Captain Richard's Musings and Other Things

Thanksgiving Morning 2009

Thanksgiving morning at MYR Airport in a Peasoup fog. Doesn't look like I am going anywhere for awhile. They just announced that the plane is still in the air circling. If the fog does not clear up he will probably have to divert to another airport, most likely Wilmington. There goes Thanksgiving dinner as the flights will be too foll to take our passengers. Utxo, they just said he is a little low on gas.

To be continued.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Cute trolley to off island.

First leg of my trip back to Gtown.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Poolside at the Matanzas Inn

Great little pool & hot tub at the Matanzas inn in Ft Myers Beach. The Inn runs the mooring field so we get to use the facilities. Leave for Georgetown tomorrow morning, then on to China's in NYC on Thursday.

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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Wonder what this boat started out as?

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At moorin Matansas Harbor, Ft. Myers Beach

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Ft Myers Beach

Just entering the inlet to Ft Myers Beach

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Boot Key harbor (Marathon) to Ft Myers

At sea in the Gulf of Mexico. Departed Boot Key Harbor this morning at approximately 0900. Passed under the Seven Mile bridge at 1000 and enterred the Gulf Steered a course of 335 deg after we negotiated the shoals. At about 1400 we turned off the engine and sailed for a couple of hours under lite winds of about 5kts. Bob & Gary went for a swim while I was on watch.

We encountered a large school of Jacks feeding. Gary was able to snag one with a lite spinner rod but we lost him trying to get it in the boat. Sailboats are not the greatest fishing platform, espesially with no net or gaf.

Presently lying on the deck writing this on my iPhone notepad. Obviously no cell service here. Very dark night with only a small sliver of moon. Pink Floyd is playing on the CD player below. Lots of stars out. On a night like this the Gulf is like a pond. Hardly any wave action like on the ocean on a calm night. Just a slight rocking of the boat, mixed with the gentle rumble of the engine below. Very peaceful and serene.

Assumed the watch at midnight. Cape Romano is well within sight. No other boats anywhere to be seen and the autopilot is working like a champ. Just sit back and ride. Night vision at sea is really deceiving. Big tower on the cape looks like is so close, but actually miles away. Also got a cell signal when I first came on watch and talked to China for almost an hour. Busy planning the Tgiving dinner. Going to be great. Tough, I think I have gained pounds on this trip. We have eaten well with two pretty good cooks among us.

Well this is the last night of the trip. Only 32.65nm until we reach the outer bouys. We should be well in port in Ft Myers by 9 or 10am.

Well I'm going to post this now and see what happens on Posterous. Never posted as a note before.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

The Dockside, Marathon Fl

Good band, great time. Back at the boat. Leave early tomorrow.

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The Dockside, Marathon Fl

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20 Nov 2009

Lake Worth Inlet to Marathon

Left Lake Worth Inlet at daybreak wednesday Nov 18. Light breeze out of the NW to strart the day, then switched around to the north. Made Miami Beach By 16:30 and picked up fuel at the MB Marina and went back out immediately. Wednesday night was moonless so the only thing to be seen was the lights of Biscayne Bay and the lower keys. I had the 0100 to 0400 watch. Beautiful night sail.

Called China at about 0200 and her as she was just getting home from work. Seemed like she had a good night. Slept nicely after my watch. Arrived Marathon at about noon on Thursday and picked up a mooring at the Municipal Marina. This is a big destination place for a lot of the snow birders. Boats here all the way up the coast to Canada. Personally I would have to have something to do here. Sitting on the boat and relaxing for a day or two is ok, could get pretty boring for the whole winter. Well the weather is really nice. Sunny and in the mid to upper 80's.

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20 Nov. 2009

Marathon, Florida Keys

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Miami Beach Skyline

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12:45pm Nov 18 2009 underway Lakeworth Inlet to Miami

Bright sunny day temp 85 winds lite out of the North. Sails are not much help today.

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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Race day

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Great day for a sail

Great time today sailing on the Lagoon 44 "Lazzarone" owned owned by Steve &Susan. Sailed out of the inlet at about noon with a light breeze out of the northeast. Threw up the cruising chute and sailed on a reach out into the Gulfstream. The water turned really blue and the rollers built up to 8-10 ft. The huge cat takes these seas beautifully with almost no sense of pitching as would get on some monohulls. In early afternoon the wind started to increase to 10-15 with caps. We doused the chute and
put up the white sails and made our way back. Then took their RIB dinghy with a big 50 over to West Palm for giant giant burgers at the Grease Burger bar

Tomorrow there is a race in the PM. We plan to win.

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Sailing on the nig cat today

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Sailing on Lagoon 42 Lazzaroon

Talking about blue slies and warm weather: Hooked up with the owners of this beautiful catamaran for a sail off Palm Beach. Day couldn't be more perfect.

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Spnaker sailing on Lagoon 44 lazzarone

Friday, November 13, 2009

Riviera Beach Marina

Google sued over privacy for street scenes http://bit.ly/2dcd0f

This stands to reason. When I take a photo either for my magazine or to place on a website I take care to get releases from people whose faces are shown in the photo. Why can google take photos of hundreds of people, place those photos on the Internet and be unaccountable.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Stateroom

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Galley

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Nav station and salon

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Slow Flight - something to think about

Drove up to Cape Caniveral today to check out this boat for sale. It is a custom made Belgium boat. Really a sweet boat. Would have to do some real thought as to work some type of deal.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Boat caretaker for a week

Today I took Gary and Bob to the airports in the Enterprise rental car. They will be back next week then we start the rest of the trip. Offshore to Marathon, then over to Ft Myers.

Stopped the Megliori Amici and picked up Tony. We had some dinner at the Thirsty Turtle in Juno Beach. Then back to the boat via the Winn Dixie. Pretty lonely tonight not much on the TV. We pick up some really weird channels. Reading time.

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The Elbo Room now

November 2009

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The Elbo Room then

Circa 1965

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Elbo Room, Ft. Lauderdale

Sitting at the Elbo Room at the corner of Los Olas Blvd & A1A. I have a lot of history here. 1965 the streets were packed, you could hardly walk on the beach during the day. At night you crashed were you could, anywhere except on the beach as the cops would transport you to jail. The Elbo Room is pretty much the same and Crazy Gregs was upstairs, it's gone now. Sitting here looking out over the street and the beach it all looks pretty much the same. The ocean and the beach sure does. 45 years ago. I still feel the same. Probably still have the same hangups. Two marriages (the first one happened to start right here on this corner in 1969), two kids 3 or 4 different careers and lots of people and places later, it all looks the same and I am sitting here writing this on my iPhone to be posted on a blog. Who would have thought.

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Bloomberg news: Unions Spurn White House to Oppose Senate Health Bill (Update1)

Unions Spurn White House to Oppose Senate Health Bill (Update1) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&sid=asRzBcIRCcog

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Fwd: Urgent - Ben Sawyer Memorial Swing Bridge Cosure - Mile 462.2

Coast Guard Announces 10-day Closure of Ben Sawyer Memorial Swing Bridge During Peak ICW Travel Season

By Gary Reich
Oct. 13, 2009

The U.S. Coast Guard last week issued a Marine Safety Information Bulletin (MSIB) regarding the replacement of the Ben Sawyer Memorial Swing Bridge span (Mile 462.2), which will have a significant impact on ICW travelers headed south.

From the MSIB:

"Due to the scheduled replacement of the swing span of the Ben Sawyer Bridge, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW) will be closed to marine traffic from Friday, November 13, 2009 at 12:00 A.M. to Monday, November 23, 2009 at 11:59 P.M.

A safety zone will be enforced around the Ben Sawyer Bridge during the entire 10 day closure. The safety zone will encompass the entire waterway from 180 yards northwest of the bridge, and 220 yards southwest of the bridge. No one may enter the safety zone without prior authorization from the Captain of the Port Charleston or his designated representative.

Mariners are encouraged to listen to the broadcast notice to mariners for updates on VHF Ch 16. CG Sector Charleston will broadcast the closure, as well as the implementation and rescission of the corresponding safety zone for the bridge. Updates to the schedule are dependent on weather and will be made to this MSIB, as necessary. For questions regarding the bridge construction call Julie Hussey with PCL at (843) 224-1096 or Kim Partenheimer with PB Americas at (843) 972-1775. For Coast Guard issues, please contact the Coast Guard's 24 hour Command Center Line at (843) 740-7050."

Waterway Guide is working on a work-around route for cruisers that we will post later today.

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Bush and Blair Nominated Twice for Nobel Peace Prize. That would have been the real joke.

Everyone seems to be joking about Obama winning the Nobel Peace prize. Even SNL made it the opening skit last night. Well the argument is that he was nominated after being in office for only 11 days. In fact the voting did not occur until just recently and there were over 300 nominees and anyone can be nominated for the peace prize even George Bush who was nominated twice as shown below. If he had won that would have been the real joke.

"(BBC)Wednesday, 13 February, 2002, 13:42 GMT
US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have been nominated for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize."

"Fri January 30, 2004 08:03 AM ET Bush and Blair nominated for Nobel peace prize

By Alister Doyle

OSLO (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair are among nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize before a Sunday deadline for nominations despite failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Capitalism, A Love Story

This is what the 1% is doing with that money http://riburton.posterous.com/

Friday, October 9, 2009

The Obama Hate Factor

I just love the fact that so many the Republicans just hate Obama. I hated Bush for 8 years. I could not stand to listen to him, to see him or to even think about him. I was embarrassed when I knew he was speaking that I would change the channel or turn it off. I just knew that everyone else in the world was listening and thinking how in hell could the American people elect someone like that for two terms. During the 2004 elections I became so involved in trying to defeat Bush that I probably got a little sick and I know it was one (but only only one) cause of the end of my second marriage. So I just love the fact that the right wing has such a hate campaign against Obama. Now they know what I went through for the last 8 years.

So Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Not only should it bring prestige to the the United States, but it lends credence to the push for world peace, a reduction in the world complement of nuclear weapons and the possibility that nations can join together to reduce the effects of climate change through greenhouse gasses. Immediately the right wingnuts come out with: Well he was only president for 12 days before he was nominated. Well loh de da. So the frick what. He was president for 8 months before the voting and there were over 300 nominations. Big fricking deal. No matter what Barrack Obama does or does not do the right is going to find some way to criticize him, so forget about it, screw the Republicans and get on with our Democratic agenda. I love Rep. Alan Grayson. He said this even before the Nobel was announced:

"If Barack Obama were somehow able to cure hunger in the world, the Republicans would blame him for overpopulation.

If Barack Obama could somehow bring about world peace, they'd blame him for destroying the defense industry.

In fact, if Barack Obama has a BLT sandwich tomorrow for lunch, they will try to ban bacon."

So we know where the Republicans stand, the time has come for "All good men to come to the aid of their country" as I typed hundreds of times in my typing class 40 some years ago. Lets roll.

Go Grayson, you Rock

Monday, October 5, 2009

Who Trains the Taliban

Every time I hear someone say we have to put more trainers on the ground in Afghanistan to train the militia or the local federal army I wonder who trains the other side. We pour millions into the effort, buy uniforms, give them huge amounts of equipment, support them with air power, medical facilities, etc. Yet it seems that the Taliban fighters are just recruited from the population, given an AK47 with lots of rounds of ammo and sent out into the field as Mujaheddin. They defeated the Russians and it looks like they are winning the war against us. If these Afghanistan fighters are so good why do we need to train them. Maybe they should be training us to fight in their environment. How is it that the Northern Alliance, in 2002, with just a few hundred of our special operations guys were able to totally defeat the Taliban in a matter of weeks or even days? What happened to those guys? Are they now the Taliban? It seems that while we were off fighting a war we did not need to fight in Iraq, this whole Afghanistan thing has slipped away. I really don't understand it and I really wonder if the upper echelon of our military really understand it.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Jon Stewart Tells it like it is

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Where the Riled Things Are

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Public Option on Health Care

Republican Senator Grassley said, ."A government run plan will ultimately force private insurers out of business," adding that supporters of the public option were trying to open a back door toward a fully government-run, or single-payer, health system like those in Canada or England.

Good let them go out of business. A government run plan is what he has and is what I have had since I was 18 years old and first enlisted in the Navy.

Any plan that does not have a public option will be a win fall for the insurance industry and should be defeated and so should all the so called representatives of the people that vote against it, yet keep on the public dole.

According to Rep. Trent Franks of AZ

Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona…

"Obama's first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers' money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries," said Frank. "Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there's almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn't be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can't do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity."

Franks later tries to "explain his position this way"

Bethany Haley, spokeswoman for Franks, said the congressman was referring to "unborn humanity" and should have clarified his statement. She also said that Franks meant to say that Obama's abortion-related policies have no place in government, rather than that Obama has no place in government.

"He was just referring to the way President Obama has set himself up as the most pro-abortion president in America's history," Haley said.
What a bunch of B......t

From Riki Lieberman

Riki Wanted this sent to as many as possible.

• Every member of Congress, the President and Vice President and every federal employee receives health care through a taxpayer funded "public option". Why are so many of them so intent on denying the same possibility to the rest of us? And why are we so complacent about their hypocrisy?

• Each beneficiary of the publicly funded Federal Employees Health Program who opposes a public option should be called out and exposed for hypocrisy in denying to others what they have for themselves, and in some cases, rabble rousing to cynically confuse their constituents about the role in government in the health care system.

• No-one in the Federal Employees Health Program is denied coverage because of prior conditions or health status. Why deny this to anyone else?

• A large proportion of health care is already a public mandate for broad categories of Americans - Medicare, Medicaid, the VA... While each system has its issues and could be improved, most could be dealt with by aggressive fraud control, decent reimbursements for providers, and sensible primary and preventive care.

• It is amazing that Medicare is as cost effective as it is; it covers the most health care needy cohort of the population. Imagine how reasonably priced it would be if its risk was expanded to a less less needy younger population.

• These same hypocrites have exempted themselves from Social Security and have their own very attractive pension system unavailable to the rest of us taxpayers.

IMMEDIATE ACTION STEPS

Health care reform is before Congress NOW. Please

• For each of you with a Congressional representative or Senator who opposes a strong public option, demand that he/she leave their taxpayer public option health care before voting against it and denying it for all other Americans.

• Provide this information and insist that your local newspapers, TV and radio stations call out the hypocrisy of these public officials.

• Organize local labor, women's organizations and civic groups to picket the offices and homes of the hypocrites.

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Monday, September 28, 2009

This is test

this is a test

Friday, September 25, 2009

Liberal vs Conservative

Which are you? More specifically which would you rather be, a Conservative or a Liberal? Here are the definitions from Dictionary.com:

Conservative: Disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.

Liberal: Favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.

Using the definitions above lets examine the events of history and who might have been identified how.

How about the American Revolution. Was it Conservatives or Liberals that boarded the tea ships and tossed the tea overboard? Was it Conservatives or Liberals that signed the Declaration of Independence? Not everyone was in favor of American Independence and they were called Whigs. Were they Conservative or Liberals? Using the above definition I would call the Whigs the conservatives and the people who dumped the tea overboard Liberals.

The Civil War and the question of Slavery. Was it Liberals or Conservatives that advocated the abolition of slavery. Was it Liberals or Conservatives that established the Underground Railroad that offered escape to thousands of runaway slaves. Give the above definition it was most certainly liberals. Of course you might say it was an act of Liberalism for the Southern States to leave the Union.

A woman's right to vote. It was not until the early 20th Century that women obtained the right to vote. Was that a Liberal thing? I think it was as the Conservatives fought against it.

The Social Security Act and Medicare. Who fought for that and and fought against it? I think we all know.

The Equal Rights Amendment was definitely not the result of a Conservative movement. Just the opposite I would think. I don't think the John Birch Society nor the KKK was very liberal.

Over the past view years radio talk show hosts and others have turned the word Liberal into something bad. They even spit it out when they say it, you know they give it a little different connotation to the word in their speech. As usual Liberals have even backed off the use of the word when then describing themselves and now in a lot of cases use the word Progressive instead. Can you imagine a Conservative changing the word describing themselves because of the way Liberals refer to them. I think not.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Times Square

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Broadway

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Gotta have the city once in awhile

Just strolling along enjoying the sites and sounds of the city.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/new-jersey-poll-33-of-rep_n_289896.html

Maybe South Carolina is not as Clueless as New Jersey

According to this article

33% of NJ Republicans think Obama is not a citizen and 14% think he is the anti christ. Additionally 17% of all conservatives thought Obama was Satan incarnate. The article also indicates that NJ was actually the lowest of 5 states they surveyed. Gee, I wonder what the other 5 states were. This is what happens when people do not listen to facts but listen to radio talk show hosts and those with a specific agenda.

On another subject, I am starting to think that this whole offensive aganist the Obama administration is being covertly directed by some group that has a total plan of action and is bleeding out news item for the media to pounce on day after day. For instance yesterday the big news item was Acorn, today it is the Czars. Never mind the fact that Bush had more Czars than Obama and Acorn has offices in every major city and over 700 employees, most staffed by poorley educated minorities that can be easily trapped. So they 4 or 6 people out of the 700. Big deal.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Michael Moore Strikes again, I love it

There are several trailers out for Capitalism, A Love Story, but I think this is the best one.

I Have to Agree with Carter

I Agree with President Carter when he says that the majority of the animosity exhibited by the opposition to Obama is driven by race.

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Like Carter I was born and raised in the South. I left for many of my adult years but I am back now and except for the fact that the colored only drinking fountains and segregated eating establishments are gone, I see very little difference in the South I left and the South I now live in. Today most of the black people do not dine in the mostly white restaurants, they do not hang out in the local pubs. If they do, they will not be thrown out but they will not feel comfortable either. It's not said openly even among white people who don't know each other, but get into a group where they all are "good ole boys" and just listen. We all know it, they all know, even the media all knows it, they just won't say it. But Carter said it. By God, he is 85 years old, he gained the highest office in the land and you know what. He could give a crap what anyone says about him. So he just throws out what everyone else is afraid to say, and I agree with him.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

I'm Starting to Wonder

I'm really starting to wonder if Obama was the right choice. In the beginning I was for Clinton. I thought she was tough, she had been there and knew how to play the game with the Republicans. Get tough and kick ass when you need to. I also did not think that America was ready for a Black President and I made that known as one of the reasons I was for Clinton.

Well as time went on and Obama inched closer to winning the nomination I started to change my mind. I saw a toughness about him that I had not seen before. After all if he could beat Clinton then he must have a little spunk. I also started to change my mind about the blackness. Maybe the country was ready, and I just didn't see it. So by the time he won the nomination he had my full and devoted support. Unlike other avid Clinton supporters, I switched completely and became a wholehearted Obama fan.

Early on I was happy when he got tough with the pirates, although he did seem to have a tendendancy to throw a couple of his nominees under the bus when their credentials were questioned. But you know maybe he felt he had bigger fish to fry.

Now I'm starting to wonder if we did the right thing. I started getting suspicious when he completely ignored the betrayal of Senator Grassely, when after applauding Grassely's efforts, Grassely turned around and jumped on the Death Panel bandwagon. Then without even a fair-the-well he canned Van Johnson because he called the Republicans "bigger assholes" then Democrats. My god, that should have been a compliment. He was actually saying the truth. The Republicans are better at being mean than we are. On the other hand I thought Clinton was tough enough to withstand whatever the Republicans were going to throw at her and not be Swiftboated.

Well we have been Swiftboated again and this time it is bigtime. Obama has been called everything from Hitler to the devil. He is being compared to Saddam, again to Hitler, to Stalin, you name it. The Administration is being called Socialist, Nazis, Communist, etc. No other president has ever been called the names and been subjected to the scorn the Republicans are putting onto Obama in such a short time. And you know what is the worse part? The Democrats are supposedly in control. We have both houses of congress and the Presidency, and we're still getting our ass kicked.

So I am really sick of getting kicked around. I got very committed to trying to elect Kerry on 04 only to see him get smeared with lies and inuendo with absolutely no kickback. I feel I am seeing the same thing now with Obama. So is Obama another Kerry or even worse another Carter. I hope not.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

Couldn't have said it better myself

Thank you all

For all the birthday wishes. I had agreat day. Hope yours was also.

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