Wildlife: Canada Geese are bedding down on our lake at night -- they don't call them "Honkers" for nothing.

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Weather: Blue skies, sunshine -- canoe rides on the lake!

Media Watch: TV or not TV -- Dems and RepubliCONS are yelling at each other -- turn that crap OFF! Hmmm -- History Detectives on PBS -- OK for an hour's watching.
History Detectives . Home | PBS
I'm going to read some more! The shadows of the powerful people from Oriana Falacci's Interviews With History are still haunting our world.
Sonia Gandhi, Indira's Italian-born daughter-in-law, is the head of the Congress Party of India. The murders of the blood relatives of Nehru's family have put her in charge of their legacy, until her own children can grow to maturity. She's been a canny politician -- Congress unseated the ruthless BJP, and she declined the honor of Prime Minister in order to do a better job for her adopted country.
Sonia Gandhi Indian National Congress Party Chairman
King Hussein of Jordan passed away of natural causes, despite the whole damn Middle East seemingly trying to aasassinate him. His son Abdullah II, and American-born Queen Noor seem to have started off well, as far as public relations go.
King Abdullah 2
The Palestinian state which was forcibly split off from Egypt and his father's kingdom has yet to be fully born, but is mostly Israel's problem now, since they first did the splitting. Yasser Arafat is still the same dishonest double-dealing martinet he was then. (The equally-dishonest double-dealing Likud criminals who run Israel today were not in power when this book was published in 1976.)
Welcome to Palestine - Land, People, News, Business, History and Culture (don't expect objective reporting about this subject on any web site -- the situation is just plain UGLY)
Henry Kissinger is alive, well, and still employed by the powerful as a professional liar. If Pinochet is really brought to justice in Chile, maybe Kissinger's part in the junta's perfidies will officially come to light. BBC NEWS | In Depth | Newsmakers | Henry Kissinger: Haunted by his past
General Giap is still alive at 92! COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-1997 VO NGUYEN GIAP