This'n'That; February 9th[Wanted;Breakfast;Cheney];

A Wanted Man

[I read the "Daily Enews from Land Line Magazine" an OOIDA email publication. The article seemed important enough to attempt whatever distribution it will receive thru this blog] "The association was contacted by Deputy U.S. Marshall Randy Martinez for assistance in attempting to locate a long haul trucker by the name of Robert Ellsworth Williams. Mr. Williams is wanted for the rape of a minor and is also wanted for additional questioning in other cases. Attached is a photo from the wanted poster for the aforementioned Williams. If you have any information in regards to Mr. Williams, please call Marshall Martinez at 406-329-3625" ***WILLIAMS' DESCRIPTION*** Gender: Male; Date of Birth: 09/13/1948; Place of Birth: Idaho; Ethnicity: White; L/R handed: Unknown; Height: 5'11"; Weight: 190lbs; Build: Medium-Heavy; Skin Tone: Light; Eye Color: Blue; Hair Color: Gray.

Whadda Breakfast!!

Yesterday, as we are sometimes wont to do, "Lil' Miss Lovely" and I went for a late Sunday Morning breakfast at the Union Hill [N.Y.] Country Grill. I didn't realize the name had changed; when I was introduced to it five years ago, I think it was called The Union Hill Country Store and Restaurant. It's on Ridge Road [SR 404] at County Line Road, east of Rochester, between the villages of Webster and Ontario. Maybe the name's changed but the quality sure hadn't!! We both ate from the breakfast menu and it was just delicious!! I have had many scrumptious meals since being introduced to the place when I hired a business manager. We'd have our monthly business meetings there over some of the best food I've ever eaten. If you're ever in "this neck of the woods," you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't give'em a try!! A bit of history of the business: [From: http://www.unionhillcountrygrill.com/] The building, which today houses The Union Hill Country Grill, was originally constructed by Frank M. Jones around 1865. Beginning in 1865, this site served as the Union Hill Post Office. Later Mr. Jones sold the building to William Stokes who operated a store on the premises until his death in 1929. The store was then operated by several people including William and Thomas Elliot who purchased it in 1932. William Elliot's children, Eva Elliot Anderson and Jack Elliot worked in the store with their father and continue to remain Webster residents today. Their reminisces have been quite helpful in tracing the history of the site. The original corner store sold many items ranging from groceries and yard goods to shoes, kerosene and seeds. There was an elevated office in the center of the store used by bookkeeper, Mrs. Smart. Behind the office was a stairway to the second story where a millinery shop was once run by Jennie Wagar in which she produced and sold custom-made hats, with no two hats ever alike, attracting customers from miles around. At Christmas time a gift shop operating in the vicinity. During this time the Post Office continued to remain in the northeast corner of the store. To the south of the Post Office was the barber shop. A two story apartment on the west side of the building as was occupied by the owners and the later tenants. Over the years, the businesses in the building have been changed many times including a grocery store, a tropical fish store, a TV repair shop and once again a grocery store. The current owner of the site, Jim Hall continues to operate a small country store on the premises and has converted the remainder of the first floor, which once held two apartments, to accommodate the continued growth of The Union Hill Country Grill, the family restaurant which he owns and operates. He has also personally renovated the three upstairs apartments, updating them to include the conveniences of modern life. The Union Hill Country Grill is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The restaurant's walls are lined with historical pictures [a particular delight for history buffs!!] from the area. Please come and view them while sitting down to a meal or homemade dessert.

biden And Cheney Agree [?]

[It IS kinda surprisin' that those two would agree on anything!! If you recall during "The Campaign of Fluff," biden said that obama would "be tested" in the first six months of the administration. From what Mr Cheney has to say, it won't take that long. This article from newsmax.com]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is blasting the fledgling administration of obama, arguing that its policies dealing with terrorism and international foes are naïve and dangerous, making it all the more likely that terrorists will succeed in their next attempt at killing Americans, according to a report in Politico. Simply by closing Guantanamo Bay’s detention camp for terrorists, Cheney said, obama inadvertently will aid enemies eager to make another attack on the United States. Another major attack on this country — perhaps even using biological or nuclear materials — is very likely in the next few years, Cheney said. “I think there’s a high probability of such an attempt,” Cheney said. “Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States.” Cheney opined that the inevitable attack will be “a 9/11-type event where the terrorists are armed with something much more dangerous than an airline ticket and a box cutter — a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” that is set off in an American city. In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Cheney emphasized the usefulness of the interrogations at Gitmo while lambasting the policies emerging from the new administration. “When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al-Qaida terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said. Concentrating on the merits of Gitmo, Cheney described it as a first-class operation, noting that one of the painful lessons learned was the penchant for those detainees who were released to return to their terrorist roots. He noted that 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration had “gone back into the business of being terrorists.” He also characterized the remaining 200 or so remaining detainees as “hard core” cases that were even more likely to be repeat offenders. Releasing the prisoners or ramping up their due process would be unwise, Cheney charged. “The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I’m not at all sure that that’s what the obama administration believes,” he said. Cheney defended the hard-line tactics of the Bush administration as responsible for the safety of the country after 9/11. “If it hadn’t been for what we did — with respect to the terrorist surveillance program, or enhanced interrogation techniques for high-value detainees, the Patriot Act, and so forth — then we would have been attacked again,” he said. “Those policies we put in place, in my opinion, were absolutely crucial to getting us through the last seven-plus years without a major-casualty attack on the U.S.” Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.”

Til Nex'Time....