Charles Krauthammer - Obama's Metastatic Gaffe - washingtonpost.com

Charles Krauthammer - Obama's Metastatic Gaffe - washingtonpost.com

 
This was my first sailboat, and below is my last sailboat. { I also had a small catboat for about a year after I thought
I was through sailng}
RHD

 


See below

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A lifetime fo reflections: booze
REFLECTIONS

I was born in 1923, the Volstead act was passed,making the consumption of alcaholic beverages illegal, in 1919. When I was very young, my father bought a small power cruiser, {power boat}. He bought it as did many others, to bring back beer from the Riverside Brewery, which was in Canada just across the river from Detroit. This really shaped a big part of my life. My Dad never became a skilled boat handler, but I did. I accompanied my parents to Georgian Bay, in Canada, several times in my teens, and I was really the boat captain. My Dad joined the Detroit Yacht Club, then the world's biggest yacht club,in 1933. I took sailing lessons there, and it led to a lifelong love of sailng, and racing sailboats. Marge took to it too, and we cruised all over the Great Lakes and Georgian Bay in the first years of our marriage. Then when we moved to florida in 1969, we moved aboard our 41 foot Bounty sail boat, and proceeded to race offshore and in the Bahamas. Even when we got older, the water still dominated our lives as I tought bridge and ran duplicate games aboard cruise ships. Well I got that off my chest, if anybody reads this, I hope they enjoy it
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YesterdaY, May 4, our grandson, Nathan Dollar, graduated from Flagler College
with BA in business! What a day! Long time coming! Deb, Marge, and I are as proudas Peacocks. Below are some of he pictures.
Proud Grandfather, RHD

 
Bill Martin, Deb, Marge,Bill Dollar

 
Bill Dollar, Nathan, Bill Martin, and Me

 
Bill Dollar, Bill Martin, Nathan, Marge, and JMe

 
Bill Dollar, Nathan, Me,Marge

 
Nathan, Marge, Me, Bill Dollar, Bill Martin

 

Here's a picture of Marge and me, Nathan, and his father, Bill Dollar.
Bill is here for Nathan's graduation from college, see above.
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a few political thoughts
Last night I listened to O'Reilly interview Hillary Clinton. I have voted a straight Republican ticket since Tom Dewey. I will vote for John McCain this fall. However,
I thought the interview was very good. It made me less afraid of having Hillary for president. She's obviously very bright,ans well prepared. Doesn't come throgh as far to the left as I expected. I was convinced that Obama would win the nomination, and then the presidency. Because of Wrigth, of course, I no longer think he will win the presidency even if he wins the nomination.
Yesterday, we went down to the capital, and listened to a lot of the debate in the Senate on the bill to force women to have an ultrasound in the first trimester. To me, this seems altogether wrong. Government should stay out of the pro-life debate, and make no mistake, this bill is anti-abortion. I am neither pro life, or pro abortion. But I do believe the government should stay out of it!
Oh well, at 84, I don't have to worry about the long range consequences!
RHD