Bush's Legacy

Thanks Annie!

Holy Shit!

Thank goodness that pilot knew what he was doing.

Before I Say Goodbye To Christmas For Another Year

Here are a few pictures from my favourite time of year.

Some Favourite Things of 2008

The Bellagio in Vegas. We had a wonderful 10th anniversay trip and can't wait to go back.



Belvedere Vodka, my new best friend.




An amazing election with the right result!



My wee sis came for a visit and we had an amazing time.



After our furnace broke down twice this year we've finally decided to get a woodburning stove.
Now let's see how many years it takes us to actually install one.



My new favourite shoe. It's fittingly called: The Jody Sandal.



Inara George's All Rise

I Don't Even Have The Words To Describe How Much I Love This Man!

Here is the so called video tribute that was made for the Republican's convention followed by Keith's immediate reaction.

10 Things You Should Know About John McCain

And these 10 things were all before he chose a psycho for a running mate.

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.
   
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.

Source: moveon.org

Going To Hell For The Weekend

It's true, I'm literally going to Hell this weekend and there's not a soul who can help me.

I have to attend a birthday party for my husband's uncle and sit at a table with 8 of my inlaws that I can't stand and that we haven't seen or spoken to in 4 years. I don't want my bliss to end!

Say a prayer for me, please.

Up Early

I'm up early making potato salad (that I can't eat) for a neighbours bbq tomorrow (that I can't attend) that's not true, I will be able to make the tale end of it. I'm whining because I'm missing the first 3 hours and I can't eat my favourite potato salad!

I'm also getting the cooler ready for a day here. So I really shouldn't complain.

Fresh Name Fresh Start

I love this blog and I really don't want to delete it.
Hopefully this will keep the lurker sister-in-law away.

What I'm Addicted to at The Moment

I successfully resisted this show for 3 seasons, no such luck this year.
I'm hooked!

Vote For Pedro!

I'm kinda regretting watching Napoleon Dynamite with the kids this summer. If I'd have known I'd be inundated with "Vote For Pedro!" and "My Lips Hurt Real Bad!" 100 times a day I might have passed on it.

Well, probably not. They're only young once.

What An Ass

Now That Is My Kinda Tea Cup

I have yet to find a tea cup/mug that is big enough for me... until now.

What I'm Addicted To At The Moment

I love being called a naughty monkey.

Went to the funeral of a dear friend today.
Feel completely drained and exhausted.

Gag Me With a Fucking Spoon

I'll Never Think of Corn Flakes the Same Way Again!

Two sisters sold their "Illinios- shaped" corn flake on Ebay last week for $1,350!

I'm definitely going to be taking a closer look at my cereal in the morning.

Quote of the Week ~ Bill Maher

You know, we are one terrorist attack away from John McCain, I‘m sure, rising in the polls by 10 points, because people think, oh, yes, he is tougher. Of course, he is not tougher about the war. He‘s dumber about the war. He‘s dumb about the war, because he thinks that, by keeping troops in the heart of the Muslim world, that‘s going to help the war on terror.

That‘s exactly what started the war on terror. That‘s why bin Laden was so angry at the U.S., is, because we had troops in Saudi Arabia. And we pulled them out after 9/11, by the way. Of course, then, we go right back in and plant them in the—in the heart of the Muslim world and build Pizza Huts.

That is why young Muslim men want to come here and blow themselves up and kill us. And, until we solve that mental problem, we‘re never going to win this war on terror. It is not about what happens in Iraq. We need to get out of Iraq, not—not build bases there.

What I'm Addicted to at the Moment

I've honestly been considering erasing this blog as it's long been neglected and deserves better... but it's just so pretty and I really love it... so here's a last chance for resurrection (just in time for Easter).


Rock Band!
It turns out I could have been one hell of a drummer!

Sadness

Benazir Bhutto 1953 ~ 2007

Christmas MeMe

When people say "Christmas" you immediately think...

I can't wait!

Favourite Christmas memory...

I really have too many to mention, it's quite cheesy but I've never had a favourite Christmas.
They're all my favourite!

Favourite Christmas song/carol...

Carol of the Bells

Favourite Christmas movie...

It's a Wonderful Life and any version of a Christmas Carol

Favourite Christmas Character...

I'd have to say, Scrooge

Plans for this Christmas...

Crashing our neighbours Christmas dinner due to our broken and then broken again oven.
Spending time with my family, relaxing and more relaxing.

Is Christmas your favourite holiday?

Duh, yes!

Tivo Is Finally Here!

I honestly didn't think this day would ever come. I know it's probably old news for you Americans but for us this is really exciting!

A Thief With a Conscience

ANKARA (AFP) - A Turkish thief has sent a letter of repentance to police over four car robberies 15 years ago, enclosing money to repay for stolen cassette players, police said Tuesday.

The thief, who remained anonymous, sent the letter to the security department in Kirikkale, central Turkey. He also enclosed 400 euros (590 dollars), local police chief Salim Akca told Anatolia news agency.

The thief detailed the four robberies committed in 1992, instructed police to give 100 euros each to the car owners and asked for their forgiveness, Akca said.

"I hope this incident will be an example for all criminals," he said.

The police traced three of the owners and gave them the money. They failed to track the fourth person and donated the money to poor children.

Yahoo News

Quote of the Week

"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

Mark Twain

Man Cold!

I can't watch this enough!

Not The Nicest Looking Cleavage

Random Thoughts

• I can't believe I have to wait until February to see Lost
• I'm so not ready for winter
• Why Dog Why
• Blogging seems to be a very hard thing to find time for lately
• Where in the Hell have all of my mixed cd's gone
• Why is my dog shedding before winter
  
• I'm glad Halloween is over
• I've watched "The Thing" twice in the last week

Happy Thanksgiving!

I think I'm the only person who still comes to this blog...
Happy Thanksgiving nonetheless!

Roswell Theory Revived by Deathbed Confession

This story gave me goosebumps, but I am a sucker for a good UFO story.

"Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947 and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard.

Haut died last year but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death.

Last week, the text was released and asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.

He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies.

He wasn't the first Roswell witness to talk about alien bodies.

Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins.

When he arrived at the base, he was apparently told by a nurse (who later disappeared) that a UFO had crashed and that small humanoid extraterrestrials had been recovered.

But Haut is the only one of the original participants to claim to have seen alien bodies.

Haut's affidavit talks about a high-level meeting he attended with base commander Col William Blanchard and the Commander of the Eighth Army Air Force, General Roger Ramey.

Haut states that at this meeting, pieces of wreckage were handed around for participants to touch, with nobody able to identify the material.

He says the press release was issued because locals were already aware of the crash site, but in fact there had been a second crash site, where more debris from the craft had fallen.

The plan was that an announcement acknowledging the first site, which had been discovered by a farmer, would divert attention from the second and more important location.

Haut also spoke about a clean-up operation, where for months afterwards military personnel scoured both crash sites searching for all remaining pieces of debris, removing them and erasing all signs that anything unusual had occurred.

This ties in with claims made by locals that debris collected as souvenirs was seized by the military.

Haut then tells how Colonel Blanchard took him to "Building 84" - one of the hangars at Roswell - and showed him the craft itself.

He describes a metallic egg-shaped object around 3.6m-4.5m in length and around 1.8m wide.

He said he saw no windows, wings, tail, landing gear or any other feature.

He saw two bodies on the floor, partially covered by a tarpaulin.

They are described in his statement as about 1.2m tall, with disproportionately large heads.

Towards the end of the affidavit, Haut concludes: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space".

What's particularly interesting about Walter Haut is that in the many interviews he gave before his death, he played down his role and made no such claims.

Had he been seeking publicity, he would surely have spoken about the craft and the bodies.

Did he fear ridicule, or was the affidavit a sort of deathbed confession from someone who had been part of a cover-up, but who had stayed loyal to the end?

The US government came under huge pressure on Roswell in the '90s.

In July 1994, in response to an inquiry from the General Accounting Office, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force published a report, The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction In The New Mexico Desert.

The report concluded that the Roswell incident had been attributable to something called Project Mogul, a top secret project using high-altitude balloons to carry sensor equipment into the upper atmosphere, listening forevidence of Soviet nuclear tests.

The statements concerning a crashed weather balloon had been a cover story, they admitted, but not to hide the truth about extraterrestrials.

A second US Air Force report concluded claims bodies were recovered were generated by people having seen crash test dummies that were dropped from the balloons.

Sceptics, of course, will dismiss the testimony left by Haut.

After all, fascinating though it is, it's just a story. There's no proof.

But if nothing else, this latest revelation shows that, 60 years on, this mystery endures."

Courtesy of news.com.au

Dracula's Castle Is For Sale

If you have $135 million, it could be yours.

Full story here.

June Callwood's Final Interview

This woman has meant so much to me throughout my lifetime.
Here is her final interview. Watch it!

We'll miss you June.

I Know Quite a Few People Who...

will be relieved to hear this:

April Fool's!

Check them out here.

Sesame Snack of the Week

A favourite among Grover fan's.