Kowabunga

With Thanksgiving, and now busily shopping for Christmas presents, not to mention my wife's upcoming birthday, things have been hectic around the homestead. So, what else is new? These are things we all have to do.

Thanksgiving weekend was good, even with the horsey round-up I had, as my neighbor's horses (I was watching them while they were away), got out of their pasture and I needed to round them up again. With help from other neighbors. It was not quite a "comedy of Errors," but pretty darn close. Lesson learned: when dealing with livestock, wear steel-toed boots.

And there was also a flurry obsession with genealogy research. More about that later.

During all this time, much has happened, like the six Imams who were booted off of a US Airways flight, which I tried to ignore initially. sine that time, there has been more information, such as their changing their seats at the last minute into a patern used by terrorists (two in first class, two on the exit rows, two in the back of the plane), requesting seatbelt extenders, then stuffing them under the seats, and that when the flight seating was called, they shouted "Allah" loudly, and were busily making anti-american remarks. Enough of that.

Congressman-elect Keith Ellison is in the news for proclaiming that he will take his oath on the Q'uran. Why this has been considered "big news" is beyond me. My biggest concerns with Ellison is his falunting the laws of the land, refusing to pay parking violations, etc., consorting with racits such as Farakhan of the Nation of Islam, and his involvement with CAIR, which is believed to have ties with terrorist organizations. The bit about swearing in on the Q'uran is a non-story. Quite frankly, if he is to take his oath on a Holy Book, I'd rather it not be the Bible.

Much to do, and catch up. More later.