In No Particular Order

Lot's of subjects on the mind this morning and none intensely so this is a a scattered post. If I jump around blame hormone brain or something.

Who holds the title as the oldest singer in this country with a number one hit? I'll let you think on that while I continue on.

Some good news: The production level of oil in Iraq now exceeds pre-war levels. For over a month now. Seen lots of smiling newsreaders on tv telling that story? And the deficit is plummeting down a year sooner than originally predicted by the administration, thanks to tax cuts. And the response from the usual suspects? Well, we shouldn't have a deficit at all. Oh, ok. We'll go back in the time machine and take the onset of the Clinton recession because we had a balanced budget then. I'll remind you that it was the congress that insisted that Clinton operate under a balanced budget, which he rejected initially then accepted to get re-elected. And, I'll remind you, we are a nation at war. Every 20 years or so we must re-learn that tax cuts stimulate the national economy. JFK knew it, Ronald Reagan knew it and President Bush knows it. The economy is booming according to all indications and yet the press and the far left continue to talk it down. The lowest unemployment in history, production at record levels, home ownership at record levels, particularly with minorities, and record job creation. The sky is falling.

When did Bombay get re-named? Mumbai? I missed that one.

We grew blueberries in Lafayette. A both homes we owned there. It was wonderful. Now it's irritating to have to buy them at the grocery store.

From Hamid Karzai's speech yesterday during the visit by Donald Rumsfeld: "Without the United States, Afghanistan would have not been a free country today. Without the United States, Afghanistan would even now be ruled by Al-Qaeda and terrorism. Our children would have not been in school, there would not be a democracy here, we would have not had a parliament, not have free press, and all the other associated accomplishments with them. I was in a province in the Northeastern part of the country the other day, and I saw that it has within less that 20 kilometers there were three newly-built schools...Without the U.S., these accomplishments would have been living a miserable life here."

And he is still a very spiffy dresser, that man.

If the N.Y.Times is so firm in its conviction that its decision to publish secret programs in the war on terrorism, why do the Op-Ed pieces continue to spring up in newspapers? Why the continued justification? How much more does readership have to slip before they realize their terminal case of Bush Derangement Syndrome is out of control? No one hopes for failure in Iraq more than Bill Keller and "Pinch" Sultzberger.

How much weight do you think Cindy Sheehan will gain on her hunger fast? She is traveling overseas and rationalizes that the stress of traveling requires her to drink ice cream milkshakes and smoothies with protein supplements. And lots of fruit juice. Whatever happened to the hunger fasts that were really hunger fasts? Just water. Then if you were weak you stretched out on your bed. You know, actual sacrifice for your beliefs. Silly me.

Ok, the answer to the opening question is: Louis Armstrong. The song is "Hello, Dolly". I heard this on the radio this morning and I didn't have a clue.


"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." - The Wizard to the Tin Man