Cranky Swamp Yankee

These answers are wonderful!!!!! So honest and so heartfelt! You obviously know what is most important in life! I REALLY liked your answers to #3 and #17! And your answer to #15 made me laugh out loud! (I'm sitting all by myself in this room with the computer. My wife is in the next room. She now thinks that I'm nuts!)
Thanks for this post! It was fun!

You're right, bro. There is something to be said for folks that take their problems on and take responsibility for themselves! That's how I was brought up, and, living in a rural area like I do, that is my outlook on life too.
However, what I was referring to in my previous comment was that, while the people of Iowa and other midwest states are laying their own sandbags down, government dollars are already flowing to the area. In New Orleans, it took weeks.

"Fine fettle and fit as a fiddle." I like that! I think I'll steal it.
Also, an 8-foot tall Crusader??!!!

Keep it up, kid! You're doing great!

Good for you, Martin!
Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world where we all could just be PEOPLE, and nobody cared what our sexual preferences were or what color our skins are? (Sounds like a John Lennon song, doesn't it?)

I would have done the same thing as you. I would have killed them. I'd have felt bad about it, but I would have done it.
There's a scene from Woody Allen's Annie Hall where she calls he up because she is afraid of a spider in her bathtub. He comes over to her apartment and dutifully kills said spider. Upon witnessing the execution, Annie goes off on Woody. Dumbfounded and angry, Woody replies, "There was a spider the size of a Buick in your bathtub! I killed it! I didn't know that you wanted me to capture and rehabilitate it!"

I'd wish you'd come back!

These are interesting questions.
But, you know what? A large portion of New Orleans is STILL in ruins. I'll bet you that the Federal Relief money will reach Iowa a lot sooner, and that the damage will be cleaned quicker.

What a super idea! I thik she will love it, and have fun with it.
Boy, sometimes is sure is tough competing with ex, huh?

A Sand County Almanac - one of the most beautiful, peaceful and fullfilling books that I've ever read.
Leopold believed in what the great Chief Seattle once said, "The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth."

Wellllllll....okay. Maybe a little.

First of all, I don't "wank." Secondly, you forgot Thayer.

Yes. You are awesome. You were also scared shitless in this pic!

It was better in person.

You're right! I wrote a blog post recently saying very similar things. These high fuel prices have no basis in reality. They are not driven by supply and demand. They are driven by speculators who have a financial interest in manipulating figures so that it LOOKS like demand is NINE TIMES greater than supply. Such is not the case!
Even if it was true that demand is outstripping demand, the idea that increased drilling will lower prices any time soon is ridiculous! (First of all, did you know that there are literally THOUSANDS of speculation permits that are simply lying dormant? That's right!
AND, even if they did find new oil reserves, it would take, according to government experts, over SIX YEARS for that oil to get market and reduce prices!