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8/15/11

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!! ....with my entitlements

Don't like gay marriages? Don't get one.. Don't like cigarettes? Don't smoke them.. Don't like abortions? Don't get one.. Don't like sex? Don't have it.. Don't like drugs? Don't do them.. Don't like porn? Don't watch it.. Don't like alcohol? Don't drink it.. Don't like guns? Don't buy one.. Don't like your rights taken away??? Don't take away someone else's. See, isn't that simple??

NOW !  why can't the conservatives take a lesson from a grumpy old man  ........still with a full head (and back) of hair and a will to  LIVE AND LET LIVE!!!!    And what's this crapola about you saying that you speak for the American people....................you don't speak for me or the other  90%  that didn't vote for you.  Stay out of the business of my district  since you apparently can't even handle the business of your own district to any satisfaction.   Just because you signed some stupid allegiance to some  Grover clown.....don't put that on my grave.........because that's where your driving me.

WOW! !          NOW THAT I have that off my chest, I better go back to taking my nap, so I have enough strength to eat dinner.

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Each year during the last week of May,   I make a trip over to Sweden.   I go over for one SPECIFIC reason.  To meet, 13 men for lunch.  WHA?....   WHY  YOU MAY ASK?   simply because this luncheon with this specific group is so fantastic! !.  Same food to eat..........something called  Stromming  which is herring ......fried.     Two slices of Herring fried with parsley and whatever else in between.  This is served along with .........mashed potatoes.   At first just the thought of eating Fried Herring  put a question mark over this lunch..............but after experiencing the taste...............WOW!,   I love  it.     The best part is ..that it get washed down with nothing else but a potato based schnapps  called...........AQUAVIT.  now the salt of the herring induces  thirst... which induces more drinking.   What a excellent way to spend a lunch.  Since this is a men's only social club I cannot divulge the membership.list......but I guarantee that just from their photo........a lot of Swedes would know who they are...........if only by sight.   This year,   I,,,,,,,,,,,,Vito was treated to something special...........this group held their lunch at one of the members summer home in the Archipelago of Stockholm.  This Archipelago is made up of approximately 34,000 islands, islets and skerries. Some large enough for several homes some as small as to be privately owned with just one home.  Mode of transportation to 99.9% of the Islands is by boat.  SSSSSOOOOO let me take you for a two hour tour.

The summer house of the host....from the dock
3 floors high about 3000sq'
the table setting,  with  REAL cloth napkins ......

deckside from the formal dining room.
passing between two islands with a boat approximately 13' wide
The boat
the lunch
Stromming with Mashed Potatoes
                                        
The Sandholm hotel on the resort Island of Sandhamn

A family owned island

A small privately owned island

Typical little private island

The town on Sandhamn

passing through two islands




Time for a drink........Hi ladies!


Just part of the group


All in all, a beautiful trip and much appreciated .....by this old member.
Adjo, but I will return