Never write angry. Never write angry. Never, ever, write angry….. Otherwise the world ends up just like that one described by this guy. This post is dedicated to to all the learning impaired folks who just love to run opposing views into the ground. This no longer American beer is
Continue readingAll is well that ends well…….
Or so John McCain and his legions would have you believe. In a nutshell, the sycophants and the other McCain true believers would have you believe that just because things might actually be looking up in Iraq, that it somehow excuses every one of the blunders that were made getting
Continue readingThe Last Lecture…….
Randy Pausch died this weekend. I felt sad because I had the privilege of sitting down to read his book in Stanley Bay in Hong Kong only a short two and a half months ago. If there is one good thing about this that can be said-he has left a
Continue readingThe Station Cat
We were gone down south today driving down well past the lake and the towns below it. Just got back a little while ago. And when I sat down and surfed I discovered that the Wakayama station master cat-Tama-chan-got a raise of sorts. From Japan Probe: The Wakayama Electric Railway
Continue readingFour more years?
Of George Bush? Matthew Yglsieas has a great find: There’s an excellent piece by Elisabeth Bumiller in The New York Times which makes the point that one area in which Bush and McCain now differ is foreign policy. Specifically, Bush has — without explicitly admitting any errors — moved away
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When I was a boy, my father was lead electrical engineer at the Alcoa Headquarters in Alcoa. That meant he was involved in everything related to bringing power from various places to the South, East and West ALCOA plants that were in the city of Alcoa. I’m told Alcoa has
Continue readingLinks updated
Step 1 of updating links is complete-I have gone through and house cleaned my links and deleted dead ones. Step two will be to add new ones. You will also notice I added a couple of widgets. Construction continues.
Continue readingTrip down memory lane…….
Political commentary will resume this weekend. There is too much stupidity going on, on both sides of the aisle, that I just cannot let it pass. I also want to tell you my mother’s story-it deserves to be told-but that should wait until my thoughts on the matter can coalesce
Continue readingThe view from the hill……….
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. –Psalm 34 Verse 18. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
Continue readingYou cannot go home again….
Greetings from a small town in rural North Carolina. Today, started with a conversation in the dark, ” Don’t you have anything to say to me?” Uh, oh. “Ummm. No. Unless you want me to say that I think you are being unreasonable, and I know full well that this
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