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Daily activities of the owner of a 20 acre Organic
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observations, notes, and comments on a wide variety of topics.
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| 4 | You Might Be A Redneck If . . . I I get a real chuckle out of many of Jeff Foxworthy's examples that indicate you might be a redneck. I decided to write a couple of my own: If your 5 year old's carving of a Halloween jack-o-lantern has better looking teeth than you have. If you always make sure you leave at least a half hour early whenever you go to somebody's wedding - to make sure you have plenty of time to stop at at least two garage sales to find that perfect wedding gift. If you walk through the kitchen and set your stink bait down on the counter - and when you come back you can't tell the difference between the stink bait and the lunch you were fixing. If you smell up the bathroom so bad that visibility is reduced for an hour. If you can no longer tell what the original color of your underwear was supposed to be. If you think "gentlemen, start your engines" should be our national motto. If you think there's no need for napkins or handkerchiefs as long are there are a couple cats in the house. If you lied to congress and the nation about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. If you have arthritis in your finger from playing "pull my finger" a few too many times. If your wife sends you out to get some "crackers" and you come back in an hour with all your friends. If you have narrowed the list of names for your new baby girl down to either Zebco or Rapala. If you think "cheer" is a physical place - as in "Put that thing down right cheer." If you think good pickup lines at the Laundromat are "You ever seen a hashmark like this?" or "Would you scrape this hashmark before trying to wash it?". If during your meeting with your kid's teacher at Parent Teacher's Night, you offer him a cold beer from your coat pocket. If you have to pee right away when you wake up in the morning. If you have given names to each of the major folds in your belly. If you begin every sentence with "I tell you what . . ." If you think your baseball cap looks good with your suit and tie. If you finally finished that novel you have been writing for the last 5 years - and it's 2-1/2 pages long. If YOU pee on one of those pregnancy test sticks to see if your girlfriend might be pregnant. If you think a zebra is the world's largest brassiere. If you think an "exorcism" is something you do down at the YMCA. If your girlfriend tells you "you're self-centered and uncaring" and you respond with "I really don't see how that's MY problem." If you find yourself reading packages of feminine hygiene products to see if they use the term "piddy-pat." If drinking a glass of water makes you fart. If you think a digital camera is only used for taking pictures of numbers. If you think chewing tobacco drool doesn't need to be wiped off until the end of the day. If you can pee the entire alphabet in the snow. If you heard that one beer has 15% of the recommended daily allowance of carbohydrates ~ and you conclude you must drink at least 7 beers every day to stay healthy. If you are puzzled that in the last 5 snipe hunts you went on, your friends forgot to pick you up ~ and you think maybe this Saturday night it will be different. If you are shopping for antacids and you read on the package "for heartburn" and you can't decide if that means it will give you heartburn or take it away. If the thing most people remember about you is your eyebrow dandruff. I you think the most eloquent speaker you ever heard is Boomhower on "King Of The Hill." If you routinely ask non-pregnant women "So what's your due date?" If you have more facial hair than your boyfriend. If you have more hair on your back than your boyfriend. |
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| 16 | Iraq Road Video System I think what is needed in Iraq is a network of video monitors of their roads and streets like we have in many of our cities. Using day/night cameras and spaced at appropriate intervals, it should be easy for somebody in a monitoring post to see if somebody has stopped and may be setting up a roadside bomb. The network would also give a better idea of just where these car bombs come from and how they are set up - perhaps giving information on how better to deter their effectiveness. Also, there have been many reports of raids by people dressed as Iraqi police. The video network would support tracing just where some these raids originated. Of the bazillions of dollars being spent over there on who knows what - I think money spent on a traffic monitoring system would be funds well spent. |
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| 18 | Iraq "Victory" - Already
Achieved There's all sorts of political fuss about achieving a "victory" in Iraq. I think it's useful to recall the official reason we went to Iraq was to locate and eliminate weapons of mass destruction. At least that's what the United Nation resolution says. I'd say according to our UN charted we have accomplished what we were authorized to do. To me that's a "victory." When exactly did our efforts in Iraq include eliminating their form of government? Establishing free elections? Can you identify the date or event when the Bush administration informed congress and/or the American people of this added agenda? I certainly don't have recollection of being told (or being asked). I think the ugliness of all this new agenda stuff is the root of the present quagmire. |
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Co-Pilot As I was doing some Christmas shopping I spotted the VCR Co-Pilot. You know, the remote control looking thing that's supposed to make it easy to set the start and stop times of your VCR? It made me think that maybe we are being expected to settle for second best. Wouldn't a VCR Pilot be better than a VCR Co-Pilot? |
| 20 | Iraq Timetable - Tell Us To Leave The president is once again being pressured to make changes to the Iraq strategy and include a timetable for the USA to get out. What I'd like to see is an Iraq timetable for us to leave. Shouldn't THEY be the ones telling US to leave? Image if we had foreign troops on our soil. Wouldn't we want them out? Or if Israel had foreign troops on their soil to help keep the peace. Wouldn't they want the foreign troops out as soon as possible. I'm reminded of the independence of India from Great Britain. They understood that there might be violence under their home rule, but that was better in their eyes that relative peace under foreign domination. Perhaps Iraq should read some of Ghandi's writings on being a free, independent nation - then tell the USA when they want us out of THEIR country. |
| 21 | Will Democrats Hold Bush Accountable
For Iraq? We are days away from a congress having a democratic majority. As they are laying out their agenda, I hope they include an investigation of President Bush and the start of the Iraq war. The President told congress, the nation, and the world we should take military actions against Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction. A number of investigative reports have shown that US intelligence knew Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction prior to the start of the war and that Iraq posed no threat to us. The few times reporters have tried to confront President Bush with this directly, he brushed them aside saying something like "he ignored those security briefings." To me, the President Of The United States should be accountable to congress and the American people for both his actions as well as his inactions. I think the whole Iraq invasion was NEVER about weapons of mass destruction but was ALWAYS about getting rid of Saddam Huessein and his government (and/or trying to impress Mr. Bush Sr.). I feel that through the President's intent (or neglect) our nation was taken to a costly war under false pretenses. Shouldn't there be some accountability for that? Martha Stewart had to do prison time for maybe lying to one federal official. President Bush lied to the entire congress and nation. President Clinton was investigated for some romantic indiscretions. Shouldn't the possibility of lies over the start of the Iraq war at least get a formal investigation? I hope the new congress has the courage to take on this serious question. As a nation, we cannot hope to return to any form of the "high road" without first a return to honesty. Ignoring what may have been an enormous deceit by our President will force us to continue wallowing in the mire of the "low road." |
| 22 | Speaker Of The House Pelosi- Next President? If the new congress does an investigation of the Bush administration's handling of information to congress and the American people relative to the start of the Iraq war, I'm sure that their conclusion will be that the President, Vice President, and many of the Bush staff, either through intent or neglect, falsely reported to congress and the American people the reasons we went to war in Iraq. Congress will confirm a number of media investigative reports that the Bush administration had information indicating that Iraq did NOT have weapons of mass destruction and did NOT pose a threat to the United States. So what do you do with a President and Vice President that took our country to war over lies? I don't know the exact legal-eze, but I don't see with that sort of conclusion how congress could avoid impeachment proceedings. And given that Cheny knew everything that Bush knew, if charges are brought to one - you would need to make charges against both. Where does that take us? If both the President and Vice President are removed from office, then the Speaker Of The House becomes President. It's my guess that within 6 months, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will become our President. |
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| 30 | Gitmo Detainees To Saddam's Court? Would you believe there's a country that holds prisoners for indefinite periods of time without bringing forward charges? That country must have a pretty bad human rights record, right? Alright, you guessed that this "country" is the USA and the prisoners are the Iraq detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This situation has never felt right to me - a country founded under "due process under laws" to just incarcerate foreign people for indefinite periods of time without any charges. With Saddam Hussein's death, we have evidence of an Iraqi court that can hand down a death sentence. I think we should turn over all the Gitmo detainees to the Iraqi courts for processing. These people will either be set free (innocent or unsubstantiated charges), put to death, or held in prison for some period of time for something they did wrong. By returning them to Iraq, we would be showing confidence in the Iraqi court system. If it's appropriate to set a detainee free, they would be already in their home country. If they are guilty of something, they can start serving their sentence in their home country. In any case, I see little advantage for the US to continue to hold these people without any sort of due process. |
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