There's a new Thai place in town, across the parking lot from Zio's on 81st & Lewis. The wife wanted Thai, and if I didn't see it while cruising around last week we would have gone to Thai Siam instead (I like Thai Siam as well).

We both started by splitting an order of (2) Spring rolls, which had a nice pineapple dipping sauce. For the main course, the wife ordered stir fried rice (she has to go with less than spicy dishes because of her current medical treatment), and it was very good. I ordered my favorite dish, the beef Pa-Nang, which is beef, bell peppers, coconut milk and red curry. I have to say that I havent had Pa-Nang this good in years! I've already spotted some other dishes I want to try in the near future.

The food was presented in a very nice fashion with generous portions, the overall atmosphere of the place was neat, clean & inviting.

The price range of the dishes are consistant with most Thai places, around $10.00 each, some a little higher some a little lower.

We will be going back!

Ive known about this place for years, but only being open on weekdays for the lunch crown made it all but impossible to try it out and even when I had a day off it didnt dross my mind until it was too late... until now. Just recently, the resturaunt was sold to his brother, and the hours have been changed to 11-6 Monday - Saturday. We got to try them out today for lunch, and it was great! Their burgers are in the tradition of Hanks, Hardens and Arnolds with big fresh cooked patties, fresh veggies, and good seasoning.

Its nice to have a choice on the west side now for good burgers, both Arnold's and Linda Mar's are top notch!

If you arent familier where Linda Mar is located, its on the westside just east of West 51st off of Union (1614 W 51st St)

 

No matter how bad it gets, we still have a lot to be thankful for... Through His Grace we are given more than we deserve, and through His Mercy we are protected from what we do deserve.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; - Romans 3:23 (KJV)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 (KJV)

 

 Ah, the end of the football season is upon us once again, and once again after everything is played out we still wont know who the national champion really is. Oh, the BCS will "crown" a winner, mostly based upon human rankings... you know, kinda like figure skating.

I have a solution, and it isnt a playoff system, mostly because the pollsters will have their favorites, and the system will be rigged similar to the way it is now, so we still wont have an "even playing field".

No, the solution is easy, scrap the BCS, and go back to the traditional bowl system we had before the BCS, there will still be arguments, but at least the winner wont be determined by style points.

Liberals try to ignore the fact that they tried to scare us into believing that were about to experience Global cooling back in the 70s and 80s, luckily I have Time Magazine's archive and a Carl Sagan YouTube Video to back it up.

With the recent announcement that hackers broke into the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Unit, possibly showing manipulated data, I was reminded of manipulation of reading of weather stations by placing the sensors too close to Heat emitting sources, like asphalt parking lots and AC exhausts.

We won, you lost, now get a life.
Senator Inhofe to Senator Boxer over the lack of "global warming".

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.
One is by the sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams 

We've all hear about how polls can be manipulated to get the answer the pollster wants to get. Here is a great example from a Zogby International poll I received last night:

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There are an estimated 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. Which of these statements best reflects your opinion as to why that is?

Statement A: Past efforts to enforce immigration laws have been grossly inadequate and the government has never made a real effort to enforce the law.

Statement B: We have made a real effort to enforce our immigration laws, but we have failed because we are not allowing in enough immigrants legally.

__  Statement B
__  Statement A
__  Neither
__  Not sure

 

It's always a good idea to pray for our leaders.
We should use Psalm 109:8 as the model.

Read this and let it sink in...

Most women should wait until age 50 to get mammograms and then have one every two years, a government task force said Monday in a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing recommendation of annual screening starting at 40.

My wife, who is 41, did not do self exams and she has no family history of any kind of cancer. One morning, 4 months before her next mamogram, she knew something was wrong. "Luckily" the tumor had grown into a nerve. If it didn't and the Gov't has its way it may have been too late.

This is gov't rationing, this is their way of cutting out costs, and if you end up with stage 3 or gretaer cancer.

"Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking painkillers." - Obama June 24th 2009

CNN reporter detained in Shanghai over Obama-Mao T-shirt

"Emily Chan, a Beijing-based correspondent for the US television network, said in a blog post on CNN.com that she hunted down the shirt after hearing they had been banned amid fears they "may offend the American president.""

Which part of the shirt did the Chinese think would offend Obama, the  picture of Obama as Mao, of which people in Obama's inner circle idolize, of the saying in Chinese under the image that says "Serve the People"?

A great example of teaching priorities being out of whack.

KOTV has a story about Tulsa schools trying to save the lost art of cursive writing. Why? Cursive writing is a "lost art" because it is obsolete. Back before the invention of the ballpoint pen there were quill or dip pens that relied on a separate ink well and fountain pens that had a reservoir of ink that was delivered to the paper through the nib, both of which were prone to leaking and dripping. The less the pen was raised off the paper, the less chance of ink dripping from the tip.

  When was the last time you had to worry about that? Don't we have more pressing things to be teaching our children (like 90% of City University of NY freshmen can’t do basic algebra)

 

"Public education isn't working for way too many kids" - Kathy Taylor

Lets call this failure we like to call "public" education what it really is... Government Run Education.

With as much money as we throw at the school system, 9100 per student per year, we should have the brightest students in the world, but we don’t.

We have too much administrative bloat, we have unions that protect bad teachers, we have teachers indoctrinating instead of educating,  and we have parents that don’t give a crap because they have either been sucked up by the government nanny state, or they are too self absorbed to care that their angels are miserable failures.

I know not all parents/teachers/principles/schools are this way, I know quite a few, but they still have to work within the bounds of the bureaucracy laid out by the local, state and federal entities which created this mess in the first place.

 

"By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, the social assistance state leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients."

- Pope John Paul II

This quote made me think of something a friend of mine had to deal with Saturday night.

He went to help a single mother who couldn't get ahold of anyone all day long at the Tulsa Housing Authority's emergency number. She had a leak at her hot water tank and sewage coming out of her toilet, and her's was the last apartment in the row, so anytime anyone else flushed...

"Whatever happens in NY-23, it has very little to do with the Democratic party. After all, that district has gone Republican since the Civil War." - unknown poster on message board pushing the democrat talking points

Oh really? There was a civil war in 1993 I must have missed it

1867 - Dennis McCarthy Republican
1871 - R. Holland Duell Republican
1873 - William E. Lansing Republican
1875 - Scott Lord Democrat
1877 - William J. Bacon Republican
1879 - Cyrus D. Prescott Republican
1883 - John T. Spriggs Democrat
1887 - James S. Sherman Rep
1891 - Henry W. Bentley Democrat
1893 - John M. Wever Republican
1895 - Wallace T. Foote, Jr. Republican
1899 - Louis W. Emerson Republican
1903 - George N. Southwick Republican
1911 - Henry S. De Forest Republican
1913 - Joseph A. Goulden Democrat
1915 - William S. Bennet Republican
1917 - Daniel C. Oliver Democrat
1919 - Richard F. McKiniry Democrat
1921 - Albert B. Rossdale Republican
1923 - Frank A. Oliver Democrat
1935 - Charles A. Buckley Democrat
1945 - Walter A. Lynch Democrat
1951 - Sidney A. Fine Democrat
1953 - Isidore Dollinger Democrat
1960 - Jacob H. Gilbert Democrat
1963 - Charles A. Buckley Democrat
1965 - Jonathan B. Bingham Democrat
1973 - Peter A. Peyser Republican
1977 - Bruce F. Caputo Republican
1979 - Peter A. Peyser Democrat
1983 - Samuel S. Stratton Democrat
1989 - Michael R. McNulty Democrat
1993 - Sherwood Boehlert Republican
2003 - John M. McHugh Republican

"Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time" - Harry S Truman

This works for the last two elections we've had as well McCain vs. Obama, and Bartlett vs. Adelson.

I think this is an equally valid quote "Why vote for Shampoo when you can get the real thing"

From the Open Letter from Tulsa Councilors Bynum and Westcott concerning Charter Amendment No 3

"The most recent example of this problem was the Great Plains lawsuit settlement, which totalled $7.1 million.   The City Council had no authority to approve or reject that settlement.  The only thing that we could do was verify that there was sufficient money in the Sinking Fund to pay the settlement."

Dewey Bartlett did have the authority to approve or reject it, and he voted to Approve. (watch the vote here)

So vote YES on the Charter Amendment 3 and NO on Dewey Bartlett Jr. for mayor.

"Imagine just a few years ago, had somebody walked around with images of Hitler." - Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary

You mean like this?

Yeah, we've NEVER seen anything like that before

Another quote from V

"The visitors didnt just get here, they have been here for years"

If it is discovered that Major Malik Nadal Hasan, the person who killed the brave American soldiers at Fort Hood, is part of an Islamic terrorist cell, I wonder just how far the media will go to play it down.

 

Apparently this script was written before Obama took office, and there has already been a shakeup on the set (production was shut down for two weeks to "retool") maybe Obama didnt like something painting him in a negative light...

Here are some quotes from the show that really home for me:

"We're all so quick to jump on the bandwagon, then ride on the bandwagon it sounds like fun, but before we get on, let us at least make sure it is sturdy and sound. Let us at least examine it, to really make sure it is something we want to climb aboard. No one is saying don"t trust the visitors, don't they need to earn our trust? Its something we all need to think about."
- Father Jack Landry to church congregation.

"It bothers me that they showed up right when we need them the most. The worlds in bad shape father, who wouldn't welcome a savior right now"
- Father Jack Landry to Father Travis

"Just be sure not to ask anything that would paint us in a negative light. Don"t ask any questions that would portray us negatively, ask once like you did when we first met." - Anna to reporter, Chad Decker"

"Comprising ones principles for the greater good is not a shameful act, it's a noble one." 
- Marcus to reporter, Chad Decker

"By the time people figure this out, it will be too late. They"ll take over unless we can stop them"
- Resistance leader (Georgie Sutton?)

"They have big head start, and arming themselves with the most powerful weapon out there... Devotion."
- Erica Evans

On ABC's "This Week" Sr. White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said that "The leadership of the U.S. Republican Party is 'becoming more extreme' and marginalized" in reference to NY23's race between liberal "republican" Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.

Valerie is right to a certain extent, but not in the way she thinks. Its the Leadership of the Republican party that put liberal Scozzafava in the race, it was the Leadership of the Republican party that put party in front of principles, and as we see Hoffman's numbers rise, we see that it was the Leadership of the Republican party that miscalculated what NE NYers really want.

Now the "rino" Scozzafava has endorsed the Democrat in the party (sound familiar?) and as usual, there will be no outcry from the Leaders of the Republican Party.

Yes Valerie, the leadership of the U.S. Republican Party is becoming more extreme and marginalized... as they try to make the Republican party become more like Democrats.