I glad to see you survived the festivities of last night. That old geezer of a year we got rid of was a bad one. I hope the new baby is better. I hope you are able to join us in Austin and can help Pedinska to find a way to join us, too.

I need some black eyed peas for good luck today, but will have to settle for left-over green beans.

I guess he could convert to Islam but it would take a special act or special permission in most of those nations, like the KSA for a Jew, even a nominal one like Bloomberg to set foot in those countries.

In the fragment you quoted RP uses the word "theory" to cast doubt on the fact of evolution. The omitted parts that you emphasized are "waffling" and do not contribute much of anything. The whole fragment does give a better feel for the man, (and not in a favorable sense,) but it is no great difference..

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/31/114548/98/841/428343

- good "Gauging the Fear Inside the Palace Walls" diary of David Sirota.

Also this already famous "I have neither the time nor legal background to figure out who's right" quote from Glenn Greenwald's Favorite Quotes of 2007 is quoted in the comments.

Best wishes to your family clan.

That means the whole human family.

Have garlic and green beans? You truly know that Garlic is a aphrodisiac.

I'm gonna have to wonder about attending a political event. I'd be roaming around in too great of ecstasy. I'd get locked up for walking into the wrong ladies latrine. I ignore the bland political discussion at a convention.

Last month I went to Kentucky and hung out with the Amish clan. I crept out of all the seminars to meet people and listen to Amish stories.

I almost became a Amish in the early seventies. I could not give up innocent "sinning" for one day. You realize what I'm saying? How did we all get here on the same planet at the same time?

A one glass of wine too many or passing out on New Years eve...We may have not loved somebody and accidentally impregnated some Lady?

Oh, I mean some ancestral wino in our past lineage family tree lines...He/She may have drank too much hard cider and fell asleep on a pony?

Or, a simply conked out on a computer keyboard and missed a good opportunity. Popeye and Olive Oil would love to see the New York City Ball fall at Times Square? Ain't that silly?

One day maybe? Cowee right in the kisser with two lips joined and super-glued stuck? kissing cuds. huh.

Austin is a far far galaxy somewhere I've never been.

I don't know? Is their a Chihuahua convention elsewhere where we can get a bowl of chow? Thanks Mr. White.

Don't burn tin pans or the house down.

In Sunday school class I'll ask if God ever sins and goofs around. For all we know god has a

hidden tatoo.

Bless all you.

I agree with the designation as opposed to non-partisan, which Bloomberg most certainly is not.

What he has going for him (his bankroll aside) is competence. The man is blazingly competent and has shown himself to be so in everything he has done.

In New York, he has healed a lot of the wounds Giuliani inflicted and found a way to work with minority leaders. He has moderate instincts and uses them. He is very strong on collaboration, which speaks well of the way he would run the government both domestically and internationally.

The argument that he has no foreign policy experience is bogus. You don't build a multi-billion dollar enterprise without having figured out foreign policy issues and negotiated them. The argument that he has no domestic policy is also bogus. He has had one for a long time.

I'm worried that he would, by running, make the White House Republican again but I would not have trouble voting for him if he ran and the Democrats ran a turkey. His lack of charisma is not a problem for me -- I am probably going to vote for Richardson if he is still in the race by the time New York votes in a primary.

The absolute necessity of healing the wounds Bush opened up, bringing the country back from the brink and making it work again confronts any POTUS. Bloomberg brought New York City back from the brink toward which we were propelled by a combination of Rudy Giulini and Osama bin Laden. He can do it for the country, too.

A Bloomberg run would guarantee a Republican win. There's no question about it.

Texas is a country who has raised people I love and people I wished would have stayed on their ranches and only bothered the chickens. You would like Austin Bop. Eastern Texas has a lot of trees. Maybe we should take all the RWAs and neocons and ban them to ranches in Western Texas. The Dick can be in charge and he can blow off the faces of as many of his followers as he so desires.

But enough about empty dreams. The past year was good not bad because we started on the long path of exposing the hypocrites, war mongers, M$M frauds and the Oligopoly and we got to play a small part in the process. Better days are ahead because we have a fearless leader who is gaining supporters by the day.

We had a nice overnight snowfall and I just finished shoveling and after my grandsons eat breakfast, we are going sledding.

This months National Geographic has a feature on abandoned North Dakota farmhouses. It brought back memories of my grandparent’s farm and the fun of bunking in a granary turned bedroom sans insulation and with openings in the boards. When I snuggled under the Canadian horsehair blankets next to my uncle, it was warm and inviting. Not so much though when I had to get up and put on my clothes. It was also fun to go through a 30-foot snow tunnel to the outhouse. It was hearty folks who lived and farmed in the Dakotas.

Have a good first day of the year watching football like I will or whatever else you do to start out the year tight.

Now back to the inevitable RP brawl.