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United 93

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We live down the street from a small grocery store. We’ve gone to this store since we moved here. It’s changed hands at least once since we’ve been here. It’s in this little strip mall that only has one other store and a post office. There used to be some kind of store that engraved awards and a hot dog place. Damned good hot dogs but it’s gone now. Last week I found out that the grocery store is having a closeout sale. When it’s empty it will close permanently.

I remember being pregnant and being over there when it was a Homeland and having to ask to use their restroom because Junior was using my bladder for a trampoline. It happened more than once. lol You get to know people who work in these places. One of them was a developmentally disabled young woman who always went out of her way to come and talk to Joshua. She gave him a stuffed dinosaur one day. Another checker gave him a mickey mouse. They loved him to pieces. The men who bagged and put the groceries in the car were always very nice. The store was close which was convenient if we needed something I’d forgotten or if we wanted to walk over.

I’m going to miss that store.

You’re not going to believe this one…

Actress SARAH JESSICA PARKER was shocked when her three-year-old son asked to see BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, but feared she would send the wrong message if she refused.

Heaven forbid a Mother might say to her 3 year old that he’s not old enough to watch it. But then again Sarah is more concerned about scarring him for life by not letting him watch it because the movie is about gay sheep herders. Don’t want to give the wrong message don’t ya know.

She goes on…

She explains, ” He said, ‘Mama I’ve been hearing a lot about a movie lately.’ I said, ‘What movie?’ and he said ‘Brokeback Mountain. I’ve heard it’s about two cowboys. I would like to watch it tonight.’

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Okay, first off this is a freakin 3 year old. Cowboys are something little boys like. Of course the characters in this movie aren’t really cowboys but that’s besides the point. The kid has no freakin idea what goes on in this movie he just knows it’s got “cowboys” in it. Tell him he’s too young for this movie, that it’s for adults only, and find him a good documentary about real cowboys not those in movies. The kid might learn something.

I feel sorry for the kid. He has an idiot for a Mother.

Telling him no wouldn’t have scarred him for life or given him the wrong impression about gays. I sincerely doubt the conversations at the monkey bars at the park had anything to do with the sexuality in the movie. They kept hearing people talk about COWBOYS and want to see it because of that!

Unfortunately, having this moron for a Mother probably will scar him for life.

Seems some Canadians are severely pissed…

Not all of the 400 or so who’ve been kidnapped in Iraq escaped so lightly. In Sault Ste. Marie, Jim Loney’s mother calls his rescue “a miracle,” while Loney’s pastor says, “God saved them.”

Sorry, folks, it was soldiers who saved them — the very soldiers scorned by the CPT.

Peacemakers are misguided ingrates

And then there is this:

George Orwell detested tyrants, Communist and fascist alike. But he reserved a special contempt for pacifists.

“Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.”

Orwell saw pacifists as self-superior freeloaders capable of indulging their naive beliefs only because brave men and women were prepared to lay down their lives to defend them.

And Orwell didn’t even know the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) whose members had to be rescued in Iraq last week by daring British, Canadian, American and Iraqi commandos.

He knew their type, though.

The tyrant’s best friend

Iraq’s embassy to Canada lashed out at the Christian Peacemaker Teams Friday, calling them “phoney pacifists” and “dupes” after the antiwar group responded to the rescue of three of its kidnapped activists by condemning the U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq.

The Iraqi embassy called CPT “willfully ignorant” and “outrageous,” and accused the Chicago-based group of being on the side of anti-democratic forces in Iraq.

Hostages were ‘dupes,’ Iraq says

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“We have to climb over walls and go through windows,” said Sgt. Justin Shank of Greencastle, Pa. “I understand the more armor, the safer you are. But it makes you slower. People don’t understand that this is combat and people are going to die.“

Some Marines Declining Extra Body Armor

*Emphasis mine
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…That’s bad news to Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, “they’re loud, they’re obnoxious, they’re disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco.”

Evangelical teens rally in S.F.

*Emphasis mine

In 3D

Or all you poor pathetic parents who live in battery hell like we do …

20 AA Rechargeable NiMH batteries for 16.99

Damned good price and they shipped them quickly. Now all I have to do is wait for our solar powered battery charger to arrive. We love all those goofy gizmos.

We’ve already had a visit from the plumber this morning (backed up kitchen sink… last night). The plumbing and the electrical issues around here can be a pain in the ass. We also let the managers know that they’ve got water running off the end of the flat roof out here. They love us.

(Actually the current managers seem to be pretty nice… they probably won’t last long. lol)

If you sent me mail at the gmail.com account I didn’t get it. I neglected to change my settings for the account when I deleted the email I used for forwarding purposes. Hehe. There were so many bounced messages in the gmail account I gave up and deleted them all.

Sorry bout that…

3 Western Aid Workers in Iraq were Rescued in a Military Operation.

You’d think their families would thank the people who rescued them. Nah, they release a long winded statement and call them “occupiers”.

Holier than thou assholes.

I went to bed at around 1am. The kid woke me up at 2:45 screwing around and making noise. I couldn’t go back to sleep. I’ve got an earache. Haven’t had one in a million years. It was pretty bad but now it’s just an annoying throbbing that seems to be letting up. It’s getting on my nerves but at least my ear right isn’t popping like it was.

It snowed last night. Lovely to look at but it will suck for those who have to get out in it. I’ve got beans in the crockpot cooking for later and I’ll make some cornbread to serve on the side for Richard. Other than doing that I’m sitting on my ass and taking it easy. Maybe Richard will let me take a short nap before he leaves for work…