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Aesop
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On this day 51 years ago, I married the lovely Elvera Collins.
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The Real AJ,
I finally got a chance to read the article your recommended titled, “The Audacity of the Democrats.” I think it is a MUST read (American Thinker website)
Thanks for the link.
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GRANDCOGULATIONS Chas!!!
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I’ve been praying for those in the midwest dealing with the storms.
I wonder how Pauline, StuBob and others in the area made out. We would like to hear a report.
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Congratulations to Chas and Elvera!
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I missed the storms Chas, what happened? And by the way, congratulations to you and your lovely bride.
It was over 100 degrees here yesterday. I don’t think today will be any less hot. I feel sorry for the guys out in the shop. I also wish I’d gotten those wall fans ordered sooner…. My bad. I guess the guys will be motivated to get them put up right away though, huh?.
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Congrats Chas!
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Congrats to you Chas and your fine bride.
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So I’m reading up on the rain and storms pounding the midwest, and can’t help but think it’d be nice if the weather evened out a little across the country. We’re evidently still in a drought here, and what with an early onset of high heat, stuff is wilting already. Have mercy Lord…
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No storm damage here except flooding, and even that has been relatively minor compared to a few weeks ago. (Though I haven’t been down in our basement yet today to see how wet the carpet is this time.)
Saturday my husband and I drove into Davenport to do some shopping, and on the way home got a call (on our cell phone) from our older son, who told us the tornado warning siren was going off. My husband looked at the blue sky above us and said it must be just a test. As we got closer to home, the skies got darker and darker. A few minutes after we got in the house we heard the siren again. I went online to check things out and found out the tornado warning would expire in one minute, so we didn’t bother going to the basement. I did see that a spotter reported that the rain outside our local Wal-Mart had been blinding and the winds had been up to 60 MPH. We would have driven right through it except that we chose a different route going home.
I’ve read in the online news about the drownings due to flooding. I don’t go through any of the lowest-lying parts of town in my daily routine. My husband does drive through some flooded areas every night, though he hasn’t yet seen the road itself under water.
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Chas….may you and Elvera be blessed by God’s loving abundance. Congratulations on your 51st anniversary of your wedded bliss!
You 2 serve as an inspiration for us all!
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Congratulations Chas.
As for the storms last night, we were in the brunt of it but survived. I was actually hoping for lots of hail damage to my new Pathfinder so I could pay it off early, but God apparently wants me to continue working to pay it off.
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Congratulations Chas. I would have to live up in my 90’s to make that
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Did the MSM pick up the story about the President of West Va University and the current West Va Gov’s daughter? Heather Bresch is already the CEO of a drug company in West Va. Mike Garrison the WVU prez got Heather awarded a executive MBA she evidently lacked the courses to earn the normal way. The WVU Board of Governors (BOG) finally was able to get Garrison to resign his post. He hemhawed and eventually agreed to stay on until September.
Why not quit now in the low optempo summer mos to give the school time to hire a successor?
And no, I dont know what the quid was for his pro quo. I think it was done as a favor to the Gov, not the Gov’s daughter Heather Bresch.
Can you imagine in the USA that politically connected adult children of office-holders could ask for and receive special favors from a reputable university? I am shocked shocked shocked!
Now the big question is: will Bresch keep her CEO job with the drug folks? Will she give Garrison a job? Or will he merely revert to being a WVU law prof? (Cue up the offscreen “Deliverance” or “Rocky Top” music)
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Yes, in case all you Tenn Vols fans raise a ruckus, I know that “Rocky Top” isnt the state song of West Va.
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Interesting thing over the weekend. I went to the car dealership to sell my ex-husband a car. He laughed and said who knew his midlife crisis car would be a red Civic. My boss called me over the weekend to ask me why the two of us were divorced when it was obvious we were still in love with each other. He made me promise to talk to George about it, even calling yesterday afternoon to see if I had done it yet. I haven’t. I just don’t know how…
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Joe B: Enjoy your virtual iced coffee! It’s going to be in the 90s here!
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You don’t need another entanglement right now, Kim. Appeal to him as one parent to another–”how are we going to get Chloe through dad’s final illness together? Can you help me?”
If it’s there, it will grow naturally.
More unsolicited advice from a woman who’s feeling old . . .
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So I’m grinding through this long article AJ posted at American Thinker…
And I get to the part where it talks about the Dems overlaying the Vietnam template upon the war in Iraq, and I’m thinking to myself… I wonder if those folks at Abu Ghraib were on George Soros’ payroll?
Nah! Couldn’t be!
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Kim, you seem to have an astute boss. Mumsee (I think) and I have suggested some time ago that you two belong together. But there seems to be something between you that is keeping you apart.
Put George on here, we’ll work him over.
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Our legacy of liberty:
“Patrick Henry did not say, ‘Give me absolute safety or give me death.’” ~ John Stossel, “20/20″, ABC-TV, Aug. 3, 2001.
P.S. Remember, faith underlies virtue and virtue underlies liberty. If we value liberty, we must sourish faith and virtue.
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I exerpt a comment on the article about the Democrats Audacity:
Well now. In addition to Llamas observation about the runaway speculators who weren’t reigned in the by the Democrats…. just who else can we thank for rising gas prices? Yup. The Democrats.
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I would probably support the GOP plan Make it Man if they would guarantee the oil stayed here and was not sent overseas. Short of legislation, I do not see that happening either.
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Excuse my ignorance Joe, but just what is the GOP plan? (besides saying that dropping the gas tax for 60 days won’t help)
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We could relax some of the restrictions on refinery construction, no? Build them away from below sea-level hurricane-prone areas?
Can anyone confirm this? The Saudis say they offered to help pay for converting any BRAC-closed military base into a refinery. Who the heck said no to all those jobs??
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Sawgunner,
If I had to guess, I would say it was the Democrats. After all, in the past, they’ve been opposed to any traditional carbon based forms of energy, as well as most alternative energy sources.
And I believe it’s also the Dems who have been saying it’s all Bushes fault…
What’s wrong with this picture?
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I don’t care if part of the home-drilled oil was sold to other nations, Joe B, as long as our country’s needs were met as well.
What if the countries we’re buying oil from right now suddenly decided that they should not sell their products except to their own people?
Besides, the way I see it, U.S. companies someday making a profit selling oil to the Arabs would be sweet irony!
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Make It Man,
Awhile back I said I was going to put out an energy policy that made sense but never got around to it. So after your post above I thought I would do so.
The government should not be in the oil business with subsidies. End the $10 billion a year government subsidies and use this money to allow poverty level people a break on gasoline prices to offset the $10 billion a year, since poor people will be the one hurt by removing the subsidy.
End all earmarks like the Democrats said they would but lied about instead. Use the $29 billion a year for alternative energy R and D funding but in a way that makes the US government a partner in the technologies funded so that there is a chance this money will be repaid to the government as a business partner – not a socialist gyve away program.
We will need 140 new nuclear power plants over the next 42 years. Remove all insane mental barriers put up by whack jobs that have caused these plants not to be built. Build new refineries by removing the insane environmental barriers.
Force the completion of the wind farm off the coast of Mass that would have spoiled Sen Kennedy’s and Komrad Koward Kerry’s view. These should have never been opposed by the left.
Remove all government subsidies for bio-fuels made from human food stocks with the exception of sugar cane and sugar beets.
Immediately open up the Federal nuclear repository at Yucca Mtn. for spent nuclear wastes.
Immediately allow the drilling for oil and natural gas off of all US American coast lines, ANWAR and other Refuges.
Even though the CAFE standards for automobile fuel consumption were just increased, increase them again by giving US car manufacturers an incentive to do better by allowing a tax break to consumers to buy these new technologies at a discount. Both supply and demand must be attacked immediately. Restrictions on supply and incentices on demand need to be removed. Conservation is part but only part of the solution.
Remove the crazy safety regulations for automobiles that do not allow for a lightweight, two person car that could easily get triple the mileage of autos today. There is no reason a Smart and Hybrid Smart cars, and those like them, should not be available in the USA.
Give US taxpayers an energy incentive to use less energy in their homes – both personal and companies. Way more energy is wasted there than anywhere else. Increase the insulation values required by all building codes.
Place special emphasis on incentives for coal gasification, oil shale sands technologies, wind and solar – the raw alternatives we have in abundance.
Never ever allow any restrict and tax carbon credits to ever be used in the USA.
This isn’t a right or left plan. This is an American plan that makes sense. Everyone has to compromise in order to get a plan that works while keeping the lobbyists and politicians fingers out of it.
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Chas (5) — Thanks for asking, and congratulations on your anniversary.
TomBob was stranded at a friend’s lake house for 24 hours, but we’ve been OK otherwise. Two hospitals just south of here are closed due to flood damage. At least one of them, the only one in Columbus, Indiana, will probably be closed for weeks while they clean the mud out.
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I would like to see the Department of Energy and the EPA be under the control of the DOD until this war is over and we have unconditional surrender from the Governments that support Terrorist activities. I would like to see all the Harbors of Syria and Iran mined. Nothing goes in, Nothing goes out. The Mullah’s get hungry enough, they will capitulate. I would also include Chavez in that group too.
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A little draconian Joe, but I sympathize with the sentiments….
And what is that GOP plan again?
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Joe B.
There is more to oil than the price of crude.
Chavez’s crude from Venezuela requires special refineries to crack it. Since the USA is close, we have these refineries, Chavez might own them too, while other countries do not. As the good, easy to crack, oil becomes harder to get, other countries will build these refineries so they can use Chavez’s oil and bid against us for it. I don’t think we should be buying Citgo gasoline but we do. If we didn’t, we would be buying oil from farther away Arab Oil Potentates, payng more for it and giving money directly to our Islmofascists enemy instead So overall it is wise to buy Chavez’s oil instead.
Some American oil, especially the kind found in Penn. is great for making engine oil. We export a lot of finished oil to other countries.
People should be able to buy oil from and sell it to who ever they want. The market efficiently and correctly decides who gets it and at what price – once you discount the speculation of non end user investors.
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Llama,
I could vote for most of what you propose. What’s wrong with those weenies we elected?
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Q What’s your advice to the average American who is hurting now, facing the prospect of $4 a gallon gasoline, a lot of people facing —
THE PRESIDENT: Wait, what did you just say? You’re predicting $4 a gallon gasoline?
Q A number of analysts are predicting —
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, yeah?
Q — $4 a gallon gasoline this spring when they reformulate.
THE PRESIDENT: That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.
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Who said this?
It was a shameful thing to ask men to suffer and die, to persevere through god-awful afflictions and heartache, to endure the dehumanizing experiences that are unavoidable in combat, for a cause that the country wouldn’t support over time and that our leaders so wrongly believed could be achieved at a smaller cost than our enemy was prepared to make us pay. No other national endeavor requires as much unshakable resolve as war. If the nation and the government lack that resolve, it is criminal to expect men in the field to carry it alone.
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It was John McCain, of course.
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Npow that the Hill is toast and Wee Willy is no longer required by her to be on the campaign trail, I am a little worried about Biil.
He probably needs some suggestions as to what he should do nex, just to kep him occupied and out of trouble. So I thought we should come up some for him. I will start it off.
I think that Bill should spend some time helping Janet Reno buy a new Little Red Pickup Truck – hopefully a hybrid. Janet’s ride is getting pretty long in the tooth and getting her and Hill laughed at when she has to give Hill a lift or they truck pool.
What do you say?
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It will be interesting to see how Bill fits in now, Llama, although I won’t count Hillary out of the race until November.
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Sawgunner: About three weeks ago I had occasion to confront Governor Manchin about this problem. He tried to deflect my expressed disappointment and criticism by saying how much he was suffering as a father that his daughter was coming under fire. It just got me more ticked off.
My daughter spent two years commuting almost the length of Florida every weekend to get her MBA and his waltzes off with one without attending almost any classes!
WV politics stinks. Always has. But this little episode has gotten a considerable amount of press–we’ll see if it makes a difference in 2 years, or perhaps earlier if Byrd should die and Manchin tries to appoint himself to the Senate seat.
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I agree with Outkast. Something tells me we haven’t seen the last of her. Bill could get a job as a cigar tester?
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I agree with everything in Llama’s post. They say, “If we start drilling now, it will take ten years for new oil to be produced.” If Clinton hadn’t vetoed the energy bill ten years ago, we would have oil now.
They should build a new oil refinery at the old naval base in Charleston. They should take Sen. Lindsey Graham’s advice and explore 50 miles off the coast of S.C.
Llama, I’m sure you know oil is fungible. I pass Citgo stations as a matter of principle. But I realize that if I don’t buy it, someone will. If Hugo pumps it, Hugo will sell it.
Thanks everyone, for the well wishes. Elvera came in and read some of the comments. She’s never read the blog before.
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I’m a little late, but congratulations Chas and Elvera! Your anniversary is *almost* exactly on my birthday, tomorrow. Perhaps we can share some cake…
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Chas & Elvera – Happy 51st Anniversary!
Momoffour – Tomorrow is my daughter, Chrissy’s, 16th birthday. And it was Ruth Bell Graham’s birthday, too.
We’re gonna need a bigger cake.
(Didn’t Roy Scheider say that in Jaws? No, wait, it was a bigger boat they needed. Maybe if they’d had a bigger cake, the shark would have left them alone?
Let ‘im eat cake!)
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I was all for drilling ANWR until the Department of Energy released its recent report stating ANWR oil would only reduce the price of crude by $0.75 per barrel. ANWR seems like a red herring now. Just something to rant about for political purposes that would make little difference in gas prices. Pennies on the gallon if that.
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Hey, it’s my birthday too, tomorrow! To celebrate we’re taking a 90 year old woman out to dinner for both our birthdays (hers was two weeks ago). If you can get to Sonoma County by 5:30, Momoffour, we can squeeze you in. John Ash and Co is a great restaurant!
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A cover story in National Review magazine claims if we streamline the process and follow the French model to use only one style of nuclear power plant, we can get one on line within four years. Once the correct spot is chosen, of course–but that’s a whole different timeline.
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Remember how President Bush said he didn’t know Jack Abramoff?
President Bush met Abramoff on at least four occasions the White House has yet to acknowledge, according to the draft report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
And White House officials appeared as comfortable going to Abramoff and his lobbyists seeking tickets to sporting and entertainment events, as they did seeking input on personnel picks for plum jobs, the report found.
President Bush himself met Abramoff on at least six occasions, the report said, citing White House documents; the White House had previously acknowledged only two.
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Bush lied and people either died or cried. I’m one of the criers.
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Michelle
I didn’t know you lived up there. We love that restaurant, and the hotel is FAB, its a great place to stay.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you!
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Momoffour, et al.
If it’s a coconut cake, send me a virtual slice.
We aren’t doing anything to celebrate today, but we plan to make a day trip over to Highlands this Thursday.
Highlands is the place we went on our honeymoon. We should have stayed there, but I thought of going on to Gatlinburg. Big mistake. Motel rooms were $20/night there.
I’ve told that story before.
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Careful, Bianca. Joel Mark takes exception to such statements. Yes, the President has been “factually challenged” a great many times. And it is unfortunate that his “factual errors” have been a contributing factor in the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
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YIPEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) invited former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to testify before the Committee at a June 20th hearing about reported efforts to cover up the role of the White House in the Valerie Plame leak as described in his recent book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.
“I have extended an invitation to Mr. McClellan to testify before the Judiciary Committee after discussions between Committee staff and his attorneys,” said Conyers. “In his book, Mr. McClellan suggests that senior White House officials may have obstructed justice and engaged in a cover-up regarding the Valerie Plame leak. This alleged activity could well extend beyond the scope of the offenses for which Scooter Libby has been convicted and deserves further attention.”
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update:
Associated Press – June 9, 2008
President Bush’s former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.
McClellan’s lawyers said he has accepted House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers’ invitation to testify June 20. The attorneys said McClellan will appear and be sworn during the proceedings.
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Michelle,
I have a couple of comments to you on yesterday’s Whirled Views (the one that’s currently last and an earlier one mentioned by number in that post). I suspect you haven’t seen either.
It’s 6:19 and this is my first time all day to check out the blog. I think the rest of my month might be like that. Hi y’all–and bye.
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John McCain: “Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war. … ”
George Bush: “It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks.”
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Godlumps,
Keep up the white noise, it masks the fact that the Democratic party is compensating for their irrelevance with all their Bush Whacking.
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Joel,
I thought you’d like it. It’s a good piece.
MIM,
Lumps can’t help himself. He’s spent the last few weeks telling us how McCain=Bush. Maybe he’s turned the corner! At least now he’s found at least one thing that Bush and McCain differ on. And how do you like the billboard idea for the gas voting summary? I say put one up at every gas station. Let people read it while they pump.
All,
My link of the day comes to you from daledamosdotblogspot. If you liked the thinker piece, you’ll like this. Obama speaks of change. He’s not kiddin’. But most won’t like his version, as this piece points out his ties to Khalidi and Ayers. 2 of the clowns in the Obama circus clown car. Not as long, and if you don’t want to read all of it, there’s a video summation from Hannity, from Fox, at the bottom of the page. Lottsa links too. Obama is a fraud and liar. He says these are people he’s not close to. What he means is not now. But he knows them very well. Too well. Hannity, who I’m not a big fan of, does a nice job of demonstrating how well. Congress doesn’t have time for doing much real investigating. They’re too busy with real issues like Valerie Plame. Again. Yawn. Never mind Obamas ties to terrorists, let’s drag out the dead Plame horse and beat it some more. I guess I should just be thankful they’re busy with that, and not creating any real damage somewhere else.
http://tinyurl.com/4q6kgc
Change indeed.
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McSame or Obama? Republican or Democrat? Neither!
Vote for Bob Barr in 2008!
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