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They can take my computer when they pry my cold dead hands from my keyboard...er, my mouse.

This has been around a while, but it reflects exactly how I feel today:

The Modern Little Red Hen

Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered some grains of wheat. She called here neighbors and said, "If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"

"Not I," said the cow.

"Not I," said the duck.

"Not I," said the pig.

"Not I," said the goose.

"Then I will," said the little red hen. And she did. The wheat grew tall and ripened into golden grain. "Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen.

"Not I," said the duck.

"Out of my classification," said the pig.

"I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.

"Then I will," said the little red hen, and she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread. "Who will help me bake the bread?" asked the little red hen.

"That would be overtime for me," said the cow.

"I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.

"I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.

"If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose.

"Then I will," said the little red hen. She baked five loaves and held them up for her neighbors to see.

They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, "No, I can eat the five loaves."

"Excess profits!" cried the cow.

"Capitalist leech!" screamed the duck.

"I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose.

And the pig just grunted. And they painted "unfair" picket signs and marched round and round the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

When the government agent came, he said to the little red hen, "You must not be greedy."

"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.

"Exactly, said the agent, "that is the wonderful free enterprise system. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide their product with the idle."

And they lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, "I am grateful. I am grateful."

But her neighbors wondered why she never again baked any more bread.

Support Senate Bill 30.
It will restrict school district superintendent contracts in Arkansas to 2 years. Most local districts don't have enough money to buy out a superintendent's salary for three years.

Who all has tried Cantina Laredo and what were your thoughts?

I went the other night with a group after we decided that Pei Wei was way too crowded and we likely would have a long wait for a table. Since it was everyone's first time here, we did order the "create a guacamole" or whatever it is called option. That had to have been the most bland and most expensive guacamole on the planet. We ordered it with all the sides which supposedly had jalapenos, but there was no spice at all to the concoction. I had the Puerto Vallarta, which was pretty good, except for the beef taco al carbon. One person had the Tacos Cascabel and said it was really good and spicy!

It seems a little pricey and not very "Mexican". I still prefer Casa Manana and their great margaritas!

Cantina Laredo has become a favorite of ours, CammackLife. We like the ambiance and have also found the service to be very good and attentive. We've tried a number of the entrees and liked them all. The table-prepared guacamole option has never appealed to us, thus we've never ordered it. We've complained twice to our waiter that the margaritas were too weak. The second time, we were brought another one, on the house, and it was per-fec-toe! But it galls us that we had to complain. The place is a bit pricey (I suppose some would say), but what th' hell: I mean, who's counting when you're out having a good time with people ya love?!

Try a Cantina Laredo elsewhere -- they're great, worth every penny. But this one, maybe because it's new, just doesn't do it for me. Bland, lukewarm food and lackluster service. But every other one I've been to was nice, so maybe this one will get into the groove soon.

I agree with CammackLife. I'll take Casa Manana over Cantina Laredo anytime. The food was good but overpriced.

I'm gonna worry hell out of Frenchie at midnight..........break out the whistles, balloons and

party hats......................

ONE MORE WEEK...............ONE MORE WEEK

---borrowed----

People are asking if Bush accomplished anything good during his presidency.
The answer is - Yes!
One thing he did was that he utterly destroyed the Republican Party.

All the myths that Republicans are fiscal conservatives are gone.
The idea that Republicans are better for the economy proved wrong.
Trickle down economics and tax cuts for the rich completely discredited.
Privatizing Social Security is now a joke.

Do the clicky

Back in the good old days when the wimmens' place was in the kitchen.

Cato,

Did you hear or see his last press conference today?

I had the TV on while I sorted items for Goodwill and to pack for a move. I did not pay perfect attention, but to summarize the repeated theme. It was not his fault.

He still likes the White House Press corps despite some the articles and questions.

He inherited all the economic problems and did his best to reverse it when his experts told him he was facing a depression.

It was wrong to post a banner saying "Mission Accomplished" on the superstructure of the carrier on that date.

He regrets Katrina, but doesn't know what he could have done better. If he had landed Air Force One it would have drawn away badly needed police and officials to his group.

He believes that despite all the critics comments that the U.S. is still thought of throughout the world as the leader in promoting Democracy, Justice and Morality.

He believes that the ". . . homeland . . ." is still under imminent threat of terrorist attack and that Obama must beware.

I can not wait for the next 7 days 15 hours and 40 minutes to pass, after 2915 days, 8 hours and 18 minutes George W. "All Hat No Cattle" Bush still does not have a clue.

I also noticed that he will hold a farewell prime-time national address on Thursday. Will the theme "It's not my fault and I didn't pay attention to polls or critics because the presidency is not a popularity contest." be continued?

Click for the transcript and a video

Cammack - went there Saturday for lunch with the family for the first time.

I'm with Mean Girl, lukewarm food just doesn't turn me on. The guacamole was ok, but not as good as my 19 year old boasted it would be.

I do agree with Durango that the ambiance and service were very good.

I'm with "Norma Bates Award Winner," CammackLife.

Casa Manana's still my favorite.

My ONE experience with Cantina Laredo was superlative, however.

Food? Outstanding. Service? Off the chain. Atmosphere? Upscale West Coast. Prices? Somebody else's tab. So of course I loved it.

EVERYBODY mentions the prices. But like they say, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

Meanwhile I've enjoyed my three-day post-New Year's excursion in Destin, planning my trip to the Obama Inaugural with my well-connected friend -- let's call her "Daphne."

I may have made a mistake in letting Daphne's local "stylist," Sigfried, re-do my hair which, every time I look in the mirror, screams Post-Apocalyptic Cyndi Lauper Colorist Meets Marie Osmond Salt Lake City Shears, but what can I do since it took place in a haze of Destin-infused margaritas (beach sand? thongs? I am NOT going there) and we only have a week before D.C. so Joel can't do a thing with it before the MTV Inaugural gala, which is the main thing except for the actual Inauguration with Obama and the Dueling Revs (Warren and Robinson) who, you know, are blessing Both Teams, which is SO inclusive and which I'll watch on TV like everybody else.

Stoked about this historic inauguration, I returned to Little Rock today only to discover that former Governor Mike Huckabee is opposed to sodomy. Which is to say, oral and anal sex. At clicky.

Impressed as I am with Mike's impeccable timing -- you know, publicizing his sexual obsessions just before Obama's Big Important Inauguration and everything -- I'm still dismayed that Huckabee has slammed-shut the doors, so to speak, on two of American's most popular frolicsome pastimes.

On further consideration, however, based on TMI from Huckabee, and the resulting nightmarish images of him and Janet and stuff, I'd just as soon he never brought it up. I'd never thought about it before.

But now that he's tripping on it, I can't help picturing it and it's all too horrible and stuff and the only thing in life I can depend on is that he and Janet won't be in D.C. at the same time I am.

Much less at the MTV Inaugural ball.

As always, I try to look on the bright side.

Doc, I can't stand to watch the man. He strutted around at one time, braying he didn't care how history judged him and now he and all the Busheviks are in an unending endeavor these last few days to revise history so he will be viewed in a brighter light. He must have read a chronology of Richard Nixon's last years as he attempted to re-invent himself, to no avail. It won't work for W. either.

el clicko for some Monday night entertainment. This guy is almost as cool as I am with the cards.

Doc, you will appreciate this clicky

That pretty much summed up Monkeyboy's take on things, doc. Even after eight years of his arrogant nonsensical crap...I can't believe the stuff that flowed from his obviously truth-challenged brain today. He 'regretted not finding wmds'...not that he started a war based on those wmd lies, but that there weren't any wmds. (I'd argue a sane person would be happy that Saddam, or any other slimy dictator, didn't have wmds...but what do I know...being a lefty extremist and a flaming feminist.) And his big regret about Katrina turned out to not even be a regret...he regretted that he didn't do what he shouldn't have done. His truth is, once again, that he regretted that people (the liberal media, of course) didn't understand that he'd really done the right thing by flying on by. Sheesh...when you're that clueless in hindsight the Supreme Court should have know better than to steal a presidency for you.

Somehow I'm not surprised that Huck is opposed to sex...other than the boring missionary gotta-do-it-with-Janet kind. Personally...I think we need lots more sex...all kinds of healthy between consenting fun adults kind. The world would be a much nicer, more satisfied place...and minus some perverts, too. (Sexual repression is unhealthy and leads to sexual perversions...and sanctimonious boring people.)

It sure was rotten of Bill to leave that big ole pile of mess to poor Monkeyboy, cato.

Whoopee...I'm up past ten. CiCi will have to take the morning shift on her own...she can do it!

Thanks Zelda. I am more firmly convinced than ever his development was arrested at age five. His excuses and rationalizations remind me of my great nephew, when caught, who started kindergarten last fall.

And Cato, it is not appetizing, but we have to know our opposition. I firmly believe that part of clueless' ability to get elected was from our failure to confront he and his Rovian delusions with dispassionate truth and facts from the beginning. And somehow we need to promote and spread the idea to the CCRRR's that intelligence is not an un-american activity.

And to make it even more imperative, we don't have Molly Ivins, among others, to help us any more. So I gird my stomach and try to listen to Bush and the Busheviks. Hearing talkers early is to be forearmed.

Oops! Thanks for the cartoon, Cato. It is indicative of his responses.

I had to go an get my reading glasses to read it. Either my bifocal contacts need strengthen or more probably I've got to find out how to make Firefox show them enlarged or with a viewer that allows temproary enlargement.

Great one, Cato.
I watched Bush's last news conference this morning until I threw a shoe at the TV and went to work. Sarah Palin could have done better.

The New U.S. Senate took a giant step today and passed the first bill of the new Senate..

......................TOMNIBUS BILL.....

which combined 160 Bills which Sen Tom Coburn, Rwing-OK, had opposed. It was passed on a Sunday. It's the largest expansion of the Wilderness Bill in history.

Rachel's report is on eLwood.

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181 hours, 25 min, 15 sec

THE ICONOCLAST grabbed a BIG ONE with this:

"The Benton County Daily Record breaks the story with the headline, "Former Saddam Advisor Says Iraq Had WMDs." This we know, because the BCDR tells us so.

Georges Sada, described as a "former advisor to Saddam Hussein" and "the retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force", yesterday told the congregation of the Rogers First Church of the Nazarene that weapons of mass destruction not only existed, but they were all transported to Syria in 2002....

a must read, it's on the blue clicky eLwood..

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Doc:

Hold down "Ctrl" while hitting "+", and that will enlarge stuff on the screen. To reduce, it's "Ctrl" and "-"

Oowee...I'm drunk with bigness...thanks, cammack! These computers are amazing creatures...always popping out new things...even when I haven't mastered much of the old things. Wonder what other new-fangled treats are awaiting me...

Are you out there, CiCi?

Joke of the Day..."Drunk"

When Mozart passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Mozart was buried.
Terrified, the drunk ran and got the town magistrate to come and listen to it.

When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Mozart's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."

He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling."

So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh... the Sixth... the Fifth..."

Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about. It's just Mozart decomposing."

I love how Verizon is tap dancing around the fact that Little Rock is fixing to lose 2500+ high paying jobs in the next 6 months and the impact it will have on the city's tax base. Also it will be easier to find a foreclosed home in West LR that is for sure.....

Mornin', Mz Z!! I can't believe all your drunken struttin' last night and this AM..... Woopeeee!

Sorry I didn't hear the bugle call to service, but I'm nothing if I'm not OC and I've been on a project for days. Being all Virgo in some ways and totally non-Virgo in others, I find that once started a project can't be abandoned even for food or rest (well, with the possible exception of the blog check-in a couple of times daily) until finished. My house is a wreck and every dish we own is in the dishwasher, but the project is almost done.....

I did watch Junior's press conference. I have spent years muting the sound on my TV each time his face appeared for fear I would hear his voice and vomit, but knowing he's almost out the door, I don't seem to mind listening so much and I'm even a little curious once again as to the truth of him, his thought process, what he really thinks and if his mother beat him as a child. So, I listened and expected men in white uniforms to come from behind the curtain at any moment to throw on the straight jacket and mercifully take him away. But, alas, we played the game of let's pretend one last time - he loved his country and its people so much that he protected it, even if it didn't appreciate his care and devotion. He, alone, was the only one who remembered the horror of 9-11 and he alone heard the voice of God telling him what was best. He alone cared about the soldiers who died and he alone worried at night about another attack and prevented it with his mighty sword. We can rest assured that when people in other lands march in the streets and burn our flag, it is because they respect us so much and know to the bottom of their hearts that we are a good, kind and compassionate people and those who saw Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as cruel just don't remember what the omnipotent one remembers.

Never have I witnessed such mass insanity as we listen to talking heads giving a naked emperor the benefit of the doubt. After all, he must be clothed and sane, it is we who are blind and stupid. Anything else would be unthinkable.

My contribution to today's humor......

Two hillbillies walk into a restaurant. While having a bite to eat, they talk about their moonshine operation.

Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough. After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in
real distress. One of the hillbillies looks at her and says,
'Kin ya swallar?'

The woman shakes her head no.

Then he asks, 'Kin ya breathe?'

The woman begins to turn blue and shake s her head no.

The hillbilly walks over to the woman, lifts up her dress, yanks down her drawers and quickly gives her right butt cheek a lick with his tongue.
The woman is so shocked that she has a violent spasm and the obstruction flies out of her mouth.
As she begins to breathe again, the Hillbilly walks slowly back to his table.

His partner says, 'Ya know, I'd heerd of that there 'Hind Lick Maneuver' but I ain't niver seed nobody do it!'

...a fitting close to this thread...
;>)