Like I Said Before

I love libraries. But they sure have changed. The best thing about not being hard wired? Most of this isn't really going on out here in the Riehl world right now.

Senator Russ "Carebear" Feingold is weeping over the collapse of the Democrats at DailyKos. That would be the collapse a lib commenter said didn't happen. So much for the reality-based community.

One in four young "US" Muslims accept suicide attacks as justified in defending their religion. No doubt Feingold is already working on citizenship for them. But they are also middle class and mainstream? Okay, except those who wear vests.

Hot women vowing to date only ugly men? Make it old and rounding slightly and I'm all over that! : )

And Edwards cashes in on talking poverty - must be sharing all that hedge fund wisdom he gathered for just under half a mil. He's toast.

As far as politics, I don't think Hillary will make it, Richardson may actually have a chance. On the R side, my instincts say it's still going to be a fight between Thompson and Romney. But what do I know, I'm barely a part-time blogger these days.

Stay loose, I'm heading out into the sun.

Comments

[Phoenix]

"Combined with dosing chicks with near-lethal amounts of peyote." <--- Ace

hahaha. .... singing....'You're so vain...." I wonder if some women only date ordinary looking guys because they're insecure. Who wants to date someone who gets hit on all the time? I dated a famous fantasy artist who lives in NYC and because of his fame and renown, you'd think his ego would be intact. Not so. I noticed he never looked at beautiful women on the streets of NYC and thought ...wow, he must really love me. A mutual friend said, 'No...he's watching the men watching you and getting off on it.' Then I started noticing and sure enough, a couple of times it was so obvious that my lover hugged me close and beamed and puffed up. d'oh. Glad to be of service, honey. :)

A man has to be able to laugh. That's top on my list. Who cares about looks. You can love anyone beautiful.

[Phoenix]

Okay... someone turn that political. :]

[ET]

Sorry, P, but I think a couple of trolls owe me some props. On this site, I have been predicting this collapse of any real democratic initiative to stop the war. Now here it is.

So, where are our comrades who shouted me down? BIS? LOL? Nowinger? Anyone?

You all need to come out of the clouds and move to the right. Your leaders are cynical hypocrites. They are self serving and vain. Don't believe their idealism, they don't. Think for yourself and set your expectations according to how people really act, not how you wish they would act. Then, I will buy you a drink and debate our alternatives.

In the meantime, Where's your SURGE, assholes? Acknowedge your ignorance publicly, or betray your lack of honor.

[bloodrage bob]

now THERE'S two words ya almost *never* see together: "liberals", and "honor".

i'm sure there must be some reason for that......

[templar knight]

Hehehe, Phoenix. It got political. But methinks bb has a point.

Phoenix, I wondered where in the wide world you climbed on a mower and gave your grass a haircut. Virginia, huh? Beautiful state, especially the Valley, and the drive up to Maryland is truly beautiful. When I get a hankering for green mountains, I head to Arkansas, and when I want to see the big boys and do a little skiing, I head over to Colorado or New Mexico. However, the fishing is better in Arkansas, as our land is on the Little Red River and near the White River, both known for excellent trout fishing.

[bobinStamford]

Famous fantasy artist?? Maybe he used you as inspiration for the trolls and ogres in his cheesy pictures.

[Cindi]

Obviously we know bis only experience with fantasy is smut. Contributing member of Village Voice are ya?

[Phoenix]

TK,

I'll gladly give way to ET. Yeah, where are our buddies? ET makes a good point - The dems don't care about anyone but themselves, so why should anyone champion their self-aggrandizing causes.

Yep. Virginia. It is so beautiful! I think the trip through Kentucky, W. Virginina into Virginia is the most beautiful in the world. Good for you for planning ahead on the Arkansas home place. Will your wife gut the fish? :) Not me! I'll catch 'em, but I'm not touching them. I caught a shark once and he pulled my father's stinky little bent bass boat out to sea. We were in a tidal creek near our family home off the coast of SC. The shark pulled us so fast, water splashed up into the boat and pulled the front end down. We figured cutting the line might be a good idea.

How was the steak cook-out? Does everyone stand around cooking and eating steaks? Sounds like fun. Maybe that's why our libs aren't here - they don't want to be roasted.

[Phoenix]

Bob,

No, I only modeled for him once and he ended up painting me. You probably have his prints all over your walls in fact. I did write the piece that engendered the cover art for one of his books. Might have had something to do with a phoenix....

[templar knight]

"...Will your wife gut the fish?..."

Yeah, when pigs fly she will. Haha. Nope, she's just like you, she's all for catching them, but baiting the hook, taking them off the hook, and cleaning them is out of the question. She cooks 'em, so I ain't complaining!

Phoenix, we went skiing at Purgatory Ski Resort near Durango, Co. last year, followed up with a trip last summer, and found one of the most beautiful places in the world. Leave out of Durango, go to Teluride via Silverton and Ouray, and just open your eyes and enjoy. Worth the price of a ticket.

I drove to Richmond, Va. in 1998 and made the trip through E. Kentucky into Virginia, and but for the dang coal trucks, enjoyed it immensely, but I just love the Shenandoah. Hope to see it again before I die.

And the shark story reminded me of the scene in Jaws when Richard Dreyfus told about the time a shark ate his little boat, and how that incident piqued his interest in sharks. See how lucky you are. You might have been shark bait. Haha!

[templar knight]

Oh, yeah, we didn't even place in the steak cook-off, but the weather was perfect, the food was even better, and over 4500 16-oz ribeye steaks were served, and I had two of them myself.

Sammy Kershaw performed, along with others too numerous and not well enough known to mention, but crawfish, music and fellowship was all to be had in abundance. And if there was a liberal there, he or she didn't advertise it. No hippies, freaks, queers, protesters or other sundry liberal types were to be seen. But plenty of beautiful women. Hey, I can look, can't I!

[Phoenix]

ha.... Of course you can look. Or you can be like my lover and look at the guys looking at your wife and get a jolt from that. Diffrint strokes...

My son lived on Purgatory when he spent five years in Durango. I have made that drive you describe and you're right. It is exquisite. However, I'll take the 'warm' mountains of the east coast over the Rockies any day.

4500 steaks? holy... How does one win? Is there a table of fat judges doing a taste test and then holding up a card with a score: TEMPLAR KNIGHT - 7.8, 7.6, 7.9, 8.9, 9.9, I ate it up - 10.0 :)

I've been out working on my yard. I have poison ivy. Too bad I don't have BobinStamford tied to a chair.....the pizen is all round my neck, chin and hands. heh...... "Oh, please, Phoenix....I promise I'll never say SURGE ON again!"

[Fred Beloit]

Temp, you have done your country and Al Gore a great service by helping to dispatch all those methane-emitting grass guzzlers, no, I don't mean the Boob. Wish I could have been there to help.

[seekeronos]

Aye, Death to those infidel methane-belching moo-cows! And pass the "A-1".

[templar knight]

Hahaha! Might have been one of my pets I ate. And the steak cook-off had 52 teams that cooked the 4500 steaks. So the judges only had to taste 52 different steaks to determine the winner. If you enter the cook-off, you are required to cook 100 steaks for sale to the public, so that's where the 4500 steaks came in. I'm just wondering who the slackers were, because we cooked our 100, which was a chore, I can tell you. All that meet cooking....well, someone has to do it. Haha!

Yeah, I like the cold less and less, myself, Phoenix, which is why we picked Arkansas as our place to retire. Besides the small population, the cheap land, the natural beauty, and the warm climate, I can't come up with another good reason. Well, there is the best trout fishing in the World, or at least close to the best. And who could turn down a place with the name Tumbling Shoals? That just sounds like an excellent place. And it is.