musing minds

Happy Birthday to Me!

It’s an anniversary of my 21st birthday, but I’m not telling which anniversary it is!

Happy Birthday also to: Joe Piscipo, Newt Gingrich, Venus Williams, Barry Manilow, and even Jack Murtha…

Dean Martin was born on June 17th, as was Igor Stravinsky.

Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her “official” birthday today. The Queen’s real birthday is April 21st and she just had her 80th. It is traditional in England to celebrate the monarch’s birthday in June because the weather tends to be better.

MC Escher was also born on June 17.

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More of his artwork can be found here.

Other Birthdays on June 17th can be found here.

RFK, Jr on Your World 6/6

Yesterday [tag]Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.[/tag] was on Neil Cavuto’s show on FNC. Here follows the transcript of that exchange.

Fox News has video available here.

Ian also has video at Expose the Left.

Cavuto: Well to hear Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tell it, John Kerry should be President of the United States right now but he was robbed in 2004. Robbed nationally and apparently really robbed in the State of [tag]Ohio[/tag], that state that delivered the electoral votes President Bush needed to make him a a second term occupant of the White House. But do Kennedy’s charges hold up, or is RFK, Jr. just worked up about an outcome he did not like? Let’s ask him. Robert, good to have you.

RFK, Jr.: Thanks for having me Neil.

Cavuto: You’re a democrat.

RFK, Jr.: I’m a democrat, but I have worked 22 years – this should not be a democrat issue – it should not be a partisan issue. It’s clear that the, that republican officials in Ohio and other states, have mounted a deliberate, concerted effort to, to fix the 2004 election…

[You make a charge that the republicans have made a deliberate, concerted effort to fix the 2004 election and this is not a partisan issue? – Ed.]

Cavuto: But it’s not clear. Where do you say it’s clear?

RFK, Jr.: Well, you know, there were 22 lawsuits at that time, it was very, very clear that there were 350,000 mainly democratic voters who either refused the opportunity to vote in Ohio or whose votes were never counted. There were 80,000 voters in 12 western counties whose votes were shifted from [tag]Kerry[/tag] to [tag]Bush[/tag].
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Irii

Is that the proper plural for Iris?

Mine have finally bloomed

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Clematis

This is my Clematis, it is a perennial vine and blooms beautifully all summer long. I’ve had this one for about 4 years now. It looks dead in the winter and early spring and then there are small green shoots and it grows and grows…

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The American Clematis Society has a website here.

A New Look

We hope you like the new look, please let us know in comments if you find anything that might need a tweak or a fix. Thanks.

UPDATE: – The new look needs some tweaking between IE and Firefox. You can see it at my theme testing site.

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