Give this to Sarah Palin . . . she did her best to push Jackson off "the front page". Maybe we should ask Sanford for another interview . . . As for Jackson:

"he should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law regarding the child molestation cases."

He was. He was acquited. (That doesn't mean he didn't do what everyone seems to say . . . )

" I just hope to hell no one tries to nominate this freak for sainthood."

No one is. A considerable talent; a difficult, complex, drivem and… Continue

Even if you are not much of a baker I encourage you to make this pie. It will be the best one you have ever tasted. It is from the 1950 edition Betty Crocker cookbook.

One 9 inch unbaked pie shell (store bought or home made)

In the pie shell put 4 cups washed fresh blueberries * (See note below)

In a medium bowl wisk together:

2/3 cup granualted sugar
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup heavy whipping cream

Pour the cream mixture over the berries and bake… Continue

Anyone else notice this, or is it just me?

Ok, we all have them...the shelf warmers, covered in dust because we said "Hey, that looks cool!" when we bought them and promptly moved on. You don't want to sell them, but can never find the time to play them. These are are the games we have but want to play before we die. Mine are:

The Gamers CWB 7 Days Opus...
Wacht Am Rhien (SPI Version)
Atlantic Wall
This Terrible Sound
Bloody Omaha (ATS)
All 5 Fleet Games
Grand Europa ( I have it all, but am still waiting for the rules to link them...I w… Continue

This is a very nice and well done CG Docu released by Deutsche Welle.
It cover what was all day live in Germany still 20 years ago. I remember much of this stuff "live". Good it's gone...

This is the link to the docu video on Youtube, it is available in HD also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQsTzGkbiY

Here is the link to the article on the Deutsche Welle website:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4440098,00.html

When people can't vote at the ballot box against a dictatorship, they often vote with their feet. The Berlin Wall was a monument to this, and a grand attempt by a dysfunctional Communist regime to take away the shoe leather franchise from people who decided that moving to freedom was an alternative to suffering under dictatorship.

Nor was East Germany alone in witnessing the exodus of its best and brightest. The migration of the Cuban middle class to Florida was a consequence of Fidel Castro's… Continue

deaths of famous people nothwithstanding, I want to get to the real news: How was Origins? please do tell and let us know your war stories please.

From foxnews.com:
The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual.
This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf o… Continue

Ok Consm folks out there: Who else is tired of hearing about Michael Jackson besides Jim Werbaneth and me? Was he talented? Yes. Was he on par with the greats in the music industry? No. He liked to be in the company of young boys and he should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law regarding the child molestation cases. I just hope to hell no one tries to nominate this freak for sainthood.