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The King has it Right

You know I was looking at
the King last night as he
sat watching TV. He looks
quite happy.

See he doesn't watch the
news, he doesn't read the
paper. The only magazines
he reads is about vehicles,
and hunting and fishing.

When I got done checking
on e-mail and the blogs, he
was watching American
Idol. We watched Boston
Legal. Then the New York
news, because we have
satellite from New York.

As he was getting ready for
bed, (he gets up at 3:30am)
he happen to walk by as the
reporter was talking about
the seaport in New York
being sold to the Saudi's.

He stopped and watched.
Then when he saw Bush
saying there is nothing wrong
with this and he was going
to push it to the limit, as it
will be done. The King got
angry. You don't want to
know what he asked and said.

My point is, this man is
a wonderful fun loving man.

He sees that life go by
just fine,even though he doesn't
watch the news and get upset
like the rest of us. So maybe he
is on to something. As the
only time I saw he get that
upset before, was when his
sister smashed his car,
years ago.

I think I will go find my seed
catalogs, like JBelle,
suggested. Maybe
I can look in his fishing
mag and see what is
going on for fly fishing
in Idaho this year. And
step down off the soap
box. After all that isn't
what I had in mind for
this blog when I began.

I had in mind finding
humor in life's situations.
And there isn't any
humor in the news, at
least now right now.

Summer and sunshine
where are you?

Frustration 101

Some days are more frustrating
than others.

I read on a blog and in the
paper about a young woman,
who believes that Papa
Boyington should not be
honored with a campus
memorial at UW.
(University of Washington)

Why you ask...get this.
Because he killed too many
people. Of course it was
war time, but that seems
to escape her. And she
doesn't realize because
of Pappy and others like
him... she is able to go
to college.

The next thing that has me
frustrated, is the Federal
Government/ Bush wanting
to sell off Federal lands.
26,000 cres and some of
it is prime land in Idaho.

But what really has me sick
to my stomach... is the sale
of the East Coast Ports to the
Saudi's. I had heard about Miami.
Then last night it was mention
New York, Baltimore and a few
others are also going.

What have we done? Why
are these ports in trouble
enough to be sold? What
are the unions going to now?
Have they priced the ports into
foreign hands?

There was a movie called...
Are the Gods Crazy... what
I have to ask.. Is our Government
going crazy? Bush and his group
say we have nothing to be concerned
about. WHAT????? me a little
simple minded housewife, am I
the only one who sees this?

Even if you put to the side the
fact that most of the terrorist
seem to be coming from there.
What about the fact that a
foreign country is going to own
our sea ports.

Maybe I am the one going crazy.
Maybe I shouldn't read papers
anymore. Maybe the King has
it right. Just enjoy hunting and
fishing, until the flaming idiots
get here. Put my head in the
sand of denial.
Maybe I am just getting
too old.

President Day

Normally I don't post on holidays.
But that is the thing about this
holiday. It doesn't really get
any respect.

President Day is thought of
basely another 3 day weekend
or a big deal at the stores for
a sale. Which seems to last
the rest of February.

When I was a kid, it was
February 12 for Lincoln and
February 22 for Washington
But someone thought two
days off was too much.

So they threw the two of them
together and called it President's
Day, also making it a Monday
holiday all the time, no matter
what day it came up. So it
became the Monday nearest
February 22. Presuming
because Washington was
our first President.

In the ads for the President
sale it is Washington that
gets the pictures and etc.
Abe is literally left out of the
picture.

I have never hear the others
mention. After all it is
PRESIDENT'S Day.
Nothing about the ones
who follow and before Abe.

To my mind comes
Kennedy, the two Roosevelt's
and my favorite Truman. All who
did great things. And I am
sure you have your favorites.

So to all the Presidents
from Washington to Bush.
Especially you, Harry.
Happy President's Day...

Blogs I like to Read 2 for 1

www.dogwalkmusings.blogspot.com

This is my thinking woman blog that
I visit. I say thinking because the
writer, blogs a lot of things of
interest that you think about. Be
it state or federal, or even the town
she lives in. She brings up some
pretty good thoughts on a lot of
things that just aren't right.

She also was good enough to be
picked up on AP press for seniors
blogging.

But don't think she is all serious,
as she has a good sense of humor
and of course the star of her blog
appears from time to time, besides
the blog picture she has on there.
That is Bacchus, I hope I spelt his
name right, or he might lick my
face. That is right, the dog in
dogwalk of dogwalk musing. You
have to go to her blog to see this
handsome gentleman.

There is the funny site that
she also participates in with her
friend. This is what gal pal is all
about. Everyone should have a
gal pal to run and do the fun stuff
with, go see new things. And these
two hit it off just great. And they go
to some of the fun place. So be sure
to go and see what they see and do.

Check out..www.gollygals.blogspot.com

Your Collections?

Why do people collect things.
that aren't really valuable.

The King collects key rings
and baseball caps. Not the
real baseball caps. Just
ones like NAPA, NORMCO,
JOHN DEERE, NORTHSIDE
MACHINE AND GEAR, and
etc. He has collected caps,
I think since he was a teen.
With out lying, I swear he has
100. The closet has about 15
in the front room. In the bedroom
is another 15. In boxes in the
garage is at least 20. Around the
house on different hooks must be
another 10. And in the big garage,
I lost count. They seem to breed
in boxes. I open a box up in the loft
of the little garage and there will be
another one or two. Even in the
Christmas boxes.

Key rings is the other thing that
he collects. ..One that has a school
bus on it. Some have keys,
some don't. He has them
with Coleman lanterns, tiny
cars, wrenches, and etc.
Some are triangle, some
are square but most are
round. There must be
40 key rings on the key
holder in the kitchen.
We use probably 5 of
them. Then he has more
in drawers and in his
jewelry box. He goes to
a show or display place,
if they are giving away key
rings, he got one of each.

I am not much better. I
have a collection of
coffee mugs. I have
Christmas ones,
I have pansy cups,
I have one that has an
old man on it... with
the saying .."When
they asked you how
old you are...." and
then in side it tells you
what to say. Which I
can't tell you on this blog.

I have cups from friends,
I have cups that struck my
fancy at yard sales. I found
one at a second hand store.
It is a Bailey cup. It has a
female face on it, smiling,
saying "YUMMY" and I have
the matching male one.

I have mostly round ones, but
I also have triangle one, and
square ones. Little ones, large
ones. Scenes, animals, Christmas
lights, people, Business logo's.
I must have at least 60 cups.

And I gave a bunch away.
This doesn't even count the
ones we use daily.
What good are these? I
have tried to go thru them
and get rid of a lot of them.
But when I start looking at
them and the neat shapes,
and sayings... Well, I still
have them...

The other thing I collect is
music boxes. They come in
different shapes. Piano, a
record player with the horn,
dolls, teddy bears, water
fountains, clowns and etc. Some
are hymns, some are classical,
some are the usual. Except I
refuse to have one that plays "It's
a Small World". Can't stand that
tune.

I have one that plays Some
Enchanted Evening. It is a quarter
moon with a clown on it. Some are
on a high shelves that I had the
King make for me. Some are in the
living room, in the bedroom. On my
desk.

They are kind of like the teddy bears
I had. You get one or two. Pick on up
at a yard sale, some one sees it at
you home, gives one or two next thing
you have got 30 of them.
I finally gave all but 4 away. I kept the
one my aunt made me with moving arms
and 3 little ones given to me by special
people.

All the rest have gone to kids.
Oh, I forgot the one that sings Old
MacDonald, and the one that snores.
They are up on the other shelves
collecting dust with the black cat,
and the frog that sings.

I often wonder what will happen to
all of these when I die. I guess the
kids will take them to the Goodwill.

So what do you collect?

We Need to Know NOW???

Why do we need to know NOW?
Why is it we can't wait until the
whole truth is gathered? What
is it? Entitlement? It is only the
matter of 2 to 4 hours, sometimes
it is 24. What is it we think we will
miss, if we aren't informed immediately?
We have to know in seconds of
something happening. The everyone
gets upset if it isn't instant. .Some
of this rush has ended
up with misinformation.

Cheney hasn't rushed in front
of the cameras to explain who,
what, and why. The fact the man
might want to be with his
friend and his family, as they
go thru this. Especially with
some setbacks in the health
of the victim.

What do they want a confession?
A Jimmy Swaggert type of tears
and sorrow?
..........................................

I saw in the paper that a young
lady who has started a group called
SMAC'M which is a group against
children molester. It is a nice thing
to make people aware. She is after
the molesters who drive thru a town
and will see her ribbons and etc.
Telling them to move on. Sadly, the
drive thru molesters, are in the low
percentage. It is the friend (?) of the
family or the family members them
selves who make up the bigger
part of the percentage.

SOAP BOX Revisited

I wrote this to another blog
a year or so ago.

And it still bothers me that
Boise is passing a law against
marriages for gays. We all
know that most of Idaho is run
by the Boise set, and that there
is a heavy religious set down there,
that rules us. But I was hoping
that the politicians would stand
up for a union ceremony at least
for the gays.
So here was my opinion last year...
and it still stands.

There are 3 types of marriages.
A. The one in a religious house
(depending on which religion it is)
and headed by the head religious
person.(Priest,Rabbi and etc.)

B. The one where a minister
marries people in their yards,
parks, mountains, underwater, or
while sky diving.

C. one called the Civil Union
done by a Justice of Peace, Judge,
or even a mayor.

A and B involve God.
C. is done by the words of: By the
power given me by the State of (fill in)
you are now married.

Each of these has had their fair
share of divorces. A. probably has
the least, but not by a lot. All have
been gone into, what we hope, are good
intentional people. Good decent
people. People who just want to live
with someone they love and hope to
protect legally. Those who go by God,
either understand the gay life,or chose
not to understand. And some have
the Service idea of "don't tell me and I
won't ask you" way.

The truth of the matter is, gay life
coming out of the closet and choosing
to try to put it back in, is like
trying to put tooth paste back into
the tube. Can't be done and most
really don't want try to do that. So
what about gay's, aren't they entitle
to have some kind of a legal protection
for their love ones?

C. Civil Union seems to be the answer
as they aren't involving God. I really
don't know what the answer is. But I
do feel that there should not be a law,
especially an Amendment to the
Constitution forbidding ones rights
over another, as long as there
is no harm. Gays have been together,
for over 100 years or even more.
Just now they are asking for a
commitment that is legal to protect
them legally in hospitals, (to see their
love ones, as most only let in relatives)
and financially. They too just want
to commit to some one they love.
When do they get to be treated the
same as the rest of the Americans in
this country?

Soap Box..Not Seeing Eye to Eye

I sure am not seeing eye to eye
with the politicians.

The King brought home the local
fish wrapping paper. Others call
it the Bee. In there are the words
of wisdom of one Ray Miller the
mayor of Sandpoint. In his great
wisdom he wants to lease the
Memorial Field to the
Lake Pend Oreille School District.
Because he figures it will take
$500,000 to renovate the grandstands.
He is figuring out a 20 year lease for
LPOSD.

His words of wisdom are:
"We could put this burden on the
taxpayers, but working without
a long -term lease with
the school district seems like a
better way to go"

Well, to me, I don't know...but
the school district is paid for by
taxpayers. Isn't it? So be it the
city or school.. it is a taxpayer.
Of course, what he is after, is the
county taxpayer rather than the city.

So I got to ask.. We are on the
edge of being levied again for
a facility bond for increased school
room. This time around it is going
to be a doozy. See the school says
they can't add on to the high school.
No room they say.

So that means the school district is
going to buy land. Oh, that ought
to be a doozy. At the prices of land
now? Then build a whole new school.
And that is all the talk right now.

But what about the rest of the schools?
You know the middle school isn't going
to be big enough. So will they shift to
the high school we have now? And
then you have all the elementary
schools. The Kootenai school is
stretched to the playyard in to 3
modular units.
This is the surprise at the end
of the tunnel we are going
thru now.

And they want us to take over
the Memorial Field? Well, if
the school has $500,000 to
throw at a grandstand, then
they won't need so much for
their levee right?

And in the background
raving up their engines
is the Rec. bill, being
rebuilt with a outside
Management company.
Who is going to change
enough of the 5,000
people's minds to pass
it.

Well, guys, if you have
that kind of money, put it
into the building. Also you
might learn a lesson from
the soccer field off Hwy 95.

You know the one everyone
was all pumped up to have.
The land owner even gave the
land to them, (lucky for him,
with a cause to say it returns
to him, if it isn't used). A contractor
brought out gravel and etc. for
the field. Does any one
care that it isn't used anymore?
At least the owner gets it back
.
But the nice deeds of those who
DID NOT ask the taxpayer to pay
for that, has gone to the wayside.
(Maybe they can talk to Floyd and
see if he will donate the land to the
school district in trade off for his name
on the school. McGee High School,
does have a nice ring to it.)

So how long before the GREY
Elephant in Kootenai will go there
too, with the taxpayers money.
And when he sells it, will he give
the taxpayers money back.
Yea, right.

And then there is Bush's great
plan to sell 26,000 acres in Idaho
alone. Not counting Washington
and California land. For what? To
pay for backwoods schools and
roads. ( we don't qualify)Yea, and
he has some riverfront property
for sale for you in New Orleans. .

Weekend with Rokon

staying close to the deck, just in case