a little traveling music please ...

first of all let me say that i have missed blogging since Christmas mostly because of recurrent back pain that has caused me GREAT discomfort.... however like Gene, and Roy and Tom .. i'm back in the saddle again ... out where a friend is a friend ... and so to business ... so much has gone on since i last posted and since a new year has come since then let me give out a few awards for outrageous behavior at the beginning of the new one ...

The I CANT BELIEVE ITS NOT BUTTER award goes to the Archbishop of Canterbury ... who in his remarks regarding the Tsunami said that it made it hard for him to believe in God ... why is it that everything that goes wrong is God's fault ... even among religious leaders?? Come on people ... in the words of the CHURCH LADY can you SAY SATAN????? He must be having a field day getting God to take the blame for the worlds troubles while he goes on about his business of causing destruction completely untouched. Note to the Anglicans ... is belief in an evil power too much to ask??? How do you think we got in this mess in the first place??

The LET THEM EAT CAKE (I MEAN CROW) award goes to Mr. Hugh Hewitt .... say what you want about USC ... they can definitely play a little football .... as opposed to those "wait until next year" Ohio teams he's always promoting ....

The WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG award goes to the Democratic Congressional Caucus ... who despite the will of the people still insist that their guys won ... again .... I guess its all that new math they are paying for with our educational funding (you know the billions that are paying for US students to test worse then almost EVERYONE ELSE) .... i guess if you need to find an additional three million votes you should invite everyone to vote by using the county elections office as your address like some did in Washington .... (Dis) Honorable mention in this category goes to the Democratic Senatorial Caucus which is bound and determined to thwart the will of the people and the election results by continuing to REFUSE to allow judicial nominations to come to a floor vote .... and to think i used to want to be a senator once upon a time in my life (i would have been a republican one) ..thank God i grew out of it ....

The (SOUR) GRAPES OF WRATH award goes to Norm Coleman ... who using every ounce of wit and repartee at his disposal gleaned from years in school studying journalism and years as a practicing journalist and columnist ... had to resort to innuendo, name-calling and veiled sexual references in lieu of a logical rebuttal to the folks at POWERLINE .....

ok enough of that .... on to bigger and better things like the BLOG contest .....

I have sent in my nominations .... also posted here above ....



Military units of the Blog .....


U S Air Force - 182nd Airlift Wing, Greater Peoria Airport, Peoria. Illinois

U S Coast Guard - USCG Cutter Polar Sea (WAGB-11), Seattle Washington

U S Marine Corps - 2nd Force Service Support Group, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

U S Army - 4th Finance Battalion, Fort Carson, Colorado

U S Navy - USS John S McCain (DDG 56), Tokyo, Japan

A great BIG HAPPY NEW YEAR and wishes for a successful and peaceful 2005 to all of you.