NOT ON THURSDAY

So much for More on Thursday.

I should never predict when I am going to post again.
So much for being retired.

Stuff in the news to chew over during drinks or dinner or after Church on Sunday:

French troops capture pirates who seized a luxury yacht…with the ransom!

UN condemns highly effective military suppression of drug trade in Latin America … to protect civil rights of drug traffickers??? Can it be??? Say it isn’t so.

UN seeks to investigate nazi-like Israeli suppressions of barbarians??? Naah!!! What else is new?

Iranian fast boats again buzz US vessels in Gulf. No casualties. Thanks to the US vessels. It will not always be so.

barack is revealing more and more of himself… especially as regards the average joe, the common guy and gal.

bill c. is misremembering more and more and so is hillary.

rev. wright is to speak in Detroit… the city of kwami.

General Petraeus is a member of the 101st Airborne Div….Soldier; combat veteran; scholar;
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=16
nancy p. and h. reid feel he is not to be believed...that he is an unreliable resource.... Check out the link above...
I wonder what the three would say to each other over drinks after dinner...if they sat across from each other in front of a fireplace.

A fine, fine article on that unique institution – the English pub:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/travel/13Journeys.html?pagewanted=print

The New York Times… of all things… reviews a book in which the Special Relationship lives … even thrives… and the message is not one to be welcomed by the national dems….
For this is a call for new approaches to new threats…new kinds of threats…..
Quite different from the protectionist ignorance of the national dems and their like….the littleamericans/littleenglanders of the liberal mainstream…..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?ei=5087&em=&en=084dcb3a7a106355&ex=1208145600&pagewanted=print