Humor, Essays, Editorials, Photo Essays, Rants, Announcements, Alternative Views, More Politics, Poems
Posted Sun, 10/05/2008 - 17:48 by Hal Tenny
Uh hu... I suppose that's true from a rich persons point of view, but if you're on the opposite side of the gutter like I am, you see it differently. I haven't written much of anything lately, let alone a rant. I might just enjoy this. Yes, I think I might... First, the standard disclaimer. I'm sure all rich people are not the same. I simply present these views from my own experience as a construction worker. Granted, at times dry wall hangers and finishers have proven to be quite a disreputable bunch of characters surpassed only perhaps by carnival bums as the scourge of the earth.
Posted Sat, 09/20/2008 - 22:25 by Hal Tenny
New Photo Essay: Landscaping
Here is the long overdue photo update I have been threatening you with the past decade. This is a huge update. Plan on spending some relaxing time here seeing how the backyard has changed over the years. All the Cascade photo essay's show more pictures in detail, and the deck essay as well. This photo essay is more to show you how things have changed and the plantings have matured, as well as additional projects never documented yet such as the wishing well and walking garden. I would love to hear what you all think, good or bad, I can take it. E-mail me at
The Hal. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge!.
Posted Sat, 02/23/2008 - 17:37 by Hal Tenny
What good is a nice new table without a nice new lamp? It's like buying a car with no tires. I started this table about two years ago. There's quite a story behind it if you care to know. I don't have the building process documented but I can tell you the quick version and then you can see that it badly needed a custom table lamp to go with it. And I did document the building of the lamp with photos. So read on if you're interested!
Posted Sat, 02/16/2008 - 07:45 by Hal Tenny
Heres a little something going around on the net. Tewa received this in an email from a cousin. I don't even know if 'The Hollywood Squares' is still on TV or not, but that is where this came from. If you don't get a kick out of this, there's something seriously wrong with you...
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Posted Wed, 01/09/2008 - 11:09 by Tewa
Hey Chris Matthews, Tom Brokaw and yes...even you my darling Keith: SNAP!
Time to wipe the egg off your sorry faces. Time to admit that you are more often concerned with job security than political analysis.
Time to admit that indeed, the world does not revolve around you and your personal pet peeve. Time to remember, as you so often remind the politicians, "these things are recorded". So no matter how many times you show a truncated and biased news clip...someone somewhere has the 'real deal' and thanks to the 'internets' it takes all of two seconds to find.
Posted Tue, 10/02/2007 - 17:18 by Tewa
Here's a little something that's making the rounds in email...
It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 liter of water
each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1
kilo of Escherichia coli (E. Coli) bacteria found in feces. Body
waste. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey,
beer or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification
Posted Sat, 09/08/2007 - 13:30 by Tewa
September 12, 2007
A small independent video production company,
Five Guys With Pretty Good Equipment, has released a report of their analysis of the September 7, 2007 Bin Laden tape and declared it to be a fake.The company’s VP, Bill Smithers says that while he does
not dispute U.S. intelligence reports that confirm the
authenticity of Bin Ladens’ voice, the man seen on the
video tape is definitely not Bid Laden.
"I don’t know how anybody can look at that
tape and not go, like – wow, that is so not Bin Laden.
Posted Tue, 08/28/2007 - 18:05 by Hal Tenny
The project: Planters And Steps
I finally realized it may be several months before I complete the new steps and planters that go to the top of the hill out back. After finishing the rough in of the bridge, half the steps and two new planters, I decided it was time for another photo essay. And besides, our satellite internet is down and this writing will keep me busy for a few days...
Posted Thu, 08/09/2007 - 18:15 by Hal Tenny
The project: I think I'll build a bridge
This could be questionable timing (for this piece) due to the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis, but never-the-less, I am building a bridge.
Posted Wed, 07/25/2007 - 16:25 by Hal Tenny
It's become blatantly obvious that there's not a single individual on the planet that is capable of running the United States of America in an acceptable manner. Yes, I'm talking about the Presidency of the US. Therefore, I feel there is no other choice than to announce my own candidacy just as soon as I find a good place to hide from the paid assassins whom I'm sure will be hired to put an end to my brilliant campaign strategy...
Posted Mon, 05/28/2007 - 14:09 by Tewa
In the rising of the sun and in it's going down,
In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of Winter,
In the opening of buds and in the rebirth of Spring,
We remember them.
In the blueness of the sky and in the warmth of Summer,
In the rustling of the leaves and in the beauty of Autumn,
In the beginning of the year and when it ends,
We remember them.
So as long as we live, they too shall live,
For they are now a part of us,
As we remember them.
Posted Wed, 05/23/2007 - 23:03 by Tewa
Gutless, clueless, spineless, not worth the effort it took to drive to the firehouse in the pouring rain to vote for your SORRY asses: yeah I AM talking to you. A note worth remembering: We "brought you into the political world - we can surely take you out."
Posted Fri, 05/18/2007 - 20:58 by Tewa
Got this from a fellow "Alien" no candy and flowers - no Happy, Happy.
Mothers' Day was originally started after the Civil War, as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who had lost their sons. Here is the original Mothers' Day Proclamation from 1870.
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!
Posted Sat, 11/18/2006 - 20:00 by Hal Tenny
Hope you didn't think this was going to be a science fiction short story. The title might have led you to believe so. What I'm talking about is good old rural America. We get our water directly out of a hole in the ground, from a well. It tastes pretty good, if you like the taste of dirt. We have a Septic tank and leach beds for our sewage and have to have our poop carted away every year or so or it tends to back up into the basement. We even have indoor plumbing, electricity and phones. Yeah, I guess we don't have it all that bad.
Posted Sat, 11/04/2006 - 22:41 by Hal Tenny
Indeed. What a boring world it would be if we were all normal, or if anyone was normal for that matter. I doubt you could find a more subjective word one would use to describe them selves, especially from another's point of view. In other words, I'm not crazy; it's the rest of the world that's screwed up...
Posted Sat, 09/02/2006 - 20:55 by Tewa
Fascism...such a nasty word. Considering the fact that I
and several thousand other Americans have been calling
George W. Bush and his minions fascists for approximately six years now it should have come as no surprise that eventually the tables would turn.
Posted Fri, 08/11/2006 - 15:44 by Tewa
For the past few months I've been doing research for a script I'm working on. While many of you have been immersed in the latest Romance/Thriller/Sci-Fi novel this summer I have been hip deep in CQB, HALO jumps, METT-T and developing a fine appreciation for Tactical Rifles M40 .308 sniper rifle - sweet.
Posted Thu, 05/25/2006 - 19:59 by Hal Tenny
I should really stay away from politics. Politics is an insane subject populated by insanely power hungry individuals supposedly elected by the registered citizens to take care of their wants and needs. Instead, as a rule they simply do the bidding of the people who really put them there, special interest groups and the rich. (Basically, one and the same...) So rather than get into something way beyond my understanding, I only wanted to point out a few glaring inadequacies of the American way.
This is America... in Iraq.
Posted Sat, 05/20/2006 - 09:45 by Hal Tenny
New Photo Essay: Stepping It Up A Notch
The first three sets of photos are before, during and after the building process. Basically, I wanted to have a few steps curving around the back of the round deck, and then make a turn going uphill along the right side of the waterfall.
Posted Sun, 05/14/2006 - 23:42 by Michael J Smith
"We are not only defending our rights, we are defending the rights of many other countries. By maintaining our position, we are defending our independence."
Who said that? Well, if you guessed George W. Bush, I wouldn’t blame you. It sounds positively Rovian, doesn’t it? But if you’ve been keeping up with current events, you might have correctly answered Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Posted Wed, 04/12/2006 - 13:42 by Admin
The Mike passed this along so I'm passing it on to y'all.
I may even e:mail it to my honorable representatives in Washington since they are surely full of it:
Posted Sun, 03/05/2006 - 19:47 by Hal Tenny
On January 14, 2002, President Bush choked on a pretzel and briefly passed out. On May 22, 2004, President Bush fell off his bicycle after running over a gofer hole. On July 6, 2005, President Bush fell off his bicycle after ramming the hell out of a local officer in Scotland. On February 11, 2006, Vice President Cheney shot his friend while hunting illegally in Texas. President Bush can not pronounce the word ''nuclear''. Now tell me the truth, do all you people out there feel comfortable with the fact that those two men are running our country?
Posted Sun, 01/15/2006 - 13:26 by Hal Tenny
When I was a child, I killed my guitar...
Actually, I wasn't a child when I did it. But it was over twenty-five years ago. What can I say? I was stupid. I had damage to my skull, I was... young. That pretty much explains it.
Now I'm better, and to prove it I resurrected my dead Melody Maker. Why not take a look at the before and after images? I'll be glad you did... Resurrection: Gibson Melody Maker
Posted Mon, 10/31/2005 - 05:34 by Tewa
Behold My Friend As You Walk By
As You Are Now So Once Was I
As I Am Now Soon You Must Be
Prepare For Death and Follow Me
This was on a tombstone in a colonial era cemetary in the front yard of the house I grew up in. Yeah - the front yard. It explains a lot about my family I've been told...The following are without a doubt - the best movies to watch on Halloween. Number one on the list is a must see - the title alone should have won an award!
1. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Posted Sat, 10/15/2005 - 12:59 by Hal Tenny
I rarely involve myself in in-depth political discussions. It's not that I'm uninterested in the fact that it seems our country is being run into the ground by less than qualified leadership, or that possibly we're undergoing a quasi revolution directed by misguided holier-than-thou religious zealots on our own soil. Its not because there is such a pandemic of idiocy infecting those who are elected by the people whose job is to care for the common citizen's needs.
Posted Sun, 10/02/2005 - 10:30 by Tewa
I would like to thank the following Democratic Senators.
We now know exactly where they stand and it is far to the right of the Democratic Party and it's philosophy. Please turn in your "Supporter of Freedom and Justice For All" cards and line up on the right.And you might as well change your party affiliation right now and save us the trouble of doing it for you next time you are up for re-election.
Posted Sun, 09/18/2005 - 14:46 by Tewa
Senators are doing the obligatory "tour of devastation" and clucking their collective tongues on cable news. Environmental journalists are filing Freedom of Information requests and screaming that the EPA is withholding information. Mayor Ray Nagin has swallowed the "this is America and all we have to do is get the business district open and everything will be fine" pill that the Bush Administration doles out like candy to anyone desperate or greedy enough to want it.
Posted Thu, 09/08/2005 - 22:19 by Tewa
In August of 2004 President Bush approved federal assistance for Hurricane Charley approximately
one hour after the storm made landfall. National Guard units, teams of rescuers moved into the affected areas with 11 truckloads of water and 14 truckloads of ice within a day.
Supplies and personnel were prepositioned before Charley hit to the tune of 4,000 National Guardsmen.
Posted Sun, 08/14/2005 - 02:23 by Tewa
Great Britain Threatens Extraordinary Rendition To the U.S.
London Times
Another secret Downing Street memo has recently surfaced. In it, Prime Minister Tony Blair is quoted as saying that all detainees should be told that if they won't cooperate with British authorities they will be sent to the United States for questioning.A short paragraph at the very bottom of the memo notes that rendition to the U.S. is actually out of the question since the Bush Administration refuses to give written assurances that the detainees will not be tortured.
Posted Mon, 07/25/2005 - 22:40 by Admin
Here's a big Hurrah and a Whoop, Whoop, Whoop for good measure to our own home town girl, Space Shuttle Discovery Commander Eileen Collins.
Rock And Roll, Girl. Rock And Roll.
