10 Ways Cheney Can Kill You

Icy Sunrise

I took this the other morning on my way to work.
The lake is frozen again

In a Blink of an Eye...

...my life changed forever two years ago today. Don't take anything for granted.

Some Artsy Stuff

Here are some things that I made a few years back. I used to do stained glass work. I hope to get back into it soon
























































This piece below is a linolium block print as is the cats one
























This last one is a silk screen of Frank Zappa

With God on Our Side

I've been wanting to post this song for a while now. There is so much bullshit going on in our country and in the world that I guess I got sidetracked. All of this war and fighting over religion and cultures is sickening. I don't see a change happening in my lifetime. It's senseless. I've always loved the lyrics to this Bob Dylan song and this version by Arron Neville is great. It could probably use a new verse or two by now...


Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.


Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.


Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.


Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.


When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.


I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.


But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.


In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.


So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

HNT

Did I cross the line of good taste?

What a Dick

"I'm surprised Dick Cheney loves to hunt so much. The five times the government tried to give him a gun, he got a deferment."
--JAY LENO

Meanwhile...

What's Wrong with These Pictures?

On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. During the brief Oval Office meeting, Elvis presented Nixon with a commemorative World War II-era Colt .45 pistol and told Nixon he felt the Beatles promoted an "anti-American" theme appealing to violence, drug use, dissent and protest.

Now this seems utterly ridiculous to me. Talk about putting the fox incharge of the chicken coop. Elvis was a MAJOR drug addict. Why would he be put in charge of drugs. Maybe he could have been a "Large Federal Agent in Charge of Testing Drugs" or something.

Take up now to the present day....

WASHINGTON - Members of Congress and the Bush administration are at odds over whether security is compromised by an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American seaports.
Some lawmakers expressed concern Sunday that the safeguards are insufficient to thwart infiltration of the vital facilities by terrorists.
At issue is the purchase last week of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE. Peninsular and Oriental runs major commercial operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

Is it Me? Am I fucked up for thinking that this is a bad idea? Why don't we make Bin Laden in charge of Homeland Security? Why isn't the United States in charge of this in the first place. Great Britian is in charge now. No wonder the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Maybe we should burn embassies in protest like the rest of the world seems to do.

Back in the Saddle

First off, thanks for all of the well wishes. I'm feeling better although I have taken the phrases "Feeling pooped" and "Being drained" out of my vocabulary until further notice...
My SIL is a fresh fruit/raw veggie type person. She is undergoing a dietary change at the moment and is introducing other foods such as chicken, eggs, dairy, grains in to her diet (or is it eggs, chicken - I always forget which came first). At any rate, there is always an abundance of organic fruits and veggies at her house. This picture does not do it justice but I took this today while over her house. She has bananas in the back and side baskets (I'm not exagerating on this, the other day her and a friend counted 78 1/2 bananas in her house - and yes, I did notify Monkey about this), baskets filled with a variety of apples, pears (at least 35 of those suckers), grapefruits, mangos, papayas, kiwis and a ton of stuff in the two refrigerators they own. All of this is organic to boot. It must have been about $300-$400 worth of fruit.

















but I really felt like having an orange...not a single one in sight

Happy Valentines Day

I Have a Heart-on For ALL of You

Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter(You Can't Call This Friendly Fire)

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.
Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was "alert and doing fine" in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property's owner.
He was in stable condition Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi.
Armstrong in an interview with The Associated Press said Whittington, 78, was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest during the incident which occurred late afternoon on Saturday.
She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington until the ambulance arrived.
Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president met with Whittington and his wife at the hospital on Sunday. Cheney "was pleased to see that he's doing fine and in good spirits," she said.
The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The vice president's office did not disclose the accident until the day after it happened.....
....."It broke the skin," she said of the shotgun pellets. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."
"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."
Cheney is an avid hunter who makes annual hunting trips to South Dakota to hunt pheasants. He also travels frequently to Arkansas to hunt ducks.
Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year and is "a very safe sportsman." She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.

Same Planet, Different Worlds

Today I did my usual routine. I got up early with my wife and made coffee and some fresh juice (yes, after about 7 weeks I'm still juicing every day) then I went to the supermarket to get some stuff. We are going to have a big snowstorm so I wanted to get there early. Afterwards, my wife went to work to teach violin as she always does on Saturdays. Her younger sister, who lives up the street from us, has been having a rough go of it lately. She's probably too stressed out. She leads a different lifestyle than we do and I guess most people that I know. She's a homeschoolingrawveggieeatingperson. As I mentioned above, she's been having a rough time of things and maybe it's a mid-life crisis or something, but things aren't working for her like they used to. She's been rather anxious and agoraphobic too. She's been working at getting better and may need (in my opinion) some western medicine to achieve it. I have been trying to help her and her husband out by taking my niece to piano or by picking things up for them at the farm and things like that. Today, she called to see if I could bring my niece to piano and pick up something at the supermarket for her. I bargained with her. I said I will bring my niece, but you have to come to the store with me. She agreed. Afterwards, I convinced her to go to the farm too. She did. It worked out ok, the world didn't end and she felt better by going. I'd rather teach her to fish so she can eat forever as the old saying goes (although fish isn't raw veggies, I guess she could have sushi). I'm just trying to give a little background here before I go on. She her and her husband (who is a closet carnivore and mainstream school person) have a circle of friends who are homeschoolingrawveggieeatingpeople. I had never met these folks who I shall call Cathy and Harvey (because that are their names) and I was told they are very nice people (and I'm sure they are) but when I walked into my SILs house and met these folks, you could cut the tension with a paring knife. It was like putting folks from PETA in the middle of a Montana Ranchers Convention. It was instantly "these people are too extreme for me". The woman had a sort of crazed look about her, not unhealthy, but a "I know that you are a MEATEATER and that you will rot in HELL" look and Harvey, sitting cross legged on a stool with a french accent seems just as intense. They were talking about Marco (their son I assumed) who is a homeschooler child who decided that he didn't want to do any Math work for two years because, well, he didn't want too. I'm not that progressive I guess. I do admire people who make homeschooling work for them so I'm not knocking all of them. I just don't quite get it (maybe the meat I eat has clouded my judgment). They were also addressing my SILs anxiety and they mentioned Lady-X who had to stay in bed for a year before she got better but she did it by golly with out any xanax or zoloft or anything. They really seemed to be pressuring my SIL, who had confided in me earlier that she didn't want to see these people but her husband wanted them to come over. I felt like I was in the middle of an intervention. Oh, and also the other week (this has been going on for SIL since Dec 4th) Cathy told her how she should deal with the anxiety. "Don't worry about it".
Holy Fuck!!! Here I've been, going to a therapist and on some medications for over a year to deal with my anxiety and my medical stuff (that some of you know about) when all I had to do was not worry about it. Wow, is my face red. After about 5 minutes of me not talking, I went downstairs to check on my boys and to get out of the kitchen. I hung down there for about 10 minutes with people I could relate to (12 year olds) then came upstairs to say that I had things to do and was leaving. I politely said goodbye and went home to take another xanax. I do feel bad about my SIL and I hope she gets better. We all struggle at times and I in no way think that her situation is funny. I had been given a new normal about 2 years ago and I don’t particularly like it, but it's what I was given and I have to deal with it. She was given a new normal too and has to deal with it. I just thought that this encounter with different minded people was interesting so I wrote about it.
I miss Myra, but that's another post....

Carnation Milk is Best of All...

A little old lady from Newfoundland had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation. When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in approximately the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan. The producers wanted a rhyme beginning with "Carnation Milk is best of all."

She thought to herself, I know all about milk and dairy farms...I can do this! She sent in her entry, and about a week later, a black limo drove up in front of her house...a man got out and said, "Carnation LOVED your entry so much, we are here to award you $1000, even though we will not be able to use it.

Polaroid-o-nizer™

This is a pretty cool toy for manipulating images. It's called the Polaroid-o-nizer™. If you have your own web site you can download the files here. The site has to be able to handle php scripts. If you don't, you can always use mine. The only thing is that you can't save an image like you would normally do (right click and SAVE AS), you have to do a PRINT SCREEN, then paste it into something like Microsoft Paint or PhotoShop or whatever and crop it and save as a jpg.

Your Taboo, Not Mine

Interesting read

A joke from my Mom....

An elderly couple was attending church services, about halfway through the service, the wife leans over and says, "I just let go of a silent fart; what do you think I should do?"

The husband replies,"Put a new battery in your hearing aid."

Thanks Mom!

How Will You Die? They are 2-0 so far...

You scored as Disease. Your death will be by disease. Maybe a foreign bug or you don't brush your teeth. Ew. BRUSH! Disease 80% Suicide 67% Gunshot 60% Suffocated 53% Bomb 53% Stabbed 53% Posion 47% Drowning 47% Natural Causes 47% Disappear 33% Eaten 27% Accident 13% Cut Throat 7% How Will You Die?? created with QuizFarm.com

What is Your World View?

You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational. Cultural Creative 69% Idealist 56% Romanticist 50% Existentialist 50% Materialist 44% Modernist 38% Postmodernist 31% Fundamentalist 13% What is Your World View? (updated) created with QuizFarm.com

Fun with Goo

This is a fun game.

Alleged?

In this photo released by the Orlando (Fla.) Fire Department, Lonnie Shields, 37, waits for help from firefighters after the owner of a convenience store found him stuck in an exhaust vent in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006. Shields, an alleged burglar, was rescued Thursday after he got stuck overnight in the oven vent of the convenience store he was trying to rob, the fire department said.
alleged: Represented as existing or as being as described but not so proved; supposed
Whatever, I guess being stuck in the vent isn't proof enough

The Good Old Days

This was published a few weeks after 9/11.
I thought it was funny, I still do...
At least we knew who we were fighting