Two US soldiers were tortured and beheaded.... and not a bloody peep out of idiots like John Murtha.... Murtha can spout lyrical about the supposed "cold blooded murder" of Iraqi civilians without any evidence whatsoever and YET, YET two US soldiers are murdered and not a single word out of his foul mouth, where is his outrage now folks? Where are all the folks who have been so eager to condemn our troops as murderers now? Where the hell are they? Why are they not standing up and condemning what has just happened? I hope everyone remembers this come November, that these spineless grandstanders have nothing to say when it is our troops who are being beheaded...., but let one damn Iraqi break a finger nail and they are a wailing and a gnashing of their teeth. It is time to get tough on these people, no more kid gloves, no more listening to the enablers of this conflict "oooooooh we can't hurt people" this is war folks, and the US and the Brits are the only ones playing by the bloody rules. Enough is enough, as Sean Connery said in the "Untouchables" "they pull a knife, you pull a gun, they put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue" enough is enough. To hell with the spineless liberals it is time to kick ass and to hell with the consequences. I don't recall anyone whining about "innocent civilians" when they bombed Dresden in WWII, and I don't recall anyone whining about "innocent civilians" when they dropped the nukes on Hiroshima, war is war folks, innocent people get killed, unfortunately you are now crippling our troops with such a maze of political correctness that they are endangering their lives in order to play by "the rules". They are now afraid if they actually engage the enemy and kill someone they are going to end up in shackles in the brig at Camp Pendleton. Enough.

Don't you just hate it when this happens, I was wandering around the garden, as I do every evening with a glass of wine, looking at what is blooming and what is being eaten by the various bugs in my garden, when I walked full face, right into a spider web, complete with a black crab spider..... I did the normal dance, the "batting at the hair and jumping up and down" dance to ensure that I was not the new home of a spider, but I HATE it when that happens.

Why is it when you boil baby carrots the water turns green, I mean the carrots are orange, why does the water turn green?

The mainstream media latches on to a "crisis" on a regular basis, last year it was shark attacks, despite the fact that shark attacks have been diminishing over the last years, but they couldn't wait to report the latest shark attack. This year it is air shows, "PLANE CRASHES AT AIR SHOW" big headlines, HOW DANGEROUS ARE AIR SHOWS.... what utter tripe....

Every so often Mother Nature throws you a jewel, something so incredibly beautiful that you stand they and simply stare at it in awe. Such was today. I have seen one of these little guys before, but, as luck would have it the camera was in the house and I was in the middle of something else. Today I had the chance to run inside and get my camera and actually take some shots. It is at times like these that one wonders at Mother Nature's design. This beetle, for those purists among you "Golden Tortoise Beetle" is literally that, it looks like it has been made out of pure gold. At first sight it is takes ones breath away, and then as one looks at it more closely the fascination does not diminish. Today I had my camera, today I had the chance to take a shot of it, albeit a lousy one, due to the fact that this little baby is 1/4" long...... sometimes, just sometimes, mother nature just blows you away.

I saw that sticker on the bumper of a car the other day, and as it turns out it was driven by one of the clerks of court so I was able to ask her where she found it, cause, in the interests of public safety I think I need one on the back of my car. You see I am one of those folks that brakes for wildlife, such as birds, frogs, turtles, snakes etc., but then I also brake for things that are PRETENDING to be wildlife such as sticks, pinecones, leaves etc., so I tend to brake alot, and I mean alot, so the person behind me probably needs some sort of warning due to my efforts to evade squishing wildlife.... I have also been known, on a regular basis to pull off to the side of the road so that I can pick up a turtle that is attempting to cross the road and take him to where he feels the need to be (which is a puzzle in itself, why on earth would a turtle, living in a nice drainage ditch, with water and bugs and slugs and everything else galore to feed on suddenly decide in its wisdom "hmmmmm I think I will cross that busy road and risk being squished like a CD so that I can see what is in the ditch across the road"..... what is up with that?) I was on the 17 bypass just recently and a turtle in its wisdom, decided to leave the green, leafy, no doubt bug ridden drainage ditch to the right of the highway and head towards the concrete barrier in the center, which had no way of escape, there was just concrete, which the turtle could have absolutely no hope of climbing. Can someone please explain this to me? Do you know how dangerous it is to pull off the side of the road in order to rescue a turtle when vehicles, in their wisdom, are whizzing past you at at least 80 in a 55? How stupid would one feel to get hit by a car during one of these forays in an attempt to rescue a turtle who is obviously not smart enough to stay in his safe, and food laden drainage ditch? I am hoping that someone can explain this to me, but in the meantime I will continue to brake for wildlife, and no doubt be the subject of much derision from the drivers behind me.

When I get to play my favourite game which is "see what absolutely absurd names parents in their wisdom (or lack thereof) chose to name their unfortunate (and undoubtedly emotionally crippled for life) children" This game is accomplished with the aid of the local newspaper which, of course, prints the photographs and names of all the youngsters graduating from their respective high schools. Some of the High Schools, those located in the smaller towns in the area, have slim pickings, as parents at those schools tend to be traditionalists, naming their children after their relatives, so there are generally alot of juniors, IIIs, and even IV and Vs in the males and lots of girls with good old fashioned names no doubt after beloved grandma or great grandma. The "city" schools though are a veritable gold mine of the absurd. One reads some of the names and wonders if perhaps shortly before the child's birth instead of perusing a book of baby names the parents threw the entire contents of a scrabble game into the air and then named their child based upon how the tiles landed on the carpet. It is apparent however that their particular game of scrabble appeared to be missing most of the vowels, but contained far more than the required amount of apostrophes. I really do not think that it is fair to give a child a name that contains more than one apostrophe, and personally I think one that contains four (which I saw recently) ought to be against the law. Parents also like to get creative with the spelling of traditional names, no doubt thinking that their particular spelling of the name is unique (which happens to be the name of one young lady graduating this month Unique). Their machinations however do not make one think, "oh how clever to spell (insert name here) that way" rather they make one think "these people must have failed English in school and are basically illiterate". (The basketball player Anfernee somethingorother comes to mind.) Several years ago there was a young lady whose name I am assuming is supposed to be pronounced Isabel, but her parents apparent quest to be unique turned it into an almost unrecognizable (and no doubt teacher confounding) Yzable. I think it is unfortunate seeing as most names mean something, such as mine (Dawn) however what would it mean if my parents, being either funky or illiterate, spelled it Dorn? Perhaps "pet" names are allowed in graduation notices, I am certainly hoping so, otherwise the parents of the young girl Pebbles who graduated this week are going to be spending alot of money on therapy. The all time classics however have yet to be overshadowed, I am not sure if the parents of Euphonia (girl) were music lovers or they just thought it would be neat to saddle their unwitting child with a name such as that, there is the boys name that I cannot even remember right now, so complicated was it, that contained no less than four apostrophes, at least three Qs and no vowels whatsoever, I am assuming at this point that his teachers and his friends called him Q rather than try to grapple with the impossible pronunciation. I am torn with the top two, but seeing as we have a boy and a girl lets go with the boy first, a young man with a name that sounds innocuous when it is pronounced Sha - tead, however it takes on a whole new meaning when one sees the spelling of Shithead. Without a doubt though, the shining example, the ultimate, the absolute king of why there should be a "child name" police on duty at every hospital that delivers babies, a young lady named Latrine. I am hoping upon hope that everyone that this young lady ever came in contact with was kind enough NEVER, EVER to advise her as to the meaning of her name, and if they did, I hope she then sued her parents for emotional distress. I am so looking forward to the other announcements this week.