My thought of the day....

[LOsborne]

Just ask yourself, Henry, if hackers can get into the Pentagon, the FBI, and Dial-A-Honey databases, what do you think they are doing to these "smell signatures."

Shhhh... secret... don't tell... as we speak I am fooling around with the tantalizing aroma of bacon on a biscuit. Smothered in Velveeta cheese. Can't wait to see what the mujahadim make of that! Lester Sasquatch says it would turn a vegetarian carnivorous.

[Henry Hawk]

One of my best friends since childhood, has a son who is going to the State wrestling tourney tonight....He is 43-3 and ranked 10th in the State.  He is only a sophomore..and he was the first PHHS Arabian to go as a freshman...He is a great kid, and I hope and pray for him to be at his best this weekend..

He has two older brothers who both has State Wrestling experience....I think this one may very well be the best wrestler to spawn from this family.

anyway, just sharing an exciting moment, for me anyway....I am contemplating in going to fieldhouse tonight, to watch.

[Henry Hawk]

I proud to say that this special young man just finished 5th in the State wreslting tourney at 112lbs.....he fought a tough four bouts and only lost to the guy who won it all....

Nice Job buddy!!!

[Henry Hawk]

Wall Street Journal Sizes up Obama -

They've Got Him Figured out...a short article from the Wall Street Journal that needs to be read by every level headed American!!!

by Eddie Sessions:
 
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile
speaking skills could even put him in the White House.



In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author. 
   
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.



He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before? 
   
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And
he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance. 
 
And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska . It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
 
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.



Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters. 
 
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain .

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
 
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues. 
   
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot. 
 
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame. 

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth. 


Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.



When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden. 
 
We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America.

[Bo D]

Wall Street Journal Sizes up Obama -

They've Got Him Figured out...a short article from the Wall Street Journal that needs to be read by every level headed American!!!

Henry, Henry, Henry!

Didn't you promise some time ago to check your sources?

Not only was this piece NOT written by Eddie Sessions, it was NEVER published in the Wall Street Journal.
Tsk, tsk.....

[Henry Hawk]

Henry, Henry, Henry!

Didn't you promise some time ago to check your sources?

Not only was this piece NOT written by Eddie Sessions, it was NEVER published in the Wall Street Journal.
Tsk, tsk.....

It was written by Eddie Sessions...on the Wall Street Journal Forum ... "by Eddie Sessions."....if it is the "REAL" Eddie S or not, I don't know....but that is how it was signed.....in hindsight I should have left off the name....because I posted it because of the opinion and the view by this author that I found intreging.

[Bo D]

It was written by Eddie Sessions...on the Wall Street Journal Forum ... "by Eddie Sessions."....if it is the "REAL" Eddie S or not, I don't know....but that is how it was signed.....in hindsight I should have left off the name....because I posted it because of the opinion and the view by this author that I found intreging.

It was written by Alan Caruba. He posted it to his blog site "Warning Signs" on January 2, 2010. Someone else posted it to a USER COMMENTS section of the WSJ.



A quote from Mr. Caruba at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/02/snopes-corrects-misattribution-of.html

"For the past week or so I have heard from many visitors to this blog and to sites that also post my daily commentaries regarding the misattribution of my January 2nd post, "Obama's Make-Believe Life."

It had shown up on some sites attributed to an Eddie Sessions and was said to have been published in the Wall Street Journal article.

Happily, Snopes.com checked out the truth and published it here" http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/makebelieve.asp

Posted by Alan Caruba at 6:16 PM

[Henry Hawk]

An oldie for any plumbers in the audience....Troll, you might like this one...

"This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, "You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ wrench." Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, "The Langstrom 7″ wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket." Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, "It says sprocket not socket!"

.....plumbing humor is a lost art....

[Henry Hawk]

I just took a break, walked out back of the building at which I work.  It is freakin gorgous outside right now!!  The combination of sunshine and the gentle breeze paralyzed me....it shook up the gray matter in the confines of my cranium...and for a brief moment I was 10 years old again and ready to start my day with my buddies, heading down the road to build a fort in a woods that was my home away from home every summer.....we would spend countless hours in that woods....the smells, the carefree happiness that it provided for me had almost been forgotten until moments like I just had, every so often, when the temperature is just right and the sunshine hits my face in a certain way, I take that brief journey to the day that I cherish with all of my heart....I was so blessed to have a wonderful childhood...and I got to give thanks to God, for allowing me to have experienced those days and moments like I just had.....

despite the turmoil that politics have had on me....THIS is going to be a great day!!..

[Anne]

It is a beautiful day. 

[Sandy Eggo]

Henry! Rally up the troops at work and go build that fort. Wasn't being a kid the best?

I was thinking along the same lines here. It's my day off, so I'm sitting on a dock, w/my feet in the water, nothing but nature noises around me and the sun is warming my skin. It feels good to reboot.

[Palehorse]

I was cruising the steel horse and let me tell you I did NOT feel like coming back home until way after dark. . .

[Henry Hawk]

I was cruising the steel horse and let me tell you I did NOT feel like coming back home until way after dark. . .

That is going to become a hobby of mine in the next ten years....as soon as I get my little ones grown up, I have informed my wife that a 'steel horse' WILL become my outlet....

[Palehorse]

That is going to become a hobby of mine in the next ten years....as soon as I get my little ones grown up, I have informed my wife that a 'steel horse' WILL become my outlet....

Don't wait Henry. . . Seriously. Start small and with something you can afford now! Save yourself a lot of frustration by providing yourself a decompression chamber! Get a used one, and I know someone who is selling one at a good price. . . (And so do you!)

I stayed off of them for over twenty years, and I wish I'd never done that. 

[Henry Hawk]

Don't wait Henry. . . Seriously. Start small and with something you can afford now! Save yourself a lot of frustration by providing yourself a decompression chamber! Get a used one, and I know someone who is selling one at a good price. . . (And so do you!)

I stayed off of them for over twenty years, and I wish I'd never done that. 

Well, I tell ya, I cannot justify spending any money on a toy for me, when I have three young ones at home, who I would rather spend money on.  Also, my wife has a dream list of things that I would rather my money go to her....this may sound corny, but my family IS my hobby....and a day will come when I will justify a little "ME" time....but for now, I am content.....

I do find my self a little envious when I see guys out riding....but I shake it off, and move on.