ, bring the other fellows and come on over to my hooch. I've got some Lucky Lager on ice. My tent is right on the north edge of the compound.

Flatus, I'd be right over.

They had some Coasties running the rivers, Sturg. I know, I know, you were stuck in the acey-deucey stateside.

Good duty, Sturg. Most of us couldn't get in to the USCG

And, as I recall, there were few if any invasions of the US during the VietNam era. So you were pretty effective, too.

Oh, Sturg, hop a flight and join us. Shouldn't take more than a week on a C-124.

uh, I'll be right over.......y'all look for me now.....i'll be the one with an m-16 in my lapel...........

none of the coast is missing.......my work is done........

Care to share any of your stories with us boys? I know it is often too painful to relive many memories, but if there is ever a day to do it, today is that day.

Was I ever amiss this morning -I omitted to thank all the vets for your service to our country and families of those in service. THANK YOU!! So sorry, you all know I can be flaky sometimes.

Sea, today is for those who didn't make it back and for their families as well. When I was a youngster they called it Decoration Day when families would go and place flowers on the graves of their fallen Civil War family members. Then, there would usually be a parade with a couple of Civil War vets being put on display. It was much more solemn than the commercialized adaptation that we now have.

Carol, one of things I thought about the other day was when I was at a really small airstrip close to Pleiku. There were a couple of guys resting in their body bags under the wing of a Caribou.

It was clear to me that they had been placed in the wing's shade an hour or two earlier. But, the Sun had moved and the two guys were missing even that small comfort.

I regret not moving them the few feet it would have taken to get them back in the shade. But, I rationalized that they weren't in my outfit, etc.

To this day I regret not having afforded them the courtesy they deserved and that I could have rendered.

Flatus,
That's a good story. And it reveals more about you that you still remember it the way you do -- your underlying humanity. I think we all have stories like that.

Flatus, they were actually finally out of the heat and hopefully in a very cool place. The shell they left behind didn't really care.

And Flatus, we need to take every opportunity we have to thank you for your service. You don't have to die to be a appreciated because at that point it is no longer needed.

I was with the SeaBees, and as buliders we had a more or less regular work week of 6 1/2 days with half a day 'off' on Sunday afternoons. We were in the Civil Action phase of the war, and a bunch of us would go to a nearby orphanage and play with the kids and do odd jobs to fix the place up. It was in a relatively safe area of DaNang, and so most of us left our weapons behind in the truck that brought us -- no need traumatizing the kids more.

That is, except for this one corpsman who insisted on wearing his sidearm as he did the routine vaccinations, dispensing of pills etc. That always struck me a odd that a corpsman, of all people, felt he needed to be armed in the orphanage.

Oh well, it was a strange war.

Didn't some harmless looking people sometimes turn out to be the enemy Joe?

Not in this case. The orphanage was safer than going to a Bob Hope USO show.

It was nice that you guys took your little half day off to help out the kids.

Well, the alternatives were to drink on our base or drink at China Beach, both of which we also did.

Happy Towel Day everyone: Grab your babblefish, and whatever you do, "Don't Panic!"

Oh, yeah, the priorities for getting things off the supply ships were booze, band-aids, bullets, and beans.

Shortly after I arrived, I managed to snag a case of Beefeaters in imperial quarts. Must have arrived from Hong Kong. That, and lots of beer, took me through my year.

We were Navy, of course, but detached to the Marines. We got a ration card for one imperial gallon (four liters) per month of booze each. The Marines were allowed NONE. Needless to say, the Marines were our good friends.

I have heard that there is much drug use in war areas. I can understand that because I feel the need for some just hearing about the experiences.

Hi Carol -- no I didn't go back to bed...my company got up. He stayed at the party later than I did and I didn't expect him to show his head so early. We may go see if Eliston Street Soda Shop is open for breakfast.

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CJ,

That brought back a memory. Back in 1989 or 90 while working at a radio station I did a promotional blood drive for the local blood bank. We had ambulances running to offices all over town to pick up people with a sign on the back saying "Follow Me To China Beach". I got them to lay down a ton of sand in the parking lot and erect a big above ground pool. The DJs broadcast live from the blood bank dressed in jungle cammies and the women in the sales staff were in bikinis. The local news helicopters flying up and down 99 and 41 did flyovers every time they turned around. We were fine until the Marines from a town south "invaded" and threw their commander into the water.

The whole promotion broke the one day donation record and made the local news. We had to schedule people for later donations. The cleanup was a mess, and I was told to never ever again "get another bright idea" :-) That didn't stop me even if the DJs didn't like broadcasting from inside a cage at the zoo.

Jamie,
I really like that story. Are you still in radio?

ww1 memorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN-NIHbfJ1k&feature=related

We were having one of our EMBA residency sessions at a resort outside of Tampa. They treated us right. And they hosted an open bar after the day's studies were over.

There was some pharmaceutical company having a regional sales happening at the same resort. For their entertainment they had a MASH-theme party in one of the large bohios outside.

A couple of us got snockered and started getting into the pharma-peoples' faces. Bunch of draft dodgers capitalizing on GI's misery, etc.. That effectively ended their party.

Fortunately, a couple of friends came and extricated us from the mess we had caused. The two marines in my class were the other gate-crashers.

CJ

No I'm retired. Being the Public Service Director and political liaison of a radio station for five years was just one of my multiple pursuits. That came to an end in 1994 when the station was sold.

Hello Flatus, I know it is to honor our fallen soldiers but I always include the living- you all have made a sacrifice that I didn't when given the chance and carry on with memories that impact the rest of your lives. So I applaud you all.

I love to wade through the blogosphere to find interesting people and one just gave me a link that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that not recognizing Cuba is the height of stupidity and nothing but politics. The rest of the world is getting there before us and they are having a great time doing it.

If you are a writer you might need to sneak in via Canada or Australia to do this, but it looks interesting.

http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/courses/travel/cuba-2009

In addition to Memorial Day observances--there was a mention in my local newspaper of the--National
Moment of Remembrance to be observed on Memorial Day at 3 p.m, local time, to pause & reflect
on those who have fallen.

http://www.remember.gov/

President Obama shows excellent judgment & avoids being drawn into a potential controversy prompted by some professors who sent a petition to the White House asking the President to avoid having a wreath placed at the Arlington Confederate Monument.

President Obama will send wreaths to the monument for Confederate soldiers and to a memorial honoring more than 200,000 African-Americans who fought for the Union during the Civil War.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090525/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_memorial_day

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Just remembered the trigger that set me off on that MASH party; they were all wearing dog tags as they headed out the hotel door to their party site. Never saw such a cheerful bunch.

On a smaller scale, they exhibited the same total lack of understanding as did the elite from Washington who carriaged-down to Manassas for a picnic with the entertainment being the First Battle of Bull Run.

For those who haven't been to Arlington, here is an article about Arlington House (The Custis Lee Mansion). This was the site of what eventually became the beginning of Arlington Cemetery and today is designated as the Robert E. Lee Memorial

http://www.nps.gov/archive/gwmp/arl_hse.html

It is tied in someway to virtually every founding family in Virginia: Washington, Lee, Custis, Randolph (which ties to Jefferson). You can almost hear the lyrics from 1776

They say that God in heaven is everybody's God
I'll admit that God in heaven is everybody's God
But I tell you John with pride
God leans a little on the side
of the Lees, the Lees of Old Virginia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Tiar8FqXU

Flatus,
They did turn tail and run back home when the expected rout of the Confederate forces didn't go as planned. I now live within walking distance of the Manassas battlefield (first battle of Manassas, by the way.)

This is turning into a very funny day. Just found out that "Lord Likely" is tweeting

http://twitter.com/lordlikely

For those not familiar with the blogging persona of a British eccentric, bon vivant, and somewhat risque member of the nobility, Lord Likely enjoy

http://www.lordlikely.com/

Shelly's report on The Medicine Bag project. Only 32 more bags needed. Here are some shee has received so far:

http://thiseclecticlife.com/2009/05/25/medicine-bag-project-in-the-home-stretch/

CJ, I had two really nice associations with Seabees. The first was when we shared a troop ship with them in '61. We left Oakland and stoppet at Port Hueneme and picked-up a battalion of them. They were headed to Okinawa. We got off at Pearl. Flew on to Korea from there.

The second time was at Lockbourne AFB in Ohio. We hosted a group of reservists from West Virginia. They were real good to us helping get some things done in our bomb dump that we'd never get funding for. That was in '72.

Flatus, you are retired military aren't you? How many years did it take?

Made it back from a early breakfast with my buddies,,,we have been together since before high school age,,,,,there were 10 of us that enlisted in the various armed services,,,3 out of the ten did not make it back,,,we did not talk too much about them,,,,one or two comments each,,,,they are in heaven,,,in hell or ,,in limbo,,,,I said that they are back in space,,in the universe,,,back to what they originally was,,,space dust,,,,,and they arn''t gone,,,just traveling around the universe,,,and having a great time,,,my buddy John did not show up,,,him and I enlisted in the Marines,,under the buddy system,,,we were together most of the time,,,this made it a lot easier,,for the both of us,,,Im going to make him feel really guilty,,,I saved his life once,,,not in the military,,,but before we went in,,,,

Another conversation we were having was about Obama,,,some like him,,some don't,,,they know that I am an Indy,,,and wanted to know what I thought about his speech the day ( 22nd) about the detainees,,,and the rule of law,,,,,,,,,I told them that there is starting to be a lot o similarities with the Bush Administration,,,and the need for more and more power,,,,,,,,,I told them to watch a video of Rachel Maddow,,,,a very strong supporter of Obama and here is the one.,,,,Please watch it all the way thru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY#

And another thing that I told them,,(we were discussing Iran also)
is that,,,,if they knew that in Iran,,,there is by a law,that w hen some one is arrested for terrorism or any thing similar ( also in Australia I think)
has to be charged within 48 hrs,,,and be given a trial date,,,,and that this is followed 99.9% of the time,,,,,we are all going to meet with all of our wives in a cpl of weeks,,,,we give the wives the chance to set the date,,so everyone can make it,,,,,or else we just meet on our own,,,,the gals know that we have done it before,,so there is no stalling about it,,,,it was great seeing them all,,,,when I look at them,,,,I still see the boys that I hung around with,,,and played all of the sports with,,,,not so much soldiers,,,,but we did have a few moments of silence for our friends floating around the universe some where.

Only 23, Carol. Had two breaks in service along the way. Retired at the end of '83.

Nap time.

Did you have another career after you retired Flatus?

Tell us about meeting Stinky. Maybe you already have and I missed it.

Morning Solar. Thanks for your service also.

To Flatus, Solar, CJ, & those of you who did serve & offer your views here---a big thanks--particularly on
a day like today---when I remember a certain someone who did survive Viet Nam (1965-army)---but returned not as together as you all seem--and over the years never really adjusted---until he passed on several years ago.

cajo, is one of the seabee motto's "the only easy day was yesterday"... saw it in this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjI2WXrN_9A&feature=related

Morning Carol,,,and all,,,,,I think that the best way,,,that the Government can remember the ones gone,,,is thru the V A,,,,I have seen on thousand % improvement of this government run program,,,partly, I think , thanks to H. Clinton,,during her run for POTUS,,,,,all,,,and I mean all,, of the people that I have been in contact from,,my primary doc,,,to the guy sweeping and cleaning the halls are very processional,,,,,,,and a good example of what gov.,,,can do ,,,if all are board,,as they say,,,,,,,there are not Republican,,,or Democrats there,,,just soldiers,,that are being taken care of,,,,,the 2 party system can work,,,if they work together!!

Well I better start getting to my exercises,,,have a lot of breakfast cal's to burn off

another group to whom we owe a great deal of respect on this memorial day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuOiqo1glk

Thought for the day :
" If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. "

kink friedman sings about ira hayes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfekomjxjRY

1878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
1889 Igor Sikorsky developed a working helicopter

0585 -BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1915 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1919 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
1937 1st airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 meters
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for heavyweight boxing title
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
1978 "Star Wars" released
1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York

Question of the Day

If a government informant gives a would-be jihadist bags and bags of weed to entice him to join his jihad, where does he get the weed?

--Josh Marshall

Bob, I think that would be counter productive. After bags and bags of weed, you would think a person might lose interest in jihad. ie.... to hell with any bombs, find me some Cheetos.

Of course I wouldn't know.

Good stories kids.

The boys next door are supposed to be coming over to work on my pontoon boat. I think when they told mel they would, they may have forgotten it was a holiday. When they found out it was, they probably headed to the nearest bar.They are good workers when you can get them to work but beer is a priority. They aren't exactly boys, probably in their 40s, river rats.

I got my pontoon boat at the end of the summer last year. Bought it used, for a song. If you live on the river here there are two things you need to have, a golf cart and a pontoon boat. I think it's in the neighborhood covenent.

I took mine out of the water last year just prior to our last hurricane scare and hadn't moved it since until yesterday. It was working but had a little trouble starting at times. I've had several offers already to buy it so if I get tired of it, I'll put it on the market.

Unpredictable weather seems to stimulate chatter among birds - as well as humans - according to researchers.

A team of US scientists has found that mockingbirds living in variable climates sing more elaborate songs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8062420.stm

Nigeria rebels say major oil pipelines destroyed

By Helen Vesperini – 4 hours ago

LAGOS (AFP) — Nigeria's main rebel group on Monday destroyed several major oil pipelines in the south in response to a military offensive, prompting a cut in production announced at 100,000 barrels a day.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jYrfuJGalMFz8q2OATSh_5tyFEsA

Ocean Life Of Ages Past Boggle Modern Imagination With Incredible Sizes, Abundance And Distribution

ScienceDaily (May 25, 2009) — Before oil hunters in the early 1800s harpooned whales by the score, the ocean around New Zealand teemed with about 27,000 southern right whales - roughly 30 times as many as today - according to one of several astonishing reconstructions of ocean life in olden days to be presented at a Census of Marine Life conference May 26-28.
.................... Using such diverse sources as old ship logs, literary texts, tax accounts, newly translated legal documents and even mounted trophies, Census researchers are piecing together images - some flickering, others in high definition - of fish of such sizes, abundance and distribution in ages past that they stagger modern imaginations.

They are also documenting the timelines over which those giant marine life populations declined.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090524170641.htm

"...mockingbirds living in variable climates sing more elaborate songs."

their version of singing in the shower

btw, had beautiful primary colors today on my bird feeders: bright yellow finch, rich red cardinal and a royal blue bunting all at the same time. need a porch camera handy for those magic moments.... also need to know how to share the photos if taken.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230538

coincidentally just in time for the annual summer increases in the cost of gas. it's hard not to believe in big oil conspiracies when these things happen year after year at the same time... there'll be another one around july 4th and then another just before labor day.

oops that was a royal blue irridescent colored indigo bunting.

Previously unknown photographs of WW I soldiers discovered. Now trying to identify the men

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/exclusive-the-unseen-photographs-that-throw-new-light-on-the-first-world-war-1688443.html

Put out the birdbath yesterday. This morning there was a female cardinal taking a bath in it.

Pat is right about the mockingbirds singing in the shower. They'll never be confused with Elvis, but they keep on trying. CB, I suppose it would take a bloke to figure that out Did they think the birds had their music boxes pre-programmed at birth?

"The Church of Scientology has gone on trial in the French capital, Paris, accused of organised fraud.

The case centres on a complaint by a woman who says she was pressured into paying large sums of money after being offered a free personality test.

The church, which is fighting the charges, denies that any mental manipulation took place.

France regards Scientology as a sect, not a religion, and the organisation could be banned if it loses the case.

It will be the first time the church has appeared as a defendant in a fraud case in France. Previous court cases have involved individual Scientologists."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8066743.stm

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230544

Why Patd how cynical of you. How can you not believe the annual stories:

1. Switching from winter to summer mix (Memorial Day),

2. Short supply due to lack of refinery capacity (July 4)

3. Switching from summer to winter mix (Labor Day)

Drill Baby Drill and build more refineries.

All clear now? :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8066743.stm

Hbbard did say inventing a religion was where the money was.

Well I found someone who didn't have other plans already. One of my nurses and she brought her family over and we're cooking out. Use up that meat I bought. Well check with ya'll later.

Have an update on the Prothonary warbler story and it is sad.,

Jamie,

I believe you missed: Refinery maintenance, unless you count that under capacity.

Hello again. Just a quick greet as I get ready for bed...

Thanks for the info Jamie on Non-hodgkins... will send on to my sister.

And CBob, thanks for your concern. It's all very strange !!

Tony, always nice to see you here...

As said before, I am pretty active on Facebook. Would love to have some friends from Crawford's Trailmix to join me.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1441770734&ref=name

fidel on bill's haiti appt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x15555

ap's shortened version of fidel's comments

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-4/1243277974155650.xml&storylist=international

"Israel pulls plug on Iran regime change shop"

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/

http://www.rr.com/home/home/article/9000/7847817/Hillary_Clinton_surprises_graduates_at_Yale

"Hillary Clinton surprises graduates at Yale"

"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has made a surprise return to her law school alma mater. She picked up an honorary degree 36 years after getting her law degree from Yale University. Graduates celebrating commencement Monday erupted in cheers as Clinton was introduced.

In keeping with Yale tradition, the names of honorary degree recipients are a closely held secret."

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Solar
I find this clip from RM a bit shocking.I really would never have expected this from a Dem.President....I don't like this its to Bush/Cheney...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY#

Tony, I haven't read any of today's posts yet, except your last one commenting on Solar's link. I agree. Thanks Solar for linking that, as I would have never seen it. I haven't watch Rachel in a long time - she is great. As a matter of fact, she said everything there is to say about that speech.

"Pat is right about the mockingbirds singing in the shower. They'll never be confused with Elvis, but they keep on trying."

Flatus, Maybe if you play some Elvis Cd's for them, repeatedly, they'll catch on. :)

I usually tell my war stories around Veterans Day. Today I am recalling my friends that I lost in Vietnam's rivers and airspace, and my great great uncle who died at Chickamauga in 1863. In this age of cyber-tracking, I have been able to reconstruct his movements on the battlefield , right up to the immediate area where he was shot dead.

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Hey Chloe
I haven't watched RM either,i think since she used to do KO.I'm glad she spoke out and I must say I'm a bit surprised seeing as how she's on MSNBC..Except for Craig I didn't know there was any one else there who was objective...

"need to know how to share the photos if taken."

Pat, make sure you have the cord to hook your camera up to your computer. When you plug it in, it should download onto your windows media player automatically, and be saved automatically. You can go over ahead of time and open up a photo bucket account. It's free and the instructions are very self explanatory. Then when you get to that point, if you need help getting them from your computer onto your photo bucket site, someone here will be sure to help. Much easier than it sounds.

Pat
http://register.photobucket.com/

Watching "The Longest Day". I had forgotten that it was one of those movies with every known actor working in the business in the parts

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056197/fullcredits

I didn't know she could be that objective, either, Tony. I think I made the same connection to Olbermann that you did. It's enough to make you want to watch her show.

Tony,,,,,,

,thanks to you,,,,you inspired me with your talk about the stair climber,,,,finished my weights,,on the Bowflex,,,and did a 3 mile run,,and half mile march warm up,,,,but think that Im going to cut it down,,,to two miles,,and one warm up,,,,gonna feel it on my right hip,,,tomorrow I think,,,going to get the combination stair and elliptical that bowflex offers,,,,,,I love tier support system,,,

Chloe,

Normally R M is,,,was a little too much into the coolaid for me to listen to her very much,,,,but I read about at some antiwar site,,a cpl of day's ago,,,,,take a look at his war stance also,,,not his promises,,,,but his actions,,,,he is not doing anything so much diff than Bush,,,,I think that he went to the dark side,,,,that is the Military people has him convinced on their wary of thinking,,,,No experience is stating to show,,,,,,even tho he is surrounded by Clintanistas ???

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230566

I had too Jamie.... what a list!

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Boy Solar you did great!!
I think that combo Bowflex sounds terrific.I did mine a little earlier(1 hour Ellip.trainer and some free weights) at the Coral Trace gym here where I live.I decided to stay home as the traffic going over the bridge to the beaches was bumper to bumper...Beautiful day here sunny and a steamy hot 95...

"Military people has him convinced on their wary of thinking"

Solar, I should know this, but do we even have a permanent base there? Or is it just a temporary base? It seems that he could listen to the Military people, compromise, and leave a permanent peace keeping base there, like we do in other countries. (?)

Chlo

I will find out ,,,but like I have been saying,,,we have over 750 bases all over the world,,,,how many is need for sure,,,I don't know,,,,but if we keep messing around in other peoples back yards,,,,,why are we surprised that some of them want to do harm to us,,,,and in Israel,,,they all know that we are partners with them,,,,,I bet ,,,that not too many know how Israel got it;s firs nuclear weapon,,,,that was against all known laws,,at the time,,,and still is

http://s634.photobucket.com/albums/uu65/tonyb39/?albumview=slideshow&newest=1

Hey all
Look what I made for dinner...Served with a salad(homemade Blue cheese dressing) and a fruit bowl ...

Tony,,,,that looks great,,,,,and your swimming pool is indoors,,,,man o man,,you would never get rid of me,,,between you and the Cajun women,,,I would have it made,,,,,,,OH ,,,,are gays allow to say fruit bowl?,,sorry if I offended,,,,if not,,,hahaha

http://s634.photobucket.com/albums/uu65/tonyb39/?albumview=slideshow

Oh Solar
See with my new sofa no more feet on the coffee table..

"OH ,,,,are gays allow to say fruit bowl?,,sorry if I offended,,,,if not,,,hahaha"

offended hell no!! LMAO...

"we keep messing around in other peoples back yards"

I hear ya Solar, and I agree.

Tony! A perfect meal. No picture of the fruit bowl?

"Beautiful day here sunny and a steamy hot 95.."

Yeah,,,for you and the dillos,,,,,for me,,,,I would just melt,,,,65-70 is perfect for me,,,,,but that pool of your,,indoor,,,I would chance the melt down on the way over HA!,,,,later,,,finishing up my spaghetti sauce,,,although I can make my late Mother in laws ,,,combination of Italian,,,and Croatian ( slang = Moggie) I cheat by cooking and burning Italian sausage in one of her old steel (the speckled ones) pans,,,and then putting is a store bought one,,,,it does the job,and tastes pretty good,,,a little later

"are gays allow to say fruit bowl?"

LOL Tony.

oh, I see Solar said that. :)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230577

Chloe
Fruits cut up and chilling in the fridge along with the salad fixings.I put the last 2 dishes together minutes before I eat...

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230578

Solar
I love it when its hot.I come from Michigan though and when I first moved here I thought the 90's was unbearable but the body does acclimatise..I have the A/C on 85 and with the ceiling fans it feels great,oh and that wonderful swimming pool....

I should have known that Tony. Enjoy!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230567

I really like RM. We seem to have the same wacky sense of humor. She's off to the left but not so far she can't see the other side on occasion

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230578

Sounds Fab Solar....

I hope that Congress Critter who wants to ban the various "male enhancement" potions and prescriptions until after dark gets his way. It's bad enough the spammers hit my mailbox without TV airing leering lechery every 15 minutes.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230584

Jamie
I'm glad to know that.RM maybe the first show I watch on MSNBC since the primaries...

." No picture of the fruit bowl?"

Who U calling a fruit bowl,,,,,,,,no never mind ,,don't answer that,,,,you are just going to get me in trouble with Carol again,,,,she hits hard for some one that says that she a little weak,,she can stand to gain about 10,,12 lbs,,,a little skinny,,,I think the magster looked just right tho,,,,,,HA! better stay on her good side,,,,don't want one of those voodoo's,,,voodooed at me,,,bet she gets around pretty good on a broom also,,,,,oops that did it,,,Im,,,gone for awhile,,

Tony,,,,here is my take on R M,,,,she is funny,,,Intelligent,,,but when she can't see nothing but Obama,,,Obama,,,all of the time,,,then she gets on my nerves,,,I may watch her now also,,just to see where she will take her new found independence of the msnbc meme,,,,maybe she will go head to head with the over sized head of K O,??,,,if she does,,,it might be the road back for that station,,,,but they won't let her?

You talking about me Solar?? Well you know what they say, "it's better to be talked about bad than not be talked about at all. And I am porking up fast enough son. I have enough trouble hauling my ass around without it getting any bigger.

Good Tony, getting a few more pics in there. Keep going.....you have some catching up to do.

I don't know if you remembered I told ya'll about thinking I may have hurt a little Prothonotary warbler last weekend weedwacking. I saw the mamma this morning flying around seeming to be a little distressed. A short time later I found the little baby warbler lying on the steps, dead. Must have flown into the window.

It was already stiff or I would have tried some CPR. I begged the little bird to come back. I gently massaged it. I told mamma W I was so sorry. That little bird didn't have a bit of luck going for it, made it thru a weedwacker just to get done in by a window. It just wasn't meant to be. It started it's life as a W and ended it with a W. (warbler, window)

I thought that maybe it was fitting for Memorial Day. Maybe it could get a message back to those who had served our country and lost their lives in battle that we really appreciated their sacrifice. I sent the message just in case....

I buried the little bird close to a patch of mint.

My company is gone and our 60% chance or rain waited until they had. Nice thunderstorm going right now. Maggie is under the bed. Too pooped to coax her out.

and it was nice to be around some humans I can actually see and touch. No offense intended but our relationship here does leave a little to be desired.

"" No picture of the fruit bowl?"
Who U calling a fruit bowl"

There you go again, you troublemaker!
Every single day. Every move you make. Every step you take. Ill be watching you ...

:J)

"I really like RM. We seem to have the same wacky sense of humor"

I actually like her too Jamie. Funny, because I used to think that with your personality, intelligence, humor, etc..... that you would look like her. I still think of you almost anytime I hear her talk, almost like I'm listening to you talk. (that's a compliment to both of you) :)

"our relationship here does leave a little to be desired."

Laughing again.
Too one dimensional Carol? :)

..... they have something in common with us.
Where Iraqis Go to Drink and Gamble
Photo Essay: A Day at the Races in Baghdad

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4943&page=0

"There you go again, you troublemaker!

Every single day. Every move you make. Every step you take. Ill be watching you .."

Nice,,,maybe we could put those to music?,, Ok U got it no more trouble from me.

Jamie

Before there are ,,,,life after humans,,,,there will be a

Future Megopolis,,,,I had this program,,,and taped over it,,,,,told Bethy about it a little,,,,,,Cities of the future,,,,energy created from foot steps,,,,farms in the sky,,,,,,a city within a city,,,tvo it,,,at 4 am my time,,,,,,But don't forget at 8 pm my time,,,,,,,THE LINK,,,thats going to be great too,,,,

CB,,,,for you,,,,Journey to the center of the Earth,,,Mayan artifacts,,,,paintings,,,in their caves etc,,,at 10 pm my time

Decisions, decisions....Borel has to decide who he will ride in the Belmont. Rachel has to decide if she will run.

http://www.cftktv.com/news/15/933846

Jamie,,,,,,forgot,,,,science channel ,,,193

CB,,,history,,,channel ,,,120

Celebrate Memorial Day and hello fellow Tmixers.. From 35K feet flying over storms in Mid America

It's memorial day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTO7pyo_Hnk

John D. Pleeeeeeeeeease dont play number nine.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQw80mqfR4&feature=related

John D. talks about hard times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8p3Nti0n8&feature=related

Sturg... Interesting choice for Memorial day... Some Cajun touch......

hobson nevah had such a choice........

marty and merle trade some .................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EJ0KxKvW0

Lots of clouds over our great country as I fly west

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all you who have taken time from your own lives to go into battle for us, experiencing things and doing things you weren't made for. I am in awe of your courage and sacrifice.

They May Not Want The Bomb

And other unexpected truths.

"What you know about Iran,,,,,is all wrong" Fareed Zakaria

Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What's the evidence? Well, over the last five years, senior Iranian officials at every level have repeatedly asserted that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has quoted the regime's founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who asserted that such weapons were "un-Islamic." The country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa in 2004 describing the use of nuclear weapons as immoral. In a subsequent sermon, he declared that "developing, producing or stockpiling nuclear weapons is forbidden under Islam." Last year Khamenei reiterated all these points after meeting with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. Now, of course, they could all be lying. But it seems odd for a regime that derives its legitimacy from its fidelity to Islam to declare constantly that these weapons are un-Islamic if it intends to develop them. It would be far shrewder to stop reminding people of Khomeini's statements and stop issuing new fatwas against nukes.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/173014

Are are you communicating with us Ping?

Hey CT.... Trying to catch up but this post is so long...
I am on a flight to San Fran so maybe the first Tmixer blogging at 35K feet

Solar - Iran has an election soon. Lets see what happens if it is really open. Maybe we will have EX President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - losing in a similar method to youth votes as which helped drive victory for Obama

Ping,,,,,,thats what Im hoping for,,,,,,,,Im positive that the people don't want it,,,,,what would one do any way,,,and the radiation from a blowback would be the end of them,,,they need to test it,,just like Korea,,,what the hurry to war,,,,,,Obama is turned around on this now,,,hope that someone will keep the Israel'i Lobby' bs straight here in the us,,,,,how u doing?

Ping,,,,,,thats what Im hoping for,,,,,,,,Im positive that the people don't want it,,,,,what would one do any way,,,and the radiation from a blowback would be the end of them,,,they need to test it,,just like Korea,,,what the hurry to war,,,,,,Obama is turned around on this now,,,hope that someone will keep the Israel'i Lobby' bs straight here in the us,,,,,how u doing?

Doing well, I have freinds with Family in Iran and agree 100%. Hope that they have true free elections and they can make a change from the ignorance of their current radical leadership

don't know how that happened,,,I guess my gabapentin made my fingers stutter,,,sorry

Ping,,,,,,R U an Indy yet,,,what are U waiting for son??

Blew past Indy hours ago.... Now 30 min out of San Francisco SFO airport

Don 1 one

Im watching a program called six degrees of separation,,,,by proven methods,,it looks like we are all 6.5 bil people related,,and all of the string theory's every thing is connected born out,,,and say's that nature uses a pervasive law to organize its self,,,It seems that we can thank Kevin Bacon ,,the actor for this,,,his movie.

Ping, do you think at a higher level up there?

Ping

Funny

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/craig-on-today-show-the-prehol.html#comment-230623

Indy,,,as a registered independent voter. do it now,,you will be happy,,,you can pick on both of the party's,,,they take turns screwing things up,,,so we are never out of ammo...they both use the same tricks to get elected,,,promises that sound good,,,and then swing back to the center,,,why,,,,,,that is where the people are,,,we need to build a constitutional center,,,like R P says,,,and D. K.,,and others,,that really do care,,,,see U there

Sturg I am sure can find a Higher level video... and tie it into San Francisco.... Hey Jeff Airplane?

Got to log off in a min

Weather looks great out the window now on this side of the Rockies

Ah,,, Solar - i had geography on the mind... Yes - i understand more Indy then Rep and Dem added together..
Question on Primarys in Florida?

And the Brick Yard was this weekend so another pointer to the other Indy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2tYYYlwMc

ping.......enjoy.........lol

"Ok U got it no more trouble from me."

... don't worry, I'll know even before you.
Every word you say, Every vow you break, Every smile you fake.

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Solar,

The whole theory of "six degrees of separation" is an old one. If we took our little group here, we should be able to connect to every single person on earth. It would be interesting to find out how many countries we could reach just with the names in our mutual address books. I'm sure we've got all the states in the union covered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Solar, Did you see the movie?
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/six_degrees_of_separation/

Jamie,,,

Yes the theory has been out there for a while,,,,but now they have new information,,,this program was made in 2009,,

Chlo,,,can't talk to you,,,I just get in trouble,,,,,:-)))),,,,no I never did see that movie,,,,but I do like kevin Bacon ,,,sometimes...

and funny

"Every word you say, Every vow you break, Every smile you fake".

Solar, I'm about ready to log off, but want to make sure you do know that I'm taking those lyrics from a song, right?

You might as well put that song to a c d or something,,,it will be a lot shorter than you typing it out on this here blog,,,,,but I know what you want,,,,you want Carol to scold me again,,,Im not biting this time Sally,,,,,and you might want to put it on a U tube and show us all how you sing that there musica!!

Me sing?
No, Police does too good a job with it for me to try.
nite

I did and I love it when you sing to me,,,got another one? been way over posting again,,so see you in a few,,,,,nite

oh my, so many comments for a holiday weekend. just now checking in. have been cleaning house and gardening all weekend. new thread at midinight.

NEW THREAD.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/05/gop-plays-gitmo-fear-card.html