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Happy New Year 2009

Isn't  family fun! Holiday get togethers and what-nots.....................oh yea, and fruit cake.

Hillary Clinton, a Supreme Court Judge?

 This is an e-mail from Brig.Gen. James Cash, USAF, who has written some

  very good articles on the subject. Here he recommends someone else's

  e-mail that impressed him, and scared him.

 

  General Cash Wrote:

  Occasionally, I receive an email that I agree with so totally I want to

  pass to everyone on my list. This is one of those emails. I have approval

  from the writer to forward the attached, and feel free to post it on your

  websites, or forward to friends. The election of Obama as President of

  the United States will mark the apex, and beginning downslide of this

  Republic. The only question is the rate at which the downfall will

  occur.

 

  The writer of this essay is Jerry Molen. Jerry is a great friend and an

  Academy Award winning Hollywood Producer. He did Jurassic Park, Hook,

  Rainman, and many more class movies. He won he Academy Award for

  Schindler's List. Jerry is one of the very few clear thinking

  conservatives that I know from Hollywood . We need to get this out to as

  many as possible to include liberal Democrats.. We are about to make the

  Mother-of-All-Mistakes, because the Republican Party gave us no reliable

  alternative. In my opinion, if the conservative movement does not rally

  behind the only alternative left to us, this country will become a

  true Socialist State within the next two Presidential terms. Ladies and

  Gentlemen, this is the most grave situation this nation has faced in my

  lifetime.

 

  Jim Cash B/G, USAF, Ret.

 

 

  Jerry Molen wrote:

  'Election woes defined by prose.....'

 

  We just experienced an overhyped, positively outrageous primary election

  season that has left me cold and wondering where the heads of our

  citizens are hiding out. Must be someplace where the sun doesn't get to

  very often.

 

  At one time in my life I was a determined, dedicated and ever loyal

  registered Democrat. Then something happened (Lyndon Baines Johnson) that

  turned my life around and gave me much pause as to the veracity of a

  party that dwelt on and fed off of the most unfortunate among us. Some of

  those unfortunates were in their positions in life by way of their own

  choosing and others were there by circumstance. But always, always with a

  door open to them to reach for new heights, achieve new goals, change

  their lives for the better. And also, always ever present were the bottom

  feeders doing everything they could to take advantage of those who had

  not or have not seen the light of better days and times, nor realizing

  they were in fact the masters of their own destiny. They had come to

  believe that they were dependent on those in power in Washington and that

  they would look out for them and take care of their every need. They are

  still waiting and expecting all those promised freebies.

 

  Most people aren't even aware that the Democrats ruled Washington for

  over 40 years. It wasn't until 1994 when the so called Gingrich

  Revolution changed that for a short period of time. Nor do people realize

  that it was the Dem's that created the failed policies of the many

  entitlement programs that are falling apart right before our eyes. Please

  do not think I find the Republicans blameless in all this. They too,

  suffer from ego inflation and greed motivators built into the system.

  It's just that the past few months I've listened to the rantings and

  railings of the left in America calling for more giveaways and better

  ways to obtain the proverbial 'free lunch'.

 

  I think that to sum up my feelings and why I am so set apart from those

  within the circles of political power and influence can be illustrated

  best by a quote by noted basketball legend and talk show co-host Charles

  Barkley:

 

  'Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years..

  and they are still poor'.

 

  And now with the election results comes the promises of 'change'. 'Change

  we can believe in.' 'Change for the future'. When in fact if you really,

  I mean REALLY listen to what the new messiah is asking for, is not

  'change of policy' or 'change for the better'. He is warning all of us

  that he wants our change all right, 'loose change', pocket change',

  social change and political change......So people wake up. For if you

  don't, the change you get may not be the change you were expecting or the

  change you wanted.

 

  To close my screed, I want to leave you with some JM predictions in the

  event the junior Senator from Illinois becomes President and especially

  if the House and Senate are veto proof.

 

  1). Strict new gun laws will be enacted even though he promised he would

  not.

  2). The phrase 'In God We Trust' will be removed from all currency.

  3). He will back away from his pledge to Israel and leave them to the

  wolves of Islam.

  4). Hillary Clinton will be named to the Supreme Court.

  5). Tax rates will return to their highest levels in 30 years.

  6). The capital gains tax will be at least double current levels.

  7). Retired Army General Wesley Clark will be named Secretary of

  Defense. This is the General who was fired for integrity issues.

  8). The borders will be 'basically open' to all comers. Especially those

  from the Middle East and South America ..

  9). Amnesty will be granted to all illegals now in the U.S regardless of

  status or even gang members (MS-13).

    10). The war in Iraq will be brought to an abrupt end and the results

  will be tragic and the consequences to our military will be devastating.

 

  I realize that my predictions may not sit too well with some people and

  the best we could all hope for is that I am totally wrong. Any bets?

 

  Jerry Molen

 

  If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone...

  YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

  It is Time for Americans to Speak up and vote NOBAMA

My First Moon Photo

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I can be a bit intimidating to submissives, however in my business, submissives are in charge, and Dave takes good care of me. As you can see, I do my best work at night..........all night. On this night, Dave loaded a roll of ASA 800 film into a Canon AE-1 and mounted his camera to the Lumicon Giant Easy Guider attached to my focuser........oh, the nerve some men have!..........anyway, the Giant Easy Guider, has a .65 focal reducer built in, and that changes my focal ratio from f/8 to a fast f/5.2...............men are always to fast........take some time, Dave............ anyway, he made my work easy, the exposure duration was 1/1000th of a second.

A FLOCK of Hummingbirds??????????

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I started feeding our birds a slight variation of an old family "secret" recipe formula earlier this year. It seems they like it well enough to invite all the neighbors and relatives over for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and all snack times to. This photo reminds me of Congress. I do not know why. It just looks that way. There are eight birds here, with six feeding holes on the feeder.

 

 

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In this picture, you can see two feeders. If I fill the upper feeder this morning, it will be empty by noon tomorrow. I make up two quarts at a time, usually twice a week. We use two of the bottle feeders and the UFO type on the fence.

 

 

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Entry for June 23, 2007 My Lunch with a "Colossus"

As you may already know, Deborah and I have been very busy the last few months redoing our home and cleaning out our "stuff". Which brings me to this entry into my blog. Today I have been cleaning up some old paperwork from a bookshelf in my office, and ran into an old newspaper clipping from the COAST REPORT, the newspaper of ORANGE COAST COLLEGE in Costa Mesa. The clipping was dated May 4, 2005.

I had met Dr. Henry Rhodes, at a lunch table at the cafeteria at OCC while having lunch with Dr.'s Tom and Gloria Bogdan. Gloria introduced me to Henry after her and Tom's tour of the S.S. ARCO TEXAS, just months before. We actually had a "scuttlebutt" type lunch. I wanted to pick his brain a bit, on deeper subjects, but thought it better to just keep the conversation to seagoing topics. Now, I wish I had, however, I think we both enjoyed the moments together remembering what going to sea is all about.

My Neighbor

Just to the West of my house is Ann. She rents in a duplex and decided to drop an old Pentium II system without a NIC card into my possession. I have been trying to restore the beast and possibly upgrade it to something that may be useable. It is currently running Win98 and the old BIOS was only supporting Win9x. I managed to find an upgrade  for that system BIOS that now supports all Windows Operating Systems. I will work on this thing when I have more time, but as of now, it will not read some CDROM disks.

The "REAL" Lady Heather

Lady Heather

FAST Quad-Shot Americano

Starbucks Drive-thru

Today this place was very busy. They had probably 10 or 12 vehicles waiting in line to place their orders at the drive up window. My wife was driving, so she let me out to place an order at the walk up window. I had my Quad-shot in about 2 minutes and we were back on the road in under 5 minutes. The line of cars had not moved.