Gee...I DO
hate to admit that my big brother was right!Here's a local story that has gone to the national 'wires'.
Web Log Archives, 9/17/06 to 9/30/06
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Gee...I DO
hate to admit that my big brother was right!
Here's a
local story that has gone to the national 'wires'.
Hey, but this squirrel is even uglier'n me!
Friday, September 29th, 2006
"As a defense of his policies, it serves only to highlight the maddening circular logic that passes for a White House rationale. It goes like this: The invasion of Iraq has created an entire new army of terrorists who will be emboldened by an American withdrawal. Therefore, the United States has to stay indefinitely and keep fighting those terrorists. By that logic, the more the United States fights, the longer the war stretches on." NYT Editorial
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 Happy Birthday, Mari!
"Seething
with anger, and choking up as she laid bare her marital problems, Ms.
Pirro...said she was guilty only of the anger of a woman scorned. [The taped]
conversations included profanity-laden rants by Ms. Pirro about her husband, as
well as politically damaging remarks. State Republican leaders, who have
suffered through the Pirro marriage for years now, watching her scuttle past
plans to run for lieutenant governor and United States Senate, appeared torn
over what to do."
This is a fascinating mess! The woman is cursed! She was the one who, several months ago, started to run against Hilary Clinton but, at her first appearance as a candidate, realized that she had misplaced her notes and, so, had to stand in front of the cameras for almost a minute without anything to say! You've
got to wonder why she continues to try! Her husband's a philandering felon who
lives to torture her!
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Yesterday, two unusual things happened to me in the space of about an hour. First, I went jogging and right there on the sidewalk was $12 in cash! Then, fool that I am, I went to throw away one of those bucks on a Super Lotto quick-pick ticket and, right there, on the ticket machine table, someone had left a freshly bought $1 ticket next to a fortune cookie printout of the same 'lucky numbers' that were on the abandoned ticket! Maybe those numbers will be lucky for me! The Drawing's tonight!
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
I've been amusing myself with a pretty old song. Soon, I'll get someone to sing it along with me.
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Forever is a long time but a long time is not forever.
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Let age bring wisdom: happiness lies not in getting what you want, but in wanting what you get! ;-)
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
'Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.'
Shakespeare, from Hamlet
<<<Four Seasons, a wall
sculpture by Ruth Johnson
Dimensions are 8" x 12" x 3"
Friday, September 22nd, 2006 Robin M. Blind Is Sixty
This
poor old crazy bastard...
he's outsmarted some deer and so
he's finally getting to harvest some
(can you say) perfect
tomatoes!
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
"Our primary conviction is that
there is only one world -- there is no supernatural world. We are
focused...on having our human potential increased in this world, rather
than working everything out in the world to come."
Richard
Golden
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 Happy Birthday, Feather!
"My luck is so bad that if I
bought a cemetery, people would stop dying."
-- Rodney Dangerfield
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
'"The Arab word
for "secular"
is a neologism,
almaany, which
comes from aalam,
meaning "world".
It wasn't often heard in public, for to many Iraqis almaany
also meant "godless".'
George Packer, The
Assassin's Gate
Monday, September 18th, 2006
"He
will be the man of this century — who was sure of himself despite terrible
pain and suffering — who showed the way to victory. He is the only one who
remained true to himself, who did not cheaply sell his faith and his ideals, who
always and without doubt followed his straight path toward his goal."
Joseph
Goebbels, writing on the occasion of The Führer's 56th (and last) birthday,
April 20th, 1945
If you can keep your head
when all about you
Are losing theirs
and blaming it on you,
Then, perhaps, you have misappraised the situation.
Anonymous (with some help from Rudyard Kipling)
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Word Of The Day
Quotidian: daily, everyday,
routine, commonplace, ordinary.