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Weekend
Let’s see. Did some hedge trimming either Friday or Thursday night, leaving my arms the requisite too tired to lift. Various kitchen chores, etc. Saturday am: Breakfast at IHOP, grocery store with requisite heavy lifting, cat litter, 5 cases of diet coke, bottled water. Vacuumed fireplace area, brickwork forming LOTS of little shelves and dust collecting niches. EMT noon to midnight, four calls (Surprise! I got calls). One “nice” one involving a pile of scaffolding coming through a car window and just missing the luckiest man on earth (at 9 pm on Saturday, anyway). Got home to a thunderstorm so was up with the wife and kitties until after 1 am. Up about 9 am on Sunday to feed cats. Managed to empty and fill and run dishwasher. Do a sink load … Read entire article »
Filed under: Me and Mine, Original writing
The Banquet
The wife and I had a nice evening. We try to go out on a date once a week, usually Wednesdays. But, we went to the Nazareth College Senior Banquet tonight, for this week’s date. Honest… I’ll be years dead before I’ll ever object to being plunked down in a room with 100 or so women between the ages of 21 and 23, in the warm Spring, when halters and spaghetti straps are fashionable. We sat with some people from her office, one I knew from when I worked at Bishop Kearney. Met a lady from the Spanish House on campus, lots of fun. Low riding pants, those ones with no waist. Ladies, think about plumbers, and what happens with their pants… If your butt is a little toooooo zaftig, please consider wearing … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Me and Mine, Original writing
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- USS President vs HMS Belvidera (in 140 days)
- General Hull Invades Canada (in 159 days)
- First Battle of Sacketts Harbor (in 166 days)
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- Fuel Convoy Reaches Nome
- Russians Sail to Rescue of Ice Bound Alaska Community
- Pope Embraces Anglicans in U.S. with New Ordinariate
- Nebraska Nuke Plant Placed on Special Inspection Status
- Radioactive Water Leaks at Japanese Nuke Site
- Japan Damaged Nuke Plants Still Not Under Control
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September 11
May 20th, 2002 | Comments Off
The pundits are having a field day with the facts that are emerging about our intelligence and security services and September 11. Each day the President, his national security team, and select members of Congress receive a briefing that details, perhaps, dozens of threats to America, its citizens, and its interests worldwide. These threats are categorized as best as it possible as to reliability of information and seriousness. Let me repeat, certain key Congressmen who oversee these national security issues ARE briefed on these warnings. In the months between President Bush’s inauguration and September 11, 230 days or so, there were probably between a thousand and ten thousand threats brought to his attention, and thousands more where the reliability or information was suspect and not passed to him. In retrospect, we can … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Original writing, September 11, War on Terror