Larousse, San Sebastian was just special for them. They loved it.

They loved everywhere. There were so few places they didn't have a great time. Everywhere they went they seemed to arrive just a festival was happening or the weather was perfect or everything was right.

Big BigK,

I didn't complain. I tend to wait even longer. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Slow learning here.

Also my relationships have been shorter.

They have the good vibes and party inside them.

They trip made me think in all the places I want to visit.

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Yesterday, I watched the last thirty minutes of a movie entitled "My Fellow Americans". It stars James Garner and Jack Lemon who both play ex-Presidents who are the target of a murderous plot. Garner's character was a womanizer when he was President and Lemon's was as straight laced as they come. There is dialogue between them wherein Garner is telling Lemon of one of his escapades:

Garner: I was here in the Oval Office with a beautiful woman who had a body you wouldn't believe. She was a Pan Am flight attendent.

Lemon: I don't want to hear about your romps in the Oval Office. Keep it to yourself.

Garner: She was also a contortionist.

Lemon: Go on...

Well DDs have been on the trampoline nonstop since the AM. They should sleep well tonight. We tie-dyed but will not see the results until tonight. It was kind of fun. I wonder what else I can tie-dye?

No.

Chuchito II no, please.

Although you could make a fortune selling tiger like hamsters. Tigsters <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I found this post by LovingAnyway:

"To me, love isn't about finding the right partner...it really is about BEING one. All we can control.

And when God brings you to it...he brings you through it.

Self-comfort in reality...know what is...your boundaries and standards...focusing on your son, learning like WAT says, all about yourself, needs, LBs, perspectives and beliefs...getting to know thoroughly what you cannot control and what only you control...knowing who you choose to love and why...

seems more essential to me than filling yourself up with someone else...filling up from the outside...instead of overflowing out to others..."

Hamster, maid, soft tail, dado saw blades, snap ons, sheets, towels, dishes, floors, sky............well, the sky is the limit.

larousse,

Please do not take this the wrong way or LA, but I never know things like this mean. What does this mean? It is way over my head. I guess I am a simple man with simple ideas and philosophies. Again, the above proves the simple elegance and superiority of math.

Todd,

It's the Barnum principle.

Wasn't it Lincoln who said that?

Milton Friedman died today. For those not familiar with Dr. Friedman, he was a noteworthy economist who had been a long-time professor of economics at the University of Chicago and who won the Nobel Prize. He was a staunch supporter and defender of liberty and free markets. He also was an advocate of school choice and his and his wife's foundation donated mightily to this cause. Significantly, he was the economist who determined that the Fed was responsible for the Great Depression. With any luck, his history lessons will be heeded by all future Fed governors.

He was a personal hero of mine. His monetarist theories repudiated the Keynesian economics that characterized our nations economics begun by that original American socialist, FDR. It is a sad day and he will be sorely missed.

I think I may have heard of him. Er, his politics don't sound like mine but I guess a Nobel prize can't be sneezed at.

Gee, it's quiet enough for some lyrics Todd, before we drop off the page.

John Kenneth Galbraith would represent your brand of politics. He strongly advocated wage and price controls. Unfortunately for Galbraith, an American president implemented his theories. That would be Richard Nixon who ushered in wage and price controls known by the cute tagline, "Whip Inflation Now" (WIN). The irony of that acronym! Galbraith/Nixon's policies led to the greatest recession since the Great Depression.

Galbraith believed that inflation could be controlled by wage and price controls. Milton Friedman proved him sorely wrong by proving that wage and price increases are merely symptoms of inflation. Inflation is the direct result of monetary conditions established by the Federal Reserve. It is simply an expansion of money supply.

In a note to Galbraith, Friedman quipped something to the effect of: are you as chagrined as I that it would take Richard Nixon to implement your theories? Galbraith never responded.

Speaking of Lincoln, has anyone read David Herbert Donald's Lincoln ? He ranks Lincoln as the second most overrated US President. (Most overrated was Adams; other notable overrated's included FDR, JFK and Joe Willie Joe Bob Clinton).

Donald contends that Licoln has been highly regarded because of the Emancipation Proclamation, the fact that he presided over the greatest tragedy in our nation's history and the fact that he was assasinated. He made one military blunder after another, the foremost one being not recalling McCellan sooner. Also, Sherman was thought to be crazy yet Lincoln charged him with the responsibility of conquering Georgia. Sherman's misdeeds are infamous in Georgia.

Anyone else?

I asked for lyrics not a lecture.

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Typical leftist response.

LOL

Not at all. It's more the fact that I know very little about American politics.

I find your commentary quite interesting. Of course, I tend to to consider myself somewhat a libertarian.

I'm here 2much. Thanks for asking.

Hope you're doing OK.