Shiner for your troubles???
Posted on 08/28/2002 7:26:17 AM PDT by Billie
You guys are killing me!!
Thanks a million!
If there's any day of my life I needed those it was today!
Shiner for your troubles???
The Big Texan Restaurant in Amarillo is a big tourist stop...Free 72oz steak dinner if you eat it in an hour....about 2,500 have managed it in the last 40 or 50 years...I think.
Anyway, they kept a rattle snake in the gift shop and he just died. They also have a wandering music quartet that plays requests...when I asked them to play Waltz Across Texas for my sister, one of the musicians mentioned it was just as fun as "All My Exes Live in Texas"
By the way, we're having a little get-together on Friday at Bennigan's on I-10 to talk about what we can do to get some action on the death of CHIEF negotiator.
If you can join us, I'm buying lunch!
May God bless you and all Chief's friends and family, May justice come swiftly.
Friday at Bennigan's on I-10
Specifics? (Monitoring FReepmail)
There are endless benefits - - an inexhaustible supply of Spam, which can be used either for meals or phish bait or shark repellent - the comfort of swinging hammocks in the Crew Cabin, rotating our sleeping times, etc.
There is one end of the deck assigned for the ladies to exercise, behind a barrier for our privacy.
We did complain (to no avail), though, when the aluminum shield was replaced in turn by chicken wire and then two strands of barbed wire - but we were outvoted..:((
Just regulations, Ma'am.....
Excerpt:
The odour of appeasement that permeates the Western world has apparently driven President George W Bush to seek strength by studying the career of Winston Churchill.
Depressed by the warnings of his father's old friends against taking action against Iraq, he is looking for support in the life story of the supreme anti-appeaser. Churchill's refusal to be silenced by the peacemongers during Hitler's rise to power, a refusal all too painfully proved right when war came, sets an example President Bush finds reassuring.
If Churchill was right about Hitler, he seems to be asking, how can America be wrong about Saddam Hussein, a dictator who is on the brink of acquiring nuclear weapons, a power Hitler never possessed?
The parallel is compelling, particularly to Americans, among whom Churchill, son of an American mother, continues to be venerated as perhaps he never was in his father's country.
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At the present time, President Bush must feel himself surrounded by men who think of everything - of how much America is disliked in the world, of how fragile is the hold it has on its so-called allies, of how unstable is the Middle East, of how unpredictable are the consequences of military action.
He is bombarded by advice from the conventionally wise who see danger on every hand. Some of them are military men who, as so often military men do and Churchill found, doubt the usefulness of force and counsel prudence or inaction altogether.
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