At approximately 28mpg, that’s 6,821 gallons of gas in the last 5 1/2 years. At approx 1.70 per gallon (my guess-timated average of gas prices I’ve paid over that time), that’s $11,596.43 Now let’s pretend. Pretending is fun. If it had been available in 1998 when I bought my beloved Honda CR-V, and I opted …
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I’ll look the other way, a little.
John Kerry asked today (paraphrased) “How high up the chain of command should blame for mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners go? Harry Truman didn’t say ‘The buck stops at the Pentagon’.” What a self-righteous, arrogant thing to say. This from a man who admitted to committing “war atrocities” including burning villages, participating in free-fire zones, etc. …
Everything is a dog.
My daughter’s first word, that isn’t “Mama” or “Dada” (and who doesn’t take a little liberty with those, anyway?) is “dog”. We have 2 dogs that were our test-run at raising a person. We were actually looking into getting a Great Dane. That fell through, and as if God were saying “Try something a little …