Huck claims John Bolton as a foreign policy adviser. That’s news to John Bolton. Updated: “…no foreign policy credential…”
posted at 6:58 pm on December 28, 2007 by Bryan
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I didn’t want to write yet another blast at Huckabee, honest. Like the movie says, I keep trying to get out but he just keeps pulling me back in. Over and over and over again.
And again. Oops! Huck did it again…
A few weeks back, Mike Huckabee touted Frank Gaffney among his foreign policy advisers. Gaffney is a serious guy. He’d be an asset to any campaign. But Gaffney was eventually asked about this purported relationship to the Arkansan, and responded memorably:
GAFFNEY: I think that’s cockamamie.
More recently, Huckabee has also claimed that former Ambassador John Bolton is among his advisers. Bolton would also be a great asset to any candidate. Perhaps Huckabee was trying to earn my vote? Whatever the case is, like Gaffney, Bolton was asked about this and responds memorably.
In recent days, Mike Huckabee has tried to answer long-standing questions about who is on his foreign policy team. On Friday morning, he listed former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton as someone with whom he either has “spoken or will continue to speak.”
At a Thursday evening press conference, Huckabee said, “I’ve corresponded with John Bolton, who’s agreed to work with us on developing foreign policy.”
Bolton, however, has a different view. “I’d be happy to speak with Huckabee, but I haven’t spoken with him yet,” said Bolton, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.
“I’m not an official or unofficial adviser to anyone,” said Bolton, who mentioned he’d had conversations with other Republican candidates but refused to name any names.
So now that we know who isn’t advising Huckabee on foreign policy — twice now — perhaps at some point we’ll learn who actually is advising him. I’m not sure that asking Huckabee who his advisers are is the best way to find out who his advisers are.
Update: Not much I can add to this. No siree.
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Huckster didn’t mean he had talked to Bolton about being an adviser, he meant that he will have talked to Bolton …once he does.
It all depends on what you definition of talked to is.
(Those boys from Hope are subtler than the rest of us.)
profitsbeard on December 29, 2007 at 12:55 AM
It appears that I have a dirty mind and Speakup doesn’t. Heh.
baldilocks on December 29, 2007 at 12:57 AM
Shame on you, get a room (not this one).
Speakup on December 29, 2007 at 1:20 AM
Well, bless your heart. I wonder what it’s like, not being perverted? I’ll sure never know.
ReubenJCogburn on December 29, 2007 at 1:21 AM
I didn’t get it either, until you specifically explained it was a naughty reference. I’m plenty perverted (did I just say that?)…just not modern enough (or clued in to fashionable culture enough?) (or clued into Friday nights enough?) I guess.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 1:41 AM
After the backlash last year from the huge marches demanding amnesty, Hugh changed from a pretty liberal attitude towards immigration to a much more strict law enforcement stance that followed the change in public opinion.
I did a quick search and didn’t find references but there have been a few times when he hasn’t been a rock solid Conservative.
Not that anything he’s written or said has been anything bad.
I like what he writes and says a lot 95% of the time.
Speakup on December 29, 2007 at 1:45 AM
This thread will zoom into the Vault, as all threads do.
I happen to share a liberal attitude towards immigration.
If you get a chance to illustrate any HH previous liberal attitude towards illegal immigration, please bring it up. I would be stunned, but honest enough to admit there had been a flipflop.
Just gotta see the evidence, though.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 2:30 AM
There is an urgent need to regularize the illegal population for a variety of reasons, and to assure the flow of legal immigrants into the country, a flow that has usually been welcomed and absorbed. The GOP rejects the natavism [Smoking gun right there even though he misspelled nativism] of the extreme right, of course, and there are compelling reasons to endorse guest worker programs and specialized skill visas. There is also a widely-held belief in compassionate treatment of the long resident illegal and their families.
- Hugh Hewitt
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 3:13 AM
Have you been on Mitt’s site again?
Huck is an embarrassment to the rest of the field. His knowledge of Government (out side of his state) is nada, zippo. When he gets into a one on one debate, his only chance is funny one liners…Obama, Hillary, Edwards all out class him.
We would be doomed after the first debate.
right2bright on December 29, 2007 at 9:52 AM
A lot of rabid viciousness here.
Huck: I’ve corresponded with Bolton.
Bolton: I’m willing to talk to Huck, but haven’t yet.
Unhinged Hot Air bats: Huck is an evil Clintonian liar! Evil!!
I’m not voting for Huck, but staying hinged. Huck has no foreign policy advisors he’s willing to mention. That’s an embarrasment. He’s name-dropping and posturing, and that’s embarrassing. It’s not the same as a perjurous evil liar; it’s being a pedestrian politician when cornered and spinning as best he can.
G. Charles on December 29, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Huckleberry, a guy from Arkansas, lieing? Who woulda’ figured!
countywolf on December 29, 2007 at 11:28 AM
So many pedestrians in this race I feel the footprints
This may be a new low water year
I just read Peggy Noonan talking up the candidates. This is bad. Very bad. She has located good qualities, presidentialism apparently.
It is no accident the pope is reviving exorcisms
entagor on December 29, 2007 at 11:58 AM
“Moon River, wider than a mile,
I’m crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you’re going I’m going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There’s such a lot of world to see.
We’re after the same rainbow’s end–
waiting ’round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.”
Audrey Hepburn yes; Mike Huckabee, no.
Doug on December 29, 2007 at 1:59 PM
Too funny.
I read the Peggy Noonan piece on the candidates, and some of it is ok. But Noonan seems to live in a fluffy world of images and speeches written by people who will never deliver them.
So it should be no surprise that she finds Barry Obama fit for the Oval Office, on the strength of his … what? I don’t know and she doesn’t say. Something about him being literate because there was a book published with his name on it, and I gather that she thinks he wrote it and that this makes him Presidential, which makes her an idiot.
Jaibones on December 29, 2007 at 2:17 PM
Jaibones on December 29, 2007 at 2:17 PM
I agree with your analysis – to her Obama is simply the anyone-but-Clinton. She knows that they’ll have someone, she doesn’t want Hillary/Edwards. That leaves Obama. After the primaries are over she’ll write an article berating his emptiness.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 2:50 PM
In the meantime, she seemed to try and cover her bases by proclaiming Chris Dodd and Joe Biden — greasy Joe! — to be of Presidential timber. These provincial drunkards who are virtually unknown west of Altoona?
Oh, my. It must be an idyllic, carefree life for Peggy…
Jaibones on December 29, 2007 at 2:57 PM
I’m really beginning to wonder…
IS HUCKABEEN A PLANT?
shooter on December 29, 2007 at 3:54 PM
Jaibones, I agree – she’s a dreamer, often. She’s a nice lady (love her writing style), who attributes way too much significance to her musings. Not a dangerous type. She doesn’t have much influence.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Linky, please.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 5:55 PM
“Linky” here (second to last big paragraph/@bottom – FC, you’re welcome :)
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 6:32 PM
Thank you, reading…
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Ok, have read HH’s entire post multiple times. The paragraph singled out is more shudder-worthy every time I read it, and the smoking gun you point out, MB4, is not just smoking, the sound waves are still cascading over Household O’RushBaby. Natavism of the extreme right, yeah.
However. The link is important because, as I for one have learned acutely and painfully, to form an opinion based on a sentence or two out of context is folly.
It was said during a time that it looked like (thanks to John McCain) the GOP would have to compromise, and in defense of John Kyl, who was being tarred and feathered by the Righties at the time. Meanwhile, HH was repeatedly urging his listening audience to contact their Congressmen and Senators to register their feelings about illegal immigraion.
Laugh at me if you will, but for these reasons, my esteem of Hugh hasn’t dipped one iota.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Frankly, he is sounding like Al Gore in 2000. Just making stuff up.
Gatordoug on December 29, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Are we absolutely positively completely sure Huckster isn’t working undercover for the Clintons?
Griz on December 29, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Actually it was three sentences, but not to quibble.
When words and curses as reveling as those are used it really doesn’t much matter what else was said.
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 10:00 PM
BTW, there was no “out of context”.
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 10:01 PM
MB4. I am disappointed with your two responses. Or was it three?
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:07 PM
HH was a very late convert to the border security issue. MB4 has this one right.
Bryan on December 29, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Huh?
is what I said, and that’s fundamental truth.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Show me.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:11 PM
RushBaby, I thought that you’re from Texas, and not from Missouri.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 10:13 PM
MB4 already did. Look, I’m glad that HH is on our side now on this issue, but he hasn’t been on our side for very long. That’s just a fact.
Bryan on December 29, 2007 at 10:18 PM
RushBaby appears to have a big school girl crush on Hugh, much as Hugh has on Mitt.
I think that it is one of those unhealthy dysfunctional love triangles you hear about once in a while.
BTW, it took only a cursory look last night to find Hewitt’s own damning words, not any exhaustive search.
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 10:24 PM
I don’t know, Bryan. MB4 pointed out one wretched paragraph. It follows that one of our opponents could quote a single paragraph written here at HA and characterize the writer (or the whole lot of us) using
twothree sentences. However, as your guest, it will be my privilege to drop it.RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:30 PM
It’s my instinct to defend an ally.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:31 PM
My father would be very disappointed in me. To have come all this way and miss my destiny by… a foot.
- Don Diego
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 10:31 PM
It is my instinct to throw them under the bus if they cross me.
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 10:33 PM
OBL committed one wretched act against America. Do you give him a pass?
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 10:34 PM
The Huckster couldn’t tie Bolton’s shoe laces. Where does this guy get off? The Huxter is giving conservatives a bad name. Because he is a fraud. He’s a natural for U.S. Senator.
Griz on December 29, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Sorry, folks. One paragraph in the context it was written judged against the body of work from a man who is on the air 15 hours a week and who blogs prolifically as well, does not earn condemnation from me.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:41 PM
We had a special election in my district, to replace the crooked Cunningham, with Bilbray. In May of 2006 Hugh was saying the right things, for his choice on the right.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Hugh wouldn’t have had another take for the conservative business world, before he saw the mass drive from us and came around.
I’d rather go over to the newer threads though. One can like Hugh for other reasons, even if he’s a late-bloomer on the fence. This is a Huck/Bolton thread, after all. And so long as MB4 and RushBaby don’t get to hold real swords (note that I have it correct this time FC), I’m happy. You can agree to disagree.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 10:42 PM
From just another very cursory look see:
Hugh might start by backing off his pro-”regularization,” pro-amnesty position on illegals. It would also be constructive if he gave up the Beltway/Wall Street Journal epithets such as “restrictionist,” “anti-immigrant,” and “nativist,” which unfairly smear the vast majority of Americans and particularly Republicans who oppose illegals as knuckle dragging bigots. Paul Gigot, William Kristol, Tamar Jacoby, etc.[And of course Hugh Hewitt] are as much on the fringe of this debate as the moonbats barking about the NWO or the reconquista are.
- Liberty Post (2006-04-10)
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 10:46 PM
RushBaby, no one is looking for condemnation from you. You can still like Hugh a lot, and also see his blind adoration for Mitt. I’ve had my agreements/disagreements with many a figure, including Hugh. I don’t listen to him/Rush but read enough here and there to have the opportunity. I find Hugh a bit primadonnaish, but ok for the conservative causes. His blind assessment of Mitt is, however, puerile and loses him credibility. Remember haw this whole tiff started? By using one of his ridiculous phrases – we can leave it at that and move on, as this is going nowhere. What will any of you win, if you do? Not a battle worth dueling over too much.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 10:48 PM
Heh. The only sharpened thing around here is knowledge. As I have stated before, I’m here as a student, not a teacher. I am a discriminating and demanding student, however.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Sorry about the link (printable version) – do a find on “Busby”.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Painful for your penpal to admit that a cursory look is an exhaustive search, perhaps.
maverick muse on December 29, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Sincerely, I appreciate your searching and finding another example so that your POV can be strengthened. Since you found it, a link would be appreciated.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 10:57 PM
Coming out of the closet for amnesty.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 11:02 PM
Hugh [on his radio program] just said that most Americans are NOT on the side of the ‘enforce our laws and secure our border’ crowd. He is full of $hit and a waterboy for Bush.
Comment by xxxxxxxx | 4/2/2007
Remember that Hugh was the one that told all of us repeatedly how the great majority of Americans, Republicans, and conservatives really wanted Harriet Meyers to be put on the Supreme Court, and those of us that didn’t were sexists and worse.
Comment by xxxxxxxx | 4/2/2007
Hugh Hewitt is not a conservative.
He’s been on the air here in So.Ca. for almost 20 years. On radio and as the token half a$$ed limp wristed sorta semi “conservative” on PBS TV.
Hewitt has always been pro amnesty, pro open border and anti gun.
In the last 20 years California has passed many of the most draconian gun laws in the country. Hewitt has supported each and every single one.
Comment by xxxx | 4/3/2007
The evidence is all over, the forgoing but a tiny smattering of it.
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 11:02 PM
Why?
So you can say it’s from some left wing site or taken “out of context”?
It’s not.
Just do a “yahoo” or “google” search and you will be overwhelmed.
MB4 on December 29, 2007 at 11:04 PM
RushBaby, I know people who know Hugh personally. It can be arranged that you meet him. He’s one of our own, works/lives not that far from here, about 1 1/4 hours. We here know him well and don’t always agree with him. He’s got his good sides and the not so good, or let’s just say the ones which cover his own interests, for which I don’t blame him. See my link of 11:02 p.m.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 11:09 PM
I’ve been reading your link that you were generous enough to provide without insinuating some kind of ulterior motive, and thank you.
It won’t be necessary for me to meet HH. I am a loyal friend of his show for all the reasons I listed at comment on December 28, 2007 at 8:56 PM. I trust you, E, and between your word and the credible link you provided, will stand down.
Bryan, MB4, Entelechy: You were right.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 11:19 PM
Have listened to Hugh Hewitt for a few years now, my estimation of Mr. Hewitt is somewhere in between Entelechy’s and MB4’s. (I’ve never met him.)
While he’s very good at interviewing and is very intelligent, sometimes his view is quite myopic. For example, we the Tancredo/nuke dustup was in full swing, some of us milbloggers tried to tell him that it wasn’t as big a deal as some of the civilians like himself were making it out to be. I tried to tell him this in email and he said that I was merely trying to get a link from him. Other milbloggers had similar responses. Simply put, he knows more than you even if he doesn’t know jack about the subject.
BTW, MB4, the other day you said that you were making a “wild guess” (your quotes) that I had never been in the Army. Well your guess was correct.
baldilocks on December 29, 2007 at 11:20 PM
we=when
baldilocks on December 29, 2007 at 11:21 PM
We would all agree that Bolton’s endorsement holds great power. To falsely claim that honor is a gross display of diplomatic ineptitude.
Goldberg fit Huckabee neatly into the appropriate nutshell as the WORST conceivable so-called “Republican” socialistin the worst sense of that word POTUS.
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg–I’m waiting for my copy.
It is NOT surprising to see Huckabee’s extremely disturbing daily faux pas: apologizing for Bhutto’s assassination directly linked to radical Islam, infering international credentials and naming endorsements that never existed outside of his wish list.
In similitude, Romney flagellates his campaign’s “presidential” image by his own communications.
Since no one is perfect, I’ll stick with the platform and Fred. The party’s meeting place is in COMMITMENT to conserving the Constitution, not on the coat-tails of some charismatic charlatan.
maverick muse on December 29, 2007 at 11:33 PM
Me too. Pre-ordered today.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Goodnight everybody. And thanks.
RushBaby on December 29, 2007 at 11:51 PM
Good night RushBaby, and you are an excellent and persistent student. I’d hate to be your professor :), not really.
Baldilocks is a veteran of the USAF and the USAFR, and one great lady.
Entelechy on December 29, 2007 at 11:55 PM
How well said. Should be repeated, often.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 12:17 AM
Guiliani as President.
Fred as Vice President.
John Bolton as Secretary of State.
Now how does that sound?
Its Tommy on December 30, 2007 at 12:56 AM
This is a big ouch for Huck…..(26%)
News for Romney is good (30%) and bad for McCain (12%) and Rudy (9%). And absolutely devastating for Fred. Less than 1% of the people who will attend the caucuses will vote for Fred. Does anyone think his latest ad will make up 11% of the vote to put him in third place? The ad was poor by most standards so I doubt he can overcome Rudy and McCain to get 3rd.
One bit of good news for McCain…he is the leading second choice candidate. Hmmmmm.
csdeven on December 30, 2007 at 1:05 AM
Tommy Franks as President.
Lou Dobbs as Vice President.
Diana West as Secretary of State.
Now how does that sound?
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:09 AM
Fred Thompson as President
Mitt Romney as Vice President
Tom Tancredo as Secretary of Homeland Security
John Bolton as Secretary of State
Diana West as U.N. Ambassador
MB4 Secretary of Defense
How does that sound?
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:24 AM
And csdeven, that shouldn’t give you a heartattack. Like your link, it’s all speculation and play now, no matter the polls or words.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:29 AM
I have someone else in mind for SecDef but can not go into details at this moment of action.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:29 AM
That’s ok – how does the rest sound?
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:30 AM
That is if Tommy is unavailable of course.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:32 AM
Shot over, shot out!
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:33 AM
I like Tommy Franks but don’t think he’s running for president. Maybe he’ll go for Sec. Defense. That w/b nice. We can only speculate so far with those who’re in the run, at least for Pres/VP.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:35 AM
Mitt Romney as president
Michael Steel as VP
Hunter homeland security
John Bolton Sec State
Ramos and Compean Attorney General
Shut down the UN
csdeven special adviser to Mitt
Chuck Norris ambassador to the Mideast.
csdeven on December 30, 2007 at 1:35 AM
I don’t know the expression – does it mean that you agree?
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:35 AM
10-4
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:36 AM
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:42 AM
Heh, 10-4. In flight we say “Roger” when speaking to the towers.
csdeven, if your man doesn’t make it you’ll get sick. Hunter, whom I shook hands with at a Freedom concert in SD (to which I had VIP tickets – it was first class, I blush as I brag a little), is way too nice. He says the right things but we need a grumpy one like Bolton. He’d be good for Homeland, come to think of it. Forget Ramos and Compean. They should just get out of prison and be with their families, right, wrong, or indifferent. No good for any position in any admin. That’s kiddy play.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:43 AM
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:42 AM
Except for the first 5, nein, nein, nein. Kinderspiel.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:45 AM
We will be most fortunate to get even one.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 1:50 AM
You don’t know me very well do you? I haven’t decided on a candidate yet. There is only one guy I will have to hold my nose to vote for. And you’ll buy me plenty of drinks to wash that taste out of my mouth. :-)
My list was tongue in cheek for the most part. But you think Hunter is too nice for Homeland security?
Speaking of nice, is that why he hasn’t caught on? He’s too nice?
csdeven on December 30, 2007 at 1:51 AM
We shold be so fortunate to be able to choose. It’s all premature for that. This is just play on a late weekend night.
csdeven, if my man would win, I could afford many, many drinks for you and company. Your friend works hard and she doesn’t sell her brain cheeply.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:57 AM
To your question on D. Hunter, yes he is too nice and quiet. At the concert there were signs with his name going in but he never mentioned his run when shaking hands with people. He just passed good ol’ time and smiled. He’s a nice man, but not for that job. Not tough enough. Just my free, or 2 pence worth of thought.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 1:59 AM
Also, csdeven, didn’t you say that you like non-alcoholic drinks? Not that I would care, one way or other.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:00 AM
I agree and disagree.
He does not come across as tough like a Guiliani, but I know back a generation ago which one I would have wanted to cover my back.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:05 AM
I’ll take your word on Hunter. It answers a lot of my confusion about why he hasn’t caught on.
If your guy wins, I’ll be drinking Chivas Regal until I can’t stand up. :-)
csdeven on December 30, 2007 at 2:05 AM
I like Hunter because he has been on both sides of the military experience. He served and he is the father of sons who serve. I think that is unique among the candidates.
csdeven on December 30, 2007 at 2:10 AM
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:05 AM
You could be right. He’s very thoughtful. The current guy comes across tough and I can’t stand him. D. Hunter is trustworthy and not weasely. Imagine Bolton though in Homeland…all speculation. These times are crazy. I’ll be glad when it’s over. This long run is not to my liking at all.
Be glad to pay for it. If you usually don’t drink it you’d probably be down in a jiffy :)
OT – Did you two have good holidays? Did your son leave yet csdeven? What are your big plans for 2008, except for getting a president elected. Don’t answer any if you don’t feel like it.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:12 AM
Duncan Hunter He served in South Vietnam from 1970 to 1971 during the Vietnam War in the Army Rangers’ 75th Ranger Regiment, attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He participated in 24 helicopter assaults as well as in small-number, night-time reconnaissance patrols. He held the rank of First Lieutenant, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal, and service ribbons such as the Vietnam Service Medal. He has said, “I didn’t do anything special in the U.S. Army, but I served with very special soldiers I will never forget.”
Rudy Giulinai He applied for a deferment but was rejected. In 1969, MacMahon wrote a letter to Giuliani’s draft board, asking that he be reclassified as 2-A, civilian occupation deferment, because Giuliani, who was a law clerk for MacMahon, was an essential employee. The deferment was granted.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:15 AM
Actually right now I’ve got the worst damn head cold, starting yesterday. I think the last time I had a cold was 15 years ago. I must have done something wrong around Christmas day.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:20 AM
I know about Mr. Hunter’s service and really he is a nice and decent man. Just not tough in his run. I really should have phrased that better. I have the utmost respect for him. He just doesn’t make his own case and I have no idea why he’s even running. You both made a good case for him, and I was not clear in my original assessment.
Btw, FC, “my man” is Fred, the arch-anti-candidate of my buddy csdeven. However, I’ll vote for any, except not for Huckabee. If he’s the man, I will not vote at all, or vote for an insignificant 3rd party dude, as a protest. In 1996 when I came home from work Clinton had already won – so I voted for a triple PHd’d guy, for whom only his family and I voted. I’m not a registered republican and can do these things. Crazy but one has to be true to self. There’s no way I will vote for any lefties, not the socialist types, ever. And the sane ones are all retired or dead.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:22 AM
I guess I complete the triangle then as I like both Mitt and Fred in that order, as of now anyway.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:25 AM
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:20 AM
Sorry to hear about that, especially if it’s something that rare for you. There is a very bad one going around, the head cold, then another one, the stomach flu. I flew right before X-mas and was so careful/scared. Escaped, fortunately.
Not that you need a mother/grandmother, but consider throwing a big handful of salt into a pot with about 3 inches of water in it, boil, then inhale the vapors, with a towel over your head, for 10 min. Reuse same water the next day, or as often as you feel like it. It really helps to clear those sinuses. If you don’t like the idea of salt, make a strong tea, preferrably an herb tea, and inhale that.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:31 AM
That sounds like something that will either cure me or kill me!!!
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:35 AM
He flew back to Pearl on the 26th. And yes, I had a nice holiday. 2008 will be pretty full. Our soldier gets married during his mid-tour in February. They will try for a baby right away and if she gets pregnant, she’ll move here and live with us until he returns in December 08. We will fly back to Ft Campbell for the big welcome home and job well done when he comes home.
How was your holiday?
csdeven on December 30, 2007 at 2:36 AM
I have got a bottle of green tea in the fridge that someone gave me many months ago. Maybe I will heat it up real hot and drink that.
But I ain’t putin’ no towel over my head though!!!
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:37 AM
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:35 AM
Not like a turban, just thrown over the head and the pot, to keep the vapors risign toward the face. You’re such a funny person. Free entertainment. Just get well, one way or another.
Gesundheit ist nicht alles, aber ohne sie ist alles nichts.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:39 AM
Dang, then don’t use a towel, use an old t-shirt – guys are so vane. Just cover with anything, and inhale the steam. It will do you a lot of good. Enough of this nonsense. Just trying to help. Have some hard liquor instead, before hitting the pillow. It probably will do the same trick.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:42 AM
Looks like you’ll have an excited new year ahead csd.
My holliday was traditional, with homemade good food, an international gathering of friends. I follow traditions from here and form Europe, including with home-baked cookies galore, to delight neighbors et all. Low key was the theme of this year. Gave up the vast gift think a few years ago as I find it futile.
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:46 AM
Now that’s much better.
I don’t have any of the hard stuff, but if I have a couple of more beers that should work.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:47 AM
Does Entelechy know Springerle?
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:49 AM
S/b “gave up the gift thing”
Of course E knows Springerle. What would X-mas be without them? Does FC know what Springerle stands for?
Entelechy on December 30, 2007 at 2:54 AM
Spring Girl?
My paternal grandmother made them. She was half Norwiegen and half Swedish, came to Oregon in a covered wagon at the age of one, but her mother-in-law was German and taught her how to make them I think.
My sister makes them once in a while.
I made them years ago and let’s just say I took some short cuts and, well, they were eatable, but that was about it.
MB4 on December 30, 2007 at 2:59 AM
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