Congratulations to Muireann Arthurs Queen Puck 2011.

Mary and I wish we could be in  Killorglin to celebrate with you Muireann.  We encourage all who can to attend the Puck Fair August 10-12.

Do You Believe That Boehner Should Stop Betraying the Nation By Being a Whore for Monied Special Interests?

Now, on a lighter note, did you know that the words "race car" spelled backwards still spell "race car"?

And that "eat" is the only word that, if you take the first letter and move it to the last, spells its own past tense, "ate"?

But wait. There's more!

And if you rearrange the letters in "Tea Party Republicans," and add

just a few more letters, it spells: "Shut the fuck up you free-loading,

progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, violent hypocrites,

and deal with the fact that you nearly wrecked the country under Bush and

that our President is black, so get over it."

Isn't that interesting?

Thanks to P & J.

There's Something About Mary, but Maybe It's Not What You Think.

“The meaning of the word ‘virgin’ has changed slightly throughout history. Originally, it only meant ‘a woman living apart’, or an unmarried woman - not a woman entirely without sexual experience. By the Middle Ages, ‘virgin’ took on it's contemporary definition of a woman who never engaged in sexual intercourse. The mystery of the virgin's power tilted from being a special kind of strong and magical person to only holding the mystery of her maidenhead.” A Look at Virgin Women in Mythology-Keepers of the Flame

It's Hot!

Thanks to JR.

Thank You Jesus & Ken.

Keep It Country

How Do You Not?

She's Right, of Course.

Thanks to Judge C.

Ain't Lion,Token, nor as Wise as Soloman.

Say “No” to Tyranny. Wear a Kilt on August First.

The Act of Proscription, passed by the Sassenach Parliament, went into effect on 1 August, 1746.  It banned, inter alia, the wearing of kilts.  If you believe in freedom, wear a kilt on the first day of August. 
Thanks to Angus MacGregor

The Devil You Say?

There are different points of view, but perspective matters.
Dirt Devil-The Exorcist from MrPrice2U on Vimeo.
Thanks to Dick

"A Man Is Only as Old as the Woman He Feels." Edwin Edwards "It's Faster Horses, Younger Women, Older Whiskey, More Money. Tom T. Hall

Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards recently completed his federal racketeering sentence.
“Edwards, 83, attended a dinner with his 32-year-old fiancee and, though he plans a full press conference later this month, he was ready with quips for reporters.
    Edwards, on whether he plans to get involved in the fall election campaigns: ‘If I have a particular enemy running for something, I might endorse him just to destroy his chances.’
    On whether the 83-year-old retiree can keep up with his new fiancé, who is 51 years his junior: ‘A man is only as old as the woman he feels.’”
Edwin Edwards: Still spicy at 83 by Max Brantley, Arkansas Blog
In 1991 Edwin Edwards, beat Republican and Ku Klux Klansman David Duke to become governor of Louisiana.  Duke had beaten incumbent Republican governor Buddy Roemer to get to the runoff.  Now both Roemer and Duke are talking about running for president.  Edwin would still be better than either of those two.  Tom T. would be better yet. 

Thanks to Judge C.

I'll Kiss Rick Perry's Sociopathic Ass if Either the Statue of Liberty is a Demonic Idol; Oprah Winfrey is the Harbinger of the Antichrist; or if God Approves of Rick’s Shenanigans.

Rick Perry’s plan for solving our economic woes is to have a prayer rally in a Texas stadium, for Christians only.  Those who will lead the praying will include those who believe that:
1)  Tolerance for homosexuality caused the September 11th attacks,
2)  Oprah Winfrey is the harbinger of the Antichrist,
3) The deadly Japanese earthquake was caused by the Emperor having sex with a demon,
4) The repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell caused bird deaths in Arkansas
5) Violence should be considered to overthrow President Obama,.
6)  The Statue of Liberty is in fact a demonic idol.
See, Rick Perry on Right Wing Watch.

It sounds like blasphemy to me Rick.  That said, maybe getting rid of the Statue of Liberty would be an appropriate if you were elected.  Why have a statue honoring an outdated idea?  Snuffing Obama, Oprah, and homosexuals, though would actually be devastating to our economy.  My guess is that, aside from constitutional issues and the likelihood that we would lose our world leadership role because other nations would think that our leaders are lunatics, banning sex with demons would probably be harmless.

Afternoon ponderings

I never went to camp but Poet Billy Collins did.

The Lanyard - Billy Collins
The other day I was ricocheting slowly
off the blue walls of this room,
moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.

No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one into the past more suddenly—
a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp
by a deep Adirondack lake
learning how to braid long thin plastic strips
into a lanyard, a gift for my mother.

I had never seen anyone use a lanyard
or wear one, if that’s what you did with them,
but that did not keep me from crossing
strand over strand again and again
until I had made a boxy
red and white lanyard for my mother.

She gave me life and milk from her breasts,
and I gave her a lanyard.
She nursed me in many a sick room,
lifted spoons of medicine to my lips,
laid cold face-cloths on my forehead,
and then led me out into the airy light

and taught me to walk and swim,
and I, in turn, presented her with a lanyard.
Here are thousands of meals, she said,
and here is clothing and a good education.
And here is your lanyard, I replied,
which I made with a little help from a counselor.

Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is the lanyard I made at camp.
And here, I wish to say to her now,
is a smaller gift—not the worn truth

that you can never repay your mother,
but the rueful admission that when she took
the two-tone lanyard from my hand,
I was as sure as a boy could be
that this useless, worthless thing I wove
out of boredom would be enough to make us even.

The Answer is "No" but That's OK. It's Better this Way-Apologies to Vera, Chuck, & Dave.

Happy Birthday Cuz 

Ozark's Bois D'Arc

We called um Bodark. The Swearingens said that local tribes made their bows out of them. I knew even then that if a Swearingen says it, you can take it to the bank. The Osage and even Comanches used it. Some call the tree and the fruit the Osage Orange, Others say Horse Apple, Hedge Apple, or Maclura pomifera. There's a theory that the name Ozark came from it-Either Bois D'Ark (Wood of the Bow) or Aux Arc (of, to, or from the bow). Yes ma'am, this place was overrun by French before we started calling um Freedoms. See, also Tom Beveridge's Ozarks Chap. 1.

Don't Forget So Easy.

Thanks to Lea

Love is Mainly Just Memories & Everyone's Got Him a Few.

Abhainn Dearg

Abhainn Dearg Distillery on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides is producing Scotch Whisky, the first legal whisky in over 200 years.  I had the pleasure of sampling some of the spirit (not yet whisky because it's only 3 years old).  It is wonderful.  Pictured here is the small keg from which it came.  Below is pictured the whisky thief through which the spirit was removed.  It can be ordered on line.  Cuz tried it and loved it too.  It looks like he picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

Differences Between Pat Robertson & Alfred E. Neuman.

Alfred has one less tooth than Pat and has integrity.  Pat has to know that God doesn't give a hoot about someone's sexual preference.  Jesus taught that we should be kind to those less fortunate, but.never mentioned homosexuality.  (It is certainly not "sodomy."    "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it."  Ezekiel 16:49-50, ESV)  See, Sorry, Pat Robertson, but homosexuality was not the sin of Sodom by Ashton Elijah 

Come clean Pat while you still have time to repent.