Hello CREW…                                                                 02-19-12

Time for….    Visit #17    Last:  Nov 30th

     next   HAPPY HOUR CREW   event          5:30 PM   Wednesday    February 22nd  

      Bizzarro’s  Pizza    ( Italian )
            325 E Merritt Island Cswy  M.I.      453-2610 
                  Ahhhhh yes… the pasta n’ bean soup!      yummm!

Very useful:         http://neighbors.whitepages.com 

  Enter your address and you’ll get an aerial photo of your

area and a list of all your neighbors and their phone numbers!

         
Kudo’s:  Email from Lois Reinhart about Classmate Danny Tharpe.

Danny will be inducted into the FHSAA Hall-of-Fame April 29th Gainesville.

     You can go on the FHSAA Web-page to read the News Release.

Ellen Walton Class of 59:   Got an update from classmate!  Hi Ellen!  

Living in Santa Fe.   I get to Florida once a year to visit Judy Culpepper,

fellow artist, for two weeks and she comes here for two weeks.

We paint, cook & do creative projects. Also see Janet Berry & husband Jim,

Ann Moshenek (Skelly?),  July Griffis came out to visit one year.

Most of my time is spent traveling and traveling, oil painting and cooking.

You can see my art on my web site ellenwalton.com.  Proceeds from sale

of my art goes to charity “helping people help themselves.”

         Always nice to hear from CHS Classmates! 

Plan Ahead:    Crew events!  Feb 29th  Longhorns Steak House  M.I.

                   Also it is the day of celebration for National Batchelor’s Day!

                 Squaws… grab your favorite Injun & Party-Hardy! lol 

Yes!   2012 is a leap year and with doom’s day  12-21-12   approaching,

                           GET OUT THERE AND LEAP!    lmao!

Lost our marbles?   Got an email from Ed Murphy, he has accepted my

                               challenge to The Greatest Marble Champion match!

                              Sometime in the near future we are going to duel till

                               one of us loses  ALL HIS MARBLES  and a Champion

                             will be crowned!  (Ed has held that title since  5th grade lol ) 

Did you know ED, the fastest runner in Cocoa… almost got beat by

   Alice Barron in a grudge match while in the 5th grade!  YIKES!

The only people who claim that money is not important are

    people who have enough money so that they are relieved

        of the ugly burden of thinking about it. – Joyce Carol Oates Sent from my i-teepee near the pasta factory!

NO ONE BUT RON PAUL

At this moment we are seeing much talk about “The Santorum Surge.” Of course, before this we saw the Gingrich Surge, the first Santorum Surge, the Cain Surge, Bachmann, Perry and even professional opportunist Donald Trump had his time in the GOP spotlight.

At this moment we are also seeing the widespread reaction to the Obama budget plan, which as expected does little to actually cut spending and address the national debt. USA Today notes in an editorial today: “The best test of a budget proposal these days is whether it reins in the national debt… The election-year budget President Obama sent to Congress Monday fails that test.”

USA Today isn’t exactly a hotbed of right-wingery, and yet even the center-left paper admits that this Democratic president remains a failure in addressing our debt.

But apparently the Republican Party isn’t exactly a hotbed of right-wingery either, as for all their current criticism of Obama’s budget, Santorum, Romney and Gingrich haven’t offered plans that address the debt either.As The Daily Caller’s Alex Pappas wrote in December:

All Republicans running for president say they want to cut federal spending.

But a study the libertarian Cato Institute conducted by analyzing the candidates’ websites showed that most of them are light on details about specific cuts they would insist on as president.

The study’s author, Tad DeHaven, wrote in his “Guide to the Presidential Candidates’ Proposals to Cut Spending” that Texas Rep. Ron Paul stands out the most.

“When it comes to proposing specific spending cuts and identifying the dollars amounts, Paul’s website is unrivaled,” DeHaven explained.

“He is the only candidate to put together an actual budget proposal,” he said. “Paul’s spending proposals would amount to the largest reduction in the size and scope of the federal government of any candidate.”

Indeed. The only arguable difference between Santorum, Romney and Gingrich and Obama is the margin by which they might grow government and spending, but they will all continue to spend money we don’t ave. Sure, they all claim to want to cut government and spending but none offer any specifics. This is the time during the election when the candidates are supposed to at least try to lie to us. But even in campaign mode, most of the Republican presidential candidates won’t even pretend that they can cut government to the degree that conservatives desire and fiscal reality demands.

If you truly want to cut spending, there is no one but Ron Paul. If you truly want to tackle the national debt, there is no one but Ron Paul. This isn’t shilling for favorites, it’s mathematical reality.

If you simply want another Republican to manage big government and maintain our debt, then by all means, “surge” away. But if you want the reduction of debt, deficits and government that virtually everyone–from USA Today to the Tea Party–says absolutely must happen…

Hello CREW…                                                                    02-16-12

  Ole lay!    Last night at the Chaparral Mexican was a fun Fiesta!  
Si mi amigo   Mexican food!  Good for the sole, and the margarita’s
were good for the heart!  2  4  1 ‘s   Awesome! 

         A  couple of the CREW that had TWO had a fun time taking the

sobriety test:  Say… Butterscotch twirl  three times fast!  You had to

  be there to hear what they said!    Try it yourself!    It ain’t easy! 

            B-T-M-O   BillyTwoMargaritas & Out,  no beer sting here!  🙂  lol

                                   Beber a mi amigo! 

Attendees:   George & Lois Reinhart, Billy Weinberg, Carole Saxe,

       Gerry Heller-Raines & Bill, Gregg Seitner, Jerry Smith, Clark True,

                and ole  B-T-B.     Server:  Mary was very good!

At JD’s:   After dinner, ole B-T-B stopped in at JD’s in Rockledge and

         met up with a CHS classmate!    He has just moved back to Cocoa.

           We had a few and as usual  the topic of Girls/Squaws came up.

           Hmmmm seems a lot of good times were going on and if I was

        a  Kiss n Tell  I might share his info!  But we took a vow of secrecy!

                   Was very surprised to hear about some of our more…

                   conservative classmates?  You know who you are!  😉 

Lol…  tell all book, on the shelves in 2059!  Long after we are gone! lmao!

   (  ladies… call the ole Indian and verify that he has all the details right!  heh heh heh  )  

                      

Why don�t Mexicans BBQ?  The beans fall through the little holes.
First 3 words in every Mexican cookbook?  steal a chicken!
Why do Mexicans re-fry their beans?

       Have you seen a Mexican do anything right the first time?

February 14th:    Hope everyone has recovered from V.D.!  

Atlas V Launch:  Today 44 min long launch window opens at 5:46 p.m.

Next Week:    Bizzarros Italian on M.I.       Visit #17  Last Nov 30th

Anyone who has never made a mistake

                       has never tried anything new.   – Albert Einstein

Sent from my i-teepee near the Mexican Border!   

Writes George Will:

Few things so embitter a nation as squandered valor, hence Americans, with much valor spent there, want Iraq to master its fissures. But with America in the second decade of its longest war, the probable Republican nominee is promising to extend it indefinitely.

Mitt Romney opposes negotiations with the Taliban while they “are killing our soldiers.” Which means: No negotiations until the war ends, when there will be nothing about which to negotiate…

The U.S. defense budget is about 43% of the world’s total military spending — more than the combined defense spending of the next 17 nations, many of which are U.S. allies. Are Republicans really going to warn voters that America will be imperiled if the defense budget is cut 8% from projections over the next decade? In 2017, defense spending would still be more than that of the next 10 countries.

Do Republicans think it is premature to withdraw up to 7,000 troops from Europe two decades after the Soviet Union’s death? About 73,000 will remain, most of them in prosperous, pacific, largely unarmed and utterly unthreatened Germany. Why do so many remain?

Since 2001, the United States has waged war in three nations, and some Republicans appear ready to bring the total to five, adding Iran and Syria. (The Weekly Standard, of neoconservative bent, regrets that Obama “is reluctant to intervene to oust Iran’s closest ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”) GOP critics say Obama’s proposed defense cuts will limit America’s ability to engage in troop-intensive nation-building. Most Americans probably say: Good…

Romney says: “It is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon…” (Leon) Panetta says Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is “unacceptable” and “a red line for us” and if “we get intelligence that they are proceeding with developing a nuclear weapon, then we will take whatever steps necessary to stop it.”

What, then, is the difference between Romney and Obama regarding Iran?

Osama bin Laden and many other “high-value targets” are dead, the drone war is being waged more vigorously than ever, and Guantanamo is still open, so Republicans can hardly say Obama has implemented dramatic and dangerous discontinuities regarding counterterrorism. Obama says that even with his proposed cuts, the defense budget would increase at about the rate of inflation through the next decade.

Republicans who think America is being endangered by “appeasement” and military parsimony have worked that pedal on their organ quite enough.

Hello CREW…                                                             02-12-12

Ole Lay?  

   Hola amigos! Vis�tenos en Chaparral por la buena comida y
tal vez una danza del sombrero mexicano! 

             Hey friends!   Meet us at Chaparral for good food and
maybe a mexican hat dance!  

    Next   HAPPY HOUR CREW event
           Chaparral  Mexican  Grill 
 5:30 PM  Wednesday  Feb 15th  
      1341 N. Cocoa Blvd (US 1)  Cocoa Fl     321 576-9800 

   Two hundred yards north of Byrd PLaza, West Side of US 1

       2-4-1  Margaritas come early  till 6 pm  

       Super Menu:  http://www.chaparralmexicangrill.com/

All the info:    Be sure to visit  http://www.tigertopics.com website.
Lois Atkinson-Reinhart  has done a Superior job on providing all the

    links/info you need about, Mosquito Beaters  (including a brochure)

      Sock Hops, Classmate Cruises, and the latest on CHS reunions!

 KUDO’S  Lois!  Your classmates appreciate your good work!

Feb 14th:   Hummm Candy is Dandy but Liquor is Quicker!  lol

                                                                                 — H O I

Too Cute!   Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes a

               woman’s sex drive by 90%…  It’s called a Wedding Cake.
— the ole bachelor Indian already knew that!  lol

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to

another,   “What!  You too?    I thought I was the only one.

                                                                              – C.S. Lewis

Sent from my i-teepee near the tortilla factory! 

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This is kind of interesting especially as one considers that the Obama administration as well as Santorum in particular,  are raising the specter of  Iran’s building and using a nuclear weapon.

 I have searched diligently y for evidence that a Iranian Nuke is nearly developed.  Nothing comes up!  Iran has not been cited for transgressions against the agreement to not develop nuclear weapons.  There is zero evidence that they are developing one.  Yet we are ready to go to war over it!  Stupid isn’t it?  Maybe it isn’t the nuke we fear as much as it is protection of the Oil we so crave and hold so dear.  Even if they had one … a nuke that is …  they are not likely to use it agains Israel for fear of wiping out the Palestinians  while wiping out Israel.

Hello CREW…                                                         02-09-12