Los Cuatro Ojos

A Devastating Loss… Poor Pete!

Obama And Cheney Related… WTF?!?

Yeech! OK… So Barack Obama is a blood relative of Dick Cheney. There… I’ve written it. And I didn’t puke onto my keyboard. Although I did have to throw a way a perfectly good McGriddle sandwich when I first contemplated commenting on it… When I first heard this… I thought… Those GOP’ers have gone one […]

The End Of The American Era… Or… Why Chinese Needs To Be Mandatory In All Of Our Schools.

I’ve been watching Ken Burn’s “War” series on PBS for a couple of weeks and a thought struck me like a thunderbolt. We (the allies) won the Second World War largely due to this one unmistakable fact… We out manufactured our opponents. America used its enormous capacity to manufacture pleasure goods and necessities and all […]

Family… You Gotta Love ‘Em!

Besides this little labor of love… I also run a family website that details not only current family info… But chronicles all the way back to 1772. Included on the site are links to the family database on genealogy.com as well as .pdf files from Family Tree Maker showing relationships all the way back to […]

Does Anyone Besides Me Wonder Why OJ Is Such Big And Breathless News Again?

Call me a conspiracy nut if you want to… But I’ll believe until the last dog dies that we Americans get ourselves bamboozled and bullshi**ed into looking left when we should be looking right every time the powers that be have something they don’t want us getting riled up about. As I’ve ranted about before… […]

I usually don’t agree with Charles… But he’s got it right here!

  Krauthammer Columns RSS Feed Politics Headlines Opinion Index Lit Up For Liftoff? By Charles Krauthammer Friday, August 3, 2007; Page A15 Someone’s gotta do it. No one’s gonna do it. So I’ll do it. Your honor, I rise in defense of drunken astronauts. You’ve all heard the reports, delivered in scandalized tones on the […]

My Take on the New Harry Potter Book

NO REAL SPOILERS HERE… I WON’T SPOIL IT FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO SAVOR IT MORE SLOWLY. I devoured the book in one sitting… I was pretty beat by the last 80 pages or so… So I re -read the last two chapters this morning. Short story… I’m satisfied. I didn’t feel the sense of […]

Live Earth… Tipping Point?

I spent a lot of hours yesterday watching several TV channels and a couple of webcast of the Live Earth events… I originally thought that I was getting a great concert fix… But it slowly dawned on me that I was becoming more “involved” than I’d expected. I kept hearing about 2 billion people all […]

In Memoriam

We lost one of our Mastiffs yesterday. Her name was Stella… But she answered to Star. Given that we’d tick dipped her 3 days ago… I wondered if she had a bad reaction. She was fine the night before she passed. The others seem ok. She was a good dog… We’d given her as a […]

My View on Immigration…Illegal and Otherwise

My opinion is never humble…So I expect that more than a few people will find themselves offended… Tough. With all of the babbling and blustering and bullshitting we’re subjected to regarding the effects that immigration and immigrants are having on the USA… No politician or pundit seems to have the balls or the good sense […]

Links to the Old Site

I haven’t figured out how to bring the old site over yet.. But there are some real goodies over there. I may start to recycle them just to get them here… But for now… Please go and check out the archives over there. Los Cuatro Ojos the old site.

I took this trip a few years back… It was GREAT!

On an epic 4,000-mile, six-day rail trip from Halifax in the east to Vancouver in the west, Janette Griffiths is capitvated by wild forests, bleak prairies, glorious peaks, swirling blizzards – and the odd elk grazing on a platform. At Halifax station I sat down and wept. In an hour’s time I would board a […]

Another potential disaster

In light of this and the previous post… I’m getting more and more worried about our proclivity to outsource everything that big business thinks will save them another dime. Now… don’t think me some kind of a China basher… My wife is Chinese… Thereby making my kids 1/2 of same… But… Isn’t China still a […]

Distraction!

When in Doubt — Go After That Teletubby Again! See my Rant of May 28th 2007 Tinky Winky… Dipsy…. Lala… Po… The song goes through my head, over and over again. My oldest son watched the Teletubbies and loved them. Still loves them, I found out recently. I should say, (He) has learned to appreciate […]

Why They Want To Keep Us Distracted

36% of Americans believe in the literal-ness of the Bible… This means that over a third of Americans believe that the world and the cosmos was created around 6000 years ago. That Adam & Eve lived with dinosaurs and that evolution and planetary science is fakery. In short… All that is , was and ever […]

I was complaining the other day… Then I got This…

The Price of Children Something absolutely positive for a change. I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It’s nice. The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came […]

And Then There’s Auntie – Part Three

So where did I leave off?.. Oh yeah… 50 yards from the van and feeling like the left side of my face is drooping. Sooo… We actually make it to the van with less agravation than it would take to describe here. Then its time to load the goods. While I’m trying to get the […]

And Then There’s Auntie – Part Two

So now we’ve made it into the Wal Mart and I’ve got a list… Well… My daughter’s got the list… well… She had the list… My head hurts… Turns out she dropped the list at the store entrance while kicking her brother… She runs off to retrieve it… In the meantime… I’m wondering… ” If […]

And Then There’s Auntie

So I take the three kids to Wal Mart yesterday… #2 Son …who’s 12… The 9 year old daughter… And Auntie… She’s 80. The minute we got into the van… They started arguing over who’s going to sit where. Now… Auntie’s got her fav seat and the kids will grab it just to get her […]

The Whole Month Of April, 2007 !

I can’t believe so much good stuff got posted back then… No Wonder I Was Sooo Tired! The Whole Month Of April, 2007

The Beginning – Posts From Early May Of 2007

This Link Goes To All Of My Posts From: March 5th, 2007 – Through – March 31st, 2007 If I Do Say So Myself… Some Of My Best Stuff.