June 21, 2011
Reelection?

SOME OF YOU MAY APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME OF YOU MAY NOT

If any other of our presidents had:

  • doubled the national debt in one year, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, would you have approved?
  • then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
  • criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head?
  • joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who’s side he was on?
  • pronounced the Marine Corps like Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot?
  • put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed?
  • used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87,000 American workers unemployed would you support him?
  • been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
  • spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his First Lady to a play in New York City, would you have approved?
  • reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
  • made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
  • given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
  • given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America?
  • visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
  • filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
  • stated that there were 57 states in the United States, wouldn’t you have had second thoughts about his capabilities?
  • flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he was a self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk?
  • been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn’t you have winced in embarrassment?
  • burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
  • okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
  • failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
  • created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have ever approved?
  • ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?

Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 24 months – so you have that much time to come up with an answer.

Every statement and action in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable. (Thanks, Ron)

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June 20, 2011
Nightstands – Part 2

Well, with the last three weeks of my life being dominated by Neocon, I can now get back to working on the nightstands. I did some things, but I’m limited because I’ve only got a few clamps and there’s a lot of gluing going on at this stage.

I machined each leg first by cutting a rabbet joint to accept the shelf and second by using a roundover bit with the router. Then sanded a LOT. Next I cut a 1×2 down to two 1×1′s to be the edge of the shelf and then cut a rabbet joint in it to accept the 1/4″ plywood that is the shelf. I then glued the 1×1′s to the plywood, opposite sides per day since I only have two long clamps – one of the pictures shows this for the shelf on the second nightstand. Next day I glued the other two sides to the plywood. Then assembled the legs to the box and inserted the shelf. I used screws and glue and clamped it all together. One day later I got what you see in the pictures.

There’s still a LOT to do: finish up the front edge with a 1×2 at the bottom, make the drawer, mount a duplex outlet facing the bottom, install the ceramic tile top, stain and seal all of it. But…. I’m a little farther along the way now.

The assembled nightstand From the back - still have a lot to do Detail on the rabbet joint on the leg Same detail, different view Start of the next shelf

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June 18, 2011
Youngsters

Happy anniversary, Zach and Jessie!

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June 12, 2011
A Walk on the Path

Happy anniversary, Al and Sue!

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June 2, 2011
A Boy No More!

Happy birthday, Zach! The big 3-0!!!

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