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For my 40th birthday we rent a cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The cabin was rent through Mountain Paws Cabin Rentals so we could bring the dogs along. The birthday dinner was filet mignon and crab legs. After dinner, I opened my gifts. Husband gave me a Mac Book Pro! Cha-Ching! I also received a Cherry Blossom bag from Shana Logic, an Emile Henry pie plate from Williams-Sonoma, and an awesome cord organizing bag from KangaRoom. We also got a chance to check out a few BBQ places. On Saturday, we went into town and picked up pulled pork from Georgia Boy BBQ. On the way home we drove through Cherry Log, Ga and stopped at Holloway’s Pink Pig BBQ.
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Rikka For Obama



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BARTLET: GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!

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Modern Art Museum by dumpr.net

Pompano Dinner

Grilled Pompano and 2007 The Squid’s Fist via Shiraz Athens. Red Pepper Cream Sauce, Green Beans. Veg from athenslocallygrown.net

Henckels Santoku
Definitely NOT Hattori Hanzo’s steel!

via::Pick That One – Miss Cellania – Miss Cellania

“It’s great that he now wants to talk about putting corporate lobbyists in their place. But he needs to explain why he put seven of them in charge of his campaign,” he said at an outdoor rally under a cloudless Colorado sky. “If you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well I’ve got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska.”

“These times are too serious, the stakes are too high to let the other side pull the same stunts and use the same scare tactics that they always to do. Because we know what the consequences are because we’ve lived them,” Obama said Monday. “We’ve seen them turn an entire campaign into a debate about swift boats and windsurfing. And what do you get when it’s over? Iraq and Katrina and a melt down on wall street and millions w/out jobs, or homes, or health care, pain at the pump. Enough, enough of this not this time not this year.”

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