Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
Nice. Very handsome room. I’ve booked that Parador in the past and gotten very good feedback.
Unfortunately, she arrived one night before they dropped the price for the low season.
Its certainly been a strange weather day here already. It was hot and muggy at 7am and has felt more like June than March all day. Overcast, then sunny.
aaaaargh. Hate when that happens.
Hi yorkie, I have just got back from shopping for groceries. The stores will be closed for the next two days for the Easter holidays.
Jane was in in Montpellier, southern France, at lunch time today buying wine in the supermarket. She said she had a great meal in France and surprisingly it was less expensive than her last meal in Spain.
She had better relish that as she will be on the French Riviera tonight and I bet she has to eat in her hotel room with the stuff they bought in the supermarket.
Never mind, she will eat better there and much more economically.
I will find out what their plans are tonight - they will be going later to Genova in Italy to catch a ferry to Malta from there as they do not feel like travelling the whole length of Italy with the car loaded as it is and there being so many car thieves.
LOL - Lemons are soooo uncouth.
That must have caused problems thoughout the system as DFW is a major hub. I have flown a few times in and out of there.
It is a great business center and I think that the Restaurant Malls are great for all those travellers a choice of dozens of restaurants all within a few acres.
Absolutely. Its been a major headache. DFW is their home base and a major hub. Travellers will be stranded not only in Dallas but all over the country if they can’t get rebooked on other carriers.
Just ran across a good article at National Review Online about Obama's failed attempt to convince us that white people don't know racism directed toward us even when we are staring it in the face. It didn't work, even though he resorted to throwing his dear ole white granny in the mumbo-jumbo while standing before what must have been every American flag in Pennsylvania.
An Elegant Farce
Obama’s ‘conversation’ about moral equivalence.
By Victor Davis Hanson
Barack Obama’s Tuesday sermon was a well-crafted, well-delivered, postmodern review of race that had little to do with the poor judgment revealed in Obama’s relationship with the hateful Rev. Wright, much less the damage that he does both to African Americans and to the country in general.
Obama chose not to review what Wright, now deemed the “occasionally fierce critic.” said in detail, condemn it unequivocally, apologize, and then resign from such a Sunday venue of intolerance — the now accustomed American remedy to racism in the public realm that we saw in the Imus and other recent controversies
Instead, to Obama, the postmodernist, context is everything. We all have eccentric and flamboyant pastors like Wright with whom we disagree. And words, in his case, don’t quite mean what we think; unspoken intent and angst, not voiced hatred, are what matters more.
Rather than account for his relationship with a hate-monger, Obama will enlighten you, as your teacher, why you are either confused or too ill-intended to ask him to disassociate himself from Wright.
The Obama apologia was a “conversation” about moral equivalence. So the Wright hatred must be contextualized and understood in several ways that only the unusually gifted Obama can instruct us about:
1) The good that Rev. Wright and Trinity Church did far outweighs his controversial comments, which were taken out of context as “snippets” and aired in the “endless loop” on conservative outlets.
2) We are all at times racists and the uniquely qualified Obama is our valuable mirror of that ugliness: Wright may say things like “God damn America” or “Dirty Word” Israel or “Clarence Colon,” but then it must be balanced by other truths like Obama’s own grandmother who also expresses fear of black males (his grandmother’s private angst is thus of the same magnitude as Wright’s outbursts broadcast to tens of thousands).
3) We don’t understand Wright’s history and personal narrative. But as someone who grew up in the hate-filled and racist 1960s, it was understandable that he was bound to mature into his present angry anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-white mentality. (As if all blacks did?)
4) Indeed, Wright does nothing that much different from radio-talk show hosts and those of the Reagan Coalition who thrive on racial resentments. But whereas Wright has cause as a victim, his counterparts are opportunists who play on white fears.
5) And if we wish to continue to express worries about Obama’s past relationships with Wright — never delineated, never explained in detail — in trite and mean-spirited ways such as replaying the Wright tapes, then we have lost a rare opportunity to follow Obama into a post-racial America.
6) We, both black and white alike, are victims, victims of an insensitive system, a shapeless, anonymous “it” that brings out the worst in all of us — but it will at last end with an Obama candidacy.
The message? Some of us are never quite responsible for what we say. And Obama has no responsibility to explain the inexplicable of how he closely tied himself to someone of such repugnant and racist views. We will never hear “It’s time for Rev. Wright and me to part our separate ways, and here’s why.”
Instead, the entire Wright controversy evolved due to America’s failure to understand the Wright’s past and the present status of race. No doubt, the next time some public figure utters a racist comment — and it will happen — we will then expect to hear about context that explains and excuses such an apparent hurtful outburst.
Obama is right about one thing: We are losing yet another opportunity to talk honestly about race, to hold all Americans to the same standards of public ethics and morality, and to emphasize that no one gets a pass peddling vulgar racism, or enabling it by failing to disassociate himself from its source — not Rev. Wright, not even the eloquent, but now vapid, Barack Obama.
Actually, she is best at mimicing the trumpet. LOL
I thought that, but then I am not so sure - the host would have known if that was the case and I belive so would the audience.
Ooops! you are right - the singing and playing were not that great.
When she sings it sounds as if she is a fan of older, American blues singers like Billie Holiday or Bessie Smith but IMHO, her trumpet mimic is better than her singing ability.
Would I do that Darlin' - it it just my old fashioned English spelling which slips out occasionally.
I was brought up with a bunch of Elizabethan nuns who were still sad that Philip of Spain did not succeed in conquering England and bringing us back to the true faith. :)
How many six year old boys now whisper "you keep cave" a mixture of English and Latin to keep a look out for the nuns.
FOFLOL. Ok, so, then, it was, indeed, an actual Freudian slip, not an artfully crafted one.
..or I prevaricate... :)
LOL. Well, there is that.
I had suggested to the ladies in a post the night before that they bridle their most ardent desires until they were bedded in their canopied four posters. This, in deference to the fact that they were in the Hostal of the Catholic Kings.
And, that the figures of Adam and Eve by the portal should guide their thoughts. Therefore, it is only fair that I should suggest that they did not lay unsullied in splendid isolation upon virgin sheets but some knight of their fancy did accompany them.
I think I had better beep cavé. :)
Yes, I saw those pics and read those posts. You surely do have a odd approach to Lenten repentence. LOL
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