After spending some of my “downtime” analyzing the pluses and minuses of both blog hosts I’ve been using, it looks like going back to Blogger is the best options, thanks to more stability and some nice new options for posting.  So….make your bookmark changes soon to the Krile Files on Blogger.

Sorry for all the jumping around, but we’re going to try to get back on a more regular posting schedule.  There’s too much going on to ignore it any longer!

Just one more. For now.

Condoleezza Rice Has Been ‘Playing A Lot’ Of Golf During Iraq War, Not Willing To ‘Sacrifice’ Her Game Like Bush

In May, President Bush revealed that he had given up playing golf because of the Iraq war. “I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” said Bush. But apparently Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice doesn’t feel the same way. While at the AT&T National golf tournament this weekend, Rice gave an [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts.  It’s been really busy around here. Trying to figure out my future, Enjoying the new granddaughter, Cleaning closets, etc.  Posts will resume when I’m back on a computer that doesn’t take five minutes to process a simple command! <G>

Or, there’s a really bad communication problem within the campaign. Positions on issues, like this one, really need to be known.

Sounds of Silence

Obama’s spokesman still doesn’t know his candidate’s position on the new FISA bill that passed the House today. The Senate vote is next week [...]

UPDATE:

Obama Backs Bill Giving Immunity To Telecoms

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign has released a statement stating that while he opposes amnesty for telecom firms that spied on Americans, he will support the House compromise legislation. The statement in full: [...]

I’d been avoiding this story, but it’s managed to sneak it’s way out to the world.  So, without further ado, please know that I’m with those who think this is simply tragic.  Stupid. Outlandish. We have two dogs, so I’m prejudiced. Still, what is the line of thinking that allows this..

Who let the dogs out?

The entire blogosphere is learning about Helena-West Helena Mayor James Valley. Today’s report on Wonkette: “Arkansas, our greatest state, has produced our nation’s favorite fat politicians (Mike Huckabee and Bill Clinton) while not really being part of Western Civilization. Proof? Mayor James Valley, “of Helena-West Helena,” just shut down his town’s animal shelter and set all the dogs loose in [..]

From a meandering mind:

We’re all trying to save money.  I’ve stumbled on a couple of well-done internet sites that really do seem to help! First of all, check out www.thegrocerygame.com. Also, try www.couponmom.com. Both work on the same principle – you save all the coupons from the Sunday papers, etc and the sites help you use them when the stores already have the items on sale! Both are handy for stockpiling necessities. There’s a small charge for thegrocerygame site, but couponmom is free. The first is a bit better organized and easier to use, but the latter incorporates more stores.  Try them both. I’ve been doing thegrocerygame for a couple of months and have hit savings as high as 57% on a trip to the local supermarket, shopping only for things I know we’ll use or for things to stockpile (toothpaste, TP, etc). By the way, I get nothing for sending you to either site. Just trying to help.

Keep my friends in Iowa in your thoughts. The flood waters are going down, but things are still a real mess.  The crew at KCRG continues to do a marvelous job and their live coverage is still on the internet.

And, a bit of politics, as usual.

Buried In A Senate Report, New Revelations About Pre-War Deception

A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the “credibility” and “truthfulness” of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration’s claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

We all could use it  Trust me. It’s cute.

Dustbuster

It may not yet, officially, be summer, but it feels like it. Summer-like storms overnight, clouds breaking this morning for sun in the afternoon. We braved the still-threatening rain clouds this morning for the farmers’ market.

I just thought this was a fascinating picture, borrowed from a great blog, linked on the picture. Our markets feature fresh tomatoes, blueberries, peaches, blackberries, lettuce, onions, peppers and various peas and beans. Prices continue to be competitive with the supermarkets, if not better!

Keeping up, meanwhile, with the Eastern Iowa flooding story and the remembrances of NBC’s Tim Russert. It’s a heck of a weekend.

So much for the latest round of airline price hikes. Now, if the gasoline industry would just follow suit..

Major Airlines’ Weekend Fare Increases Rolled Back

A number of major airlines rolled back a weekend fare increase Monday, the first time in more than half a dozen attempts that a widespread price hike failed to take hold across the struggling industry. Carriers declined to say whether the shift signaled concerns about falling customer demand. Still, [...]

Just a wonderfully, well-written, thought piece on what might have been.

Robert F. Kennedy: What if he had lived? —– A Golden Age That Never Was

40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed. As a young student at Columbia University – off for the summer — I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week. The spring of 1968 had been exhilarating and tumultuous. Gene [...]

I’m not sure the speech I watched this morning was much better, but last night’s attempt was a disaster. Really. No way around it. What the heck were they thinking! It was hard to watch (nice ugly green background, folks!), and hard to listen to. All in all, it probably scared off more people than it brought in. The Carpetbagger blog has a great roundup of the speech and reaction to it. Sadly, the whole thing was almost comical.

McCain tries to steal Dems’ thunder, but ends up all wet

John McCain, for all of his flaws and troubles, has assembled a professional team of advisors and consultants. Most of them are high-priced lobbyists, which, while raising ethical questions, but this a crew who knows how to play to win. And I can probably imagine their thinking going into last night. Barack Obama was poised to [...]

You really do. You try to take care of yourself and your family by smearing sunscreen all over your bodies. It blocks the sun’s harmful rays.  Now we’re told that it does something else.

Sun screen lotion threatens coral: study

Sun screen lotions used by beach-going tourists worldwide are a major cause of coral bleaching, according to a new study commissioned by the European Commission. In experiments, the cream-based ultra-violet (UV) filters — used to protect skin from the harmful [...]

It’s been quite the 24 hours around here! Adleigh is now one day old. I think we’re going to like being grandparents, but it still makes me feel old! It’s going to be a challenge for them to raise her in today’s world.  I hate to sound like the old guy who remembers “the good old days”, but things sure were simpler when our kids were growing up.  I never thought I find myself saying that, but it’s true. Welcome to the world, little one!

We’re first-time grandparents!  Our son and his wife brought a beautiful baby girl into the world at 6:25 tonight!  Adleigh Grace weighed in at 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 20 3/4 inches long.  Everybody is doing just fine and the little darling managed to make it through the first several hours with no major crying times! Even while being passed from grandmas to grandpas and from aunts to uncles.  I’m impressed! She’s a trooper! Just like her mom and dad. I’ll let you see her once I get the pics out of the camera.

Don’t look for much here in the next couple of days. Our first grandchild is on the way. We’ll be a bit pre-occupied!

I’ve been saving these links for some time now. It’s a good Saturday Night to let you have them. Both are from BlondeSense, a blog well worth watching.

How did we ever…?

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !! “First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored [...]

Now, Time To Relax

From Father Tyme…In a mellow mood… A few somethings to help the world go away…at least for a little while. Kick out the grand kids; lock the door; light the candles; grab two chilled glasses of wine; turn down the lights; the two of you get comfy on the couch;and pretend it’s long ago [...]

This is one of the strangest stories EVER!

Fauxtography in Texas

Looks like someone got a little … uh … over-zealous with Photoshop in a yearbook for McKinney High School in Dallas: Students’ photos altered in McKinney yearbook. “Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else’s body – or looking nude – in the final product. Yearbook photos for 583 McKinney High School students were altered by a national photography company. The yearbooks were [...]

It’s right around 11:30 here.  Care to be disturbed?  Thank goodness we don’t live in Houston!

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. The hairy, reddish-brown [...]

Number 18.  And, yes, she lives here in Arkansas.

Happy Mother’s Day, Woman Pregnat with 18th Child

It’s a happy Mother’s Day for an Arkansas woman – she’s pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle [...]