I have been neglecting my blog (to which everyone is probably saying, "we wondered when you would shut up") so I must remedy the situation immediately.
So Anne Coulter called John Edwards a "faggot" and the world just about comes to an end, Bill Mahr (or whatever his name is) basically opines that the world would be better off if the terrorists had blown up Vice President Chaney and basically everyone goes "oh okay." Am I missing something here? Half the democrats in politics today at some point have called the President "an idiot" when he clearly is not, and yet they get a pass, many anti-war loonies have called the president "baby killer" and "murderer" when clearly he is not and yet they get a pass. Anne Coulter says John Edwards is a faggot, when he clearly is not and everyone and their trained monkeys are demanding that everyone in the Republican party including the girl that puts the stamps on the envelopes in the basement office of the Republican headquarters "apologize" for the comment or at best "disavow" or "condemn" Coulter's comments. I can understand the outrage if perhaps John Edwards had recently come out of the closet and declared himself gay but calling someone a "faggot" when they are clearly not a member of the class that was once derided with the name then what is the problem? Where I come from a faggot is a type of meat ball, and as far as I am aware the term is still used for such, therefore purely for the sake of argument how do we know that Anne wasn't saying that John Edwards is a meatball? Fags are cigarettes, perhaps she was calling him one of them? Meanwhile Bill Mahr says that the Vice Pres should be dead and everyone is cool with that, methinks a little perspective is in order here. I do take issue with Anne though, instead of calling him that she should have said that he is an ambulance-chasing, slime ball of a lawyer who has made millions on junk science and single handedly caused more unnecessary cesarean sections and more OB/GYN's to stop delivering babies and causing women to have to travel great distances to find a doctor willing to deliver a baby than any other human being on the planet, she would have been spot on then.
I love spring, there is a sense of hope in the air, my daffodils are blooming right now and I smile whenever I see them. That is the great thing about photography, you can capture a moment in time and then some time in the future you can go back to that moment and relive how you felt when the shot was taken. When I look at a shot of my sunflowers from last year I can almost feel the sun beating down on my bare shoulders. I love spring.
If you believe the democrats Iraq is an absolute disaster and victory is impossible. However, a little seen bit of news today would bely that fact. There was a big crack down on the worst area of Baghdad to try and suppress the insurgency, as it turned out the troops (both US and Iraqi) went in and the insurgents sort of ran away. The troops met little or no resistance. Don't hold your breath waiting for that story to air on CNN. (Which reminds me just in case Jack is reading today, keep yer 'ead down and stay safe.)
The Hilderbeast was campaigning in Alabama this weekend and inexplicably developed a southern drawl. Can't wait til she's campaigning in California among the surfers dude.
Saw the first episode of the new version of "Robin Hood" from the BBC, it was excellent. I shall have to try and keep up with the next episodes, providing I can pry the remote out of my sleeping husband's fingers that is.
The Walter Reed problem, why is anyone surprised, this is a government run organization, why is everyone yelling and gnashing of their teeth to discover that it is poorly run? Why are they saying that it takes forever for vets to be assessed for disability when the current waiting list for a Social Security hearing on disability is running at about 18 months? I do not understand that the very people who create the myriad of regulations and 300 page documents to explain how one should attach a paper clip to two pieces of paper are now bloviating about this? Am I the only one who has a problem with their double standards?
I am going to throw a brick through my husband's nice new HDTV if I have to watch one more a) cialis ad b) story about Anna Nicole Smith c) story about Britney Spears d) botox ad where women with frozen, expressionless faces tell me that "its my time" what its your time to walk around looking like a department store mannequin?
Afterwards I noticed how the flowers had been sprayed with water and how pretty they looked. I was inspired at that point, to get out in my flower beds and wake them up from their long winter nap. So I dragged out their thick blanket of leaves and marveled at each sprout that I saw hunkered down under the leaves. The glads are poking their heads above ground, as are the bearded irises. My Asiatic lilies have poked through and as I pulled the leaves off my anemones I noticed buds that had previously been hidden by the leaves. I wore a t-shirt and it was glorious to feel the warm sun on my bare skin again after a winter of wearing long sleeved turtle necked sweaters. As I made my way along the flower bed I disturbed several baby lizards, all dressed in brown to blend in with the leaves, I scooted them along to the part of the bed that I had already worked on so's not to keep disturbing them as I made my way down the bed. A sulpher butterfly flew on by at one point, no doubt woken by the temperatures in the 60s and a large lazy bumble bee flew passed me on its way to the forsythia. As I worked closer to the bird feeders the birds began to be happy with my presence and land even despite me being in the vicinity. A hairy woodpecker made hesitant visits to the suet feeder but once it realized I was not going to harm it, it stayed and filled its belly with suet. March is the hardest month of the year for birds, so I was delighted to see mine making the most of the feeders. It was in all a glorious day. Here are some shots of my spring flowers after the power wash over-spray had landed on them. Enjoy. 
