Little white flowers

Happy little pansy face

Hedley Lamarr has passed. February 15, 1927 to May 30, 2008. He was 81.

The man that had the hardest time keeping a straight face playing opposite Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett Show. In fact, he failed most of the time, breaking down in uncontrollable laughter at Tim’s antics. I enjoyed the Carol Burnett show the best when Harvey and Tim were in the same skits.

Slim Pickens as Taggart and Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles

Hedley Lamarr: Repeat after me: I…

Men: I…

Hedley Lamarr: …your name…

Men: …your name…

Hedley Lamarr: [to himself] Shmucks. [continues aloud]

Hedley Lamarr: … do pledge allegiance…

Men: …do pledge allegiance…

Hedley Lamarr: …to Hedley Lamarr…

Men: …to Hedy Lamarr…

Hedley Lamarr: That’s *Hedley*!

Men: That’s Hedley.

We pray for his family and friends and offer our condolences. He will be missed.

The post just below has a link to the book by Scott McClellan that is coming out shortly. Amazon generally has a “Better Together” section for its items. The “Better Together” for this item is reproduced below. I’d really suggest the second book… Clicking the link will get you to a page where you can purchase Doug Feith’s War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. Clicking the image below will get you to where you can purchase both books, which will garner you free standard shipping because they total more than $25.

Write a book that bashes President Bush

AND

Write a book that validates everything the left has been saying for years. That’s the way to guarantee both sales and LOTS of media attention. What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception

Just what Richard Clarke (Against All Enemies) did four years ago. What was that Scott McClellan said in response to that book? Ah, yes:

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book. Certainly let’s look at the politics of it. His best buddy is Rand Beers, who is the principal foreign policy advisor to Senator Kerry’s campaign. The Kerry campaign went out and immediately put these comments up on their website that Mr. Clarke made.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) jumped on the suggestion in the book that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney were in cahoots to “out” Valerie Plame. The Day in New London, CT reports:

Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida, however, said that McClellan should testify before the House Judiciary Committee to tell what he knows about the White House role in the leak of a CIA operative’s name and how the administration “deliberately orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people.”

He must have forgotten that Robert Novak and Richard Armitage took responsibility for the “outing” and that Lewis “Scooter” Libby was actually convicted in association with the case. He wants to bring in Scott McClellan to testify under oath to the committee. A guy who pretty much said: I lied then, but now I’m telling the truth so you should believe me now and forget what I said before….

We had a nice parade in town with participation from the Navy (there’s a base nearby).

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Then there was the S.W.A.T. vehicle…

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And then there was the idiot who thought that the Parade didn’t matter, he could drive out onto the main parade route … and hit a child who was going for candy thrown from the floats. The child was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Our prayers are with the child and his or her family. These ambulances were not participating in the parade, sadly they had to be doing their jobs…

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It’s Memorial Day. A day to get together with family and friends and to remember those who are no longer with us.

I hear people talking about how in the duel of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that Barack Obama just doesn’t seem to be able to “close the deal” on the nomination. No one says that about Hillary Clinton. But she doesn’t seem to be able to “close the deal” either…

Apparently Ellen DeGeneres asked John McCain to walk her down the aisle when she marries her girlfriend Portia De Rossi. The next day she asked Laura Bush and Jenna Hager if she could get married at the Crawford ranch.  Of course she can’t. Even if she could get married in California, the ranch is in Texas…

A note to Republicans who really don’t like McCain: Sitting this one out or voting for third party instead is what got us Clinton 42. Do we really want Clinton 44 or Obama?

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, there’s a group that is suing the city for discrimination. They say that they are allergic to WiFi and want it removed from public buildings because it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Overlawyered, 5/23). So, somehow these people can tell when there are WiFi or cell phone signals nearby because they have physical symptoms. These people believe that by having WiFi removed from public buildings their symptoms will be relieved. Uh, no.  Even if the WiFi were removed from public buildings in Santa Fe, there’s still all the private WiFi out there. Offices, Panera Bread, Starbucks, McDonalds and more. Unless, somehow, it’s only WiFi in public buildings that causes the symptoms…

These two come for lunch and dinner quite often. We have a bird feeder in the tree in the front yard and the little birds are good at spilling the seed to the ground below, where the Mallards can get to it easily.

We’re starting out by running errands and getting a few things done around the house.

We have to get the pool area fixed up so we can put the pool up. We have to mow the lawn again. We have to de-poopify areas.

Buy some landscape timbers, sand, gravel…

Cat food, dog food, cat litter…

Gas for the grill, something to grill…

Pop (soda), beer…

What are you doing this weekend?

Mr. Right at The Right Place lost his father on Saturday.

He has written a beautiful tribute to his dad.

Our prayers and condolences are with you and your family.

American Idol crowned its winner tonight…

David

Last name below the fold…

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