The Countertop Chronicles

What I like best about the Sarah Palin pick - I mean other than the Hot MILF who hunts and fishes, has 5 kids, is married to her high school sweat heart, and will win over the Hillary crowd (my wife is thrilled!!!) - is that her entire political career has been built on rooting out corruption in one of the nation’s most corrupt states.

Like Bobby Jindal, in her short period in office, she has rocked the boat and brought real concern to the entrenched powers that be. Whats most surprising about this though, is unlike Jindal who is going after Democrats - Palin went after Republicans. Heck, she even went after family members - and has drawn the scorn of the state party who were unable to stop her as she took down their most powerful member - Frank Murkowski who famously appointed his daughter to fill his Senate seat.

And in that respect, in an election where the Republican’s biggest liability isn’t Iraq but Ted Stevens and the Alaskan Bridge To Nowhere, McCain took his maverick mantle by the reins and just signed up the Anti Stevens to help him root out the corruption endemic in DC.

Compare that to Barack “Corrupt Chicago Democratic Political Machine Champion” Obama.

Nothing better . . . . got to love the sea trout

Summertime Baked Lemon Trout

4 whole fresh Trout
2 cups bread crumbs
2 cups Chardonnay
1 lemon
4 scallions
1/4 cup minced yellow onion
minced garlic (to taste)
butter

Clean and gut fish
Mince scallions and onion, mix together with breadcrumbs in a bowl
Coat baking tray with butter (use tray large enough to hold all fish)
Cover bottom with minced garlic (to taste)
Open up body of fish and place slices of lemmon
Place fish, side by side, in pan
Place small chunks of butter on each fish (to taste)
Pour wine over fish into pan
Squeeze juice of 1 lemon into pan over fish
Cover fish with mixture of breadcrums, onion and scallions
Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes

Enjoy!!

Just off the phone with two of my outside consulants. One is a former senior clinton staffer (white house and #2 at cabinet agency) and the other is a senior Obama advisor and long time Teddy Kennedy staffer.

Both think Obama has blown it, is at risk of losing the base of anti war left wing nutjobs who don’t get politics, won’t get Hillary voters and has no way of winning strong gun rights rust belt union workers. In their mind Biden hurts, more than helps in PA and Ohio (both were pushing for Sebulis).

Think he is going to need to be incredibly lucky - via major fumble by McCain - to actually win.

Seriously.

While sharks are all fine and good when I’m out fishing for them, a big one can scare the crap out of you when your in a flimsy kayak.

And St Simons has a bunch - though thankfully they like to breed here, not eat people here. Still, as I was out on my Kayak in the intercoastal/St Simons River bay about 1/2 mile from shore, I saw what I thought at first was a dolphin but ended up being a 5 or 6 foot hammerhead come up near the surface.

That’ll put the fear of god in you.

I had my S&W Model 66 (stainless) with 6 rounds of lead nose .357 Mag with me, but frankly I have no idea what good that would do in an actually shark attack.

I usually carry it when I go out more for the occaisional gater you find in the backwaters.

But I’m wondering, if a shark came after my kayak (something I doubt they would do as at 17 feet its longer than most of them, and hollow and plastic) would a gun have any impact???

UPDATE

Sounds like a .45 will do the trick . . . . for a gator at least.

Than pretty girls in bikinis at the beach.

Just saying.

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Anyone know how to disable it on a blackberry? It won’t let me leave comments on blogs if I try to link over from bloglines.

Is it a bloglines program???

Well, I’ve been carrying the black Kel Tec around with me pretty much constantly (except for when I’m at work in DC) for well over 2 months.

It does its job, fitting pretty easily inside the font pocket of any loose pants I own (ever pair of shorts, most khakis, suits, etc) with less than a barely discernible pattern printed. Can’t complain about that at all, as its my preferred method of carry 90% of the time. However, over the last week, as we were in a high humidity atmosphere (a hurricane dropping 30 inches of water will do that) I did run into a slight problem with rust. I cleaned most of it up last night, but thought I’d post a short update here to highlight those areas where its worn well, where its worn rough, and where it has become, in the words of Phil-Z, a lint trap.

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Sitting here with my son. Its awful. Well, I shouldn’t say that. The story is interesting but its a cartoon, like a bad Saturday afternoon cartoon. But Lucas is a genius.

My son is 6 and is totally enthralled by the movie, and the theater is packed with other kids his age - all sitting in quiet mesmerization.

Pretty impressive for a 2:30 Saturday matinee showing

Oh, also, it cost me $30 - $6 each for admission and $18 for a slushie, medium coke, medium popcorn and a small nachos.

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Not a bad movie. Heck, had Lucas done this as a live action flick I think he’d do pretty good at the box office. It was certainly more action packed than some of the more recent ones - though I have to say that I don’t mind any of the prequels even if I hate parts of Part I (that amphibian) and Part II (that love scene).

The single most outwardly hostile campaign the 2nd Amendment has ever seen.

The NRA will have a field day with this one. Might be time for folks to pull out that CNN You Tube video question to Biden on the 2nd Amendment.

We just returned to St Simons. Actually, still in the car. Anyway, I’ve never seen the river or marsh around the isldand so high - and low tide is 1 hour away at 7:08.

Our condos right on the beach, it will be interesting to see what that looks like.

Well, were back in Statesboro and heading back to St Simons Island. Wife wanted to stop by the Georgia Southern bookstore to get a t-shirt or sweatshirt or something and I’m parked in front of Solar Rays Tanning, featuring Solaeis Sunless spray tanning.

I now know where the hot tang hangs out and am reminded that I too once went to get a tan in order to immerse myself in top notch tail.

Our departure this morning came quick. We don’t expect any problems, and certainly no looting, but had to drive through Brunswick, GA which is a rough town.

So, we took what we had in our two car caravan. I’ve got a kel Tec, the wife’s got the S&W Model 66. Nd I have my Marlin 336

One other thing, it would have been MUCH less stressful to bail on 15 minutes notice than in a full days notice. Shit, were only staying away for 2 night but we’ve grabbed 2 weeks worth of crap.

In Statesboro, GA and decided to swing by the campus of Georgia Southern. Their football team is always great and my wife almost went there (instead of UT Knoxville).

Well, the main entrance is pretty enough but its got one ugly ass student body. I haven’t seen a single co-ed worthy of a cheap college sex flick (think porkys). Which is surprising, since this place should be CRAWLING with top notch southern tail.

Perhaps their all back in the frat houses.

So, you may have noticed the blogging is a bit light the last few days/weeks (did someone say 5 years?!?!?). We travel every August to the gorgeous Golden Islands of the South East GA coast - always staying on St Simons Island where my wife has family (well, not anymore, but historically and up till about 3 years ago).

Anyway, this year instead of getting a place for a week we decidwed we’d get the same condo we rent every year for a full month. She’s been down 2 1/2 weeks, I got down Friday.

I was greeted by my mother in law (who was here last week) affixed to the weather channel and worrying about this tiny tropical storm way off in the southern Atlantic. Each day she grew more and more concerned, as I dismissed her concerns as ludicrous - everyone knows St Simons doesn’t get hit by Hurricanes - they ALWAYS strike Jacksonville and below or Savanha and above - the gulf stream acts as a natural shield.

Well, slap me with a shit stick….it looks like were gonna get hit. Or at least jacksonville is, 20 miles south. That’s enough for us. Just don’t want to get caught on the beach as the hurricane hits at high tide with two little kids. We’re drive Northwest to Swainsboro and staying with some other cousins.

As we sit here waiting for Hurricane Fay to hit.