HAPPY BIRTHDAY , NEIL !!!!!

everyone call, write, send flowers.....

Yule Tide Smack Down

The kyle+blog strikes back:
In keeping with the theme, you have made me go to a place that I really did not want to : The Bear Force One Card.

Ho, Ho, Ho.....

A Yule Tide smack down...

B-Day has issued a challenge for the 2007 Christmas Song Count Down. She and hers are pouring over the youtube as we type. Here is her first volley:
Lets face it hard working crew of women.. I have MUCH more time on my hands than yall do... Sure, its ON!:

dumb, dumb, dumb

Illinois Governor, Rod R. Blagojevich was arrested today by the big Fed dogs and charged with corruption, including an allegation that he conspired to profit from his authority to appoint President-elect Barack Obama’s successor in the United States Senate, prosecutors said.

OUCH! On tape telling would be Senator #5 that a cool half mil will get him to D.C. . Not at all what President Elect Obama needed to have happen, NOT that this is in any way a reflection of him, just a nasty little bump in the road that the WRC ( right wing crazies ) can run with.

File this one under Elliot Spitzer Stupid. What is it with these guys.... Power corrupts!

Christmas Song Countdown.....

not keeping count or anything.....

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

I did not put this here... but good to know that there are some other hold outs....

The trail elves have not decorated their tree yet this year


Koda's swimming hole, all frozen over

Sort of...

Jan Kemp, ex-UGA whistleblower, dead at 59

I think it is hard for  people who were not engaged with the polity of Athens Ga in the early 1980's  ( if not now - and NOT just Athens, I am sure, ANY football obsessed college town..) to understand what Dr Kemp did. 

Think Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. Think Catholic Church in 16th century Spain. She did the un-thinkable, she questioned the FOOTBALL PROGRAM! She dared say that the kids on the playing field needed to be in college as well. HERESY!. She was fired, naturally . Sued and won. It was a HUGE story in the South, and to some extent across the country.

59 years old and died of Alzheimer's. Think about how young she was to have had such moxie. Too sad.

The story from the AJC.

The story from the Banner-Herald