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An explanation !  I had a visit on my blog by another, by no means rare, but this particular blogger is by far the swiftest deleter. If one wants an open and educated dialog you don't do it by silencing other opinions. But the explanation is easy enough.

Aah, her heinous, Gueen Whormel of Spamelot, hath spoken. I then pointed out ( on my blog ) that not everyone fit into her blog ( Brainless Lover's of Guano )  cross-section, therefore varying opinions of a different nature are to expected. Maybe she need just dismount her winged steed ? 



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I tried to : dodge it, duck it, ignor it, and pretend it would go away. But it didn't, why oh why Lord did it have to happen to me ? Last Sunday, was my birthday and 50th it be ! I'm now in uncharted waters . I seek knowledge and wisdom from those of thee.  I've got two simple rules down, but there has to be more ? 

The first : Never trust a fart over 40. The second, conscerning the fairer sex, is that being older, getting shot down in flames isn't the same. In my youth, shot down, flaming out and the hard landings were nothing. One mearly extracted one's self from the wreckage, dusted off the singed attire, and walked gingerly away.  These days I pack  : a new chute, fresh skivvies and I stock-pile  spare engines and new wings in the barn.

Is there anything else I should be aware of ? LOL


BE HAPPY and BLOG ON !

Statements, they do raise conscerns. I'd seen a statement on one blogger's avitar that I thought humorous : " I Eat Liberals!  "  I was  conscerned for this individuals health  though, and for good reason as well. BS isn't a good source of protein or carbohydrates, and isn't considered a good source of vitamins or minerals either. He could also have suffered from some sort of blockage as they contain no fiber whatsoever.

Having said that, it did bring a rather serious question to mind. A lot of liberals are lawyers and politicians, and if it could be done passing one or two a day  during the morning and afternoon constitutional wouldn't bother me ! Matter of fact, knowing I was flushing them away to to a better place ( for most Americans on the whole ) I could consider almost patriotic. NOW, to the question that I haven't the answer. Most lawyers and politicians leave a certain air in their wake, much like another stealthy nocturnal caller . Is there enough Tobaco and Crystal in the land to make a pole-cat palatable ?

Be HAPPY and BLOG ON !  

Political ads, they're good for a laugh ! Two of Obama's more recent ads are some real pieces of work .  The first  : showing mom,granddad, and childhood pictures tries to answer a question through an emotional plea. My question in responce is : Mr. Obama if you're such a financial genius, wouldn't it have been more forthright and fiscally prudent just to have shown a blow-up of you're authentic birth certificate ?

The second : shows McCain's introduction of Sarah Palin and the statement : I can't wait to introduce you to the big-spenders in Washington !"  The ad then goes on to show McCain's big-spending as if it were fact. Sure it states costs for some of McCain's PLANS, which in reality are only ideas committed to paper. It doesn't mean that they are good, that they are bad, or that they will even ever leave the drawing board. A President doesn't hold the purse-strings,  let alone a hand-full of blank checks. McCain doesn't promise that they will be enacted either !

But wait a minute, wasn't that Obama that stated : " I  WILL have a national health care plan in place in MY FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE !"  I don't believe that to be a promise that he can make. Funny, but I don't recall hearing mention how much HE WAS GOING TO SPEND ! 

Be Happy and Blog ON !

Another find ? The REAL story told ?  You've all heard of Bill Heard Chevrolet, right ? The news story told was that due to an economic down-turn the largest Chevrolet dealership in the world has closed, right ? Well I guess that kinda depends on who's doing the story telling. RIGHT ?

I've always believed that  "timing", being in the right place at the right time has more effect on life than about anything and that includes learning and new sources of information.

Our company had a meeting today on the 401K plan and the financial advisor made a rather intresting statement. He'd asked if anyone had heard of Bill Heard Chevrolet and it failure due to a bad economy ? That's the WRONG story by him. He'd stated that there were so many complaints about bad bussiness practices, in reguards to selling cars, that GMAC Finance Corporation pulled out as his primary lender. Amagine that !

Wonder which story is the REAL story ? I don't, when it conscerns finance, I tend to go with the SOUND advisors. 

Any thoughts or comments that you care to discuss ?   Reguardless, be HAPPY and  BLOG ON !

Another obscure find ? Thanks PBS !  I'm not going to say it's due to cheapness, but my powered TV antenna does just fine. Watched a neat program tonight on PBS, WMFE Channel 24 , titled: Artic Dinosaurs. Intresting enough stuff to me , but for the global warming freaks here's a little fact. Granted it took some time to transpire, but here it is : Presently the North Slope of Alaska is 1,500 miles from the North Pole and is subject to 6 WEEKS of near total darkness during the dead of winter. However, 70 million years ago, the North Slope of Alaska was ONLY 345 miles from the North Pole and subject to 4 MONTHS of near total darkness during the dead of winter.

I'm no scientist, but I believe that such changes might  tend to have an adverse effect on the ice cap.  Information like that doesn't sell carbon offsets though, does it ?

Hey, I do everything I can to conserve and I'm learning and getting better by the day. But hear me Albert Gore, you can ride in your jet.  I, the one with the  F-150 in the driveway ,with duals,  reserve the right to fly  the big BLUE OVAL !   Righteously so, I might add !        LOL !!!!

Energy information and Answers ! I ran into some info and sites that might be of intrest to you so I thought I 'd share. The first is :  http:/www.instituteforenergyresearch.org.

The second is :  info@americansolutions.com

On Saturday, September 27, American Solutions will be holding it's second annual Solutions Day, to have a positive, solutions orientated dialog-- exactly the opposite of what you are seeing today.

If you are in the Atlanta area, you can attend at the Cobb Galleria Centre. Solutions Day will also broadcast live on DISH Network channel # 219, Dire TV channel # 577, and at  www.solutionsday2008.com. There will be presentations from Governor Roy Romer, Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, former VP canidate Geraldine Ferraro and to name a few. Newt  will also be present.

If you get a chance, check it out !               :)

So they say ! Just some quotes from the past, just as relevant today. " 

" You will kill ten of our men and we will kill one of yours, and in the end it will be you who will tire of it. "  Ho Chi Minh, speaking to the French, 1948.

" War cannot for a single minute be seperated from politics. "  Mao Xedong, Lectures

These are just two quotes and easy enough to find. They are fairly easy enough to understand as well.

Something to ponder ? Or are they just words, in speeches or lectures ?

Water woes ? Who determines where or when ? Recently both FOX and the Orlando Sentinel did news articles on a water bottling plant near Groveland slated to open in the very near future. The St. Johns Water District Management approved both the opperation and amount of water to be drawn and sold. Local residents are " now " in an uproar and planning to sue to halt this bussiness. Orange county commissioners, with Tereas Jacobs at the forefront, have talked of joining the suit. This after the company has spent aproximately 20 million dollars to open a facility that had PRIOR approval. My first question is why did you wait this long to consider or take such action ?  The aquifer is an underground river of water that flows south, that is a fact. Is the Orange County Commissioner's concern due solely to the fact that this plant is farther upstream, to the north of us, possibly effecting our water supply ? Has the same consideration be given to bussinesses and developement in this county  and the impact to counties farther south that rely on the Florida Aquifer as a primary source of fresh water? Osceola county has several large developements going in around East Lake that are labeled as having REGIONAL IMPACT, do these projects bear any consideration on available water resources and the impact on water availability to counties farther south that rely on the Florida Aquifer ?  As some of the more sparcely populated counties to our north are developed, do you think their water consumption and it's impact farther south will be taken under consideration  in their  planning, permitting and developement process? Or is it every man and woman for him or herself ?

Think you should ask those Tampa/ St. Pete residents paying for desalinated water what their bill is ? Just just might want to, it won't alieve the comming pain, it will probably cut down on the shock just a little.

Alachua county is looking better every day !

Got books ? What are you reading ?  I like archeology,astronomy,science, nature/natural history and military history.  I'm hitting the military history at the time .I just finished with : WOLF OF THE DEEP- Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS ALABAMA by Stephen Fox, THE WINTER WAR  - Russia's Invasion of Finland  1939-40  by Robert Edwards, SUB - An Oral History of US Navy Submarines by Mark K. Roberts. They are intresting reading. I just started HELL'S ISLANDS - The Untold Story of Guadalcanal  by Stanley Coleman Jersey, and it is quite good. My next will be : COMMAND of HONOR - General Lucian Truscott's Path to Victory in World War II by H.Paul Jeffers.

So what are your intrests ? What do you read ?  

One can only wonder !  The longer you're around the more you tend to observe and sometimes remember in your travels. I've seen all sorts of bumper stickers and  most had a simple message. For example I'll use a favorite from my teen years :   SEX, DRUGS, and ROCK and ROLL.  Pretty simple bumper sticker, pretty clear message, no arguement there. Of course my parents didn't appreciate it, and the parents of the girls I dated didn't appreciate it, and the cops weren't real fond of it either. Oh-Well !  Needless to say, I outgrew the need to make that kind of statement publicly. Because not all of the attention that it drew was favorable.

However I saw one the other day that did make me wonder :  GOT POOP ?  Had there been a car seat or toddler on board that vechicle I could possibly understand.  Had it been a Roto-Rooter truck or Comfort House hauler I could have understood.

Am I missing something here ?  LOL

For the gals, a warning !  Yes , ladies it's that time of year again when the wet dollar bills make their appearance. Those bills come from the wet wallets of those of us that work out of doors or AC. So ladies if you have a nice purse beware. I tend to frequent the 7-11's for their Slurpees, so this means that all of Orlando falls under this warning. All should return to normal around the second or third week in November.    :)

Talk radio comes through again ! Yesterday afternoon, I was listening to Clark Howard the consumer warrior on AM 580 radio. He mentioned what I thought to be an intresting and revealing fact. Detroit recorded it's worst quarter in new car sales since 1998. Automobile sales are considered a good economic indicator. But wait a minute, 1998 was a Clinton year wasn't it and the worst until just now.  So the economy has been in worse shape minus George W.

That kind runs counter to the claim that : I had more money when Clinton ( a democrat ) was in office. If you had more money when a Democrat was in office, then why weren't you spending or saving it ?

I love hearing about all of the fine and wonderfull things you think Obama, a Democrat,  is going to do for you. If you were PAYING ATTENTION during his tire inflation/ no offshore drilling speech , he used TWO words to describe the result, ACTUALLY and PROBABLY . Actually and factually are one thing, probably and possible are another.

I believe that should you elect Obama, you will PROBABLY have a vechicle with properly inflated tires sitting in your driveway. I also believe it will ACTUALLY sit there for most if not all of the time because under his energy policy you ACTUALLY won''t be able to afford  a tank of gas !

Black holes part II !  Will this be a black mark for me and my blog career ? I was trying to come up with something earthly that had some or all of the characteristics of a black hole. Best I recall a black hole is the remains of a white dwarf, a sun that has burned out and collapsed upon itself. When that sun finally goes out and no longer emitts light, it's very dense mass remains. The gravitational effects are so great that even light cannot escape it's grasp. So much for that part of the explanation, now back to the comparison.

I believe Democrats and black holes might just have some things in common.  First, they are both OUT THERE.  Second , they both have strong gravitational effects, Democrats suck in all information and the TRUTH will never see the LIGHT of Day !  Thirdly, an encounter may not be survivable and the possibility of another dimension is in theory possible. For example we currently reside in a CAPITALIST dimension and the probibility of that changing,  through exposure to Democrats, into a COMMUNIST dimension is in theory entirely possible with a very high degree of probablity. How many of us would survive ? Black holes do emitt radiation  as best I recall. While Democrats do not emitt radiation they do emitt other life threating things : misconceptions, falsehoods, and plain 'ole outright lies. Not to mention that the vacume that they create sucks the money, will and intellegense from those that they suppossedly support.

So much for today's installment, I had some fun ! Have you ?

 

Whale Falls, a unique residential community. This is an exclusive , pristine, developement offering zero crime levels in a non-gated community. Intrested yet ? If so I'm sorry ,  I may have some bad news for you. This will be a segregated community catering solely to DEMOCRATIC  lawyers and politicians in the first and second phases. The third phase will allow residential space for those that foolishly voted them into office. The fourth phase will accomidate ALL the RINO's. The fifth phase will offer residential opportunities for those that foolishly voted  them into office.

Facinating name right ? Here's the inside on that. A whale fall is the biologist's term for an expired whale that has settled to the ocean's floor and the small ecosystem that has sprouted to devour his remains.

I figure it would make a nice community for the wayward politician and his support group. If they resided there their activity would no longer be considered offensive or eckless endangerment ! They'd actually be doing something for the enviroment that they so falsely use in arguement.

Sounds like a win-win to me ! Any thoughts from the blog community ?