I have noticed a few things lately; most of the folks on my blog list have quit posting, my motivation to do more posting has waned, the political arena is full of the "usual suspects" who are depressingly predictable.
I have a New Condition Encyclopedia Britannica, that I no longer have room to store or display.
I can prove it's unused by the big kids report cards.
If anyone wants it, pay the shipping and it's yours.
If you know of any one who needs it forward my contact info.
These are beautiful books and it would be a shame to stick them in a dumpster or in a home that doesn't want them.
Thanks in advance,
DW
Write me in for President, here is my platform
(1) Press 1 for English is immediately banned. English is the official language, speak it or wait at the border until you can.
(2) We will immediately go into a two year isolationist posture to straighten out the country's attitude. NO imports, no exports. We will use the 'Walmart' policy 'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.'
(3) When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it.
(4) All retired military personnel will be required to man one of our many observation towers on the southern border. (six month tour) They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.
(5) Social security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn't put nuttin in, you ain't getting nuttin out. The president nor any other politician will not be able to touch it.
(6) Welfare - Checks will be handed out on Fridays at the end of the 40 hour school week and the successful completion of urinalysis and a passing grade.
(7) Professional Athletes --Steroids - The FIRST time you check positive you're banned for life.(8) Crime - We will adopt the Turkish method, the first time you steal, you lose your right hand. There is no more life sentences, if convicted you will be put to death by the same method you chose for your victim, gun, knife, strangulation, etc.
(9) One export will be allowed, Wheat, The world needs to eat. A bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.
(10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the national debt and ultimately lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we'll ask the American people if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision whether it's a worthy cause.
(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.
(12) The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc.
Sorry if I stepped on any one's toes but a vote for me will get you better than what you have, and better than what you're gonna get. Thanks for listening, and remember to write in my name on the ballot in November.
Over at the Moral Compass (http://amoralcompass.blogspot.com/ ) His platform for running for President.
Too bad he's not a real candidate
Add this one to your favorites, common sense that comes from a celebrity.
http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox.htm
A lot of things have been attributed to Charlie, the kind of savvy that I see on this sight isn't one of them.
Ya'll go have a peep, I got a lot of reading to do.
Here is some long over due Blog -Love for some very interesting folks.
LPN with an M-16. Cool profile Pic. with some very familiar sounding issues dealing with being in the Green Machine.
http://armylpn.blogspot.com/
Acute Politics, this gentleman has been over the mountain, as they say. An excellent writer with an educated view point on Iraq among other things.
http://acutepolitics.blogspot.com/
One of my favorites for last, Home on the Range. A really great writer that's also a really great cook. With some really cool Pics of meals and other interesting stuff.
http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/
I am an under motivated worm, I can only ask forgiveness. There are several bloggers that I should have added to my blogroll months ago. They're a great read, and people who have an interesting outlook.
http://phlegmfatale.blogspot.com/
Phlegmfatale, a hoot to read, with some interesting insights.
http://boobsinjuriesanddrpepper.blogspot.com/
Crystal McKnob, always empty your hands and mouth when reading Boobs, Injury's and Dr. Pepper. Class one beverage alert perpetually in place.
http://maypeacebewithyou.blogspot.com/
The home of Matt G. writer and police officer extraordinaire. As shown by the collaboration with Babs and AD an excellent writer and family man.
These are a few of the good ones I read regularly.
Some of the rock stars get more comments than that in a day, but that's OK I couldn't read them all anyway. I truly love to read comments from my three readers.
Anyway, I crossed the magic 10,000 hit mark several days ago. A reader from the UK. as9105.com had the hit. If you check back by I will write something at your request.
Many thanks to all who honor me by stopping by to check my scribbling.
John Law is a hoot, and you can tell he is on the job cause he likes it. Give him a read.
Holly B tagged me, I thank you for the recognition. This is a music meme, and though I am not an audiophile, and my eighteenth year wasn't all that fun. I can agree that the good times weren't all that good. I will do my best to be nostalgic. So here are the guidelines.
1. Go to the Billboard #1 Hits listings ;
2. Pick the year you turned 18
3. Get nostalgic over the songs of the year;
4. Pick 5 songs and write something about how these songs affected you;
5. Pass it on to 5 more friends.
Mama Told me not to come. Three Dog Night.
Thank you for the meme, I was feeling left out.
The rules: add your name to the list,
Pick five people and notify them,
List your five favorite eating spots at your location.
The List:
Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, United States)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Lulu (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Chris (Boyne City, Michigan, United States)
AB (Cave Creek, Arizona, United States)
Johnny Yen (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Bubs (Mt Prospect, Illinois, United States)
Mob (Midland, Texas United States)
Yas (Ahwatukee, Arizona USA)
RSP (Scottsdale, AZ USA)
Ralphd00d (Phoenix, AZ USA)
DW (South East US)
1) Tango du Chat (Dance of the Cat)
French influences, good sea food, and the chef does the cooking. Most times the chef trains and directs. Here the chef cooks and he loves to innovate. Just stroll in, order a good beer, they have several, and have the hottie to tell the Chef to do something that will be good. Prepare to drool. Not cheap, but excellent.
2) Toscona
Italian, dim romantic, excellent house wines, and again a Chef in the house. Plan on two bottles of wine, red sauce with your favorite food beast, excellent pasta. Again not cheap, but worth it.
3) Something Fishy
This is a local "fish camp" type place as we call them. If it doesn't swim, don't bother. Except for the great hush puppies and coleslaw, seafood is all they do. Get the large three item seafood platter with scallops, oysters, and shrimp. You can have broiled or fried. Be sure to have a monster appetite. This is the working mans dinner, very reasonable.
4)Flaming Amy's
One entree, burrito. You can, however, get anything on it. They are huge, betcha' can't eat more than one. Mexican influence, (big surprise) salsa bar, wall of flame (hot sauces) . Six bucks for a meal.
5) Goody Goody Omelet House
This is a working mans (or ladies) eatery. Three bucks will get you a basic breakfast with eggs, toast, grits and coffee. A little more will get you fed to the gills. The folks there are life long egg flippers who can turn your average cackle berry into a work of art. I'm salivating as I write this. There are a few of these in town, Jimbo's and the White Front get a photo finish,
Bonus,,,
1)Mrs. Helen's Cajun Seafood in Lafayette Louisiana, the love of my life and I go every time we pass on I 10. We order an Alligator Sampler and a Crawfish Sampler, and eat like we stole it, we eat off each others plates, the other customers must think were crazy or starving.
2)Gino's Pizza in Chicago. They have changed hands, but a few years ago, it was all I could do to eat a personal sized pan pizza.
3) Anything on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.
4) Irish Stew at Dirty Nelly's pub in Bunratty Ireland.
5) In the back streets of Paris, a few blocks from The Sorbonne, there is a small restaurant that showcases the food of the central plateau in France. Local wines, home made sausages, stuffed cabbage and a blue berry creme brule that you would rassle your Grannie for. It's been a few years but I can remember the garden in the courtyard and our table in the corner. If the good lord lets me live and do well, I will go back. The restaurants in the latin quarter have window displays of the raw ingrediants as a come on, these folks do not. I belive the only advertisement is word of mouth.
Again. Check out this editorial, Ann isn't gentle, but she is direct, points out in her inimitable way, the pendulum is beginning to swing.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=cest_si_bon&ns=AnnCoulter&dt=05/09/2007&page=1
From Town Hall
I added the following link the other day, and was too rude to tell everyone. My apologies to Night lightning woman.
She tells a good story, the words paint a true picture.
http://greenchilesandroses.blogspot.com/
OK, folks go look what we are doing to our selves.
http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/
Over at Badgers Forward a recommendation for The Roggio Report, daily roundup of the real news from Iraq. It will be nice to get the real skinny. The link is for the World Standard. The Report has a date addition in the URL so you will have to dig for it.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp
Does anyone find this hard to believe, I don't, makes perfect sense to me.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann claims to know of a plan, already worked out with a line drawn on the map, for the partition of Iraq in which Iran will control half of the country and set it up as a “a terrorist safe haven zone” and a staging area for attacks around the Middle East and on the United States.
She said this in a taped interview St. Cloud Times reporter Lawrence Schumacher, which is available as a podcast. (If you go to this link, look down on the right for “download Capitolcast.”)
There are other interesting and provocative statements in the interview. But the most amazing is at the end, when the discussion turned to Iran and Iraq, Bachmann’s reasons for sticking with the stay-until-victory camp, and her beliefs, stated as established fact, that Iran has reached an agreement to divide Iraq and set up a free-terrorism zone.
Here’s the extended excerpt:
“Iran is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And do you know why? It’s because they’ve already decided that they’re going to partition Iraq.
And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called…. the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I’m sorry, I don’t have the official name, but it’s meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There’s already an agreement made.
They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone where they can go ahead and bring about more terrorist attacks in the Middle East region and then to come against the United States because we are their avowed enemy.”
Bachmann did not say how she knew about this plan, nor with whom Iran has made this deal.
The Big Question is seeking an interview with Bachmann to flesh out her comments. I have received a tentative commitment for an interview this afternoon and will post what I get.
No suprise there.
Hat tip to Drudge
