Am I the only one wishing Waxman eats LOTS of fatty food? Now?

What an imbecile, errrr… socialist imbecile.

Have a safe and thoughtful Veterans day today.
My nephew received a wonderful sendoff to his new life yesterday, with the governor and US Senators, Generals and just people who wanted to say “thank you for your service”.
Say “hi” and “Thank you for our freedom” to as many vets and active duty military as you can today; with the election results, and the democrats’ plan for total withdrawal/redeployment in the next 8 months, I am concerned about the future.
flygal

We need a poll!

What will they do first?

Get Bolton out of the U.N.?
Outlaw the sale of firearms and/or ammunition?
Start a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq?
Raise taxes?
Raise the minimum wage?
Renew their efforts for “Fairness in Braodcasting”?
Initiate impeachment proceedings?
Close down funding for I.N.S.?

There are so many things, so many, and no one to say, “NO!”

Aggie_daddy,
Henry Waxman just answered part of your question:

LOS ANGELES — The Democratic congressman who will investigate the Bush administration’s running of the government says there are so many areas of possible wrongdoing, his biggest problem will be deciding which ones to pursue.

There’s the response to Hurricane Katrina, government contracting in Iraq and on homeland security, political interference in regulatory decisions by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, and allegations of war profiteering.

“I’m going to have an interesting time because the Government Reform Committee has jurisdiction over everything. The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose.”

He is probably licking his chops, feeling like he has died and gone to heaven!!

Unfortunately this is the real world, and all his actions will have consequences for the rest of us.

flygal

Wish I had known about your nephew. I would have gone to the services. Again, my deepest condolences to you and your family.

Neocon,

Thanks; his services were in Rhode Island, where he lived. I didn’t want to bring it up again, but since it is vet’s day, I wanted to tie up all the ends for all of you who have been so wonderful. I have sent all your comments to his family, who also say thanks for your thoughts and prayers.

flygal
#6

It was totally appropriate to “bring it up again” IMHO. May he rest in peace.

Response to glynne’s comment,

Fine, IDs are not constitutional. But both of you have not given a solution for illegal voting and illegal aliens. Or do you even care to solve the problem? Oh, too busy bowing down before the constitution to care. Sorry, being a smart guy now.

You’re going about this all wrong. You want to burden the 300 million of us here legally with a national id like its the be-all end-all answer, while destroying the founding documents. I say attack the problem, not the citizens. Let’s start by locking down the border. Then eliminate sanctuary policies across the country. Then eliminate all government programs for non-citizens. States should require voters to produce a state-issued picture ID (DL) before voting, just like I have to do to cash a check or get on a plane. Most importantly, and it would not shred the constitution, all non-citizens must have a National ID proving that they are here legally before they’re allowed to drive, wire money, work, etc. Hell, put a chip in ‘em! Any employer hiring someone without this ID would be subject to fines and imprisonment.

Look, we all agree that these things are problems. But a national ID isn’t going to solve them. And I don’t think I’m “bowing down” by wanting to save the document that is the basis of our great country.

flygal, Thanks for the up-date, our prayers are with you and your family. The date was certainly appropriate. BTW; Did anyone set up a memorial or web page?

Okay, here’s some really grass roots - HAMOUS FOR PRESIDENT!

Mornin all and my prayers are with you and the family, flygal.
I second that vote for HAMOUS LOL.

aggie dad here is some thoughts
Get Bolton out of the U.N.?

they will do this with no trades.
Outlaw the sale of firearms and/or ammunition?

they will not be able to do this.

Start a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq?
Raise taxes?

they wll set into motion raising taxes in some different directions. ie oil windfall
withdrawing from iraq will take center stage but some of these terror comments have startled them imo. they will do cautiously.

Raise the minimum wage?

this will be used to trade something by the republicans. it really wont matter - no one will work for minimum wage we now have.

Renew their efforts for “Fairness in Braodcasting”?

how can it be more fair for them than it already is?

Initiate impeachment proceedings?

yep!

Close down funding for I.N.S.?

questionable - but probabaly not to many conservative dems to deal with. i just wish the boarder states would send them a bill for the dispropotionate cost of the illegals we have.

The Truth Laid Bear http://truthlaidbear.com/gopleadershipquestions.php

The GOP Leadership Elections

On Friday, November 17th, the Republican members in the House of Representatives will convene to elect their new leadership. Before that happens, right-leaning bloggers have invited each candidate to participate in a conference call interview to present their agenda and answer bloggers’ questions.

Please check it out, you can add questions and/or vote on existing questions. Let’s get in front of this stuff, the right people in these positions and out there communicating will go a long way.

Everyone see Jaime’s comments #182 & 183 from Friday’s Open Comments Thread - posted this morning!

JAIME FOR VICE PRESIDENT!

#10 Neo: If he wasn’t a Gator, I might could vote for him!

There ya go, Malcolm, trying your personal smear tactics on someone who is really out there with the issues! hee hee!

Mornin’ Emme! What a beautiful day we have been blessed with!

Happy Birthday Malcolm and Sunny! You don’t look a day older than what you were last year.

Also, happy birthday today to my little sister, Leisa! She’ll never be able to catch up with me!

Neo, emme - I’m humbled and flattered, but I’m afraid I would not be “diplomatic” enough to even run for dog catcher.

#15 - Hey, I’m rooting for the Hogs today Malcolm. Hell, I’m fryin’ up some “rind-on” bacon as we speak!

Happy Birthday, Malcolm! I had a few champers for you…and some more for me!

Hey, Neo! Thank you! I’ve had a wonderful day and night…my first guests arrived at 11am…my last guest left at 12.20am! And I’m still standing…well…sitting at the computer! Great fun was had by all!

By the way, it is now 1.30am 12th here!

Thanks Neo!
Oh Yeah! Thanks for the compliment! I can’t tell a days difference either!

Happy Birthday to Malcolm and Sunny, and Happy Veterans’ Day to all you vets. Thanks from the bottom of my heart for all you do, and all you have done to make this country strong and to keep this country safe.

Can’t we all just get along? Gators and Hogs ain’t that different from each other. Both their skins make some nice leather. Both are tasty. They both have big teeth. Both like to kick Vol butt.

#25 Hammy:
This sounds like diplomacy to me! OK, I’ll vote for you when the HOGS beat Tennessee and LSU!

To all: Thanks so very much for your Happy Birthday wishes! May all of yours be as special as mine has already!

Thanks to the Veterans, I can post to a blog and have my right of free speech.

Now if I can just get HAL to cooperate

Okay, now that I have gotten over the “thumpin’”, I want to determine the interest in a grassroots EFFORT to get our lame-brained politicians back to speaking for their constituency and not getting rich from the special interest lobbyists.

I want to see one vote for one bill. No attached riders, no midnight meetings and no special called sessions where we wake up and our “leaders” have all gotten raises.
We the taxpayers pay these guys enough money as it is. They have huge expense accounts, give their staff raises that we again pay for and don’t know if the people are even “working”.
If the politicians deserve more money, allow the taxpayers to vote raises on a merit basis.
I am sick to the point of a damned near civil unrest. These PC bastards read something in the paper and feel that it is gospel without any investigation. How many ever read a single bill that is presented to them in its entirety. Hell how many registered voters know what they are voting on.

How would we begin a charge that would make the politicians answer to the people again and not the special interests?

I am going to send blasts to as many local, state, and federal people that I can. I am not expecting much in the manner of response other than automated responses.

Since Dan Patrick is not one of my elected officials and I am not politically connected I need some advice from someone who is and I would like to know if this is a screwed up idea or if there is a chance in hell that we can stop this eventual train wreck.

I know that history repeats itself (a la the Roman Empire) but I also know that it doesn’t have to.

Damn I need some guidance

One more Malcolm! Happy Belly Button Birthday!
In honor of your birthday I am going to stock up on keyboards for the coming year, to always have a replacement for the ones your jokes cause to have coffee spewed upon! Thank you my friend!

You too Sunny, Happy Birthday down under! Glad you enjoyed your day with friends!

#26 - Yeah, it was a little diplomatic. But then I’d follow it up with something like:

Gators eat Hogs, but Hogs can’t eat Gators. Boo-ya!

and ruin any chances of election.

#13. GREAT POST. Everybody needs to go check this out and post your questions.
FLYGAL: Sorry for your loss, please pass on my condolences and thanks for service to your nephew family.

#29 hammy:
I don’t know anyone in his right mind that would want to, even a hog! Most everyone loves HOGS! Even you! Why even your name starts with ham!There’s pork roast, pork chops, pork loins, pork steaks, bacon, pork jowls, honey baked ham, country stlye pork ribs, sliced ham sandwiches, pork egg foo young, pork fried rice, BBQ pork ribs, baby back ribs, breakfast pork chops, pork shoulder roast,etc. Never heard of any of those on a gator ‘ceptin’ someone mentioning gator stew. What’s that taste like, Chicken? I know what chickens sound like!

Hammy: re your post #161 on yesterday’s open comments thread…I can say without equivocation, that I had rather hear 75,000 Razorback fans yelling to the top of their lungs, “Whooooo Pig Sooooooie!” than the same number of Gator fans grunting like the Gator sound on your post #161!
PS I’m still voting for you for President ’cause your rooting for the Hogs to beat Tennessee. Do you know what a volunteer sounds like? Something like: ” Oooooh Ooooooh pick me -pick-me?” That would be a hoot at a ballgame, Huh?

News Alert

Oscar winner Jack Palance dead at 87

One of my all time favorite actors, RIP.

Here’s a fun card someone just sent me!
http://www.star28.net/snow.html

#9 Dave D
You asked if there was a memorial page for Michael:
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/extra/terror/tribute/view.cgi?id=15598

Here is a link to his funeral:
http://www.projo.com/extra/2003/iraq/content/WEIDEMANN11_11-11-06_462QN94.34aa258.html
email is flygal234@aol.com; password michael

#32 - Malcolm, there’s fried gator, gator stew, gator courtbullion, blackened gator, gator steak, gator etouffee, gator jambalya. And to answer your question, gator tastes like…well…gator. That’s like asking what does hog taste like.

Btw, I was working somewhere around Eldorado, Ark. one summer back in the early ’80s. I went into a little country store and the owner had two 2×3′ pictures on the wall behind the counter right next to each other. One was Jesus Christ and the other was Lou Holtz. Being the smart-assed youth that I was I asked him which one he worshiped the most. He didn’t take to kindly to that. Man they take their football seriously up there!

Everything tastes like chicken if you cook it right. Except beef and pork.And maybe lamb and fish. Oh nevermind.

What ever happened to Tbone???

http://crass.on.ru/flash/aaa-1.html

Funny. Fire button is to the right

Can’t remember where I ran across this.

Now now #32 and #36, just because the Heisenberg Odd Meat Principle’s default taste setting is chicken, doesnt mean it HAS to taste like chicken…

What do chickens compare tastes to?

worms.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/10281643/detail.html

#42 marc

It was Rudolph’s daddy just shopping for interactive toys! Cuz ya know… all of the other reindeer won’t let Rudolph join in any reindeer games…

That’s the problem with reindeer games. They leave the athletically-challenged reindeer with a feeling of inadequacy that can scar them for life. We should at least stop the macho practice of keeping score and give every reindeer a trophy at the end of reindeer game season.

Yum Yum, barbeque reindeer taste like chicken, no, more like elk, or was that moose.

Sigh, doctor says I gotta eat chicken and fish.

So does it count if you eat things that taste like chicken?

Well, rattlesnake tastes like fishey chicken, so I guess that counts.

I refuse to eat Possum or racoon.

I’ve tasted raccoon. Too greasy for me. I saw a possum crawl out of dead cow one time. I’ll never eat one of them.

Betcha worms tastes like chicken.

Anyone need a Davy Crockett hat?
Please bring trap, bait and sharp knife

Bring wife too…they are better at knife work.

Possums are rats on steroids. Racoons are like possums only with a cute face and nice hair.

Last time I went camping, I made the mistake of feeding a racoon, alone by the campfire. Next thing I knew, I was surrounded by all their brothers and cousins and they weren’t so cute and friendly. OK. Racoons are like illegal immigrants.

oops. Did I say that outloud?

Elizabeth-55

Here are ours. This is Stormy’s blog.

http://cabinwood.blogspot.com/2006/06/cave-procyon-lotor.html

And yes we moved from a brick house in Houston to a metal barn in ‘00. We have 16+ AC of jungle.

OK,… Here goes, gator tastes like the white meat of a chicken only a little bit fishy and tough. Deer tastes like goat, very lean and a little bit stringy, no fat. East Texas deer eat acorns which gives them a slightly gamey taste, which I like. Wild turkeys have almost no breast and taste like a turkey only a little gamey because of the acorns that they eat. Possum tastes just like pork only very lean. Coon tastes like dog? I’ve never eaten a dog, but coon is red and stringy and usually very fat. I don’t like it. Rabbit is a little like chicken breast, very white and somewhat dry, also very bland (no gamey taste). Frog legs are white like chicken but with a strange texture and no fishy taste, and very good. Three bull frogs will feed most folks, their hind legs are big. Armadillo’s are said to taste like possum, I’ve never had the pleasure, so I don’t know, anyone know? Elk is almost like beef, not at all like deer, but usually very lean. The best wild game that I’ve ever eaten is,…(drum roll please), Squirrel, as long as they are young and still tender. I was born and raised in Alabama, (I’m sure that none of you folks would have guessed that), and I’ve lived in Florida, Georgia, and Kansas (don’t ask), and I’ve been in the great state of “TAXES” for 24 years. Before my Daddy died, every year that I could make it home in November, My Dad would save up a half a dozen of the youngest squirrels for when I came home. He would invite my Lil’ Sister over, and we would have fried squirrel and gravy and grits with home made biscuits for breakfast. My friends, it doesn’t get any better than that! The only thing that comes close is a mess O’ bream outta the farm pond, fried with hush puppies, cole slaw, fresh Vidalia onions and dill pickles.
DAMN is it just me or is it getting hungry in here!

#58 marc
Well shucks, we be kindred spirits. We too moved to the country ’bout that time from Mo. City. Even if we won the lottery, I wouldn’t want to live any other way. You and I are either very lucky and smart or nuts…

Anyone know what Sarge is up to? I want to wish him a happy Veterans Day. You too Soldier Mom.

I just finished watching “Full Metal Jacket” the past week for the first time. Suck A$$ john kerry.
The film had some good stage settups of DaNang. Memories.

#55 Elizabeth A raccoon is kin to a badger; it’s one of the meanest animals, pound for pound, the planet. I’ve seen a coon whoop 4 coon dogs and walk away.

Elizebeth and Marc, Ya’ll are very smart, by the time I get back to the old home place in Alabama, I’ll be 60+.

Dave,
Why are the best things to eat also the cutest things - like rabbits and squirrels? (Have never eaten either.) Possums and armadillos should atleast make up in taste value for their lack of sight appeal.
In the 1920’s my grandmother routinely shot, fried and fed her brood of boys squirrel for breakfast, and I remember FREAKING OUT when I first heard that. (She also pond fished which is where I suppose I inherited the love of it and the ability to feed an army with little.)
Also, I’m not picky and I truly wish I liked the taste of venison, but I promise you - all I have ever tried tasted gamey and gritty. Is it an
acquired” taste or is there a way to process it so it has the more “smooth” flavor and texture of pork or beef?
I love hearing your stories and you obviously know good food! Yes, you can make a crowd HUNGRY!

Dave,

I am 60+ and I’m right where I wanted to be for 30 years or so. Go for your dream man.

marc,
Sarge’s son is here visiting. They are at the movies now - seeing Flags Of Our Fathers. We are going out for dinner when they get back. I’ll forward your regards and thank you.

Elizabeth

When my dad was growing up, his dad would give him a half dozen .22 rounds and he expected a half dozen squirrels back or there was hell to pay. I’ve eaten squirrel a couple times and it is good. They are tough to clean tho. I just feed them to the stray cat now.

Commercial rabbit is tasty, not as gamey as wild.
My mom would cook wild rabbit for us kids after soaking in something, never learned the formula, but remember the sage flavor. that was good.

While I was at DaNang the cooks served us commercially grown rabbit. The first time, I thought it was fried chicken. I sat down, stared at my plate and thought…Hmmmm something don’t look right. None of the pieces were shaped right.
I had weird thoughts like what is this???
My Buds were watching me and nearly died laughing.
It was really good rabbit though.

Well, we go eat Cuban tonight. More strange (to me) food.

Interesting site about Kilroy was here, accounts by WW II veterans, and civilians recalling life on the home front.

http://www.kilroywashere.org/

One vet’s account from that site.

http://www.kilroywashere.org/003-Pages/Hoffman/03-Harm–Hoffman.html

2nd link doesn’t work, guess you have to go through the home page first.

Getting ready for a new Republican President in
2008.

Republicans cannot do the customary “line of succession”, if they do it will be John McCain and
for my money he has as much chance as Bob Dole did.

I am writing the new Republican National Chairman to let him know that if he wants my vote the man running will be a solid dependable conservative.

I’m not voting for a “moderate”.

Elizabeth and marc,
Squirrels are very good but if they get to old they’re almost too tough to eat, we would smother fry the old ones. As for rabbit, I’ve never had a rabbit that any gamey taste at all, of course we only ate cotton tails, never swamp rabbits, (much bigger) and of course, I’ve never had a Jackrabbit, it’s not a rabbit at all, it’s kin to a deer/goat.
marc My Dad was the same way, if you popped a cap, they’d better be meat in the pot, they never ever wasted ammo. To this day, I love to take my boy out and burn 500 rounds of 22’s, ($10.00 bucks maybe), or a few hundred rounds of “roll your own 44’s”, or some surplus 223’s. In the depression a lot of folks, even in the cities had no meat unless it came from the woods.
I’ve mentioned the old home place that I own in Alabama before, and I have no idea when it was built, but I do know that my great grandfather moved into the house in 1878. After he moved to town and became a Probate Judge, he sold the place to his third son, my grandfather. My grandfather raised king cotton as his cash crop, corn to feed the mules and sugar cane to use as sugar (they used cane syrup as sugar because they couldn’t afford real sugar). One year when he still owed the bank money to buy the place, he had a very bad year. He sold his mules and had the corn ground up into corn meal, he and my grandma (Momma Loney), ate fried corn bread and molasses for the whole winter, they killed a chicken on Sundays, sometimes, and had a little wild game. The next spring my Grandpa borrowed a mule late in the season and got a loan from the Bank of Ozark and bought seeds. He later paid off the farm and told my Daddy that there would never, ever, be a mortgage of his farm again,…Can anyone within in the sound of my voice, me included, have a story that comes close to this! I think not, we’re a bunch of wimps, we haven’t a clue as to, how the cow eats the cabbage! My Daddy grew up during the depression and they never noticed it, they were poor and everyone that they knew was poor, but they had their land, and plenty to eat, just no money, they bartered a lot. Also the Gub’ment didn’t tax them out of their place. My GrandPa had about $400 in the bank when the crash came and he lost it all, his life savings. $420 would buy you a new Model-T Ford in those times.
Memory Lane, I hope I never forget, my kids will not.
BTW; The old home place;

http://family.webshots.com/photo/1516053750042337214mnhRdl

#64 Elizabeth, You said, “Why are the best things to eat also the cutest things - like rabbits and squirrels?”
Well, one of favorite things is oysters, Fried, Raw, and in oyster stew. In that order, BTW. If this is not the MOST disgusting thing that anyone put on a plate, I don’t know what is. But DAMN they’re good! Can you imagine the poor bast*rd that ate the first one? He must’ve been starving to death!!

#71 NAT PIERCE, I agree, if Mc Canin is the Republican candidate I will not vote unless, unless, the other choice is Hitlery, then I’ll hold my nose and vote for the liberal bast*rd. The same as I did with Dole. That year, by the time that the primaries got to Texas my guy was already defeated!

I wanted to let everyone know I got my deer, eight point buck. I am the lone woman in the group. I went to pick up my deer wearing my minuteman t-shirt at a meat market on shepherd and got some really strange looks. I went to Sams after that wearing my t-shirt and a elderly woman comes up to me and says she really likes my shirt. It made my day.

O.K. you rednecks, y’all are making me hungry!

1st of all, squirrel, rabbit and dove are the best! If you get a large squirrel or rabbit, you have to parboil it 1st! (That is the secret to being tender) I parboil all my squirrel and rabbits. The trick to killing squirrels is to shoot properly so when they fall, they won’t have broken legs.(too many little pieces of bones)

SM, as soon as it is freezing for 3 days, you will be invited over for fried rabbit. I will not eat a rabbit until then, because some have blood worms and I refuse to eat it. (It will not hurt you if you cook it right, but I’m picky) I taught my son how to cook squirrel and rabbit and I’ll be darned if he can out-cook me. I would love for you and Sarge to come over. Sarge can kill and clean the squirrels (I will supervise the cleaning!) and I will cook it. It is da-bomb! Anybody else willing to try, you are most welcome as well!

#64
Elizabeth

The trick to getting rid of the gamey taste in venison is don’t kill older deer and some people soak it in milk before cooking. Keep the blood away from the meat which is why my family only do neck shots. I was taught to cut that neck as soon as the shot was made to drain the blood out of the deer. I have been hunting for over 25 yrs and I have only come across a couple of gamey deer and those were really old deer.

ST

Rabbit stew is really good. Fatal Attraction moment. LOL.

#64 Elizabeth You said ;I’m not picky and I truly wish I liked the taste of venison, but I promise you - all I have ever tried tasted gamey and gritty. Is it an acquired” taste or is there a way to process it so it has the more “smooth” flavor and texture of pork or beef?
Venison is nothing but a goat that has eaten a lot of wild things. Goats and deer have lean meat and the meat is stringy. There is NO way it will ever have the texture of marbled beef or pork, but a lot of the time, the taste has to do with how it is dressed. In Texas and Alabama there is a good chance that the deer will be killed in warm weather, compared to the frozen north. You have to get it cleaned quickly and put it on ice, you need to let it cure for about a week before you do anything with it, then when you cook it you have to remember that it is very dry, so you wrap the roasts in bacon and tin foil and cook it real slow on the grill or a smoker. The steaks need to be marinated, pounded, and batter fried. I cooked backstrap the other day and put the slices in the pressure cooker for 15 minutes before batter frying it. It was real good!
BTW; I usually just make Jerky out of one hind quarter and make Summer sausage out of the rest, you can’t go wrong with that. I mix the deer meat with pork sausage 70/30%.

Elizabeth, I posted this yesterday? I think, make sure that sarge’s son sees it, I hope Hal don’t mind.

It is the VETERAN , not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN , not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN , not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the VETERAN , not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the VETERAN , not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the VETERAN ,
who salutes the Flag,

#75 Emme: That is sweet! Don’t see any tags on any of those deer, but if you give me a hind leg (for tamales), I won’t call the game warden! heh heh heh! I’ll make some jerky too!

I recommend deer tamales or deer jerkey for those who have never eaten deer before. Emme has a point about bleeding them! Dang, I need to hang out with her! Sigh…….Rabit dumplings is very good as well! Usta tell my twins it was chicken and dumplings until the figured out they actually liked rabbit! (threaten to put their bunny in the pot all the time, if they don’t clean the cage!)

Is it just me, or is Dave “long-winded” today,…
Later dudes and dudettes.
Nothing worse than a case of run-off of the mouth.

#77 emmekelley, Another thing, if it’s a buck, you have to remove the musk glands on their back legs as soon as they are down. They smell real nasty!

Kill it
Bleed it
Clean it
Skin it
Ice it down; do those things quick and you can make a steak, a roast, any way you like beef you’ll like deer.

#75 emmekelly Congrats! I got a big eight pointer last year but this year I killed a 3 year old six pointer, 125 Lbs. In east Texas we have to take what we can get, I’ve gone a whole season with getting anything. I will not hunt under a feeder, and the last three that I’ve killed I was stalk hunting. I consider myself lucky.
Last year; http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1499116317042337214xkjcoQ
I haven’t up-loaded this year’s yet.

Gee, If I want tamales this year, I guess I’ll hafa kill a deer with my car…sigh…Congrats to all!

#83 Dave
No way! Your stories are TREASURES!

Is it just me and a couple others here, think that Newt would make a great candidate? Who else is worthy? John McCain will NOT get my vote. SOmething happened to that man while he was a P.O.W…can’t take my chances on him.

BWeldon, Jimb, and everyone else, you are right. We need to start now, to take back our country. I am taking your suggestions and waiting for a response. Somebody please help me form a “tactful” letter to Rick Perry.

#59

I like venison if it’s cooked (or maybe processed) well (i.e. properly… not over-done). I love rabbit pie — I used to get it in England, “Just like mom just to make” (but not MY mom!). Never had squirrel or any other unusual wild stuff…

But my favorite wild meat is Kangaroo.

#88 southerntragedy, Yes “Newt” is our only hope, if Mc Cain is the nominee, I’ll sit this one out, UNLESS the DumboCRAP is Hitlery, then it’s hold the nose and vote for the most liberal Rhino in the Republican party.

Rabbit & dumplings is also pretty dang good.

I’d support Newt. But we need to begin making some noise now for the House races in ‘08. And there are 33 senate seats up too.

Help! I haven’t had an oven for a year, but now have one now. Still looking for my fortune cookie recipe..I make the most interesting fortune cookies. The fortune may be something like:

Pssst! That wasn’t chicken!

Help! I am being held in a fortune cookie factory against my will! S.O.S.

Stuck in a rut….any comments?

#91: Hamous, what do we do? (little block thingie)I’d support Newt. But we need to begin making some noise now for the House races in ‘08. And there are 33 senate seats up too.(end little block thingie)

(and I know that you can come up with some good fortunes, but they have to be for kids too!)

Fortune cookie broken — please try again.

hamous, I think that the Republican party could care less what folks like you and I think. I quit giving them money a while back. Except for races in S-Dak, Tennessee and Florida. I’m afraid that Mc Cain will be the next “chosen one” because the DAMN media likes him and the emasculated Republicans think that they need to make them happy, WRONG!! The true conservative base doesn’t care what the stupid Drive-by media thinks!
I think I’m begining to shake my head like you know who. What ever happened to the “clam bake” anyway? Get too hot in the kitchen? Or maybe, changed his handle?

#92 southerntragedy O.K. I’ll bite,
1. There’s a cat in the kettle!
2. Lady who spring on inter-spring this spring, have offspring next spring.
3. Only in America, could you sell fish-bait and call it susui.
4. Press one for English.
5. Ya’ll all look alike to us.

Fortune cookie fortune:

Please order takeout now-

you will be hungry later.

Honest to goodness one from last week!

BTW; southerntragedy, I’ve not had an oven in at least 5 years! I cook biscuits in the little toaster oven, deep fry the turkey and cook the corn bread on the gas grill. I’m saving my coupons for a big six burner gas rig with an Electric oven, 4 wheel drive, diesel Z-71!

What ever happened to the “clam bake” anyway? Get too hot in the kitchen? Or maybe, changed his handle?

Neither really. He’s spending his time here.

# 86

ST

You supply the vehicle and I will take you to my parents ranch where we hunt 200 miles from here. The aren’t huge like east Texas but they do put meat in the freezer. Bring your gun and I will supply the place to stay. Has to be after 12-15-06 when this job ends for me.

Since Thanksgiving is coming up I wanted everyone to remember to test your turkey before you cook and eat it.

I knew I could count on you! I am ROFLMAO!! Keep ‘em coming!

Emme: I have a Pontiac sunfire POS, but will provide a vehicle! Plenty of time for Christmas tamales! (will make sure you get some!) I always seem to cook too much!

Dave,
Stormy and I hope to meet you one of these Brew-Ha-Ha evenings. Your dad and my dad would have been a hoot to listen to trading ’30s stories. Sure miss my mom and my dad. I wish we would have had more time together years ago.

Thanks for the homestead pics. My relatives homesteads were burned or otherwise destroyed many years ago. I managed to salvage a chimney brick from around 1890 from my great-great Grandfather’s place. My grandfathers place is gone also, but I got to see where my dad went swimming in the creek, which was spring fed, and really cold. They had a spring box where they chilled milk, beer, and other stuff.

Emme — Marc says… what are you laughing at? ;-D

Last post…Eeeer, regarding fortune cookies! Keep ‘em coming!

Dave, been cooking in a toaster oven too! BBQ is getting old. Haven’t figured out how to bake a cake on my 3 different pits! Veggies and meat are MASTERED!

Maybe the Republican leadership could care less but there are a lot of us and we can shake things up. I know I keep bringing this up but its hard to blame the party when less than 12% of us even bothered to vote in the primary this year. How many people went to their precinct conventions after the primary this year? District? State? National? It will take good ol’ grassroots efforts to change things. Its been done before. I know some of y’all remember how downright hostile the media was in Reagan’s run through the primaries. He made it because of people like us. Dan is another great example. It can be done. Here are my suggestions:

1. Begin looking for and supporting true conservatives NOW.

2. Go to your precinct convention after the primary in ‘08. So few people show up you are usually guaranteed to be a delegate to the district convention, and have a real good chance at going to the state. I’ve never made it to a national convention but I’ve made it to the state.

3. Vote for the true conservatives in the primary. Get all your friends to vote in the primary. Shame them into doing it if that’s what it takes.

4. Write your congressmen every time you’re disappointed in their votes. And maybe let them know when they do something good.

5. Term limits! I know there are many of you that think that’s what elections are for. The Republicans promised they’d bring them up for a vote in 94 and they made good on that promise. Unfortunately it never made it into law thanks to the Democratic senate. But, as we’ve seen the last few years, those idealistic Pubbies got fat and sassy up there on the hill and even kind of stacked the deck a little. I think we need term limits and candidates that support them.

I know there are a lot of smart people here. What are your ideas?

And Dave, Shakey’s still alive and well. He’s just doing his own thing.

ST

Have David B give you my email address so we can touch base on the time when we can go hunting.

ST,
I know you have a crockpot - you’re suppose to be able to ‘bake’ a cake in one. Honest! I’ve never tried but have read several recipes.

#106 hamous, I’m 52 years old, I was born, at least 100 years too late, I’m what they call an anachronism. I was a grown man when I was 12, because I grew up on a farm. I voted for the first time when I was 18, I’ve never missed an election since. My 22 year old daughter has voted every year since she turned 18, my 18 year old son voted for the first time last week. I’m tired of the BS, but I will not give up and you’re right, if less than 40% of the folk’s vote in the general and even less in the primaries, I don’t know what to do. I’ve been screaming from the roof tops since the Bob Dole Debacle “VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES!!! Otherwise when push comes to shove you will hold your nose and vote for the anointed one for your party! Can you say Hitlery? As Howard Dean would say AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!
BTW; I’m not the “bastard” at the family reunion, but the “red headed stepchild”,…alas

#106 hamous

RE: #4, Write your congressman

I’m in Queen Sheila’s district. I don’t bother writing her. She doesn’t even attempt to represent me, and the ‘bots in her district don’t look beyond skin color or party affiliation when voting.

It would be a waste of time and ink.

#103 marc, I’m glad that you care about the past. My sister has been in the antiques business for about 15 years. She buys whole estates after they’ve been picked over, or sold at auction; they also sometimes auction the stuff because her husband is an auctioneer. Anyway they cleaned out old man Will Mc Swain’s, two story house, a while back and said that it would more than likely be torn down. This just makes her and me crazy! In south Alabama we have grandkids putting up double-wides, on their GrandPa’s land and letting the house fall apart!! WHAT!?!? In ten years the trailer will be falling apart and the house is already over a 100 years old?!?! What in he’”double hockey sticks” is wrong with this picture.
As an aside, my Dad got two, “Store-boughtin” gifts in his young life, the first was a Barlow pocket knife from his Dad when he was about 6 and later, a Remington 521 bolt action, single shot rifle, from his boss old man Mc Swain’s Hardware Store, when he was 16. This was a $5.00 rifle, no one in his family had $5.00 to spend on anything.

We got a new propane stove ( standard 4 top burners, oven and bottom broiler) a couple years ago to replace an ancient stove from the 60’s or thereabout. It’s seen a few few pork loin roasts and some beef roasts, dozens of eggs, but no cookies. We have a fortune cookie recipe somewhere, but dang if I know where. I think we may have used the broiler once.

Nice thing about a simple propane stove is that if the electrical power goes out, you can use a match to light a burner or the oven pilot light and cook by flashlight if you have to (tho I’ve had a generator since we moved out here, propane of course).

We finally bought a washer and dryer this year. This came after I broke down and had a back deck installed so we have a place to put them. Man I got tired of washatieria blues every couple weeks. Now I have to upgrade our Electrical feeder to handle the dryer at full load. Need to do that anyway.

#109 Wino

I feel your pain. I was in her district until 2004 when they redrew the lines. Now I’m in Mean Gene Green’s. Eric Story ran against him this year and got 24%. Considering how Democrat the district is and how conservative Eric is, that was a pretty good showing. But you’re right. Queen Sheila will be congressbeotch for life and there’s absolutely no point in writing her. Pray for term limits.

I am writing the National Republican Chairman
to let him know that if he wants my vote the man running will be a solid dependable conservative.

“I’m not voting for a ‘moderate’.”

Haley Barour for President.

Dave,
My brother and I got a BB gun when we were in grade school. That was training for later. And we had to share. I was oldest, so I got to train my little bro. Fun was had by all.

Sounds like the same .22 my dad gave me for Christmas when I was about 10. At that time we could shoot in the back yard and no-one would complain, they all did too. I was not allowed to shoot by myself for another year or so until he was sure I knew how to handle firearms.

He was very strict. I knew early on that we wouldn’t be shooting for a while if I screwed up.

I wish all kids could be trained early like I was. I would never have seriously thought about pointing a gun at anything I didn’t intend to shoot. That meant people too.

By the time I went in the service I was an excellent shot. In basic I shot Expert with the M-16 and did the same at each range trip thereafter. Dang I wish my eyes were like they were then.

marc, I didn’t know you had been in the military - Happy Veteran’s Day and THANK YOU for your service!

Dave, all my kin on my mother’s side were from Alabama. I spent many summers as a kid in Montgomery.

marc, You’re right about the eyes, I always said that I’d never have a rifle with a scope on it, because if I couldn’t see the damn thing why was I shooting at it. But guess what? My Tikka 30-06 has a 3X9 X 50MM on it, I wanted a 1.5 to 7 but that was way too much money. I’ve hunted most of my life, but I basically quit hunting when I moved to Texas because of the leases and having to drive so far to hunt, where I grew up, I could walk out of the house and hunt on my Grandpa’s 180 acres or my aunt’s 200 acres or my distant cousin’s 400 acres.
When my boy started growing up I decided that we needed to have a place to hunt. I found a deer lease in east Texas on Champion land that was reasonable. My son was 10,.. I think? My buddy from down the street had a boy a year older than mine so we went in together and leased the place. We never really cared if we got a deer, the main thing was to have a place to take the kids. We taught them about gun safety and we did a lot of shooting in the off season. We watched them like a hawk and by the time that they were 13 or 14 they were allowed to carry their pistols in camp. When my boy was 13 he could hit 4 out of six cans @ 25 Yds, with my 44 magnum! He was better than a lot of men that I know. It was fun to watch him shoot because he always stepped backwards after the shot because of the recoil. Both of the boys learned that you NEVER point a gun at ANYTHING that you don’t want destroyed, and most importantly there is no such a thing as an unloaded gun. Unloaded guns kill people.
Me thinks that “Dave” has a severe case of run-off-of-the-mouth! Nostalgia I guess!
Nite All

116 Elizebeth, I was born in Montgomery but I moved to Ozark AL when I was 3. I don’t remember living there but I remember going to the rodeo and the circus at the Coliseum. Morrison’s Cafeteria was always a treat!! Both my parents worked at Maxwell AFB, then later at Ft Rucker.

Dave, Your “run of the mouth” is our run of good luck. G’night & God Bless.

Dave,

God Bless Ya.

You are doing it right.

If any of your kids serve, they will have a real leg up on most in the military now days. I know for a fact that if my dad had not trained me while I was a Kid, we would not be having this conversation now.

I was Air Force, but I pulled many all night perimiter guard assignments in a sandbagged box 15-20 Ft in the air. Good targets. We did get to shoot back, with permission slips. If you followed the war you know what I mean.

The thing that PI$$ED me off the most was that we were not allowed to have personal weapons. I would have loved having an old loose .45 Auto on me at all times. The first firearm I purchased when I got to Nellis AFB was