I Wonder If Hillary Will Vote For McCain Now?

In this clip, Gov. Palin shows Hillary more respect in five seconds than The Chosen One has shown in two years.

Via Hot Air:

McCain's Brilliant VP Choice.

John McCain listened to me.

Damn. I can't prove it but I endorsed Sarah Palin for his VP a few months ago. I knew she was the right choice as soon as I read her bio. She's the 44 year old current Governor of Alaska, a mother of 5, and the first woman to be selected as a VP candidate since Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. I believe she is the first ever woman to be selected for a Republican ticket. Historic.

The choice is brilliant because it takes the punch out of Obama's speech he gave last night making history in accepting the Democratic nomination for President.



Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Palin adds youth, energy and a real boost of excitement to the campaign of John McCain. At the same time, McCain grabs the media spotlight away from Obama in grand fashion. This is extremely hard to do as the MSM has been in the tank for Obama since he announced his candidacy. This decision highlights why John McCain should be the next the President of the United States. Nicely done and perfectly executed, Sen. McCain!

Congratulations, Gov. Palin. I look forward to your speech at the Republican Convention this week.

UPDATE: This is class:

This? Not so much:

Via WizBang Blog - Obama's response to John McCain's pick:

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same.

Obama criticizing someone for a lack of foreign policy experience? That's interesting.

UPDATE 2: Sen. Obama reconsiders (via Jake Tapper of ABC News):

“We send our congratulations to Gov. Sarah Palin and her family on her designation as the Republican nominee for vice president," said the Democratic ticket in a joint statement. "It is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. While we obviously have differences over how best to lead this country forward, Gov. Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign."

Wow - that is quite a change in tone. Hillary must have phoned Barack and gave him hell for his first response. She probably argued that with his first response he:

1) just might be offending a rather large voting block -women everywhere.

2) is sounding rather brutish and unkind after John McCain spent a bunch of money on an ad convincingly congratulating him.

Ouch.

Scenic Hat

We wanted to test out the new lens we got this weekend, so we walked around The Hat and took some kewl shots. First we walked down into the valley, and across a bridge that looked frail, but is probably older then I am!


once we were on the bridge, the train going underneath us was giving me goosebumps. It looked like it was so close to the bridge? Like if one car had been a bit taller it would have taken the bridge out, and us with it. But I'm guessing this isn't the first train to go underneath this bridge!


the local church. This is where Dean and Ruby got married.


Neat shot thru the archway. I'm really liking this lens!!

Bag Ladies

If anyone is looking for a new kind of house party, I highly recommend the Bag Ladies. They brought over 100 purses, ranging in price, color and size, you name it, they got it!! It was such a
great night! Having the huge selection made it very hard to choose which purse to make your own. There were a few people walking around with 2 and 3 purses tucked under their arm, waiting to make the choice. Myself included! I finally narrowed it down to 2 and then found out I got a free purse from sales tonight, well.... my decision was made easy, buy one, get the other free! Works for me. Thankyou everyone for coming, to those that missed it, I will defiantly be having another one of these parties in the future. I'll keep ya posted. In the meantime, I have to switch my purse over.


Purses everywhere...

more purses...

3 pursekateers... haha

so many choices...

This brand "Kathy" had all kinds of "bling" hanging off the buckles. I was very intrigued, since I usually add my own dangly things, this one comes equipped!"

We also had Janine from Twinkle Toes come and paint our toenails. She was at my party last year too. She has LOTS of designs to pick from ( more decision making ughh) and she is so quick. She's alot of fun to have at parties.


a few of the toenail designs

The party winds down. Awesome night!

In case is interested the Bag Ladies can be reached @ 275-1795 ( Angie or Bunny )
and Janine can be reached @ 287-7734 ( Twinkle Toes )

Just Cuz...

How to Bond with your Cuzin's? Get a piercing with them. During the cycle and Ink Show they had walkin piercings at "Monster Ink" so the girls decided to get something done.




Jade got a Rook and Chels had the top of her ear pierced. Maddie got her eyebrow done.

It's all good


They all had big smiles after! Now that's a bond! :-)

Happy Birth-iversary

There were 5 celebrations this weekend in the Hat, yes 5! From Aug 19th to the 26 there were 4 birthdays and 1 anniversary. Jade, Ruby, Chan and Chels had birthdays and the Napa's celebrated their anniversary! We got to be there for the cake with no name, and cheer for every ones special day.

Jade and Maddie and " Monster " the bear

Chels, Chan and Maddie

"Rrrrooooooby" roll that "R"

the cake with no name

Everyone took turns blowing out a candle, Nana's turn.

Zombie Town

Downtown Medicine Hat isn't a "dead town" but somebody should tell these locals that!! During a Cycle and Ink show this weekend in the Hat they had a Zombie Walk!! There were a few of these creatures walking around town today. If only we had known ahead we could have joined them. We did cheer them on tho and groaned, I mean grinned back at them!

Epidemic

You all remember Larry the couch? Well, I looked outside and what do I see across the street?


I think we started an epidemic! Soon Evanston will be known as the place to go shopping at night, with a truck, and your headlights turned off so as not to attract any attention.


"Free take me home"

I think this is Larry's cousin Bob!

Fish Eye Camera Lens

One of Dean's favorite blog sites always has cool pictures posted. The photographer has a fish eye lens for his camera, and we were very intrigued by it. So.... we went online and found a great new toy for us. This was just a test to see if it worked. Now we're heading to the Hat to get some real photo ops!!! Stay tuned to see what this puppy can do!!!

Sambuca hut

taken with the lens zoomed all the way!

the living room, taken from my height, it looks like I'm on the ceiling!

Free Shot of Espresso!

I went to a Starbucks and the Barista was in an extra good mood and asked me if I wanted an extra shot of espresso in my venti mocha. I said sure! Since I already had ordered three shots, four would be even better.... Well, I went to work and this is what happened:




Happy Friday, everyone!

Starbucks Everywhere!

You think Starbucks is on every corner? Well, you might also find Starbucks in the garden too! They have an innovative little program at your local Starbucks. After they make your espresso, instead of throwing the used grounds in the garbage, your local Starbucks likely collects all the used grounds and puts them in a silver bag. Used coffee grounds are great for gardens and lawns - who knew? The next time you are in Starbucks, take a look in the basket by the door, and take yourself some free, fresh ground ,environmentally friendly fertilizer....

Runescape Party

This one may be hard to explain for non gamers. But in this house, Runescape quotes are part of the daily routine. We all have characters in this fake land of fun, but Dean doesn't get to play allot. :-(

My friend in Winnipeg plays, "Katieface64" and Maddie's boyfriend plays too. So one day we were all on, :-( except for Dean. Since I have 2 computers hooked up to my monitors, with a second mouse I played my character on one screen and Deans on the other. A mouse in each hand. Yes, only a die hard would attempt such a thing. We all met in the same world and although Dean wasn't there live he could live vicariously thru his character.

Chicken of the Beer

While Dad was up in Calgary a few weeks ago, he mentioned that I should do a trendy beer chicken. Not only is it a blast to cook, it is pure culinary delight! The evaporating Kokanee makes the meat so moist and tender, it makes chicken almost as good as a nice prime rib!


Anne inspects the label on our wine from a Saskatchewan winery.


Like a couple of rockets ready to blast off,
the chickens are ready to cook.

Kokanee, the official beer of Summer '08, is used.

Just add a little seasoning salt and cook for about 75 mins...

Voila! 75 mins or so elapse, beers cans removed and we have
some great looking chickens.

And the final touch, Cliff carves up the chicken for all of us
to enjoy. And, yes we did!

Buffalo Rubbing Stone

Walking thru the Evanston trails we saw a BIG rock. Maddie hopped up on it, and being the namesake of a mermaid, found it funny to pose as one. Then on our walk back again we noticed a sign that told us what the rock was. A buffalo rubbing stone. A little piece of history right in our back yard. When I googled it, I found out there are lots of them scattered throughout the area, and most of them, have a park and sitting area around it.




In case you can't read the sign here is what it says..
"15,000 years ago during the glacial ice age, the foothills Erratic Train deposited this erratic by West Nose Creek. When itchy or trying to remove their winter coats, buffalo would walk in circles around this stone rubbing their hides against the stone surface and creating this depression in the ground around the "Buffalo Rubbing Stone"


So there you have your history story for the day.

Quest for Icecream

A lovely day in the neighborhood. Maddie and I decided to go for a walk to get an ice cream, or Slurpee. As long as it was cold. There was a new bridge open that connected us to Creekside. We started on our journey.....
...happy go lucky....


....skipping and jumping along.....

stopping to smell the flowers, or pat them.....


... when suddenly we saw them.... workers... foiling our plan!!!!

there big evil sign telling us we could not cross.....

such a dilemma had set in. We were hot and wanted our ice cream!!! But there was no way across the creek, we would have to backtrack all the way, and may as well just have ice cream at home :-(


Maddie thought we could jump the creek, I said it's as wide as the path we're on... so she tested it....

and would have fallen right into the middle of it!!!


Then in the distance we see kids walking towards the water. Hmm we thought what are they up to??? Then suddenly they were safely on the other side of it?? How did they do this?

we walked over to investigate, saw a bridge!! Hooray we shouted let's cross!!!


I gave Maddie the camera and went first, always thinking of keeping the camera dry! It was a thin board, and I had my doubts it would hold me... creeeeeek... but no splash! Safe!

we made it to the store!! The best tasting slurpee and ice cream ever.

Quest complete!