AMERICA - The Right Way!! (WEEKEND EDITION: Days 875 and 876) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | June 14, 2003 | All of Us

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!

Good morning!!

Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!

The President is visiting family in Kennebunkport, Hitlery says there should be an investigation on Iraqi intelligence, and Rome is complaining about temperatures that will be in the low 90s.

For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.

[lysie]

My pantlegs got soaking wet today from walking around the lawn. The grass was cut low, too. Everything is just sooooo saturated!!

[lysie]

Enjoying your weekend?

I'm off Atkins for today and tomorrow because of Father's Day weekend. Hubby requested Italian tonight. He likes it if I join in the festivities. Cake and ice cream for dessert.

I can see that by the time Monday arrives the carbs will have me jumping out of my skin. LOL

[nicollo]

Mr. Chairman, a couple things to report:

Had a tour last night, UK folks, which I always enjoy. The Euros always get a kick out of my Capitol speech which defines the American experience in the Freedom statue atop. In that the statue was originally built with a "liberty cap," and that then Sec-War Jeff Davis ordered it replaced with an indian war-headdress, we have therein part of the struggle over the meaning of the Declaration's, "All men are created equal." Sec. Davis didn't appreciate the symbolism of the liberty cap, which the Romans gave to freed slaves. Better still is that Freedom stands upon a globe. This one I love to point out to the Euros. They're all about America's arrogance and pride, blah, blah, blah, and with this statue I can show it to 'em for real. Freedom is for all the world, and in that she faces East, the sun never sets upon her. There are some other elements on and in the building that symbolize America's manifest destiny for all the globe, and all of history.

[Actually, that the building's form, especially as originally built, is all about Rome and Athens, there you have an even bolder statement of America's self-perception: we are Athens, we are Rome.]

I got to chatting with a few of them about Blair. The general view was that he's "gone Thatcher" and is upon a hubristic fall. (The dictionary generally calls hubris "excessive pride," but it's real meaning is excessive pride that leads to ruin, coming from the Greek stories of men who tried to better the gods.) They also feel that the Euro will have to go for a referendum and it will fail, at least through the first few tries. While they are upset about the lack of WMD finds, and thereby feel the war was not justified, they are dead-set pissed at the French. The franco-prussian opposition to the war may well lead to salvation of the British sterling. I dunno the truth to these statements, but it was a generally shared feeling among the group.

Elswhere, I listened today to Condi Rice's speech from Thursday about the Middle East. Talk radio's skirt is showing these days on this subject. I can't listen to it, from all sides. The only side that is relevent is the President's and what he wants to do. Ms. Rice laid it out with precision and confidence, from Abbas to Hammas & Arafat to Iraq and Syria. These folks play ball, while our earstwhile conservative commentators shout from the bleechers, tossing empties and insult.

Nobody was listening to the President's speech of May/02, and he is going about it earnestly. The Administration is not stupid, and that's what I hear it being called. Terrorism must be eradicated, and that is the goal. In Isreal it will not be eradicated for a long time. However, it will be isolated. By empowering even a recalcitrant Palestinian state, terrorism will become as much and later more of a problem for Palestine as for Isreal. Comparisons to Ireland come to mind, but that's due a larger study. The essential thing to recall is that in the 1920s England and Ireland did not go to war over it, and the problem was isolated henceforth. It remained and remains a problem, but a much smaller one.

Anyway, if anyone has a chance to hear it, do check out Condi's speech at Los Angeles last Thursday. If you heard it, please tell me your thoughts.

Regards to all!
-Nicollo

[Mr. Mulliner]

Since getting back from work yesterday, I've been eating too many carbs too and am starting to feel a bit bloated already. I was back fairly strictly on Atkins for about 10-12 days, even sticking to it at work this past shift.

Bonnaroo, the 3-day rock festival, is in full swing around here. I was at my parents' place earlier and from the back of their place you can see RVs and campers about a mile away. I couldn't hear the music from there, but they say at night they can hear it a little. My niece's husband got a lot of coverage on two Nashville stations last night because of all that he's doing to make money off of it.

Neil Young played last night.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I just got this from a friend on e-mail.

There was once a man and woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife's bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box.

When he opened it, he found two crocheted doilies and a stack of money totaling $25,000. He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married,” she said, “my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doily.”

The little old man was so moved, he had to fight back tears. Only two precious doilies were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness. “Honey,” he said, “that explains the doilies, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?”

“Oh,” she said, “that's the money I made from selling the doilies.

[lysie]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I love it.

[Dog]

Hi nic!

How goes the book??

[JRandomFreeper]

LOL! The pasta generally needs to be cooked. I would have started over.

/john

[Miss Marple]

No start-overs, as then we would have had to throw away all the expensive ingredients. I got things sorted, cooked the pasta, and re-mixed it. It was actually very good.

[Miss Marple]

I am tired of both talk radio and many of the commentators on television. They seem to have a simplistic, almost cartoonish idea of foreign affairs, and cannot recognize the many facets of the Middle East, as wel as all the tangential issues.

I am like you and have simply turned them off.

[LBKQ]

Love Mr.Marple's heart!

[JRandomFreeper]

You are correct. Cost control would require saving the expensive ingredients.

I spent the afternoon helping my neighbor replace our shared fence. His 70 year old father was out there in the Texas heat swinging a hammer. I pulled out the air compressor and the nail gun and we put a stop to a lot of the labor involved. I love power tools.

/john

[Miss Marple]

WARNING: Hubby was flipping through the channels and said that X42 is on Larry King Weekend.

Unless he is announcing that he is entering a hospital for treatment, I have no interest in hearing what he has to say.

[JRandomFreeper]

Larry King Weekend.

Good thing Trill is gone and the TV is stuck on History Channel. I never, ever, ever, ever watch larry. Ever.

/john

[LBKQ]

X42.......YUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are Trill and the Bratling doing better? Prayers for their safe return!

[gulfcoast6]

Howdy all, now it is time to get ya'll yelling at me. Got up early, it is SO humid here, unbearable and i get out to cut my yard, do the hedges, trim work, the norm for cutting a yard. I got extremly hotwhild cutting it, fell out in the middle of the yard, started throwing up, thought I was going to meet my maker. Neighbor came over and hosed me down, I wake up and then for the rest of the day have caught heck from d and gd. Granted, I needed to be fussed at. I did get to feeling better, enough so that I went to our monthly supper for the 'old folks section of the church', got fussed at again there. It is like this, the mind tells you you are 25 and your body tell you that you are 67, the body wins.

I am fixin to get back in bed so if I don't get back on today ya'll can start fussing at me in the A.M. May God Bless you all and keep you safe. have a good night.

[LBKQ]

Fussin' at you commences right now!

Please take care of special self.

Sleep well, Dear One!

[Mr. Mulliner]

Oh, so glad you are still with us, Toby! Thank God for sending your neighbor to cool you off.

No fussin' from me, just rejoicin' that you're OK.

[kayak]

Toby ~~~ thankful that you're ok .... but PLEASE learn from this. We do not need to open up FReeper General Hospital again!

When it's that hot and humid, take frequent breaks and drink gallons of fluids.

..... But you've already been told that by daughter and by the people at church, I reckon ..... just be sure you pay attention to what they say.

(((((Toby)))))

[JRandomFreeper]

God bless your neighbor, Toby. You take good care of yourself. You're one of our prayer warriors, and we need to be at full strength. (fussing over)

/john