Have a Good Read: Swine Not

This is one of the most pleasant reads I have had in sometime.

Things like pigs in dog costumes, mad chefs, soccer fans and the milieux of New York make this volume a good time.

Monday's Five

1. Special Ops WX guys

2. case for cabby

3. Residence established in Spring Lake NC

4. Ozone hole info

5. Half Broke Horses

Have a Good Read: Sweepers

First book by this North Carolina author and Navy vet that I have read.

In the thriller genre. A pretty intriguing villan with maybe a few too many side stories. My interest in the book and its quality was up and down.

Overall about a 6/10. Good enough though that I will try by this author.

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"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."

Spanish proverb

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Jerry Seinfeld: "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."

2 sets of Observations

1. Some opponents of health care worry that reform and change of the system will increase the deficit.

2. Some worry about 'death panels', end of life counseling.

3. They further worry about rationing of care.

4. There absolutist view that everyone should get all health care at any cost despite their wishes sure runs smack up against being worried about spening.

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A. People go to health care town halls and shout, scream, disrupt and carry on.

B. They are compared to war protestors.

C. War protestors want to stop war and end killing. Do those protesting health care reform achieve the same or do they cost lives?

Friday Five

1. Danny weakens

2. Vick plays

3. Walking in circles

4. Return of Robertson

5. Evolution=crawling out of primordial ooze. Celebrity news is the story of crawling back in. Fayetteville Observer

Have a Good Read: The Jedburghs

Picked this one up at the Airborne Musuem. Subject is three man multi national special operations teams of World War II.

Famous Jebburghs included William Colby and Stewart Alsop

An interesting subject but an average book. The material is too repitisous. Still it gives an important piece of the ever interesting Special Forces story.

Thursday Interesting Items

1. "Make awkward sexual advances not war."

2. Mandatory Pro bono?

3. MMQ book

4. 'SC Practice Report

5. No chopper for thumb man

Wednesday 5 Interesting Things

1. Last Kennedy brother passses

2. Dungy movie

3. George was a short pyknic bald man. OK Seinfeld fans what does pyknic mean?

4. What to know

5. Spec. forces medic dies

5 Things for Tuesday

1. Vegas view

2. Multitaskers fail

3. O Line Chosen

4. Sign at a Game: Hide your beagle Vicks an Eagle.

5. Social Workers & Sailing

Five Things for Monday

1. Positive ID of dead model made using the serial numbers on her breast implants. Wow.

2. Disney and Southwest team up

3. Favre reality

4.Party not president

5. Drought in NC

Have a Good Read: My War

The first time I have read a book by an Iraqi war soldier. A balanced account of his time in Iraq. He puts combat stories, army life and his own life story together without a lot of wighning or commentary.

As a writer he's not as polished as I'd prefer. His reliance on the word 'like' gets a little annoying.

Still fine content in a little lesser of a package.

Have a Good Read: The Power of Less

Ran across this while packing to move from Michigan to North Carolina. The message is identify the essential and eliminate the rest. Quite a bit of that during our move!

Lots of good practical advice on subjects ranging from email to exercise to goals.

This will stay on the shelf for future use.

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Insurgents, though, operate in real time.

Malcom Gladwell

Let's See more of this!

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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Christopher Hitchens

Friday Five

1. A Michael Vick pet jersy could be yours!

2. North Carolina historical boat is the Shad boat

3. Surfs up, thanks Bill

4. When West is East

5. Soul of a Dog

Have a Good Read: Soul of a dog

Not the best of Katz's animal books. He struggles between story telling, pyschology and religion.

The book does get bettter after Chapter 10 as his musings on the meanings and capabilities of animals hit home.

He says is trying fiction now and I look forward to those efforts.

20 August 5 Interesting Things

1. Worth pointing out Favre INTs ended Jets season last year and Packs' year before. While saluting him, should be point. Adam Schefter

2. What is that?

3. NC Climate Divisions

4. Isotherms show equal temperature.

5. To be rather than to seem North Carolina motto is from Cicero

Tuesday 5 Things

1. An isotach indicates equal wind speed

2. Helicon has a long coliled tube and is in the tuba family.

3. Welcome Mr. Huff

4. Harrell done for?

5. North Carolina Dog is the Plott Hound

8.17/09 5 Things

1. Average spider eats 2,000 insects per year.

2. Flynn looking like backup qb

3. Hurricane bill

4. Hidden Europe

5. Shakespeare changes

5 Things Wednesday

1. A body found in a suitcase begins a news story

2. Bill is cat 4

3. An isobar indicates equal pressure

4. Huff has 5 LOB in win

5. Dithering dickhead

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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together." Josh Billings

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"Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow."

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Friday Five

1. Intriguing Moth Video

2. Mantle's Widow

3. Pat Fitzgerald Northwestern coach was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame this year.

4. Euthanasia etymology

5. Verlanders Velocity

Thursday 5

1. Omit needless.....

2. Shaun Draughn

3. Cowell makes $ 30 mill Seacrest just $ 10

4. Toll Roads come to NC

5. Health care brothers

5 Interesting Things 8.12.09

1. Via Live Wire: Alaska bigger than all but 18 countries.

2. Porecello for Pope!

3. New College Head coaches include: Rich Ellerson, Dan Mullen and Danny Hope

4. Pre Season Week 1 Dope Sheet

5. Titans-Bills on NBC Sun nite was #1 sports event, 10th most-watched show of ALL programming

5 Interesting Things Tuesday

1. We hit 100 yesterday.

2. Lang might do anything

3. It's BOR 90

4. Another way of being commitment phobic?

5. Remember when it rains it drains!

Have a Good Read: The Case of the Missing Books

A funny damn book! Bumbling big city librarian heads north and after incompetently bumbling comes out a hero. This eries goes on the pick it up when I see it list.

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Have a Good Read is written By Isaac Stephenson reader of over 100 books per year.

5 Interesting Things North Carolina Edition # 1

1. We missed a big one

2. I 77 in West Virginia is a fun, curvy, challenging road with little police presence.

3. Heat advisory welcomes us

4. WW II wreck search

5. Ohio is bigger than they say it is!

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"I suddenly realized we were all crazy and had nothingto work for except the
next meal & the next good sleep" Jack Kerouac

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Yale professor Richard Gilman: "Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy -- a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations."

Have a Good Read: Devils Advocate

Found out about this while at camp picked it up at Aurora Books in Menominee MI. A well plotted story about trying to prove an English WW II deserter is a saint. Characters include a dying priest, a disillioned doctor, a manipulative painter and a progressive bishop. Worth seeking it out!

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Have a Good Read is written By Isaac Stephensonreader of over 100 books per year.

Friday Five

1. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on the social network than non-mobile users

2. Can 12 crack the 8?

3. Ben Armer, Western Michigan, Sophomore Punter is on the Ray Guy Award Watch list

4. Monday I'll be typing at you from North Carolina....will it crack 100 degrees?

A. Check here

B. Full hike of the smokies

5. Packers: Former NFL Kick returner Chad Morton is serving as the coaching administration assistant.

A. Packer Punter Durant Brooks was the 2007 Ray Guy Award Winner

5 Interesting Things Thursday

1. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

2. Packers: 1996 was the last draft when the Packers made no trades.

3. Malnutrition kills more people each year than AIDS, HIV, malaria and TB combined

4. BN Ebook review

5. NC WX

Wednesday 5 Interesting Things

1. More than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day

2. Prior to OL T.J. Lang in this years draft the last Packers draft pick from Eastern Michigan was Bob Lints a guard in the 14th rd. of the 1970 draft.

3. Wrote something like "In the midst of many things not quite finished with any of them" Jennifer said isn't that what life is all about?

4. NC State QB Russell Wilson is on the watch list for the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award.

5. Napping survey

5 Interesting Things Tuesday

1. World Breast Feeding Week

2. Random College Football Fact: Muskegon Native Ashton Leggett is Michigan State's Projected starting Running Back.

3. New Pynchon

4. Packers: Clay Matthews Jr. is wearing # 52 which was Center Frank Winters #. It was also worn by George Cumby also a Lb.

5. Clete Thomas walk off...didn't see that coming!

Have a Good Read: Getting Stoned With Savages

A humorous look at life in most un USA like Islands. Good stuff about kava, cannabalism and fijian politics. Came acrros this while following Roz Savave's Pacific row. This is the middle of author Troost's three books.

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Have a Good Read is written By Isaac Stephensonreader of over 100 books per year and operator ofBookScoutLookOut Purveyor of Interesting Things to Read.

Monday 5 Interesting Things

1. Tigers have scored a single run six times since the All Star break!

2. Sharks: So – we kill an estimated 100 million of them each year. They kill 10 of

us.

3. Class reunions are about the past and I'm a future guy.

4. The Packers retired #3 in honor of Tony Canadeo who had the teams first 1,000 yard rushing season.

5. Random College Football fact: Kansas returns just 2 starting offensive lineman.

5 Interesting Things 8 1 09

1. Living and dying in 3/4 time.

2. Packers: Matthews in Raji not.

3. Decipher Glasgow

4. 800 miles under sail!

5. 900 miles under sail!!