Going Rogue:

An American Life. This is the title of the book that has been written for Sarah Palin and will be released November 17th. Do you think anyone actually looked up what the word "rogue" means? As a noun rogue is a dishonest, knavish person; a scoundrel; a tramp or vagabond. As a verb rogue means to cheat and as an adjective rogue is having an abnormally saucy or unpredictable disposition, or no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted.

Perhaps she and her ghost writer think this is a good thing. The "book" is being published by Harper Collins owned by Rupert Murdoch who also owns Fox News.

ACORNs

Somehow I have missed discussing the Oak Tree that lives in our backyard. It is a huge, beautiful tree that hosts all sorts of wildlife. As we know Oak Trees produce wonderful, adorable acorns every year and in the Fall they fall to the ground with the hope of producing another Oak Tree. Since the tree is so tall the acorns fall a long way before they hit the deck, the roof, or the ground. Good ole Newton taught us about this phenomenon, but with nice soft, squishy apples. These acorns fall at the speed of a bullet and sound like gunfire when they hit the deck and roof. This goes on for several weeks before the towering Oak has shed all the cute little nuts. It is a race with the squirrels to see who can get to them first.....they try to bury them and I try to pick them up and dump them into the woods. I am not sure who is winning but you can see what fun we have here in the "Pitt".

And you thought this post was going to be about that communistic terror group that is trying to take over our country.

Why were Civil War battles fought in National Parks????

...Pat Buchanan. (Now, doesn't that sound stupid? It was a joke Buchanan made on MSNBC this morning during a piece on Ken Burns' new series on National Parks. It was quite funny and rather clever. But when you take it out of context Pat sounds really stupid. That's what Republicans do all the time...take things out of context and make a huge deal out them.)

You must pay attention to know what to say.

I hope all conservatives have gotten their new marching orders......Medicare is not to be touched under any circumstances!!!!! After bashing the system and claiming it will be bankrupted sometime in the near future, they now want no cuts, no nothing! The socialistic, single payer, health plan is sacrosanct!

Climate change IS real

Exelon, one of the largest energy corporations, has withdrawn their membership in the Chamber of Commerce. They have taken this action because the Chamber, a very conservative organization, denies that climate change exists. Exelon is committed to addressing the issue of climate change and should be commended. Call them at 800.483.3220. A really nice woman answers the phone. They do not have a number to take these calls but she told me she would figure out who to get the comments to.

Sunday driving

The rain and gloom have gone and Fall is here. We decided to ramble around the roads south of the Pitt yesterday. Pat found the "House in the Horseshoe" on the map and wanted to go see what it was....well, it is closed on Sunday but is a home where a North Carolina revolutionary, Philip Alston, resided. http://www.nchistoricsites.org/horsesho/HORSESHO.HTM . Though we did not get to go in it is very typical of the "ordinary" dwelling indicative of colonial NC. Missing, for the most part, from this state are the elegant, colonial homes found in South Carolina and Virginia.

After not seeing the House in the Horseshoe we drove to Pinehurst. What a beautiful little village. Golf of course rules, but the houses are beautiful and cute little shops abound.

This is a test!

Find a liberal website and a conservative website...read the comments. Which side has more misspelled words? I'll give you a hint, "obamercare wont fex anethang".

Hey, Hey, EC, you look so good to me!

ECU 7 UNC 0. And that was the end of that....We decided to go to Chapel Hill to see if we could get tckets. Yes we did, great seats but the pirates just couldn't pull it off.

Flash!

Bill O'Reilly has come out for the public option...now pick yourself up off the floor.

No, No, No, No!

At some point sensible Republicans will say yes to something. There has to be something they are in favor of. No one is against everything unless they just want to be against everything to hurt the other side. Ahhhh, maybe they just want to be opposed to everything and anything the Democrats and Obama are in favor of. At some point the negativity has to become tiresome to most people.