All honor and respect to his Most Holy & Venerable Bill (not currently) in Portland, Maine. Greetings and humble happy Monday to all who enter today, but with special flip-flops to C & J regular pool-goers (most of whom are by now at the office, with the kids, in the garden or Netting Roots and will never see this)!
I’m a semi-frequent, wader into C & J, and today was just one of those days I had the time and inclination to dip my toes, but alas, that big, beautiful pool is "closed for maintenance" until tomorrow... so, somewhat selfishly, I am posting this for today only as a self-supplicating facsimile! If even 5 people splash a bit here with me I will be amazed, but pleased :-)
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UPDATED, I was... There is now a sub-pool I had not seen, that is officious in nature! h/t Cali Scribe ;-)
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Whirling in my innertube, drink in hand, havin’ fun...
Expect none of that whiz-bang and sparkly of the Most Exalted One, as I could never hold a candle in his wind – er, did that come out right? Blessings too upon, the side-kicker of His Billness, CSM.
Here is your hero (aka Swimmwer) of the day:
Article
James Byrne's resignation letter tells off his boss, Scott J. Bloch, for what he calls the Bush appointee's 'political agendas and personal vendettas.'
WASHINGTON -- James M. Byrne, second in command at the embattled Office of Special Counsel, resigned his post effective Saturday after leaving his boss, Scott J. Bloch, a stinging letter suggesting that Bloch's "political agendas and personal vendettas" were preventing the agency from fulfilling its mission.
The two-paragraph letter, obtained by The Times, was sent to Bloch last week at a time when the Bush appointee faces a Justice Department inquiry that includes allegations of illegally erasing information on his government computer.
Here's your puppy pic - 'cuz Bill always has one!
This is your history refresher:
"Why, I outta make monkey-milk outta you!"
THIS DAY IN HISTORY!
Ohh.. If they only knew then....
July 21, 1925
Monkey Trial ends
In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ends with John Thomas Scopes being convicted of teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee law. Scopes was ordered to pay a fine of $100, the minimum the law allowed.
In March 1925, the Tennessee legislature had passed the anti-evolution law, making it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to "teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." With local businessman George Rappalyea, Scopes had conspired to get charged with this violation, and after his arrest the pair enlisted the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to organize a defense. Hearing of this coordinated attack on Christian fundamentalism, William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate and a fundamentalist hero, volunteered to assist the prosecution. Soon after, the great attorney Clarence Darrow agreed to join the ACLU in the defense, and the stage was set for one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.
Thanks! Please, make your splash!