Author: Don Quixote

From Sadie, who is filling my inbox with good ideas, comes this rant.  Like Sadie, I’m troubled by the lack of actual ideas, but it’s a good watch and does express a lot of people’s frustrations, so what the heck, I’ll post it:   Here is a video rant with

Sadie sent me a link to a post about the various budget plans, all of which turn out to be hogwash.  The link is below, but it’s really an excuse for me to ask a question I wanted to ask anyway.  Is anyone in Washington pushing a realistic plan?  Is there, for

Hat tip to (who else) Sadie:   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLr2if-BdA4[/youtube]  

I’m somewhat baffled by the fact that I didn’t like our Grecian stops more. Corfu, of course, was nullified by my daughter’s appendix operation. (She’s back on the ship in perfect shape, by the way, after an unpleasant four day sojourn in the functional equivalent of a third world private

Sadie sent along the following which got me to thinking.  Is McCain right that it is the Republicans, not the president who will get the blame if things fall apart completely?  I saw a recent poll in which the public put the blame on both sides equally, but I’m afraid the

Sadie points us to one anyway:   as if Durban 1 and 2 were not disgusting enough. (4 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Mupoo1At8&feature=player_embedded

Bookworm wrote me a short note to say she is too tired to blog today.  The good news is Little Bookworm is out of the hospital and the whole family is back together.  Sounds like all is going well.

Sadie sends this along, and it seems as good a starting point as any for a discussion on Islam: Worth reading, worth understanding, worth remembering. SEE BELOW: Quick fixes – isn’t that what junkies crave? Muslim Brotherhood: “Impose Islam…Step by Step” Things are looking good for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the

I’m going to post this that Sadie sent along, but I have grave doubts about its accuracy.  My Congerssman, Pete Stark, (shudder) supposedly had a net worth of negative nearly $10 million in 2004 after 20 years or so in Congress??  Somehow I doubt that.  And then somehow figured it

Sadie provided a link regarding the possible post office closings and a suggestion as follows: The Postal Service is launching a study of thousands of local post offices for possible closure in an effort to save money. The cash-strapped agency, which lost $8 billion last year, scheduled a briefing for

From Sadie (thank you!): Hi there, This caught my eye due to Mr. Friedman/Moody’s quote and the other obvious elephant in the room – Rick Perry, possible GOP contender. The article outlines the pro and cons of the economy/housing/education in Texas, such as; no state or corporate income tax, no

Some folks mentioned Tim Conway in other comments so I just had to share this:   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY[/youtube]   Some things never get old!    

Sadie sent me two posts which struck me as connected and possibly contradictory. First off: “Forget the crude scribblings of San Francisco anti-circumcision comic Monster Mohel, which missed its original publication date in Berlin by only seven decades, and think about the underlying idea behind the campaign instead. That direct

Wow!  Ephesus is a wow!  Or maybe an “Oh, my God!” A former Greek and Roman port city near the modern Turkish port of Kusadasi (from roughly 300 B.C. to, very roughly, the 4th century), Ephesus is breathtaking. Although it lost its port through silt, had its buildings knocked down

Vermont attempted to save $200,000 on bottled water for state employees until …. But when word went out, the complaints started coming in. “As a dedicated state employee, I am offended at the small mind thinking and petty penny pinching decision to have us fend for ourselves for water,” wrote