Great news coming out of Iraq this morning proving once again that the President just needs to keep changing generals till he finds the right one. The AP (al-qaeda propagandists),of course, shows their bias, loud and clear, in the title but this is good news. Even as deaths plunge the AP remain convinced the US will lose

Deaths in Iraq Plunge, but Will It Last?

U.S. military deaths plunged in May to the lowest monthly level in more than four years and civilian casualties were down sharply, too, as Iraqi forces assumed the lead in offensives in three cities and a truce with Shiite extremists took hold.

But many Iraqis as well as U.S. officials and private security analysts are uncertain whether the current lull signals a long-term trend or is simply a breathing spell like so many others before.

And in a completely unrelated note.

French minister's visit shows new stance on Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner met Iraq's president on Saturday during a visit officials said showed Paris's renewed commitment to a country whose 2003 invasion by U.S.-led troops it strongly opposed.
[snip]
Kouchner discussed the possibility of French companies investing in Iraq at the meeting with the Iraqi officials in Nassiriya, said Abdul Hussein Dawod, spokesman for the provincial governor.

I knew we could count on the French to back us up as soon as there was almost no danger and money to be made. Thanks,for the help mon amie. The US could have used it five years ago but better late than never.

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

A whole day of acoustic music, with friends, wine, stuff, friends and friends...

re: #2 RTLM

A little early in the year for this piece, but a good one to play.

Freedomophilia IS NOT Islamophobia.

Good morning lizards and lizardettes. Is there fruit cup yet? I'll put the coffee and tea on.

re: #2 RTLM

I love that song. I've spent most of my life on the lakes and know how dangerous it is out there.

The Alamo... important because it slowed the Mexican advance on its way to capture New Orleans, and with New Orleans, the whole Mississippi-Missouri watershed of 17 (would become) states...

The Alamo was THAT important... I missed that little detail in my youth, only picked it up a few years ago...

Does Hillary have an Alamo she can put in Obama's path?

re: #4 BlueCanuck

Well then, how about this.

Summer Time Dream

re: #7 Neo Con since 9-11

Awe inspiring aren't they. Spent some time up in Sault Ste Marie, Canada version once in the summer and once in the winter. Seeing two sides of the lake give you a whole appreciation for the song. One bone of contention with the words. Superior wasn't called Gitchee Gumey(sp), that was the name for the monster/witch that lived in the lake. There's a rock on the lake in Lake Superior provincial park that has a pictograph of the first voyage across the lake to settle the north shore. Hmmm, might be online some where. Be right back going to yahoo. ;)

re: #8 Karridine

Does Hillary have an Alamo she can put in Obama's path?

IMO the Democrats seriously underestimated the anger they have unleashed among a large segment of women voters.

/how 'bout them Alamos?

re: #9 Bubblehead II
thank you, still like that hometown boy. :)
re: #10 BlueCanuck

Okay got it Agawa rock pictographs.

/and that last link shows that I misremembered some stuff from my youth. Oops.

The Alamo

/revisionist history

Sunday Brunch.
I'm planning on having Waffles a la Trinity Church...
/To denounce or not to denounce

Has anyone noticed Obama's post political, new age campaign which would change the world seems to have degenerated into politics as usual. The guy 1st threw his pastor, then his mother and now the whole church under the bus. I hope for his sake it has 4 wheel drive otherwise it ain't gettin' over the pile of crap he's stuffing under it...

re: #14 El Anti-Idiotario

And God forbid he's elected.
He will throw the US under the bus too.

re: #11 littleoldlady

Ma'am, I just watched that YouTUBE of Harriet Christian... "I'm white, but I can't say 'You're black"? I've suddenly become a second-class citizen!"

/IF they channel the anger, soon... Yes'm, she was ANGRY! and articulate, despite the anger, and intelligent, Little Olde!

That gaffe could well be Obama's Alamo, and that makes Denver his San Jacinto ...

re: #10 BlueCanuck

When I lived on the Canadian side of the great lakes we had to deal with incredibly subfreezing temps, harsh winds and heavy snowfall. On the Ohio side we had subfreezing temperatures, incredibly harsh winds, and daily snowfall. I don't know why ahyone would sail in that.

With the disenfranchisement of half the MI and FL voters, the protests are already starting. Video at Recreate '68 from Powerline. "What do we want? COUNT OUR VOTES! When do we want it! NOW!

Denver should be fun to watch.

Oh yeah, the above article at Powerline says Obama has offered Hillary the position of health-care-czar if she'll drop out of the presidential race. You can't make this stuff up.

I denouce waffles. Pancake are the real hope for America. And the change needed so we don't have 4 more years of Geogrge Bush.

re: #19 snopercod

Really, Snoper! I think Obamassiah is running scared!

/time will tell

re: #17 Karridine

Let's stick with the movie analogies. ;-)

They created a Sophie's Choice. If they deny Obama the nomination the blacks will walk away. If Hillary doesn't get it, a percentage of women will be ticked enough to vote for McCain.

I believe they're calculating that the women will return someday, while the blacks would be lost forever.

Obama is churchless, going into Sunday.

/the God competition must be intense

re: #19 snopercod

With the disenfranchisement of half the MI and FL voters, the protests are already starting. Video at

re: #22 littleoldlady

Canny.
Insightful...

Back in 30...

re: #16 El Anti-Idiotario

And God forbid he's elected.
He will throw the US under the bus too.

Having read that Europeans are in favour of BHO (quelle surprise as they say in France). I am somewhat perplexed. Can this man of straw actually win? Surely when they eventually decide the Democrat candidate, and the real campaign begins, he will be exposed as a total lightweight? It reminds me of those dark days in 1978. Did the Democrats learn nothing from the Carter years?

re: #27 Call me Infidel

Having read that Europeans are in favour of BHO (quelle surprise as they say in France). I am somewhat perplexed. Can this man of straw actually win? Surely when they eventually decide the Democrat candidate, and the real campaign begins, he will be exposed as a total lightweight? It reminds me of those dark days in 1978. Did the Democrats learn nothing from the Carter years?

If Bob Barr doesn't take votes out of McCain, we are fine. it is the SCOUSA I worry about

re: #18 Neo Con since 9-11

It takes a real special kind of person.

/they're called fanatics for a reason.

Don't know if this was posted earlier, but the ACLU seems to be interested in what preparations the Denver PD is making for the convention.

ACLU sues Denver seeking disclosure of DNC-related purchases of police equipment

re: #30 Bubblehead II

Don't know if this was posted earlier, but the ACLU seems to be interested in what preparations the Denver PD is making for the convention.

re: #24 Cannadian Club Akbar

Denver is gonna be the only TV, besides sports, I will watch this year

The selection is getting pretty bleak, isn't it? It reminds me of what my grandfather told me about the newspapers, "The funnies are the only section that makes any sense."

The Shuttle launch countdown on NASA TV was good, and they'll be doing lots of amazing stuff up there later in the week.

re: #29 BlueCanuck

That's why I love that song. Those guy would go into the lakes in the middle of storms that would throw us kidsten meter inland

Good morning everyone!

How do I work the Top Ten Comments?

When I click on it, I just get LGF front page all over again.

//Can't find my LGF Owner's Manual.

re: #32 snopercod

The selection is getting pretty bleak, isn't it? It reminds me of what my grandfather told me about the newspapers, "The funnies are the only section that makes any sense."

The Shuttle launch countdown on NASA TV was good, and they'll be doing lots of amazing stuff up there later in the week.

Wasteland. But ya, I love NASA, but I can see launches from my house.

Time for a laugh
There are lots of different kinds of sex when you get married. For example, when you are newlyweds, you have kitchen sex--the passion is so intense you can't wait to go to the bedroom, it's right here right now, might be on the kitchen counter or the dining room table.
Next, there is bedroom sex. This is after a number of years of marriage, maybe a kid or 2, and you are limited to Saturday morning cartoons hour in the privacy of your own bedroom.

After that comes hall sex. That is when you have been married a LONGGGGGGGGGGG time and you pass each other in the hall, and your spouse says, "F*** you." And you reply, "No, F*** YOU."

re: #36 LeftJustAintRight

sometimes the hall sex comes quicker. :)

Obama was for the church before he was against it

re: #37 BlueCanuck

And sometimes hall sex is better
LOL

Is hall sex what we voters are having with our candidates?

/seems like it.

re: #37 BlueCanuck

sometimes the hall sex comes quicker. :)

Maybe we should take out the garbage faster?

But, get me a beer isn't any faster.

re: #40 gettinby

Is hall sex what we voters are having with our candidates?

/seems like it.

Ummm, no. This is a family blog right? :)

re: #43 BlueCanuck

This is like the comic " Family Circle"
/please tell me that's not still around

re: #27 Call me Infidel

For the Europeans, the Obama candidacy represents a win-win situation. If Obama wins the election, the Europeans get a fellow socialist in the White House. But if he loses, it will only confirm their sneering contempt for racist, backwards, Bible-thumping reactionery America. You see? The Europeans couldn't be happier!

Well time to go, work beckons. See you all tomorrow morning.

L8R

re: #44 Cannadian Club Akbar

This is like the comic " Family Circle"
/please tell me that's not still around

It is still around but I don't know for how much longer. The artist, whose name escapes me at the moment, died about a week ago.

re: #45 Kenneth

Hello? Gun carrying? gez.

re: #1 Neo Con since 9-11

I knew we could count on the French to back us up as soon as there was almost no danger and money to be made. Thanks,for the help mon amie. The US could have used it five years ago but better late than never.

That'a a keeper!

When homo sapians first walked upright

caveman and cavewoman were in their cave and all of a sudden the cavewoman stands upright and walks around
"What the hell are you doing?" caveman asks

"Im walking upright"

"Thats amazing, look while your up can you get me a beer?"

re: #43 BlueCanuck

Ummm, no. This is a family blog right? :)

LOL

Oops! You're right.

/now where did I put that family of mine?

re: #47 wahabicorridor

It is still around but I don't know for how much longer. The artist, whose name escapes me at the moment, died about a week ago.

I used to read it. To bad about the artist.

re: #48 Cannadian Club Akbar

Thanks, I missed that one. We should add "Islamophobe" too..

BTW, what's with all the Hosers up so early on a Sunday morning?

re: #47 wahabicorridor

Actually, I think it was his wife who died.

wahabi! :-)

re: #53 Kenneth

What's a hoser?

re: #54 littleoldlady

Thelma Keane.

re: #54 littleoldlady

Actually, I think it was his wife who died.

wahabi! :-)

hello darlin! I thought Thelma died a few years ago? hmmmm.........

re: #53 Kenneth

We hosers are up early to go to church, clean our guns, um, wait, I am just drinking. Not sure about the others. Back to you Ken.
/just saying

re: #55 gettinby

"Hosers" is a term of endearment/abuse between Canadians. Origin, the team that lost the hockey game has to stay and hose the rink.

re: #53 Kenneth
My excuse is that I am working the night shift.
re: #55 gettinby
A Canadian term.

Obama poster:

[Link: www.pentdego.com...]

re: #57 wahabicorridor

Guess not.

/I can never remember who (famous) died already either...

I have a question.

How stupid are those people at Trinity Church? After the Wright videos surfaced, they bring in ANOTHER nut case and film him.

I just shake my head.

re: #19 snopercod

With the disenfranchisement of half the MI and FL voters, the protests are already starting. Video at Recreate '68 from Powerline. "What do we want? COUNT OUR VOTES! When do we want it! NOW!

Denver should be fun to watch.

Oh yeah, the above article at Powerline says Obama has offered Hillary the position of health-care-czar if she'll drop out of the presidential race. You can't make this stuff up.

Even scarier, I'd heard it suggested he guarantee her a seat on the Supreme Court.

re: #59 Kenneth

re: #60 BlueCanuck

What a great term!

Hmmm....we need to find a clean-up job for the losing candidate.

Hi there {littleoldlady}!

re: #65 gettinby

re:

re: #64 right_wing2

Because it would be outright chauvinist to offer her the VP slot.

/good evening, y'all.

re: #66 gettinby

gettinby! :-)

Hey!

/sorry...I'm trying to mulri-task here and as per usual failing miserably!

off to get the newspapers - BBL

...and I need a new keyboard, too.

mulri-task?!
/oy
//I give up!

Good day, ALL!™

re: #71 littleoldlady

{LOL}

/no srsly, that's the acronym.

re: #67 BlueCanuck

But where will we find an Augean stable task?

/no hoses issued

Heh.

That Hercules was quite a guy. (I don't think we have any candidates bright enough to come up with any real PLAN that would work. They, instead, would nationalize the stables and let the undocumented workers clean them.)

My baby brother, when he was a baby (about 3 or 4 yo), named himself Hercules; but he pronounced it Hercuckles. Anytime someone would ask him his name..."Hercuckles!" LOL

bye littleoldlady, see you tomorrow.

re: #71 littleoldlady

Bye littleoldlady.

re: #73 gettinby

Well Heracles wasn't a politician, he had to deal with a politician though. That was why he won and completed his seven tasks. Innovative thinking and not constrained by certain mindset.

(Author unknown)
Age old question,
BARACK OBAMA:
The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN McCAIN:
My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON:
When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me...

DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH:
Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.

re: #16 El Anti-Idiotario

I truly believe there is no way he is going to win the general election. This is all just an exercise in futility for the Dems. I am just enjoying watching the freak show and waiting for that Tuesday.

cont.

JERRY FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side'. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side'. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA:
In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the
chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it
experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace..

BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra... #@&&^(C%

ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken ?

BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?

DICK CHENEY:
Where's my gun?

AL SHARPTON:
Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens

re: #78 AndyMacOP

I truly believe there is no way he is going to win the general election. This is all just an exercise in futility for the Dems. I am just enjoying watching the freak show and waiting for that Tuesday.

Yea it is such a sure thing McCain can enjoy 'purifying' his party some more.

/

re: #34 gettinby

Good morning everyone!

How do I work the Top Ten Comments?

When I click on it, I just get LGF front page all over again.

//Can't find my LGF Owner's Manual.

See the 'Tech Note - Top 10' posted yesterday for instructions. I just click on the list and it drops down. . . same thing to close the list - click on the list and it collapses.

re: #64 right_wing2

Even scarier, I'd heard it suggested he guarantee her a seat on the Supreme Court.

Inserting an icepick into my brain now. Awwwwk!

re: #76 BlueCanuck

Very true.

Thanks.

re: #81 Susan2

Thanks!

Happy Sunday.

It used to be Christianity's job, but there is a new Messiah in town.

re: #85 Dar ul Harbarian

Assuage: The New Malaise.

You Might be a racist If - top 10-

10 - This is the first time in your adult life you are proud to be an american
9 - You think there are 57 states
8 - You don't remember your pastors sermons.
7 - The only values you can remember are from your Grandfather
6- You're upset if anyone disagrees with you
5- You're upset when someone mention's getting a job and paying taxes
4 - You only respect the Flag if someone's looking
3 - You're a bitter middle class person who clings to their guns and their faith
2 - You think being a uniter means being bi-racial
1 - You get angry when someone mentions your middle Name in referance

re: #13 Killian Bundy

The Alamo

/revisionist history

From Wikipedia

El Degüello is a bugle call of Moorish origin notable in its use by the Mexican Army during the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. According to James A. Michener's book Texas, the original meaning of the Degüello call was an appeal to an enemy to surrender or else they would die by the sword. General Antonio López de Santa Anna of the Mexican Army used it to signify that no quarter would be given to the enemy.

According to various English-Spanish dictionaries, El Degüello means no mercy. The literal translation is slit-throat. Michener's book translates it as The Beheading.

Another great contiribution to Western culture from the Religion of Peace.

re: #87 yochanan

racist? More like doofus. without 3.

re: #85 Dar ul Harbarian

Happy Sunday.

It used to be Christianity's job, but there is a new Messiah in town.

"Dar" -

Yeah, the OBAMA Poster - Where Proletkult Meets Andy Warhol.

-S-

re: #87 yochanan

You Might be a racist If - top 10-

10 - This is the first time in your adult life you are proud to be an american
9 - You think there are 57 states
8 - You don't remember your pastors sermons.
7 - The only values you can remember are from your Grandfather
6- You're upset if anyone disagrees with you
5- You're upset when someone mention's getting a job and paying taxes
4 - You only respect the Flag if someone's looking
3 - You're a bitter middle class person who clings to their guns and their faith
2 - You think being a uniter means being bi-racial
1 - You get angry when someone mentions your middle Name in referance

[Link: blogs.wsj.com...]

Here is another one for you. Don't ever tell me that Barry doesn't get high...he must have been really gooned for this one.

re: #88 Dar ul Harbarian

Right, Dar-ul. And its not 'revisionist history' so much as 'poetic license'...

Davy COULD have played that... and the movie's inclusion of that piece of stuff gets people talking about Islamic beheading, temporarily adopted by Mexicans in THEIR futile efforts against the democratic, freedom-loving world...

Another poster

re: #93 Dar ul Harbarian

Oh, Dah, Comrade Dar-ul! The proletariat will respond to this man of socialist wisdom, and racial value! The poster harkens back to the best of the Soviet era!

re: #93 Dar ul Harbarian

Another poster

Globalist McCain should have his Proletkult poster.

In a similar, rather jugular, vein... here's the Zee's take on Gimme Hope, Obama!
Scroll down a wee tad...

What a mess the Democrat party has become.
The Obama supporters are giving each other high 2&1/2's.
The Hillary supporters are going to start chanting "Remember 2000".
Denver will be a sight to behold.

re: #97 mikeinmd

You PRACTICING the Art of Understatement?

Just got back from a wedding and sitting next to 2 Obama "supporters". They don't know why.

It is to laugh.

...Democratic women are feeling metaphorically battered by the Obama campaign. "Healing The Wounds Of Democrats' Sexism," as the Boston Globe headline put it, will not be easy. Geraldine Ferraro is among many prominent Democrat ladies putting up their own money for a study from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard to determine whether Sen. Clinton's presidential hopes fell victim to party and media sexism.

How else to explain why their gal got clobbered by a pretty boy with a resume you could print on the back of his driver's license, a Rolodex apparently limited to neosegregationist race-baiters, campus Marxist terrorists and indicted fraudsters, and a rhetorical surefootedness that makes Dan Quayle look like Socrates.

"On this Memorial Day," said Barack Obama last Monday, "as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today."

Hey, why not? In Obama's Cook County, Ill., many fallen heroes from the Spanish-American War still show up in the voting booths come November. It's not unreasonable for some of them to turn up at an Obama campaign rally, too.

Steyn just has a way with words...
Mark Steyn: Sexism, not Obama, beat Hillary

re: #98 Karridine

You PRACTICING the Art of Understatement?

I've downplayed "The Hype" ever since the XFL let me down.

re: #99 J.D.

a rhetorical surefootedness that makes Dan Quayle look like Socrates.

Socrates is overrated. He had a great PR guy in Plato, but the real reason he drank the hemlock is because he wife was a harridan, his kids were irredemable reprobates and he had neverending debts.

Why is the drop-down menu gone?

Good Morning all y'all - from a warm (71 degrees, going up to 87 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!

How is everyone this fine morning?

obama said 57 states maybe he plans on making canadian prov. into states and just let the mask down early.

My Obama poster.

Good morning. Lovely day here in central Ohio.

Israel deports 'Lebanese patriot' accused of spying

Nasim Nisr's deportation to Lebanon on Sunday is being viewed by many as a prelude to a possible prisoner swap between Israel and Lebanon.

In return for Nisr's release, Hezbollah handed over a brown coffin containing the remains of Israeli soldiers killed during a 2006 war between the two sides.

Now I'm starting to get that slow burn....ARRRGGGG.
Where's my Maalox.

As a long time golfer I thought I'd seen every gimmick, gadget, training aid, stroke saver under the sun.

But I was wrong.

re: #101 wahabicorridor

Who knew?

re: #103 realwest

All y'all? You sound like me!
Doing well down here. You sound like someone who got up on the right side of the bed...as per usual...

Just heard on Fox News that those poor, benighted souls who still smoke cigarettes in NYC will, effective Tuesday, be paying $8.50 per pack*. But not to worry - and please disregard the AMA's statement that the amount of nicotine in cig's has been amped way up by the manufacturers and is as hard to quit as is heroin, NYC's Mayor Bloomberg says anyone can quit - he did!

*Of course, women, children and Minorities will be hardest hit by this new increase in taxation on cig's.

re: #104 yochanan

obama said 57 states maybe he plans on making canadian prov. into states and just let the mask down early.

No offense, but no thanks. I like my Canadian I.D. :)

re: #78 AndyMacOP

I truly believe there is no way he is going to win the general election. This is all just an exercise in futility for the Dems. I am just enjoying watching the freak show and waiting for that Tuesday.

I agree. I was just thinking about that and wondering why the Dems would want to have him as their candidate. I think that already having a majority in the House and Senate, and possibly gaining even more seats in November, they really don't care if they lose.
Sort of like the overserved gambler with plenty of money already on the table that makes a long shot bet. Even if he loses he still has plenty of chips left if he loses one hand.

re: #103 realwest

Morning, real. Yeah, looks like it's going to be a nice day.
How have ya been ?

Good morning real!

Here's another Obama poster for your wall

re: #108 onslow ROTFLMAO! Just another example (Obama being exhibit #1) of how Women are discriminated against in this country!
LOL!

re: #103 realwest

Hi ya real! It's going to be hot and muggy here today. The Fat Beagle is being a pain in the butt. 'I want this, now I want that, THERE'S A SQUIRREL