So, I went to my uncle’s send off yesterday. It was nice, as far as these things go. He was quite active in the VFW and was in the Navy in WWII, so they did the flag draped coffin thing, and played taps, after which they folded up the flag and presented it to my cousin. I’m not normally fazed by such things, but it was really quite touching.
At this stage in my life, I feel as if I’ve moved up one space in line. When you’re a kid, absent any untimely tragedies, your grandparents go. Then it’s your parents generation’s turn. Once they’re gone, well, guess what? You’re on deck.
Of course, I think I still have a few years left in me.
I am afraid to think that America is next in line to go. Not through natural attrition but at the hands of its plasticized enemy.
PJ, my condolences. Recently, it seems the only time I see my cousins is at a funeral.
It has rained so much in NYC and Long Island, this year. It makes the ground soft and thus weeding much easier. But it it also helps the trees to come down every time there is a wind.
The weather channel forecasts sun for each day, but we get rain anyway.
Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’
From the January 2001 issue of the Onion. They predicted almost everything.
:reaper: Oh PJ, you’re so dark. That’s what I like about you. Hopefully the next time you see family it will be for a wedding.
:gate: for your unk pj. You get really focused when it’s just you and your parents left and everyone they knew or were related to, are gone.
Eh, funeral’s are better, ‘cuz nobody expects you to dance.
I’ve been looking at my new math book and doing some of the diagnostic problems. It’s a little frightening how much I’ve forgotten. The progression of relearning happens faster than starting from a blank slate but I’m nervous about all the shit that I know I don’t know, let alone the unknown unknowns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
(There’s a Vinn diagram)
It took me maybe an hour to remember how to simplify this X^4 +27X and with the aid of the computer. :doh:
I guess I’ve been feeling a little rummy lately
This should cheer you up
So I misspelled Venn. Big deal. It’s not like I’m claiming I have international experience to be vice-president and really don’t.
From the New York Times
Is blue the same person as bluewater? Identity theft
Kos has a good question;
Given that physically seeing a country is now evidence of “foreign policy experience”, someone should ask Palin — has she actually ever seen Russia? Has she visited that random, remote, frozen wasteland of an island in the middle of the Bering Strait and actually seen Russia?
Vod’s up for reals!
Submitted by SEDER on Sat, 09/13/2008 – 5:29pm.
forgive my earlier post- I lie like a GOP presidential candidate!
http://www.samsedershow.com/vod
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Travis posted some of this, yesterday. It is front page in the NY Times. Not only does it sound like Bush but it is exactly what Ghouliani did in NY, too:
Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin