Nobody 728
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Nobody # 728
Nobody Asked Me But:
“I love you more than even one more day.”<<<
Wine tip of the week - 2006 Cambria Santa Maria Valley Julia's Pinot Noir.
There is nothing “Sideways” about this Pinot. It’s lean and mildly smoky, with a light red hue that belies some modest intensity. (Or is it intense modesty?) It has a bright berry scent and clean, strawberry flavors. Actually some of the strawberries are a little dirty, but there is nothing dirty about the finish. Just a hint at green herbs and a taste of the sea just before a California rain washes all of the nasty stuff into Santa Monica Bay. (Well, almost before, but no wine is perfect.)
About $20 at K&L Wine Merchants, Manhattan Fine Wines and Red Carpet Wine.<<<
Here are last week’s questions – with my answers and, even better, some of yours.
Aside from your family, friends or pets, what would be the most difficult thing for you to give up in your life?
From Elizabeth and George.
“George says running and I say reading (in bed before going to sleep or online with my coffee in the morning).”
I haven’t run with George (I would eat his Arizona dust after 10 or 12 miles. Did I say miles, I meant feet.) But I have drunk their coffee in the morning while reading the news on their computer, and I can testify that it is a great experience.
From Barbara – “I would miss the small familiar things – like books, UCLA memorabilia and some antique things.”
Here’s mine.
Setting aside losing our home, which I am certain would also be high on everyone’s list, I would say my driver’s license. Driving equals freedom.
If I were allowed to turn this into a list, which I am not, I would add, in order after the above, my computer, travel, Bruin season tickets an
d my Sunday morning mocha.
And, yes, if you want to add more, I will allow late submissions.<<<
If you had to create the ultimate hotel, something as big and grand as those in Las Vegas or in Disney World, what would your hotel look like upon completion?
Since it is my ultimate hotel, it would neither be big nor grand. In fact, it wouldn’t even be new. I would purchase the Arizona Inn (picture) and keep the external part the way it is, casitas around green lawns and a quiet pool.
In the main building I would keep the restaurant, bar and library/formal room just as they are. I would expand the gift shop and add boutiques for women and men’s clothing and shoes.
I would refurbish all the casitas with new versions of period furniture and do a total makeover of the bathrooms – walk-in showers, lounging tubs and the best towels and toiletries that are available.
I would keep the ping-pong area and the croquet lawn as they are, and I would purchase adjoining property for a 9-hole putting course and to construct a spa – both high end and tasteful.
I would also add security to the parking lot.
As you can see, the emphasis of my resort would be to provide a peaceful retreat. I may not have followed the question’s guidelines, but what’s mine is mine.<<<
I am still planning the perfect resort...it will be an old fashioned, classic one, I think, or a sports oriented one. - Elizabeth: (How about a few more details daughter?)<<<
This just in: At a press conference last week, President Bush was asked to define national security. He declined saying that any definition would be, you guessed it, a breech of national security.<<<
JIM”S WISDOM (a name, not a claim)
DOWN: Secret democracy.
UP: My new Starbucks card. It was a Christmas present from Barb that I was able to design on line.
UP: Coffee competition. On Sacramento’s J Street, a Peet’s coffee store has opened practically next door to a Starbuck’s where they will fight it o
ut cup by cup until SB’s wins by a mocha.<<<
UP: Cups of coffee. No, not the real stuff. When I read in the Times this week that a player came up for “a cup of coffee” last year, I know that baseball is coming s
oon.
UP AND DOWN: Chris Roberts, the Bruin radio play-by-play guy, for telling it like it is. As we left Pauley, our car happened to stop in traffic next to Chris’s SUV. His window was open and we heard him say on the phone – “The Bruins didn’t look like a Final Four team today.”
DOWN, and a bite your tongue: JT, for ever saying that Mike Huckabee might be better than a couple of the other Republican candidates. At a rally Monday in Michigan he said "Some of my opponents do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's.”
Theocracy anyone?
DOWN: Blasphemy. I was in Border’s with Jim the other day. We were talking about the above, and Jim said something derogatory about God. Less than a second later, the lights briefly dimmed. After that I kept a shelf of books between us at all times. No way I was going to be around him when the lightning struck.
DOWN: Racial parasites, black, this time, the Al Sharptons of the world, who continually stir things up because they know that any decrease in racism means a decrease in their power.
DOWN: Excess criticism over Hillary’s comparison of Obama to Martin Luther King and herself to Lyndon Johnson. King was a great man. LBJ, without Vietnam, would have been a great President. As campaign tactics go, it was both valid and astute.
DOWN: Hillary’s defense of her husband’s statement that that Latinos would not support a black candidate.
DOWN: Hillary and John Edwards for making me throw up with their Jimmy Stewart answer to the question, name your greatest weakness. Both of their answers were something like this:
“Goshdarn it, I just care too much. I am too impatient for good things to happen.”
UP: Obama, for the only honest answer of the night. “I’m bad at organizing my paperwork.”
Up: 35 percent, which is the percentage of Democrats who say Obama would be the strongest candidate against the Republicans - more than doubled in a month, to from 14 percent in December.
DOWN: Change as an empty word. Every candidate wants change. As Barack says, “I am change.” So is every other candidate. The issue is not change, but its kind and direction.
And ultimately, as the Buddhist cab driver said as he pocketed a $20 bill for a $10 trip, "Change comes only from within."
UP: Novelist Sue Miller, who in her new book, “The Senator’s Wife” nails it with the sexual differences between Democrats and Republicans:
"The problem here is the goddamn Democrats, who sleep down, you see. They love that white trash. ... And white trash loves publicity, so the Democrats are the ones who get into all the trouble. As opposed to the Republicans. They sleep up. ... Up, where all is Episcopalian and quiet as death itself, and no one ever has to hear a thi
ng about it."
UP: My surfing adventure last week. That’s me on the left of the picture.
UP: Governor Termimator, was referring to term limits, but could have could have been talking about California government in general last Thursday when he said: “I have been there for four years, and I say, 'Oh my God, this is a disaster.'”
DOWN: Term limits. It turns out that they are the lesser of the two evils.
DOWN: The injury to Andrew Bynum. At 20 he is already one of the best centers in the league and the second most valuable Laker.
UP: Mitch Kupchek, for being wiser than both Kobe and I and not trading Bynum last summer.
UP: Celebrating history. Did you know that it was the Nazis and other European Fascists who made it OK for students not to salute the American flag? In 1940 the Supreme Court held that the children of Jehovah’s Witnesses could be compelled to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Three years later, after seeing totalitarianism at work in Europe, they reversed themselves.
The case was Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, and writing for the majority, Justice Robert Jackson (later to be chief prosecutor at Nuremburg) defended free choice with some of the greatest words ever to come out of the Court:
“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of compulsory routine is to make an unflattering of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. If there are circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.”
Penalty Time
A five-game suspension for The Federalist Society for incorrect use of their name.
This organization of conservative lawyers wants a weak national government while the real Federalists, Hamilton, Washington, Adams, and others wanted a strong one.<<<
A thirty-game suspension for Chief Justice John Roberts for using convoluted logic:
A few years ago the Court ruled that the search and seizure portion of the Fourth Amendment permits police to search a car when an arrest is being made. But what if the arrest is ruled unlawful? Doesn’t matter says the Chief – “Our precedents say if it’s an arrest, you can search ‘incident to the arrest.’”<<<
Next week's questions
In one sentence, what do you believe is the secret of life?
Just thinking about it will probably make you want to sing it. What is your all-time favorite theme song from a TV show?
Nobody # 728
Nobody Asked Me But:
“I love you more than even one more day.”<<<
Wine tip of the week - 2006 Cambria Santa Maria Valley Julia's Pinot Noir.
There is nothing “Sideways” about this Pinot. It’s lean and mildly smoky, with a light red hue that belies some modest intensity. (Or is it intense modesty?) It has a bright berry scent and clean, strawberry flavors. Actually some of the strawberries are a little dirty, but there is nothing dirty about the finish. Just a hint at green herbs and a taste of the sea just before a California rain washes all of the nasty stuff into Santa Monica Bay. (Well, almost before, but no wine is perfect.)
About $20 at K&L Wine Merchants, Manhattan Fine Wines and Red Carpet Wine.<<<
Here are last week’s questions – with my answers and, even better, some of yours.
Aside from your family, friends or pets, what would be the most difficult thing for you to give up in your life?
From Elizabeth and George.
“George says running and I say reading (in bed before going to sleep or online with my coffee in the morning).”
I haven’t run with George (I would eat his Arizona dust after 10 or 12 miles. Did I say miles, I meant feet.) But I have drunk their coffee in the morning while reading the news on their computer, and I can testify that it is a great experience.
From Barbara – “I would miss the small familiar things – like books, UCLA memorabilia and some antique things.”
Here’s mine.
Setting aside losing our home, which I am certain would also be high on everyone’s list, I would say my driver’s license. Driving equals freedom.
If I were allowed to turn this into a list, which I am not, I would add, in order after the above, my computer, travel, Bruin season tickets an
d my Sunday morning mocha. And, yes, if you want to add more, I will allow late submissions.<<<
If you had to create the ultimate hotel, something as big and grand as those in Las Vegas or in Disney World, what would your hotel look like upon completion?
Since it is my ultimate hotel, it would neither be big nor grand. In fact, it wouldn’t even be new. I would purchase the Arizona Inn (picture) and keep the external part the way it is, casitas around green lawns and a quiet pool.
In the main building I would keep the restaurant, bar and library/formal room just as they are. I would expand the gift shop and add boutiques for women and men’s clothing and shoes.
I would refurbish all the casitas with new versions of period furniture and do a total makeover of the bathrooms – walk-in showers, lounging tubs and the best towels and toiletries that are available.
I would keep the ping-pong area and the croquet lawn as they are, and I would purchase adjoining property for a 9-hole putting course and to construct a spa – both high end and tasteful.
I would also add security to the parking lot.
As you can see, the emphasis of my resort would be to provide a peaceful retreat. I may not have followed the question’s guidelines, but what’s mine is mine.<<<
I am still planning the perfect resort...it will be an old fashioned, classic one, I think, or a sports oriented one. - Elizabeth: (How about a few more details daughter?)<<<
This just in: At a press conference last week, President Bush was asked to define national security. He declined saying that any definition would be, you guessed it, a breech of national security.<<<
JIM”S WISDOM (a name, not a claim)
DOWN: Secret democracy.
UP: My new Starbucks card. It was a Christmas present from Barb that I was able to design on line.
UP: Coffee competition. On Sacramento’s J Street, a Peet’s coffee store has opened practically next door to a Starbuck’s where they will fight it o
ut cup by cup until SB’s wins by a mocha.<<<UP: Cups of coffee. No, not the real stuff. When I read in the Times this week that a player came up for “a cup of coffee” last year, I know that baseball is coming s
oon. UP AND DOWN: Chris Roberts, the Bruin radio play-by-play guy, for telling it like it is. As we left Pauley, our car happened to stop in traffic next to Chris’s SUV. His window was open and we heard him say on the phone – “The Bruins didn’t look like a Final Four team today.”
DOWN, and a bite your tongue: JT, for ever saying that Mike Huckabee might be better than a couple of the other Republican candidates. At a rally Monday in Michigan he said "Some of my opponents do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's.”
Theocracy anyone?
DOWN: Blasphemy. I was in Border’s with Jim the other day. We were talking about the above, and Jim said something derogatory about God. Less than a second later, the lights briefly dimmed. After that I kept a shelf of books between us at all times. No way I was going to be around him when the lightning struck.
DOWN: Racial parasites, black, this time, the Al Sharptons of the world, who continually stir things up because they know that any decrease in racism means a decrease in their power.
DOWN: Excess criticism over Hillary’s comparison of Obama to Martin Luther King and herself to Lyndon Johnson. King was a great man. LBJ, without Vietnam, would have been a great President. As campaign tactics go, it was both valid and astute.
DOWN: Hillary’s defense of her husband’s statement that that Latinos would not support a black candidate.
DOWN: Hillary and John Edwards for making me throw up with their Jimmy Stewart answer to the question, name your greatest weakness. Both of their answers were something like this:
“Goshdarn it, I just care too much. I am too impatient for good things to happen.”
UP: Obama, for the only honest answer of the night. “I’m bad at organizing my paperwork.”
Up: 35 percent, which is the percentage of Democrats who say Obama would be the strongest candidate against the Republicans - more than doubled in a month, to from 14 percent in December.
DOWN: Change as an empty word. Every candidate wants change. As Barack says, “I am change.” So is every other candidate. The issue is not change, but its kind and direction.
And ultimately, as the Buddhist cab driver said as he pocketed a $20 bill for a $10 trip, "Change comes only from within."
UP: Novelist Sue Miller, who in her new book, “The Senator’s Wife” nails it with the sexual differences between Democrats and Republicans:
"The problem here is the goddamn Democrats, who sleep down, you see. They love that white trash. ... And white trash loves publicity, so the Democrats are the ones who get into all the trouble. As opposed to the Republicans. They sleep up. ... Up, where all is Episcopalian and quiet as death itself, and no one ever has to hear a thi
ng about it." UP: My surfing adventure last week. That’s me on the left of the picture.
UP: Governor Termimator, was referring to term limits, but could have could have been talking about California government in general last Thursday when he said: “I have been there for four years, and I say, 'Oh my God, this is a disaster.'”
DOWN: Term limits. It turns out that they are the lesser of the two evils.
DOWN: The injury to Andrew Bynum. At 20 he is already one of the best centers in the league and the second most valuable Laker.
UP: Mitch Kupchek, for being wiser than both Kobe and I and not trading Bynum last summer.
UP: Celebrating history. Did you know that it was the Nazis and other European Fascists who made it OK for students not to salute the American flag? In 1940 the Supreme Court held that the children of Jehovah’s Witnesses could be compelled to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Three years later, after seeing totalitarianism at work in Europe, they reversed themselves.
The case was Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, and writing for the majority, Justice Robert Jackson (later to be chief prosecutor at Nuremburg) defended free choice with some of the greatest words ever to come out of the Court:
“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of compulsory routine is to make an unflattering of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. If there are circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.”
Penalty Time
A five-game suspension for The Federalist Society for incorrect use of their name.
This organization of conservative lawyers wants a weak national government while the real Federalists, Hamilton, Washington, Adams, and others wanted a strong one.<<<
A thirty-game suspension for Chief Justice John Roberts for using convoluted logic:
A few years ago the Court ruled that the search and seizure portion of the Fourth Amendment permits police to search a car when an arrest is being made. But what if the arrest is ruled unlawful? Doesn’t matter says the Chief – “Our precedents say if it’s an arrest, you can search ‘incident to the arrest.’”<<<
Next week's questions
In one sentence, what do you believe is the secret of life?
Just thinking about it will probably make you want to sing it. What is your all-time favorite theme song from a TV show?
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