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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Twas eight days BEFORE Christmas


OK, make that eight days, five hours, 10 minutes, 40 seconds and counting..tick tock

Home life :)
Stockings still in bags: check
Chimney loaded with soot: check
Garage filled with boxes and garbage: check
Ashtrays loaded: check
Lists and receipts all over the house: check
All major appliances have hit their planned obsolesence date: check
Stove on the fritz: check
Relatives and family restarted 20 year old family feud: check
Family informs you that diet excludes turkey, ham, and all meat.. gone vegan only;
Exceptions: lobster and jumbo shrimp
Family members are allergic to all alchol except Dom Perignon.


Last heard conversation at McDonald's: Uncle Milt is getting his concealed weapons permit.. I didn't think he was legal..he ain't

Last heard in the Parking lot: Keep honking I am reloading now..

Seriously though OK OK OK

'Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveller back to his own fireside and quiet home!' Charles Dickens




Remember those days? it happened..
HO HO HO and a Merry Christmas to all and to all Good night..

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Happiness is Bob McDonnell for GOP VA Governor

Porky Pig,, use your imagination who that could be,, :)

BOO HOO Criegh Deeds. if only you could have come up with a Transportation plan, no tax plan, and look the camera straight in the eye or maybe that is you after a trip around the Northern Virginia beltway,, enough to bring a grown man to tears..







I have been busy,, and thought well time to go back on the War Path.. since Virginia may have the chance to inject some sanity and reality back into the USA's Obama driven into the ground agenda.. so let's have some fun :)


PRESENTING THE NEXT GOVERNOR of Virginia


LOOK AT SMILE :) Vote for BOB





Monday, October 5, 2009

TomCat died

I have nothing else to say except I am very sad and miss him --he was one of the greatest cats ever to grace this shoddy planet. He was nine years old and loved to chase chipmonks, and sniff the flower bush, and a great hunter. Tom will be sorely missed and the world is lonelier sadder place without him.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

First Panama Photos




Izzy
Felix and Lucrezia in Chitre at











Diablo Dancers at Party in Chitre




will post on U Tube

Friday, July 24, 2009

Summer Musings



I have a few minutes this morning to blog and cyberloaf ..


posting the storm photo I took last night, which is really cool, got the lightening in the center of the cloud.. but I had to take a lot and stand out in the rain,, but that is Ok..


and also,, I guess I am getting old,, for some reason I thought the Moonwalk 40th anniversary was the same week as Woodstock,, but actually Moonwalk was in July 16-- and one month later Woodstock: which I did not attend and I only know of one person, Larry Williams who for sure did attend. I was out visiting Neil Crabtree in California during Woodstock, my first time in Monterey, California


so onto the photos last night, and as the date for Woodstock 40th, I will gather up photos that I like,, and maybe some music. I especially like that Jimi Hendrix performed Izabella, one the few songs that actually has my name in it--Ha!


anyway.


Woodstock poster from Internet:
more to come:

Friday, July 3, 2009

Wild times in the neighborhood-July 2009

My better boy tomatoesMs. Bunny eating her clover.. :) in the front yard



Tom cat,, prowling for birds, bunnies,,lol, chipmonks and mice (Left)
Tom chilling after eating his Friskies. (Right)



Ok, I am not into celebrating this year for a lot of reasons,, which why the link is Teaparty for the July 4th, also heard that if you traveling in Virginia,, bring your own potty and extra bladder because they have closed half and barricaded the rest centers..I suppose under the guise of security.. give me a break! Pity Grandpa and Grandma and kids trying to see family to celebrate the July 4th! Of course if real fiscal responsibility reigned in this state.. the rest center would be open later,, all restrooms clean and available to pay for the constant VDOT construction in the state to bolter tourism.. won't get into that right now.. but realistically,, closing the rest centers along the interstate does not say much for the state of Virginia.. ok enough ranting check this out..










Wednesday, June 17, 2009

BlueBerry Crisp from Martha Stewart's Living Mag

Someone put me on the Martha Steward mag mailing list,, and half heartedly read the colorfully decorated Magazine covered with Spring things and to my surprise I found one the simplest best recipes for Blueberry Crisp I have ever seen--I don't talk much about it on my blog but I still love to cook and secondly bake:
Serves 6: This crisp has a loose and juicy filling. If you would prefer thicker filling add an extra teaspoon of cornstarch.
Filling: 6 cups (3 pints) blueberries; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 tble cornstarch; 1 tsp fresh lemon juice;
1/4 tsp coarse salt.
Topping: 3/4 cup all purpose flour; 1/2 cup rolled oats (or chopped nuts--your choice);
1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp coarse salt; 3 oz (6 Tble) unsalted butter, softened; and 1/2 cup sugar.
Preheat oven to 375, Make filling. Mix blueberries etc as listed in a bowl. Transfer to square bakcing dish. Cream butter and sugar and salt in mixer until pale and fluffy. Stir the dry ingredients (flour, oats or nuts) into butter with hands or hand whisk.
Sprinkle the topping evenly over the filling. Bake until bubbling in center and brown on top-
about an hour. Cool for 30 minutes before serving.
WOW! I will try this with fresh peaches too.. bet it is just as good.. dieters .. instead of Breyer's Vanilla try Cool Whip, non fat ..happy Spring.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day Tribute to my Father

Photo to left, Dad in Germany relaxing with some of his Army buddies drinking a beer,, The Great Musto :) look at the mustache !!
Photo to the right,, not sure where or when taken,, he was in the Battle of Normandy, France, Italy but I suspect it was taken in Korea in the early 60s since he had no mustache then-- and appears older about the time he went to Korea in 1961. I didn't know it snowed there like that! So anyway, perhaps I can figure it out, I have very few photos of him,, he hated to have his picture taken.. and didn't say much about his military life. What I know, I found in his papers long after he died.



Photos of my James F. Musto, WWII, Korea, Four Bronze Stars, Retired USA, MasterSargeant
Born: Pittston, PA, 1913
Died: Alexandria, VA 1982





1950, Dad holding me! Look at that cigarette behind his ear,, looking at his new baby girl, somewhere in Germany.



Saturday, May 9, 2009

Mother's Day Tribute to all my friends and Mom, Grandmom

My sons and me,, :)
"--women are the supreme realists of the race--.H. L Menkin
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.- Aristotle
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
Mom, I miss your beautiful dark blue eyes :)-- Isabella

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

FBI and Obama admin spied on Tea party goers




FBI spied on TEA Party Americans
Exclusive to the Northeast Intelligence Network & Canada Free Press
Douglas J. Hagmann, Director & Judi McLeod, Founding Editor, Canada Free Press
19 April 2009: Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them. In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.
If you one of the estimated 750,000 Americans who attended one of about 600 TEA parties last week, you might have seen media cameras covering the event. Media cameras, however, were not the only cameras taking video at these events, something that has at least one current FBI agent concerned over the future of America. According to this agent - the same agent who provided the Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN) exclusively the unreleased photographs of the 11 missing Egyptian students who were the subject of a FBI BOLO in August 2006–placed his concerns for true patriots of the U.S. over his own career when he confided that covert surveillance was “planned and performed” at each of the TEA parties that took place last Tuesday.
“Listen to what I am saying,” stated the source during an interview with Doug Hagmann, founder (NEIN). “The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic. This is what bothers me. But is goes far beyond that assessment. There have been very significant changes made over the last few years that redirect the focus and assets of the intelligence community internally. These changes have greatly accelerated under this administration, and the threats have been redefined to include those who used to be patriots. It’s not only chilling but absolutely insulting to God-fearing Americans.”
According to this unimpeachable source, a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices located across the United States on or about March 23, 2009, instructing the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of those offices to verify the date, time and location of each TEA Party within their region and supply that information to FBI headquarters in Washington. The source stated this correspondence termed the TEA parties “political demonstrations,” and added that the dissemination of the directive was very tightly controlled. “Not all agents were privy to this correspondence,” stated the source, who compared the dissemination to an older “Do Not File” classification.
In addition to obtaining or confirming the location and time of each “demonstration,” each field office was instructed to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site address, if any. The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters.
The source alleges that a second directive was issued on or about April 6, 2009 that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties. Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”
Although the level of detail collected from each operation is unclear, the information was reportedly submitted to Washington, where, “at the level of the National Security Branch (NSB), this information was to “include the office of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), and integrated with a restricted access database, one that reportedly is accessible to only two agencies” [of the 14 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community, according to the source.
“The implications to the citizens of the U.S. are ominous. It seems that there is a hostile political agenda coming from Washington that characterizes the supporters of our constitutional freedoms as threats to our domestic security, which is totally absurd. The redirection, the refocusing of domestic threats from al Qaeda cells to ‘flag waving right-wingers’ is something that has gone from a murmur a few years ago to a roar today.”
Training government-issued cameras on ordinary citizens, many of whom brought their children to an estimated 600 Tax Day TEA Parties is a page torn out of George Orwell’s 1984 and makes the term “God Bless America” more meaningful than ever.
The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press expect the government’s denial of the surveillance of the TEA Parties to go viral as soon as this story is posted.
Doug Hagmann on The Q-Files Radio show Monday
Doug Hagmann will be a guest with Steve Quayle on The Q Files Radio show on Monday, 20

Friday, March 6, 2009

A Cartoon is worth a thousand words
















I decided to go to the lighter side: with a grim reminder!! Big Brother right here and now!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Arlington National Cemetary photos
















Even though it was a sad day since I was at Arlington for the funeral of a good friend's mom, and she was 81 and had a good life I always take photos there and pay respects to all my dear friends who are buried there. Yesterday during the service a 21 gun salute was going on during our service adding an extra feeling of poignance to the service.





The horse drawn carts were there and the pristine gronds at Arlington were perfect as always





Connie is in a better place and Hello to Ken! my best friend buried there.





Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Amero Dollar

North American currency union
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"Amero" redirects here. For the falsely convicted teacher, see Julie Amero.
The North American Currency Union is a theorized economic and monetary union of the three principal countries of North America, namely Canada, the United States, and Mexico.[1]

Map of the theoretical NAU, with Canada, Mexico and the United States
Implementation would probably involve the three countries giving up their current currency units (U.S. dollar, Canadian dollar, and Mexican peso) and adopting a new one, created specifically for this purpose. The hypothetical currency for the union is most often referred to as the amero.[2][1] The concept is modeled on the common European Union currency (the euro), and it is argued to be a natural extension of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).
Conspiracy theorists contend that the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico are already taking steps to implement such a currency, as part of a "North American Union (NAU)".[1] No current members of any country's government have officially stated a desire to create such a body, nor introduce a common currency as part of this concept.[3][4]
Contents[hide]
1 Basis and origin
2 Support
2.1 Canada
2.2 Mexico
2.3 Support in other regions
3 Criticisms and problems
3.1 Trade-offs
3.2 Differing economies
3.3 Political mandate
4 Amero coins
5 Amero bills
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
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Monday, January 5, 2009

AACHOO

Will be taking a few days off, recooperating. :) have a small cold