"Somebody Aimed a Gun at Him’ jokes Huckabee at the NRA convention as he quips about Obama.

The NRA should have turned the microphone off when Huckabee opened his mouth and inserted foot as the speaker at their convention.

The NRA does not need a spokesman like this out there for us. Charlton Heston would have been the first to denounce the lame attempt at humor that Huckabee used at the convention. 

First and foremost, the NRA stands for citizens maintaining their rights to bear arms and would never joke around about assassinating a president or presidential hopeful.

Thank you Huck for trying to make a fool out of all members of the NRA.  You do nothing for our cause and you are a pitiful politician.  

 

While I was in Publix this morning, I overheard a conversation between the woman ahead of me and the cashier.  The woman stated that her son went to kindergarten this year and didn't like it.  She continued to say that she sat her son down and asked him if he wanted to go to school next year.  Her son said no, he didn't like school.  She decided that since he didn't like it, he didn't have to go the school again next year.  She thought there was little point in sending him to a place he didn't like.  She thought maybe if he wanted to go the following year, she would wait and ask him.  (I suppose if he decides he doesn't want to go the next year, she still wouldn't send him??)

Okay, so since when does a five year old child get to decide if he is going to school or not.  I thought school was  a requirement, not a choice.  Furthermore, a five year old child hasn't the ability to decide whether school is actually the right thing for him or not.  With this parent's attitude, the likelihood of this child spending anymore of his eighteen years in school is pretty much nil if the parent expects him to decide whether he is going or not. 

I have to ask, who's the stupid one here?  The parent or the child?  And who's got who wrapped around their little finger? 

 

Ever since all this has happened with Stephanie Raguso it's all you ever hear about. I posted a blog the other day about a conversation I heard in a Walmart store questioning her childhood and what kind of life she's had. Excuse me? What am I missing here? Today it happened again. This time at a Dr's office. They have a TV in their lobby to entertain us while we wait and once again I heard people questioning things about her past and for people to sit there and try to come up with excuses for this piece of trash is just beyond my understanding. Maybe you'd have to be a parent to understand why this is way beyond disgusting. There is NO EXCUSE for this kind of behavior. She was supposed to be a teacher. A person that children can trust to teach them and care for them and protect them. NOT sleep with them. No one can make me believe that this woman has any thing wrong with her mind other than she like to have her sexual encounters with children. How much more disgusting can a human get? We do all we can as parents to keep our kids safe and protect them from sexual preditors and child molesters and then they show up at our schools teaching our children. I can not find any pity or make any excuses for this piece of trash. I will not call her a lady because a true lady does NOT sleep with children!! It's that simple! All parents { or most anyway} try to do their best to try and protect their children from creeps like her and when she turns up in your childs school it's really scary. How can we protect our children from them when they are with our kids everyday ? Thank goodness most of our teachers are decent trustworthy humans that love the children they teach. But it's those creeps like her that scare the crap out of me. My child is only 9. He has a long way to go and he is mildly autistic. He is prey to a teacher like Stephanie Raguso or Debra LaFave. I only wish he could take the two teachers he has had with him until he graduates from High School. At least I'd know he would be safe from trash like them. I really hope they don't let her out. She sure ain't "To pretty for prison".  Leave her in there forever because you know she will do it again. She is a disgusting person that dosn't deserve any pity. The pity should be for the boys that have now been molested by a teacher  that was supposed to teach them an education. Seems that the only thing she is able to teach is sex education. SHE gets an F as a teacher  and an F as a human with morals. SHE HAS NONE!!!!

For some reason, I no longer get e mail notifications when a blog has been responded to; you know, that check box when you write a response. Is this happening to anyone else? Is there a way to confirm one's e mail address? I've looked but can't find one.

Lord, I do so love getting old.

Hi Everyone

elkahna here!

As I was reading the Tribune and having my morning coffee, I ran across an article in the paper and on the internet news that just about made my blood boil. There was our President more or less begging our "friends" the Saudi's to increase oil production to help with the high prices here in America. There was then the all too often response that they had already increased production on May 10th and were happy with where things were and weren't pondering increasing production again at this time.

First and foremost, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LEARN THAT the SAUDI's and OPEC are NOT OUR FRIENDS??!! We continue to provide them with a guarantee of security and many other benefits and all we get from them is lip service.

I am absolutely not for isolationism BUT, we need to stop kowtowing to these "friends" and let them provide for themselves. They are takers and rarely ever givers in this relationship. We are addicted to oil and need to wean ourselves off OPECs oil and let them drown in it. There is a teaching that you need to keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Preserve our environment and be as careful as is absolutely possible but, either come up with new fuel alternatives (not corn, we are seeing what happens when you divert food to fuel now) or use the resources we have. This newest ploy of the global warming folks in getting the polar bear declared a "threatened" species was brilliant. There are thousands more polar bear now than in the 70's. We will never be able to drill because of a "threatened " species.  ANWR, Florida Straits and the Gulf of Mexico all need to be explored and drilled. The Chinese are in Cuba now and will be angle drilling in the Florida Straits in the near future if they aren't now. We know how careful their exploits are.

All that to say, utilize our resources, conserve, invest in new refineries (no new ones since the 70's) develope new and better fuel alternatives, protect the environment as best as we can but come on now, polar bears threatened?? Please! If we dont take this bull by the horns and corral it now we will end up passing this mess on to our grandchildren. With some of the "friends" we have we absolutely don't need no enemies!!

Its and opinion. It and 4 bucks might get you some coffee and I did say MIGHT!!

 

elkahna

QUOTE “RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production

 

until customers demand it,  apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices”.

 

Well it’s about time our congress got off their backsides and tell the Saudi's to fight their own war.

 

Stop sending monetary aid. And apply that monetary aid too lower the price of their oil, The Saudi’s have always had too have their own way as far as I remember; its about time they were put in their place and stop all this nonsense.

 

We also need to start drilling oil again in this country; we have as much oil as the whole of the Middle East

 

The people who are whining about the eye sore that these oil wells will be; they need to wake up and know that these wells are 125 miles off shore, You can’t see 125 miles off shore.

 

Congress need to start doing their job and keep this country and its people safe and prosperous.

 

Poor George.

No respect.

He made a special trip to visit his family friends in Saudi Arabia and  begged  his "close personal friends" to squeeze more oil out of the sand to help reduce the outrageous price of gas.

Their response, "You Dumbass, we increased the shipment to you on May 10 by 300,000 barrels (evidently Dick failed to fill the boss in on this small detail). If you need more oil PAY FOR IT". 

My, my, it's a sad day when your "friends" turn on you.

Dumbo the Flying Fool has been flitting  around the world and at every turn, he get insulted and spat upon. 

It's payback for 7 years of arrogant cowboy non-diplomacy.

A well deserved reward for the actions and inactions of the most incompetent person ever to have stolen and election, started a phoney war and wrecked a great economy.

But it's OK for dumbya to sit down and play hide the salami or nuke which ever you prefer, with Libiya and North Korea?

Your argument above does not hold as presented. Please go back and see if Limbaugh, Hanity, O'Rielly have figured out how to spin this.

Let's face reality Freak. You are afraid to have a bi-racial president of the US. You are part of the problem that is preventing America from becoming "one"! You and your fellow RWNJ's will do anything you can to keep Obama from becoming the next president even though deep down you realize he is of far superior intelligence than dumbya and the RWNJ movement combined. It bothers you to have someone who does not need to instill fear to lead, does not need to instill hate to accomplish his goals, which are not as the present administration is doing, ripping off the American workers to make their buddies rich while killing and maiming 100's of thousands and doing so under a cloak of fear for the masses!

Once again you and your kind are playing on the fears of the American people with a racial undertone, but the American people are too smart after 7+ years of getting screwed by these same tactics to fall for it this time. November will be sweet revenge for the likes of you and your kind of hate mongers, and the world will be a much better place come January, 20, 2009!

You and your RWNJ buddies are has beens freak and the true Republicans are seeing you and your kind for the monsters you have become! The facts speak loud and clear!

For the facts, see the following post: They Finally Get it...Seven Plus Years Too Late, But They Get It Now!

This is exactly what Barack Obama intends to do if (when?) elected president. He wants to "sit down" with Iminneedofjihad along with leaders of other terrorist states and non-states (i.e., Hamas). "Negotiating" with these entities lends legitimacy to their very existence and further weakens the U.S.'s stance amongst them and other nations in the region.

REFUSING to negotiate lets them know that we mean business. Of course, George Bush is being resoundingly chastised for insinuating that BO plans to play in the sandbox with our enemies; but that is EXACTLY what Obama wants to do.

This is analogous to blogging with certain unnamed bloggers. Refusing to acknowledge them works to "de-legitimize" them. Not that they are legitimate in the first place.

Oh my, is Ronda ever going to be p*ss*d. 


I can see the bill  that the, "SAVIOR OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY",  will  file next year. Among other things it  will ban swinging "ball nutz", "round earth" education and DRAG QUEEN CAR WASHES.


In case your steed is dirty, you can get it washed this Saturday in Tampa (that den of sin and debauchery) by Sister Mary Mountain Dewme and her band of Drag Queen pals in the Tampa Bay Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group..


Proceeds go to charity and a gay old time will be had by all.

You do support charitable causes Ronda? How about it girl, will you help out the other "girls"?

I'm sure you all remember this:

Obama to McCain

"And so for him to toss out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination," Obama said.

McCain today

COLUMBUS, Ohio(AP) Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.

The Republican presidential contender, in a mystical speech that also envisioned Osama bin Laden dead or captured, and Americans with the choice of paying a simple flat tax or following their standard 1040 form, said only a small number of troops would remain in Iraq by the end of a prospective first term because al-Qaida will have been defeated and Iraq's government will be functioning on its own.

"By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won," McCain told an audience of several hundred here in the capital city of a general election battleground state.

Later, as the Arizona senator drove to the airport on his "Straight Talk Express" campaign bus, McCain was peppered by reporters with questions about the timetable. He and his aides insisted there was a difference between ending the war and bringing troops home and, as they criticize the Democrats, announcing a withdrawal upfront without regard for the military endgame.

"It's not a timetable; it's victory. It's victory, which I have always predicted. I didn't know when we were going to win World War II; I just knew we were going to win," McCain said.

The Vietnam veteran added: "I know from experience, you set a day for surrender _ which is basically what you do when you say you are withdrawing _ and you will pay a much a heavier price later on."

McCain and Romney at Republican debate

The exchanges between McCain and Romney were heated. McCain repeated an accusation he had used effectively against Romney in Florida, saying Romney had once favored a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

Romney called that a dirty trick, saying that while he did suggest that President Bush and Iraqi leaders discuss the issue privately, he had never called for a timetable to withdraw troops.

"It's an attempt to do the Washington-style old politics," Romney said of McCain's allegation.

McCain didn't back off, but merely switched to a broader attack, saying that while he was staking his political career on Iraq, Romney was hedging his bets. And he blamed Romney for the negative tenor of the campaign.

I CANT TELL IF GEROGE BUSH IS WRITING HIS SPEECHES, OR HE'S LOST HIS BEARINGS AND HIS MARBLES ARE WELL ON THEIR WAY OUT...

We have a "Commander in Chief" that could not even serve out his non-combat role while young men and women were dying fighting in a war, oppossing this GI Bill, along with his nonserving cohorts, because they feel it will reward those that gave the ultimate sacrifice too much, and may cause them to seek a life outside of the Armed Services?

I encourage all citizens that care about those who are giving the ultimate sacrifice to write to your congressman/women and senators and tell them that you favor Webb's GI Bill that rewards those that serve our country! Take the time to read this GI Bill and then tell me that this is too good for our troops serving!

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DoD Sweats Webb GI Bill

Tom Philpott | March 06, 2008

Webb's GI Bill Tagged as Threat to Volunteer Force

 

Defense officials are alarmed by the very real prospect that Congress this year will enact the robust GI Bill education plan designed by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). One Defense official, who declined to be named, described the bill as a "retention killer" for the all-volunteer military.

Webb reintroduced his bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (S. 22), last week with changes that attracted strong bipartisan support, including the endorsement of Sen. John Warner (Va.), former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"I'm just going to go full bore on this thing," Warner told Military Update in a phone interview.

That's a worrisome vow for Defense officials who believe enhanced post-service education benefits, particularly if enacted while troops face multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, could trigger an exodus severe enough to put the viability of the volunteer military at risk.

Use your GI Bill before time runs out!

No one disputes Webb's claim that his enhanced GI Bill would boost recruiting sharply. But a Defense official said it also would encourage thousands of young service members, trained at great expense, to separate after completing their initial service obligation to attend college fulltime.

Webb, in an interview, described such arguments as "absurd."

The Department of Defense, he said, "is doing a very good job managing its career force, given the strains that are on it. But it's doing a very poor job of taking care of the people who don't come in for a career."

Raising GI bill benefits nearer to those offered to veterans returning from World War II, Webb said, will give every volunteer, particularly those with no intention of making the military a career, "a proper reward for their service" and a great tool for transitioning to civilian life.

Defense officials have to understand, Webb said, that a volunteer military is "only a career system to a certain point."  The current system isn't properly rewarding those who enter "because of love of country, or family tradition, or the fact that they just want to serve for a while," he said.

The link: http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,163440,00.ht
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Opposition To Webb GI Bill Rankles

Tom Philpott | April 25, 2008

Readers of Tom Philpott's Military Update column sound off.

Defense Opposition To Webb GI Bill Rankles

It's time to ask the embarrassing questions concerning reform of the GI Bill. For starters, what was the legislative intent of the first GI Bill? Was it not to aid returning World War II veterans to get an education, and thereby to function as an investment in the nation's future?

Given this, the Department of Defense's Chicken-Little argument in opposition – that it will damage military retention -- is a slap in the face to those who conduct "diplomacy by other means."

The GI Bill was never intended to be a recruiting/retention tool. A simple parallel from American history applies. As the nation's founders -- and multiple administrations since them -- discovered, it is one thing to persuade the people to go to war yet quite another to keep hearts and minds on such a track. At a time when major Wall Street firms arguably benefit from huge federal bailouts, attempts to low-ball educational support to returning veterans ring disingenuous at best... and stand to have a chilling effect both on the morale of those currently serving and on recruitment.

This is not the first time "Pentagonorrhea" has infected policy and its implementation. But for the White House to buy into such an on-the-cheap policy goes beyond the pale. The legislative branch has both a practical and an ethical responsibility to refuse this flagrant breach of faith with those who have volunteered to wear the uniform and go in harm's way.

JOHN DELANEY
Lieutenant Colonel 
Infantry (Retired)
Via e-mail

What am I missing here?

The military doesn't want improved GI Bill benefits because they think they'll lose their all-volunteer force. Hummm…Does that say something about the soldiers, or about Bush's idiotic war?

RON MACQUARRIE
USMC-Ret.
San Clemente, Calif.

While deployed, I have been reading the debate over what to do about the GI Bill. My idea is to stipulate that if a service member wants to transfer his education benefits to spouse or children, then the member will agree to stay on active duty a set number of years or even until the 20-year mark?

MATTHEW IRWIN
Airman First Class, USAF
Via e-mail

Continued at: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,166408,00.htm
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When one is laid up and resting as per doctor orders (and for once I had to comply - Holy Cow!) one is presented with The Supreme Challenge. Finding good television.

Consequently, the range of local, state and national events brought to my attention by my beloved FOX newscasters has presented a stunning array of stories just begging for comment.

We come again to the fact I could not sit at the computer comfortably. No means of spouting off.

Well.

I am healing, and have now managed to prop myself up and spew comment on a few doozies that have caught my eye. It's my way of saying I am alive, and I am here, and I have missed you.

Let me lead off with an easy one, 'k? I'm kind of out of practice...

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Nick Hogan: Oh for heaven's sake. Pretty Boy needed a year and a day. The flagrant disregard for law enforcement and the firm belief that the streets of Pinellas were paved as his own private speedway shows him for the arrogant self-centered little brat he is.

And am I the only one that recalls Hulk Hogan receiving the 2007 Father of the Year award? This just begs comment, but I need to hold back.

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Obama: Can this possibly get any worse?

Reverend Jeremiah Wright. How can you have the SAME spiritual advisor for 20 years and (a) know nothing of his views and (b) suddenly feel a need to sincerely seperate alliance? How can you trust anyone who has such sudden alliance shifts???? (Okay, well, where did Oprah go in all this?)

Has anyone not noticed how suspiciously QUIET others (Jessie? Al? Louis?) have been? They usually weigh in by now, year after election year. I am reminded of how quiet a snake can be, lying coiled under the brush....

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We are a country that occasionally celebrates wins with riots and destruction. We are a country that occasionally punishes perceived injustice with riots.

We are a country sitting on an election year.

We are a country sitting on top of more stress right now that it knows what to do, and I cannot help but wonder....

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I nominate one Brian Crowder, arsonist - ooops, sorry SUSPECTED arsonist - for the Cr@pweasel Award. The fawn that was born Saturday or Sunday (umbilical cord still a black nub on its belly) was rescued and is being cared for by one of my rehabber friends. Its mother's whereabouts are unknown.

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It is so refreshing to see how the women are finally showing up to play on Team Pedophile! And here I was thinking the men had sewn this one up on their own! Bad girl - I profiled! I hate it when I do dat!

I have never in my life wanted to slap the smile right off someone's face before, but this piece of work called Stephanie Ragusa seems to be riding high right now.

She and Nick would have made a perfect couple from the looks on their faces.

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The Rays NEED a new stadium? Exactly how old is their current stadium again? And exactly how many wins and titles have they provided our humble state with? Now I can go along with a nice uniform change - look what it did for the Bucs - but come on.....

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Finally, to the mother of one of the eight young ladies (oh, how I use THAT term loosely!) who beat the snot out of a classmate: How DARE you go on television and complain about how unfair it is you get phone calls at home threatening your precious little darling.... You hypocrite. Where were you when YOUR DAUGHTER was doing the same thing to the victim?

Karma bites honey. And yes, to all those who are aware of my Christian beliefs, I ALSO believe in Karma...

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Thank you all. I feel better for having let a little steam off.

Floyd - I'm getting there. Thank you.
Michelle - Hoping truly all the best for you.
Yellowdog - I hope your Southern Gentleman self is behaving!
Jumpy - Had to check fast and saw baby picture - Congratulations and how lovely! Please respond here and let me know how you and baby are? (I am still limited how long I can be up... this way I can peek right here!)

I am going to go lie down again and ponder life.

What the Sam Hill is the mainstream media on about?  I saw and heard the same news clip of President Bush's speech in Israel and couldn't begin to make the "stretch" to a political smear against Obama.  I thought his remarks (Bush) were aimed at Hezbolah, Hamas, Al Queda and Iran's interference in Palestinian affairs.  The knee jerk over reaction of the liberal media was as if somebody was caught with their hand in the cookie jar.  

It wasn't until the media made an obtuse reference to Obama's position with the appeasement of A. Hitler that it "hit the fan."  Otherwise, the speech would have remained in context with the "tight rope" western democracies must walk between Palestine and Israel's tenuous peace.  So far as a vehement committment of U.S. support for the Israelis, it's about time Bush took a firm position...  especially now that he can't do a damned thing about it.             

The dumbya administration and company do not care one bit about the US troops doing their dirty work for them! The facts below prove that out! To dumbya and company, the troops are nothing more than pawns to be used to advance their agenda!

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Republicans block Democrats' war funding bill

"A measure that would give veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan full four-year scholarships, dubbed a new G.I. Bill, also passed by a vote of 266-166, short of the two-thirds needed to override the promised veto by President Bush.

The added benefits would cost $52 billion over 10 years and would be paid for by a 0.5 percent surtax on individuals making more than $500,000 a year and couples making more than $1 million.

Calling the new tax a "patriot premium," Democrats argued that it was time for wealthy Americans to share in the sacrifice that troops are making in Iraq."

The link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/15/house.war.fundi
ng/index.html

 

This is an interesting site, it shows how the Arabic Nations and others vote against us while accepting our finacial assistance.

Its about time this country put the tax payers money; to help our poor, starving, homeless

and othe needy people.

This is outragous and needs to stop.

 

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/unvote.asp>

     Historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta is graduating its first white valedictorian.  22 year old Joshua Packwood from Kansas City, Missouri will address his classmates this month as the first scholar in the 141-year history of a school dedicated to educating black men. 

     Packwood could have gone to an Ivy League College, but he chose Morehouse and Morehouse chose him. He's graduating with a 4.0 in economics and will join the prestigious banking firm Goldman Sachs in New York City. 

    The racial divide doesn't feel quite as wide today. Perhaps, as Barack Obama is fond of saying, we can be one America.  

Army Spc. Jeremy Hall has served two tours in Iraq and won a Combat Medal. He now sits  in a barracks in Kansas, assigned a full time bodyguard to ensure his safety.

His crime. He is an Atheist.

An Atheist who joined the Army and fought for our Freedom, yet he is denied his choice of rejecting the majority Christian Doctrine.

Since he refused to join in prayer and did not hide his beliefs, his commanding officers and fellow troops threatened and berated him.

Supposedly we are fighting in Iraq to ensure the religious freedoms of the Iraqi's as well as protecting  our freedoms from those who would impose unwanted religious beliefs on us..

Doesn't  this apply to the troops?

This is an unacceptable example of intolerance and narrowmindedness. Shame on us.

A passing thought caught my attention and I thought I would share it with others.  If Barack Obama must indeed choose a Vice President, what must he consider first?  Obama with Hillary as V.P would be an unstopable ticket in 2008.  But wait a minute, given the history of the insatiable lust the Clinton's have for power, he should first consider his own mortailty.  If Hillary were second in line for the White House, her conquest would be only one bullet away.  Edwards would seem to be the logical choice but he is a strange fit (as a trial lawyer) in the Obama platform for "change."  

My guess is that his choice for V.P. will be a relatively unknown, shadowy politician falling in-line with the misty, unclear agenda of Obama himself.  He will be making a "statement" with his choice that will confirm or deny his committemnt to any real "change" in party politics as usual.  It should be interesting.                            

Hi boys and girls: Your old pal FloydFreak here. Since your good friend has decided to invade the relatively tranquil waters of Orlando with his inimitable brand of turbulence, I have decided to come back to my home turf - subject to some rules of my own making:

First off, any of you that know me know to whom I refer. Believe me when I tell you that you all (one individual notwithstanding) are a fine lot indeed. I have enjoyed exchanging thoughts and witticisms with you since 19 July, 2006 - or for those of you in Rio Linda (or Mulberry), nearly two years.

My rules are quite simple actually:

1) This one particular individual will not be permitted to reply to my posts. Yes, call me a blog N@zi but I will NOT carry on any sort of communication with this individual whatsoever. He has, time and again, demonstrated that he cannot disagree in a civil manner - not just with me but with others on these boards. Any comments that he leaves will be summarily deleted. (BTW: Go ahead, pal. Reply tomorrow because I will be at a trade show all day then I will be taking a red-eye back to Florida. But rest assured that you'll be gone by the time that I log on Friday am after I get home).

2) I will not comment on posts by ANYONE if this individual has commented on same.

Pretty simple, huh? Again, I enjoy discourse with all of you - yes, even the sadly misguided amongst you - because everyone here, save for this one individual. conducts themselves with courtesy, decorum, and professionalism.

I shall be looking forward to picking up where we left off.

P.S.: How much is gas in Florida now? Regular seems to be averaging around $3.85 in Seattle. BTW: Cool city even if it is "lib central". I did see a city bus with a banner ad for a local talk radio station advertising "Rush Hour". So there ARE some people with a modicum of intelligence out here.