Here’s Lizzie Palmer’s tribute to those who serve.

Remember Me.

This post is timestamped 11:11 on 11/11.

The eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Written by Lt-Colonel John McRae (1915)

Related posts: Remember Me – 13 April 2007 and Remember Me – 27 May 2007

The first post has a heated discussion in the comments section that is still getting comments. Lizzie’s Dad left a comment there as well. The link he left to Fox News no longer works, but I saw it when it aired and saw it at the link when Mr. Palmer gave it to me.

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With the endorsement of John McCain by Sam Brownback and the endorsement of Rudy Guiliani by Pat Robertson in the news today, we at Musing Minds ask:

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Your Inner European is Irish!

Sprited and boisterous! You drink everyone under the table.

Who’s Your Inner European?

Thanks to Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy!

On a cold and blustery day like today Tomato Bisque soup is really good.

Start with a bechamel sauce:

2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups of milk

In a saucepan melt the butter and add the flour whisking for a minute or so to cook the flour slightly, removing the rawness. Slowly whisk in the two cups of milk. When slightly thickened add a little bit of nutmeg.

Then add:

1 can of petite diced tomatoes with juices (approximate size 15 ounce)
1 can of tomato sauce (approximate size 15 ounce)
some frozen chopped spinach to taste (as much or as little as you like)
some orzo (half a cup or so)

simmer gently until the orzo is cooked through or save a little time with the soup itself by precooking the orzo.

Add salt and pepper to taste and there you go. Fabulous!

According to this NYT correction from June, 2006 – 7.8 percent of private sector workers are unionized (or were just over a year ago) and the number is 12.5 percent when adding public sector workers to the mix.

With numbers that low tell me again why the Democrats pander to the unions so completely?

Don’t forget to change your clocks back to 1 am at 2 am, unless you do it earlier.

Congress changed the dates, but now we’re set with the new ones.

Except for Hawaii, Arizona, and Puerto Rico. They don’t participate in the twice annual changing of the clocks.

Check your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and change the batteries too.

First Frost this morning.

Pay careful attention to the following video. You may see a ghost captured when the company was filming a car commercial…

Thanks to Rich Miller at The Capitol Fax Blog.

I didn’t carve any pumpkins this year so I am recycling photos of one from last year.

Before:

After:

That skull was really cool.