ARE THERE ANY OTHER PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE AS SICK OF AMERICAN IDOL AS I AM (SORRY FOX LOVE YOU OTHERWISE)EVERY SEASON IS AS BORING AS THE PREVIOUS ONE, YET THEY KEEP ON REPEATING IT EVERY YEAR. PLEASE PLEASE LETS HAVE SOMETHING ENTERTAINING TO WATCH

I've been trying for years to work out the logistics of a story on Texas Buffalo Soldiers -- the freed slaves who enlisted in the U.S. Army after the Civil War and helped win the West.  Most of their events are on weekends when I'm unable to get time or a photographer.  But, Wednesday it all came together at Lake Arrowhead State Park near Wichita Falls, where the park staff puts on an annual living history event.  Photographer Rick Smith and I shot the fixin's for a Lone Star Adventure that will air two Sundays from now in the 9pm news.

  Rosieleetta Reed Portraying Buffalo Soldier

In the process of shooting the story we got a chance to meet a remarkable woman named Rosieleetta Reed.  She's been a student of Buffalo Soldiers since she was a school girl.  Lee (as she's known to friends and family) is an operating room nurse from Venus, Texas  who volunteers with Texas Buffalo Soldiers and portrays the only known female Buffalo Soldier - Cathy Williams.  Williams was a freed slave who'd worked as a cook for the Union Army and after the war ended posed as a man, changed her name to William Cathey and served for two years along side the men.  Lee has done a lot of research on Cathy Williams (she has copies of her military records and a drawing made by a newspaper man in the 1880s) and loves to share the fascinating story with others.

 Luis Padilla and Selton Williams

The Texas Buffalo Soldiers program is run by a handfull of state employees with Texas Parks & Wildlife but it's the 200+ volunteers who really bring the history to life and they are always looking for more people to get involved..  Here's a link if you are interested: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/learning/community_outreac
h_programs/buffalo_soldiers/

I wanted to share one other picture with you that Rick took with his still camera -- a couple of black-tailed prairie dogs we encountered in the park.  Lake Arrowhead is just south of Wichita Falls.  We're told it's an excellent fishing lake.  And, it has one of the furthest east prairie dog towns in the US.

Lynn Salmon runs the place and we found him to be a great host.  He tells us the crappie are biting and a 66 pound blue catfish was recently hauled out -- a new lake record.  Fishermen may want to put this Lake Arrowhead on the list.

Rich

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This is great! Being of a feline persuasion this is overdue! Cats are a breed apart [no pun intended] and with their complex personalities [more so than dogs - and don't say it, i have a dog as well] it bodes well to match by personality rather than what they are looks wise. All cats are cute as kittens - but sometimes what they grow into isn't as cutesy. My two are complete opposites: Adso is a thrill killer and not a 'feely' cat unless he thinks you deserve his love and divine attention [usually when he wants bonkies]. But then he lived the first months of his life fending for himself in the parking garage at work before I spent  those same months taming him and bringing him home. He tolerates Reno [the dog] but there is no love lost. But he watches out over Adair when they go outside - so Big bro when it comes to her. Adair is a total love machine and mischevious. I get in bed she will come running in and cuddle on my shoulder or neck, and drool [ew]. But she will even cuddle with Reno, within reason. She idolizes Adso and knows she is not allowed out unless he goes too. She will try to snag you going down the stairs thru the banister and has NO problems playing 'trip the two-legs' down the stairs at 4am before you have coffee.

So your cats - how are they personality wise?

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This song is by Everlast and is written in the perspective of a soldier in Iraq.  It tells of the soldier who does what he's there to do but is unsure of the rightness of the cause. 

God bless all our soldiers...keep them safe.

This crap isnt going to end till August...

BLEEP!!!

-POV

The next big polo event in Dallas area, after Polo on the lawn, is the governors Cup. Long played in houston, it was awarded to Stonebriar Polo club in oak Point Texas this year! At this years finals on June 7th the Ladies Polo Auxilairy will be hosting a fundraiser fro Polo Training Foundation. www.polotrainingfoundation.org for info on the great things they do. $75 payable to PTF mailed to LPA 25 Highland Park village suite 100-237 Dallas TX 75205 gets you in a field side tent for the polo match with dinner, drinks by 10 Cane Rum and Barefoot wines, an exclusive git bag and live music by Yancey Stevens and the City Slickers. not a bad deal! The weather is fine, come and join us!

Gates open at 5:00.

email dena@henrysmiller.com for questions go to www.oakpointpolo.com for directions to Stonebriar Polo Club.

Without the VIP treatment cost is $20 per car-tailgate,byob and picnic!

Please buy your ticket today to attend the 30-year reunion.

Reunion to be held on June 14, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. to 12 midnight at the Fort Worth Convention Center. 

Go to: http://www.trinityclassof78reunion.com for party details and to purchase your ticket.

Linda Waddle Branton

BERNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Swiss government has agreed to ease restrictions on the importation of potatoes following fears that Euro 2008 football fans could face a shortage of French fries next month.

A spokesman for the country's department of agriculture told national radio on Wednesday that the government would allow an additional 5,000 tonnes of potatoes to be brought in.

The decision follows a request by Swiss potato industry association Swisspatat who warned that supplies were already running low in the buildup to the June tournament.

The association has estimated that 3,000 additional tonnes will be needed to make chips for foreign supporters, with the remaining 2,000 used for other forms of potato.

Switzerland has already been fretting over dwindling supplies of its beloved 'cervelat' sausage following a European Union ban on the Brazilian cows' intestines traditionally used to encase the meat.

Economics minister Doris Leuthard, who is also responsible for agriculture, told the national parliament in March there were enough cervelats in reserve to last at least through Euro 2008.

The tournament runs from June 7 to 29 and will be co-hosted by Switzerland and neighbouring Austria.

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Whew! Glad they got that settled! Wouldn't be football without chips and sausage! So happy they have cervelats in reserve! But this puzzles me: '"with the remaining 2,000 used for other forms of potato'" So like what other forms of potato? Does potato have other forms other than a tuber? Like maybe star form? Or perhaps little cute animal form? Ah..I love it when things are lost in translation. 'I'd like potato please' 'What form?' 'Ummmm Liger please!'

Tsunamis killing thousands. Earthquakes killing thousands. Wars killing thousands. Millions homeless without skill, hope or chances. Millions infected with thousands of incurable, inoperable, fatal diseases. Murder. Rape. Robbery.

...And I'm supposed to put my faith in someone millions of people put their faith in to heal everything?

Are you BLEEP serious?

Or do you want me to believe that big bad Satan makes these things so all the goofy Christians have something to pray for in hopes the fallible God will clean up?

Why fight a war over such a holy being? Why break the very rules set forth by your loving God to prove a point? Shouldn't "God" be equally good to everyone? Isn't that enough?

Isn't every person inherently good and get an entry to Heaven without having to shell out hundreds of dollars to some spineless preacher?

Why thank "God" for everything great that happens but never mention his name when something bad happens?

Why preach your faith to me just to shoot me down when I try to counter your pious bull BLEEP with logic? Can't handle another side to a story?

Why use subtle scare tactics and nuances to get me to come to your church and give in to "God?" Shouldn't I be given a chance to make a decision for myself without being goaded into it?

Well, that would be true if I were an ignorant halfwit who believed any numbnut with a microphone and a constituency of fellow numbnuts who back his every word.

Religion gives nothing but false hope. It's not God that influences ypur good fortune, it's YOUR OWN WILLPOWER. If you have the ambition to aspire to be something bigger than the failure you potentially are, you can be whatever the hell you want. "God" didn't do it, YOU did. Give yourself some BLEEP credit.

Christians act like "God" influences everything they worked their asses off for. "First I want to thank God for all the yadda yadda bs blow it out your ass..." Maybe you actually did YOURSELF some good and worked toward a higher status.

Religion was based on fear. Fear in which if you didn't give gifts and money to the church, you were going to Hell. Luther came in and changed all that, but sadly it still exists. Fear tactics are used on impressionable young minds. Subtle platitudes are shoved down their throats starting at birth. Impressionable young minds are contorted and influenced every day until they believe exactly what the parent thinks and by the time they reach reasoning age it's all over.

"Ask yourself, would God find this appropriate?"So I should live in fear questioning whether each and every decision I make will please "God" or not? The notion that one slip up could equal my demise? But don't worry, "God" will orgive all my sins, they were paid for when he was being etched onto the symbolic planks of wood and left to die. Magically, all my "sins" are paid for. Are McVeigh's sins paid for? The Unabomber? Malvo? Hussein? Gacy? Oswald?

If all my sins are paid for, then what determines my entrance at the Pearly Gates? What should I do now in life to please this almighty ruler?

Nothing.

At all.

Because it DOESN'T EXIST.

As a freethinking questioning member of this failing society of nimrods and blind followers, I will never cease to ask why. Not just religion, everything. It's how I learn. And if I can't rely on the retards to answer me, I'll seek my knowledge elsewhere. The reason more and more people are asking less and less is because the number of intelligent people who can give an objective no BS answer are dwindling ever faster, so it seems.

It's amazing how many people my age, just by observation at school, are uninformed, unenlightened mental defectives. We have so much going on in this world and yet the only thing on the majority of their minds is MySpace and the newest reality show.

If straying off the path of soul dead consumerist media ass kissers is uncool and makes me look like a square, so be it. I'll be seeking a conversation while you sit there and blend into the endless crowd of careless robotic imbeciles.

Am I a Rhodes Scholar? Hell no. But I do choose to seek answers and further the questioning of authority, which is what this generation needs to teach to the next generation. Sadly I don't see that happening.

Drift away, fade away.

Come out and show your support @ the First Annual ...H.K. &Reginald Coffey Feed the Needy Foundation's Walk-A-Thon benefiting Lung/Throat Cancer Patients and Parkinson's survivors.

                                                   
    Date: June 14,2008

                                                   
    Time: 9:00a- 12:30p

                                                   
     Place: Bayland Community Center

                                                   
      6400 Bissonnet

                                                   
      Houston, Tx 77074

Please come join us for worthy cause. To sign up to walk to help make difference,please either call (832)752-1308 or e-mail us @deltresscoffey_3hotmail.com no later than June 6,08

Thanks, In Advance Deltress Coffey

Do any one on fox wach house of pain of tbs at 8:@@ its so good it talks about a lot of stuff and it helps family.