Back From a Sweet Trip Abroad

I just returned from 14 days in the UK. It was a nice reprieve from the US news. I'd like to think it was a reprieve from Facebook, but that's another story... We had a very nice time. I went to three shows, "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", "Jersey Boys" and "Sweet Charity". I wish I had skipped the last one (except that I met some nice people there) ...the other two were fantastic. We also visited Dublin, Ireland and the Guinness Brewery. Personally I like Murphy's Stout better than Guinness. Murphy's wasn't bitter and had a little flavor of coffee?...nice. We contributed mightily to the Dublin economy.

Word of the day: entertainment

Amazingly, the news there was so incredibly similar to the news here. I watched the queen speak to the newly elected Parliament. She read off new legislation for the people to expect addressing the budget, immigration and corrupt politicians. Sound familiar. But there was a bright spot in all the gloom and that was the Chelsey Flower/Garden Show. Tickets were sold out months earlier, but the BBC had lovely coverage.

Hang tough Arizona. I would like to see similar legislation in Florida. If you are stopped for criminal activity, the policeman should be able to ask what your citizenship status is. If you are in the country illegally...

Now that we know the Top Kill effort has failed to plug the deep well oil leak, let's hire the people there who earn their living in the gulf to help with the clean up. LA Gov. Bobby Jindal would like some barrier type sand islands constructed to help stop the oil from flowing into the delta wetlands. but the EPA says it needs to do a study to determine the environmental impact. 20 years later their still studying the impact of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. We already know the devastating environmental impact the gazillion gallons of crude oil will have on the gulf coast.

Obama's Katrina? Yes, it is so, but there is no satisfaction in knowing it. But there is some is seeing that his administration is as slow at helping as Bush's was during the Katrina problems. Fix it now...if only. We're still fixing things from our own little hurricane Charley and it's been 5 years. Obama's visit to the gulf coast beach a photo op...yes. Get out of the way, give Bobby Jindal his barrier islands.

Rick Scott for Governor (warts and all). My main reason is because Bill McCullom has declared that the Arizona law or similar legislation will not happen in Florida. It needs to happen in Florida as well as Texas, New Mexico and California.

"There are three kids of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"

Benjamin Desraeli