On June 21st Angela Rasch posted a follow on comment titled " Rocco Mediate... ", this again was a list of line items, ...

Don Rumsfeld
That feeling you get when someone sucks a lemon in front of you.
The smell of a freshly turned compost pile.
Mike Myers promoting a hopeless movie.
Fox news covering the marriages taking place in California.
Tom Brokaw explaining why Scott McClellan had it wrong when McClellan said the press hadn't done its job.
Five extra pounds in an already too small swimsuit
The really graphic stuff CSI does with the victim's anatomy.
The really ironic things the Creator did with my anatomy.
Men of the cloth pulling it over our eyes for fun and profit.
What happens to babies when fathers and people who are elected to help them turn their backs on them.)

the challenge intensified, on the 22nd the following resulted:

Pulling a tale, some what like teeth

The four of us talked as we stood behind the Elkie Brother’s barn. The Elkies have draft animals and the smell of a freshly turned compost pile permeated the air. We all had some home brew in hand and more than a little inside of us so we naturally got into a bitching session. My bitch was the fouled up results of the two wars I had the misfortune to serve in. Both had one common factor, Don Rumsfeld. Just the action of saying the name gives you the grimace, you know the one, the one of sympathy you feel when someone sucks a lemon in front of you. It’s not in your mouth but you can just taste the sour reaction the sight engenders. If I could make a wish to effect the past I would curse him and his fellow advisers to suffer the horrors of an operation without anesthesia, I picture this well, after all I just needed to remember all the really graphic stuff CSI does with the victim's anatomy, or for that matter my short term in the VA hospital back in ‘71.

Now Don has let loose. I shouldn’t have got him started, the entertainment industry and the media in general were his targets of opportunity. According to Don both are to blame for all that ails American society. His rant going strong, he first laid into the news networks who were all trying to put their own spin on every thing political and social. Why not stick with the facts? Only last night he had watched the Fox News Network as they covered the story of Ellen DeGeneres’s wedding. Now Don is as conservative as they come but even he can see the spin that Fox news puts on, covering the marriages taking place in California, does no good when reporting the news Indeed it seems that It works to make a small side issue, into the rallying cry for all that is wrong in the world. No he didn’t stop there, he lashed into television and its reporters for all that has changed since the fifty’s.

Eddy popped his two cents here and started rumbling about a May 29th interview of Tom Brokaw by NBC anchorman Brian Williams. It took five tries before he got out that Tom Brokaw was saying that Scott McClellan had it all wrong. Where McClellan said the press hadn't done its job, Brokaw said that the “president was determined to go to war. It was more theology than it was anything else. That's pretty hard to deal with”. Now I know Eddy has about as much success defending any point of view, as Mike Myers promoting his new but hopeless movie. So I was looking forward to see how he would flail around on this one.

However, about this time we lost track of the subject, Janice came out to call dinner, and warn us that it was almost time for the game. Now normally I wouldn’t pay attention to Janice but she too, had a few to many and demanded that all of us give opinions in regards to her outfit, well to tell the truth I would say that she had five extra pounds in an already too small swimsuit, that bowling balls don’t belong in that position.

Don had no such caution, First he laid into her about the multicolor map he figured that she was wearing as hose than he let loose about the lime green hair. She replied that she wern’t wearing no hose and this was just one of the really ironic things the creator did with my anatomy. About that time Don started wearing both his and her drinks. By now I don’t think Don knew what anatomy was.

As for mentioning the creator, I wish she hadn’t. Dave started to get on his pet peeve about the good reverend of the Church of Enlightened Light. We have all heard his views regarding man of the cloth pulling it over our eyes for his fun and profit. We told him “can it!", the flies are already bad enough”.

I don’t know how we got inside with out anyone coming to blows, but we watched the game, Well the North town team won, as White Sox fans, we still smelled sh...