road trip'n

here are a few highlights of our
1st annual 
winter-time road trip...

 (part 1)
(click on any image for a larger view)

day one: on our way to Page, Arizona

day two: on our way to Williams, Arizona

and then...

ta daa!

  

The Grandest Canyon in the World

...to be continued

mom, calves and engagment rings

My mom, " she's a class act"...sorry for the poor audio/video, but I grabbed the closest devise I had...(a cell phone)

did you enjoy that as much as I did? =D

have you ever wondered what students do...

in public schools, on the day before christmas winter vacation?

    a little of this....

and a little of that...

but mostly,

 this...

...and that!

happy holidays!

~susan

sometimes I really wish...

I could just quit my job, stay home and watch c-span. 
These guys totally crack me up.

Oh...Honorable Senator Franken, you are truly a breath of fresh air!

Ooohhhh...sen lieberman, you are soooo lucky to be recognized at all.

Oh...sen mccain...you are such an old finger-wagging wind bag; just get over yourself.

le marchand de la mort est mort

 

 Le marchand de la mort est mort.

  (The merchant of death is dead.) 

 This premature obituary went on to say...

"Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."

 

The problem was, Alfred Noble, the renown Swedish dynamite inventor, capitalist, mercenary and industrialist, was not yet dead and totally appalled by this premature scathing obituary (wouldn't you be?). 

Therefore, on  November 27th 1895 he established the Nobel Peace Prize; thus guaranteeing people would say really nice things about him once he became really dead (2 years later). 
                      

... and here we are,

115 years later...

written by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired


 I suggest you add this book to your happy holiday merry christmas reading list.

a dozen doesn'ts

doesn't reverse our dependency on foreign oil. 
            

                   doesn't win the hearts and minds of the afghan people.

                   

doesn't make karzai's government more legitimate.
               

 doesn't change pakistan's reluctance to root-out al-qaeda.                                                  

doesn't make americans safer over here,

                                                                   

doesn't stop islamic terrorism over there.
          

doesn't make US military body-bags obsolete.     

doesn't hold the pentagon accountable.    

doesn't reverse eight long years of the obscene bush preemptive strike doctrine.

 

doesn't relieve our over-stressed, over-deployed military personal.

doesn't reverse our ominous deficit spending.

doesn't make two wrongs right.

   #13. doesn't make sense....gratuitous baker's dozen

 

As General McChrystal pointed out in his renegade London speech concerning Afghanistan...

 "the outcomes of actions we take, however well-intended, are often different from what we expect."