I can’t believe that John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate!  I have been hearing (and reading) about how UN-qualified she is to be the Vice President!  I know that John McCain is trying to get the voters that wanted Hillary Clinton, but he is NOT getting my vote!  I wanted Hillary Clinton, but SHE is qualified to be President.  It has a lot more to do with qualifications than it does with gender!  What kind of idiots does McCain think we are?  I’m totally insulted!

I was reading an article on ananova.com a story that prisoners in a Bosnian jail were using pigeons to smuggle heroin into jail.  It seems that one of the rehabilitation programs in the jail involves raising pigeons, and someone in the program took it a little bit further than intended.  The “guilty” pigeon has been put behind birdy bars.  I’m surprised that the folks in charge of security didn’t see something like this as a possiblity of happening as a result of raising pigeons!

My sister sent me a link to a story on a news site that she likes to read about a story of some Danish college students who were kicked off of Facebook because they had documented with photographs (posted on the web) themselves cooking and eating a cat.  They claimed that they were doing this to protest the way that people eat animals in general, and that they cat was a feral cat killed by a farmer who was trying to control the number of cats on his land, but their efforts created such a huge outrage that they ended up getting kicked off of Facebook.

I know that there are some cultures that eat cats (and dogs) routinely, but those are two animals that I cannot imagine myself eating on purpose.  If I could arrange my life so that I was a vegetarian I would do so, but my life is a little too complicated for that right now. 

A few days ago I cooked up a bunch of chicken thighs in the oven, using the recipe on the back of a famous pancake/biscuit mix. It comes out tasting great, and it is better for you than deep fat fried. It tastes like fried chicken, but has much less fat in it. And chicken thighs are a good value; you get a lot of meat and very little bone. I like to cook up extra chicken and put the leftovers in the refrigerator and then later on for a lunch (when I’m in a hurry) eat it cold. It reminds me of when I was younger and my folks used to go on “old fashioned Southern picnics” where we would have cold fried chicken, potato salad, cheese and crackers, some grapes, maybe some potato chips and maybe some devilled eggs.
I’m always surprised when I meet people who say they’ve never heard of eating cold fried chicken and think the whole idea is “gross.” I think it is yummy!

It has been a very busy week at work, been putting in a lot of overtime.  So I was just too tired to cook supper tonight.  So we went out to eat dinner at a local all-you-can-eat restaurant so I wouldn’t have to bother with cooking supper or washing dishes.  I like this restaurant a lot - you order your main course of meat (or pasta) and then you help yourself to their buffet style bars full of veggies, salads, fruits, desserts, breads, etc.  The price is reasonable, and the food is always good.  And I get to eat without having to do any of the work!