10 Ways Cheney Can Kill You

Icy Sunrise

I took this the other morning on my way to work.
The lake is frozen again

In a Blink of an Eye...

...my life changed forever two years ago today. Don't take anything for granted.

Some Artsy Stuff

Here are some things that I made a few years back. I used to do stained glass work. I hope to get back into it soon
























































This piece below is a linolium block print as is the cats one
























This last one is a silk screen of Frank Zappa

With God on Our Side

I've been wanting to post this song for a while now. There is so much bullshit going on in our country and in the world that I guess I got sidetracked. All of this war and fighting over religion and cultures is sickening. I don't see a change happening in my lifetime. It's senseless. I've always loved the lyrics to this Bob Dylan song and this version by Arron Neville is great. It could probably use a new verse or two by now...


Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.


Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.


Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.


Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.


When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.


I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.


But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.


In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.


So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

HNT

Did I cross the line of good taste?

What a Dick

"I'm surprised Dick Cheney loves to hunt so much. The five times the government tried to give him a gun, he got a deferment."
--JAY LENO

Meanwhile...

What's Wrong with These Pictures?

On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. During the brief Oval Office meeting, Elvis presented Nixon with a commemorative World War II-era Colt .45 pistol and told Nixon he felt the Beatles promoted an "anti-American" theme appealing to violence, drug use, dissent and protest.

Now this seems utterly ridiculous to me. Talk about putting the fox incharge of the chicken coop. Elvis was a MAJOR drug addict. Why would he be put in charge of drugs. Maybe he could have been a "Large Federal Agent in Charge of Testing Drugs" or something.

Take up now to the present day....

WASHINGTON - Members of Congress and the Bush administration are at odds over whether security is compromised by an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American seaports.
Some lawmakers expressed concern Sunday that the safeguards are insufficient to thwart infiltration of the vital facilities by terrorists.
At issue is the purchase last week of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, or UAE. Peninsular and Oriental runs major commercial operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

Is it Me? Am I fucked up for thinking that this is a bad idea? Why don't we make Bin Laden in charge of Homeland Security? Why isn't the United States in charge of this in the first place. Great Britian is in charge now. No wonder the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Maybe we should burn embassies in protest like the rest of the world seems to do.

Back in the Saddle

First off, thanks for all of the well wishes. I'm feeling better although I have taken the phrases "Feeling pooped" and "Being drained" out of my vocabulary until further notice...
My SIL is a fresh fruit/raw veggie type person. She is undergoing a dietary change at the moment and is introducing other foods such as chicken, eggs, dairy, grains in to her diet (or is it eggs, chicken - I always forget which came first). At any rate, there is always an abundance of organic fruits and veggies at her house. This picture does not do it justice but I took this today while over her house. She has bananas in the back and side baskets (I'm not exagerating on this, the other day her and a friend counted 78 1/2 bananas in her house - and yes, I did notify Monkey about this), baskets filled with a variety of apples, pears (at least 35 of those suckers), grapefruits, mangos, papayas, kiwis and a ton of stuff in the two refrigerators they own. All of this is organic to boot. It must have been about $300-$400 worth of fruit.

















but I really felt like having an orange...not a single one in sight