HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
July 8

Don't let a small misunderstanding with your sex partner turn into a big power struggle. Rape is not satisfying for either of you.

Nutcase makes nutshell evaluation

Today, Bush called the new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev a "smart guy."

Let's see: rest of July, August, September, October, November, December, to January 20. Seems like forever.

Monday Morning Friends Report, July 7, 2008

Lots of folks are really busy with summer comings and goings, trips, outdoor recreation, and the 4th of July. The fact is, BIRCHES readership is down these days, and folks are not as communicative. A blogster can get lonely and feel unappreciated. (sob)

People who went to the Upper Peninsula this holiday are saying that traffic was light on both highway and lake. Lots of cottages were unoccupied and it is supposed to be the busiest time for the U.P.
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SPARTY and GIGI - camping vacation with extended family, up around Traverse City.

SCOT and TRASE - doing some Huron River floating.

MARSHA - with family and friends in the Midwest these days.

MICHIGAN BUCKS Soccer team - continues its winning ways. They defeated the Cincinnati Kings 3-1. "With the win, the Bucks not only become the first PDL club to clinch a playoff berth in 2008, but are now just one win away from winning their 7th Division title." CLICK

HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
July 7

You've been laying the groundwork for some big changes, and now it's starting to pay off. You are going to have a moment of intimacy, and this time it may be with someone besides yourself.

without further comment

click on the cartoon to make it larger.
More Schorr cartoons here: CLICK

ode to a mug

I do not like thee Gary Sheff,
The reason why I can't expreff.
But this I know to my dieing breff:
I do not like thee Gary Sheff.

HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
July 6

Today, face reality and stop trying to take a 'world view' of things. You know you're just a common hick and always will be.

Sunday silly Sites

How much do you know about John McCain? Go take the McCain Quiz: CLICK

Go here to buy some anti-Obama merchandise. CLICK

HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
July 5

There are so many choices, it seems. It's hard to concentrate and make decisions. Have someone slap you. Snap out of it, Bucko!

Wacko of the Week, July 5, 2008

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
and Iranian General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh



This week, they struggled to promote the cause of world peace by making these claims, just in case anyone is planning to attack their nuclear sites:

 1. Iran will block up the Straits of Hormuz, to cause a world-wide petroleum crisis.

2. The Iranians will attack Israel.

3. The Iranians will attack the United States.

4. The Iranians are digging 320,000 graves for Americans, so their bodies won't disappear as they did in Vietnam. CLICK

This love initiative has made them almost as unpopular in the U.S. as that Bush man in the White House.

Goodbye, you rotten, nasty, racist, old moss-backed bastard

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

Add to Your Day- a little folk rock

LISTEN to something brand new from someone who's not new at all. CLICK

"Life's dark undertones may not make for easy listening, but Mellencamp's raspy drawl has only gotten more soulful with age." CLICK

HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
July 4

This is a good day to take stock of your resources. You do a lot of things really well, but you know, you don't have to decide everything for everybody. You're going to wear yourself out.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States...

HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
July 3

Well what a firecracker you are, friend. Go out and make a big bang! It's your time to sparkle.

Thursday Morning Smile-Maker (51)

What to do if your street floods .....

[Marking One year of smile making on BIRCHES]

recommended reading -- moved forward from several days ago

Bad Tenured Teachers Hard to Fire
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And, Your comments are welcome!

Talking Crap

For what it's worth

First, someone forwarded me a message from a honcho in the Move-On Organization complaining that Fox News perpetuates stories about Obama which are not true.

Then Marsha complains to me that the news about the campaign on CNN is "sickening, and I'm tired of it," because the news is spending so much worthless time chewing over something someone said about one of the candidates or the other. Who cares what someone says about one of them? Is that how we're to judge a person, because of some nonsense that 'someone' says about him?

Then Scot writes at ARBORETUM (which you can click here) about "the firestorm about Gen. Wesley Clark's comments about John McCain."

COMMENT: There's too, much verbal bullshit flying around (thank God and Tom Jefferson for the Freedom of Speech) and not enough rational discussion of policies and ideas. Everyone is noticing it, and the press is guilty as sin. These press folks won't be happy until Brittney is running against Paris for President.
-Bud

HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
July 2

Once again, you will fail miserably in your efforts to improve your finances.

Noted without comment

Two guys at the BET Awards Ceremony.



Cornell Haynes Jr. ("Nelly")
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Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.