Risking the reverse engineering of a French toast bagel, Massachusetts state parks, there will never be a female U. S. President, keep the Donald where he is, the Yankees are failing
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Thank you George Bush. You did just what I expected. You stood by your man. You stayed stubborn, pigheaded, shortsighted, arrogant, steadfast and no matter how tempting, you did not bother to "rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic." You have made my life better. There will be more comedy - sadly, more deaths too - because of your efforts to maintain and reward the incompetence and keep Donald Rumsfeld in place.
But let's leave the negative - the deaths - out of this. You "freed" Iraq, even if it was freedom from law and order and more daily hours of electricity, and have let the inept Democrats keep a good campaign issue for the 2006 elections. Many Democrats are very inept, cowardly and without conviction - in other words, politicians with barometers rather than people with values worth expressing. These Democrats need outside help and you have given them that help. Many Democrats thank you for keeping the Donald where he is.
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I have probably written this before. I certainly have spoken it. I hope that HILLARY CLINTON does not run for President. She has pandered as much as John McCain. She, like most politicians, cannot be ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE. She and McCain have been on both sides of many issues and in doing so have lost some of their bases. I might have been in her base as I really like intelligent woman who are sure of themselves. I would love to see a strong confident woman as President of the United States but I doubt I'll ever see it. When a woman who is a Democrat gets far in politics, many men and women "come out of the woodwork" to demonize her. (Sadly, many women are other women's worst enemies, something I'll never understand.)
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The sad thing is that this damn country is not ready and will not be ready for a woman president in my lifetime. WE WILL ALWAYS say we are ready but we do not mean it. We will have a woman VP (Geena Davis needs to really run - if you can act, you can serve/lead - there is no significant difference between acting and doing - that's a done deal, isn't it?). If the President dies, then we will have a woman president but only in that case or an impeachment OBVIOUSLY we better have a good looking male Democrat (with a woman as sidekick Veep) who can get caught doing someone (not his wife) or having someone do him, orally or more. This mythical male Democrat might be straight or might be gay and married but these are the real things that matter to many of the "family values" crowd who like to get aroused by immorality. War and WMD's and invading countries that have not harmed us are not as big a deal. Sad "state of affairs." But this is how we will someday have a woman President. Those Hollywood writers are right.
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THE RED SOX HAVE ONE HELL OF A GREAT FIELDING infield.
The Red Sox keep winning 2-1 games.
The Yankees lost 5-1. With that payroll and a city population of 8,000,000, they are 5-5 and with our small payroll and a city population of 595,000, we are 7-3.
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THE THRILL OF PATENTS
I need to try French toast bagels at Panera. Have they patented the FTB? I need to do a USPTO search, don't I? Won't my FTB taste better if I know the degree or lack of degree of IP protection? I just checked and could not find a FTB. Should I experiment and reverse engineer a FTB at home? Maybe. Should I sell my successfully reverse engineeered FTB and risk being sued for not having done a thorough enough search at
http://www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm
????
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The pine forest that is most of Callahan State Park in Framingham, Massachusetts, where I spend most of my time, is heavenly. Most state parks are quite controlling and heavy on the rulemaking when it comes to paths and what is and is not a path and whether or not you can walk on a non-path. But this is not true at CSP as it is quite wild and untamed. YEA!
Callahan State Park (God's Park in God's Country):
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/northeast/call.htm
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And having spent quality time in the Republik of Cambridge yesterday, I too feel wild and untamed again, thank God. But in 48 hours, I'll be back in my most domesticated and staid neighborhood, damn it. At least I'll have my thoughts and good technology and friends within 20 miles.
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