I will be moving to The Woodlands, TX in a month from Florida. If anybody is from there or lives near by please let me know! I am moving there alone and won't know anybody so I'm a little nervous. Also, I'll be working at a Starbucks in the area. Any other baristas there?
First Scotch Tasting With Friends Event (January 29, 2006)
For years I drink only bourbon whisky — no scotch whisky for me. Then in 2006, I was invited to a scotch tasting with several Rotary friends, led by a Scottish gentleman (second on the right). Everybody brought a bottle of single-malt scotch for the tasting event. Not to worry, our wives were there to drive us home.
“Whisky, like a…
“Original Pat Green” (2004)– Photo-Artistry by kenne
Like so many people the past St. Patrick’s Day, we were sheltered-in-place and missed celebrating the 17th the only way it should be, with friends. So I turned to the many photos of St. Patrick’s Day I have taken over the years, and I have many.
At first, I was thinking about doing a collage, but then I found this one of a friend, Patrick A.…
Growing Old Together — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato
Jerry, George and Kenne Toasting the Good Life During a Wonderful Hike Visiting a Series of Scenic Lakes Nestled in a Gorgeous Valley Surrounded by 13,000-ft Peaks in the High Sierras. (August 6, 2006) — Image by joy
I first met Jerry in the late 1990s when he became a member of our book club, The Society of The 5th Cave — A Reading Club for the Non-Discriminating Bourgeoisie. His first…
At a Texas rally, Trump focused on multiple investigations into him in New York, Washington and Atlanta, claiming: "They want to put me in jail."
S.V. Dáte at HuffPost:
Former President Donald Trump Saturday night called on his followers to stage massive protests in multiple cities should prosecutors act against him. He also said he would offer pardons to those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that he incited in a last-gasp attempt to remain in power.
“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protests we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt,” he said to a rally audience in Conroe, Texas, reading from teleprompters set up on either side of his lectern.
A few minutes later, he claimed his followers who stormed the Capitol building, assaulting police as they entered, were not being treated “fairly” and that should he run for the White House again and win: “If it requires pardons, we will give them pardons.”
The 80-minute performance, while riddled with Trump’s familiar lies about having had his re-election “stolen” from in November 2020, was notable for the numerous references to the various investigations into him.
“They’re trying to put me in jail,” he said. “These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people. They’re racists and they’re very sick. They’re mentally sick. They’re going after me without any protection of my rights by the Supreme Court or most other courts.”
Tonight at The Former Guy's grievancefest in Conroe, TX, Trump is seemingly encouraging a repeat of the January 6th Insurrection by urging protests across America if he faces charges. He also suggested pardoning the participants of the violent far-right storming of the Capitol that he helped incite should he take office again.
New Year’s Day With Friends, 2006 — Image by kenne
Those Were The Days
— Gene Raskin
Once upon a time there was a tavernWhere we used to raise a glass or twoRemember how we laughed away the hoursAnd think of all the great things we would do
Those were the days my friendWe thought they’d never endWe’d sing and dance forever and a dayWe’d live the life we chooseWe’d fight and never loseFor…