AARP Asshats

See the posts at atlasshrugs.com and michellemalkin.com on AARP shilling for ObamaDeathCare.

We get the AARP magazine. I read a couple and realized it was a waste of time, I could read HuffPo or NYT and see the same barf. So, I just wrote to AARP at this address:
http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/contact/a2003-01-22-membershipfaq.html

Please remove me from your mauling list. I just turned 50 and, because your organization’s political views are so far to the left and support the ObamaDeathCare proposal (which I READ), I want nothing to do with your disseminated disinformation.

My husband, Dr. Happy, who also resides at this address would like to have his name removed as well. He is a physician who, in 1985, saw the demise of true “health care” coming through the vehicle of “HMO”s.

This ObamaDeathCare lead up to single-payer “health” care will be as disastrous - if not more so - than those in Canada or UK.

It will cause thousands of doctors to LEAVE medicine (as he did),

cause more suffering for patients (why do you think the wealthy come to the USA for treatments and Ted Kennedy didn’t go to hospitals in his HOME STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS?)

and cause people to LOSE CHOICES (in UK, thyroid patients are being told they only have 2 options and, if they choose dessicated thyroid meds, they will not be eligible for further treatment through the NHS.)

Stop pushing the Euthanasia For Seniors and Other Useless Eaters Bill and go back to doing something useful - getting seniors discounts for “stuff”.

Sincerely
Peanut
A Grandma, but not-quite a Senior

Probably will still get their crap just like the Scientology drones, but - heh! - I tried to save a tree...LOL

Those Berkley Students in Hel...er, Iran

Dr. Happy and I had a little clash of the minds....granted, we DO read different websites. I tend to be more Conservative, he is more all-over-the-place.

The story is this:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three American tourists are believed to be in Iranian custody after they may have strayed across the border from Iraq during a mountain hike, Kurdish officials said Friday.

Four Americans -- two of them students in Syria -- traveled from Syria to Turkey and then into Kurdistan in northern Iraq, arriving at Irbil on Tuesday, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for the security manager of Sulaimaniya, where they arrived Thursday after driving from Irbil.

All four spent the night at the Nirwan Hotel, according to the owner of the facility.

Three of the group left early Friday in a taxi for Ahmed Awa near Iraq's border with Iran, planning to hike in the mountains there, Ahmed said. The fourth member of the group was ill and stayed behind.

The taxi driver dropped the three off near the border and returned to town, he said.

Ahmed Awa police spotted the hikers at one point on Friday, Ahmed said, and warned them that they were near the Iranian border -- which is not marked in the area -- and that they should be careful.

The group was in contact with their companion in Sulaimaniya until about 1:30 p.m. Friday, when they reported they were "surrounded by Iranian soldiers," Ahmed said. No further communication was received.

Officials in Sulaimaniya are meeting to devise a strategy to bring the hikers home safely, Ahmed said.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the U.S. Embassy "is aware of the reports and is investigating. We are using all available means to determine the facts in this case."

Mudhafer Mohammed, owner of the Nirwan Hotel, said the hikers said they had come to the area because they heard it was safe, saying they were considering a trip to Ahmed Awa. But, he said, he advised them against it.

"I warned them many times," Mohammed said.

"When they told me that they are planning to go to Ahmed Awa, I told them, 'Don't go there because it is unsafe for you because you're American and Ahmed Awa is very close to the Iranian border,'" he said.
The fourth American who had stayed behind left the hotel about 4:30 p.m., Mohammed said, asking him to take care of their luggage and saying he would not return. Later, he said, Sulaimaniya security forces took the luggage from the hotel.

Whose fault is it that these three "tourists" are in an Iranian prison? And why are they there?

More importantly, will Bill Clinton go to Iran and promise Akmunutjob free-rein on HIS COUNTRY'S nuclear program to get the twits home?

Inquiring minds....

The Garden Update

Pretty Pole Beans Pictured here:


Hot little Thai Chili Peppers:


Scallop Squash stating to grow:


Purple Pole beans pictured alone:


A picture of one of the Snow Peas we'll be eating tomorrow:


Check out this big salad Tomato:


My Corn is about "waist-high" to me:


Here is a baby Watermelon just getting started:


The ripening cherry tomatoes:


You can see the carrot tops are nice and big:


Here are the Brussel Sprouts:


A baby Bell Pepper:


Here is my cute little Cantaloupe:

My Adventures in Canning Chickens

Here is a pic of my lovely new Presto Pressure Canner.


Here is a picture of the finished product, canned chicken meat:


How I got there? Ah you did have to ask, didn't you?

Well, I had these three kosher chicken in the freezer. Ralph's has been selling them frozen, so I've been picking one up when I think about it. We ran out of room in the freezer for my chocolate ice cream, and this is the Wrong Time of the Month for that crap.

So on Tuesday morning, I took them out and thawed them. (I DO have priorities, yah know.) On Tuesday in the late afternoon, I realized that the big meat pans were Somewhere in a box. My boxes of "stuff" are on the patio and in the garage. So, I located the two pans. Procrastinated. Surfed the Net. Finally boiled the chickens. It was 11PM when they were done. Cooled 'em and stuck 'em in the fridge.

Today was C-day. Cleaned and assembled the new pressure cooker. Picked the chicken off the bones and put back in the fridge. Made a big vat of broth from turnips, carrots, onions, celery, garlic, salt, bay leaves, parsnips and pepper.

Filled the pint jars with meat. Ladled the hot broth over them, cleaned off the rims and put on the caps.

Got the water boiling in the canner. Put the jars in the canner and tightened the lid. Got the whole thing boiling without the pressure controller on the pan, like the instruction manual said to do. Put the controller on, turned down the heat, adjusted in until the pressure was 11 psi. All good. Book said to keep on the pressure for 75 minutes. Cool.

Thirty minutes into processing time, I am in the living room eating lunch and I hear a "pop". I look up and streamy water is squirting straight up from the canner to the ceiling. Yeah, the overpressure plug blew. So, I got the canner turned off, the pressure released and the water mopped up. (BTW - a Swiffer mop with a towel works wonders to clean a ceiling. Darn it was filthy!)

The book, of course, said that you need a new plug. Try finding one in California. I ordered three on line. They'll be here sometime before my next birthday, I'm sure.

So, I go next door to talk to the neighbor, Lou. Lou is about 87 or so. He says to just try putting the plug back in and see if it holds the pressure. Dang, someone needs to tell Tom Dashle that old people are useful.

And it worked. Lou said it was probably just not seated correctly and blew out because of theimproper seal. So I finished up and can now do the other stuff I was planning before I cleaned the ceiling.

And I got out to yoga class at 6pm, too. Amazing.

Garden Pictures from June 16 ~ Updated today

These pictures have been updated so you can see the ripe cherry tomatoes and blueberries, which we will be enjoying on Friday night for Sabbath dinner.

I wanted to post the pics of the micro-irrigation system. These are okay pictures, but the garden is actually looking more filled in just in the past two week. If you look closely, you can see the hoses from the main lines for the drip irrigation system I installed.

We have eaten all the first two crops of lettuce, we're eating strawberries (a few) every week, snow peas every week and are awaiting our very first SLO tomatoes! There are 3 that just started turning colors - it won't be long now!

First, let's start with the fruits:

Here are the boysenberries:


A close-up of one of the boysenberry plants:


Pic of the squash and beans (since entirely eaten by the sowbug/roly polies:


Here are the watermelons along the fence:


And the tomatoes next to them:




Now, we'll scoot over to the blueberry bushes, from which Dr. Happy and I had our first nibbles last weekend:








Here's the view of the longer, fatter part of the garden:


Close-up of the strawberries on the right:



The cherry tomatoes:





The big tomatoes:


I think you can see the tomato peeking out:


Green onions and spinach, not the best growing part of the garden. I may need to add some more soil to this part:



Cantaloupes and honey dew melons flowering:


Hot peppers and green peppers:


Brussel sprouts sprouting:



Midget corn:


Peas and beans:


Peas on the end:


Moving over to the flower box that you can't see, here are herbs IN the flower box.
Cilantro:


Parsley:


Green onions:


Dill:


Basil:


Gotta go take the chickens off the stove to cook so I can pick off the meat and turn it into soup. I received the pressure canner I ordered, so I will be using it for the first time to turn those chickens into soup for the winter. I am so glad I finally cooked them, they were taking up so much space in the freezer!

More pictures when I get to them...

On the Iranian Election...

My son called me chortling about the Iranian election. His take:

Bush made sure that the former Evil leader in Iraq was tried fairly in a court of his peers and that his sentence was carried out by the government of Iraq. i.e., a vicious dictator was toppled. People in Iraq - even the bad ones - have freedom. History, after all is said and done - will be kind to W, just probably not until the Obamabots are all dead and the Universities purged of people that should be in prison (Ayers/Churchhill/Doern).

That said, this toppling of Saddam and freeing of the Iraqi people emboldened the Iranians (who are, over all, the second best educated country in the Middle East). Almost 90% of the eligible voters went to the polls. And we are to believe that: (a) Amanutjob won by a landslide, (b) the three top contenders ALL LOST by 80% margin in their HOMETOWNS, (c) the results of a HAND COUNTED BALLOT were available only a couple HOURS after the polls closed (in the USSA, even with computers, it took days to complete the counts!) and (d) that many people all went to the polls just to ensure Amanutjob would remain in power?

Oh, and the foriegn journalists needed to be arrested ahead of time, cell phone towers disabled and internet service disrupted in order to “secure the peace”?
N-a-a-a-a-a-w, even Joe Biden isn’t that stupid. But I am ABSOLUTELY SURE ACORN and Obamessiah are very busy taking notes on how they can effect this scenario here in the USSA.

“If we could only do something about those pesky gun-n-God-clingers,” muses Obamessiah outloud…

My thought: There is probably not much difference between the candidates' policies. Dr. Happy says that the other folks were just running on the platform of wiping Israel off the face of the earth on different timetables. Different toots, same smells...

OMG - Will We Never Wake Up From This Nightmare???

First there is the Moron Sotomayer being nominated to SCOTUS. This woman believes that she is more qualified than any white man BECAUSE she's a Hispanic woman. Yeah, with her 60% rate of reversal - we are in for a wild time, FER SURE. We can only hope that the other Justices beat/talk some sense into her thick skull so she is unable to do TOO much damage.

Next on our OMG list, FINALLY Obama begins coming clean on his "Muslim Roots". Too late for the morons in this country who VOTED THE ASSHOLE INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. AAARRRUUUGGGG! (Just think, Hillary could've been POTUS. Yup, works like ipeicac for me, too. Yeah, yeah - someone DID piss in my cornflakes this morning. Ate 'em anyway, thank you very much.)

Then, our president doesn't know about certain DOD Government Agency. He learns about it at a BURGER JOINT. Just gives me more confidence in the guy - he can really pick his advisors, eh? Here's the agency description:

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). NGA develops imagery and map-based intelligence solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation.

NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. The term "geospatial intelligence" means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial (e.g., mapping, charting and geodesy) information.

To top that, Obama thinks the United States is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world". Umm-humm, 0.6% Muslim and it is one of the largest. Indonesia: 200 million Muslims. India: 156 million Muslims. Pakistan: 150 million Muslims. United States: 2.3 million Muslims (according to the Pew Research Center).

Nice to know we beat out the other 57 Muslim countries...how's the Saudi king gonna take the news, I wonder? Guess we should get ready for that freaking TAX, too.

Nice to know we beat out the other 57 Muslim countries...how's the Saudi king gonna take the news, I wonder? Guess we should get ready for that freaking TAX, too.
Then there were the two shootings: Tiller the Baby Killer in Kansas and an Arkansas Army Recruiter. Obama gets all weepy and indignant about Tiller being murdered by a Christian Extremist. Can't just say - nut job murderer, gotta insult the religion of 90+% of the country. Not a peep - even condolances to the family - the 20-something young man who just finished bootcamp and was gunned down by a Jihadi Convert newly trained in Yemen. Sends shivers down my spine for the military folks. Great behavior for their CinC. *sigh*

Lastly - airplanes are the targets again.

The airliner that disappeared may have been downed by Jihadis. From the comments section of lgf2:

Two grim possibilities come to mind regarding the crash…

1) Some kind of sudden structural failure crippled the jet at high altitude, leading to an immediate, explosive decompression and a rapid disintegration of the airframe. While rare, this kind of freak accident has happened before, more than once.

2) Terrorists on the flight itself detonated a bomb that brought the plane down.

Le Monde has reported that up to five middle-eastern passengers (three Morocca and two Lebanese) were on board. (Note from P: Was actually Thaindian that listed the passenger nationality list and it was two Morrocans, one Turk and five Lebanese - but, as we know, Muslims come in ALL nationalities. Among the dead: A 25-year-old descendant of Brazil's long-defunct royal family was also on the passenger manifest.)

It may well be that severe weather or some type of freak structural failure brought that plane down, killing everyone.

Or, maybe it was . . . something else

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And someone is shooting at airplanes in Texas:

A Continental Express pilot reported seeing a "missile or rocket" flying near his aircraft over Friday night over Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The pilot told the Federal Aviation Administration an object was spotted within 150 feet below his airplane around 8:15 p.m. Friday night over Liberty County, Texas, the newspaper reported.

Lord, my head hurts. That's what I get for not doing my yoga the past 10 weeks.