a lot, i'd say----i'm still recovering from johntravious dixon and his little brother demontay who were pictured in sunday's paper----but this?
Commander Flex Plexico :This guy is a walking action figure. This one almost defies
analysis, because what kind of parents call their kid "Flex?" Awesome ones, that's what kind.
dexter is mesmerized by the dog's water bowl, splashing around in it and making a big ol mess--he also likes to look through the water bowl to watch his feet on the floor--poor little retarded kitten----
robert and i walked down to check out the sweet auburn festival, which was a little sad, and then on over to oakland cemetery for their little "sunday in the park" thing----a beautiful day for a walk even if it was a
little warm---they had an interesting master plan for a long linear park from the capitol to the cemetery that would be pretty wonderful if it were to ever get built---
you just gotta wonder what they were thinking---just so wierd on so many levels---
too many of us have forgotten what made america a great country in the first place and what we all once took for granted---the courts rule against torture, and it makes not a bit of difference in what our military does---all bush does is redefine the meaning of the word and go right ahead doing what it was doing----
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any
[prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and
exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend
to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and
in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to
themselves and their country.
george washington, charge to the northern expeditionary force, sept. 14, 1775----that last line says it all about where we are today.
i decided that the cat needs a birthdate---we guessed him to be 12 weeks or so when he got here july 12, so let's pretend his birthday is april 12----
so it was iris' 86th birthday last saturday---i picked them up about 11 and drove down to mike's place at lake jackson, which i had never seen----it was all goodness and light, and a good time had by all, even if i did eat barbecued pig while i was there, the first animal flesh that i have consumed in several months---i ate it for ma, ok?---
junior was, of course, the center of all our attentions----
and speaking of birthdays, yesterday cousin carol turned 123 years old, or something like that---
construction has begun, but not as originally planned---rather than 26-story, hotel/condo, it's now gonna be 20-story hotel only----they tore down a nice building from the 1940s, right across from academy of medicine, w. peachtree and sixth---
how can someone be so profoundly ignorant? "is the world flat?" and she doesn't know the answer? jesus god
Social conservatives who try to have extremely discreet and anonymous sex or drugs or whatever are not, perhaps, hypocrites as such. They recognize vice, do not deny it, see it in themselves, understand that some of it is simply irrepressible, and do not see their public moralizing as in conflict with it. Think Bill Bennett or Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly or David Vitter: all involved in various personal vices (often compulsively) - and arguably more socially conservative because of them.
"The truth is incontrovertible: malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill.
another financial debacle brought on by hubris and greed and shysters with absolutely no morals of any kind whatsoever---poor kevin---i hope he hasn't been caught up in all of this but i wouldn't be surprised if he has---at one point he had two properties in ft. lauderdale and something wierd going on with a 400k house in vegas----last i heard he still had the duplex in lauderdale, but i'm not even sure of where he's living right now except he's still in vegas---he sold the house he was in when i was out there three or four years ago----i'm still glad that i sold sinclair when i did---not quite as glad that i bought 1308 when i did, although still plenty glad---
Sept. 10, 2007 issue - Walking through the gated community of Black Mountain Vista on a hill in Henderson, Nev., Thomas Blanchard offers a guided tour of real-estate woe. A row of stucco duplexes that recently sold for as much as $500,000 sit empty. "That's a repo," the real-estate agent says as he stands in front of 678 Solitude Point Avenue. Then he points to the adjacent houses, where yellow patches blot the spartan lawns and phone books lie on front porches, their covers bleached from weeks under the desert sun. "No. 680, repo; 684, repo. Those two at the end, repo."
Three years ago, this Las Vegas suburb was teeming with modern-day prospectors armed with low-interest mortgages, all hoping to strike it rich in real estate. Now, what started with the subprime-mortgage mess and subsequent credit crunch are turning communities like Black Mountain Vista into luxury ghost towns. Buyers who got in over their heads are being forced to abandon their homes, leaving behind empty McMansions on the California coast and see-through condominium towers on Miami Beach. Real estate is turning into a money pit, sapping the fortunes of home buyers, hedge-fund managers and house painters alike. The really bad news? This is only the beginning.
it's always nice to make things look different---robert and i have been slowly narrowing our respective collections of plants----i took some cacti and the giant (7' plus the pot) euphorbia trigona and finally shed myself of the palms, both of which required constant attention to even begin to keep the mealy bugs under control----i like the structural forms of cacti and succulents, especially here----i put my grandma hart's big ol' rhipsalis cereuscula in my office---it's by far my oldest plant----probably 80 years at least----
there's a great breeze from the northwest tonight----new air, cool air, fall-----------
