HOMEGalleriesRecipesNewsBirthdaysCalendarContact Us

__________________________Wednesday ________________________

 
U.S.A.                                                                 http://bodensonline.com                                                               May 20, 2008

Summer Editions

See What Happens

When You Hang Out With Your Sister-in-law

Molly

Letter's to the Editor

Summer Editions

by

Scott Boden

_______________________________________________________

During the camping season, otherwise now known as the Summer Editions, Bodensonline will only publish new editions on Wednesdays when possible. What that will mean is the editions may be larger, but less frequent.

Publishing takes some time and I just don't have as much of that as I used too, now that Kelly makes me go camping all the time.

And because of Uncle Dave I will have way less time on my hands too. This is all about a boat he bought and then didn't want because he bought a different larger boat, so I got his first one.

Now, with that said, I will be fishing when I am not camping with Kelly. Of course I will be fishing when I am camping too! So Poppy better get his fishing gear ready, cause I am sure it will stop raining someday soon and warm up a little!

So.....there won't be much time left during the summer to mow the yard, work on the house, oh yea, I will have to handle my business affairs during this stressful camping fishing thing plus I have to golf and on top of that I will have to get some naps in so I can keep this life style up. It will be like burning the candle at both ends until it gets so damn cold we can't keep running water in the camper and have to call the season to an end, which will be the sad day of the year!

However, we are already making some winter camping plans so we do not have to go cold turkey at the end of November when we really have to mostly stop camping. At that point, we will go through Dec, Jan Feb and finally March before the new season starts with only

a handful of camping dates planned through all those long months.

Our online paper is important and I apologize for not keeping it up steady. I know many of you have sent things in to me and are probably wondering what the hell is going on, and why I haven't published your stuff. So now you know, that if it is possible to camp or fish or both, that is where I can be reached or found.

We are working on a wireless anywhere card so we can take our online work with us. Robyn and I both will use it for our jobs and our website work. So maybe if we get the bugs worked out it will make life easier for all of us. We installed the card on both our laptops, but for some reason the new software and Verizon wireless card will not let us use the internet, but we are online!?!? So we need an I T person to set it up so I can use the card and the wireless at home without screwing it all up. It is one of those "I'll be damned if I know what it wants" kind of thing!

If anyone wants to learn how to publish an edition, I will be happy to come over and teach you and then others besides Bob and myself can work on our site and we could even make it better!

So to find me in person this camping/fishing season, call my Mom as she usually knows where we are!

Everyone have a great summer!!

  Scott Boden

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

================================================================

My Artical gets

Yanked!!!

(Ken Gets a New One)

by

Scott Boden

Replaced with one from Jill

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jill Has Something to Say!

by Jill Boden

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Everyone who knows me could probably guess that I am a person who takes most things in stride, and doesn't get upset about too many things.  But people also know that when I reach my limit, I blow.  I blew this week.  Let me tell you why.

As everyone in the world now knows, my husband Ken had surgery two weeks ago.  He was very embarrassed about the surgery, and didn't want anyone to know.  He didn't want people to make fun of him, since the surgery was going to occur in a very delicate part of the body.  I begged him for a week and a half to at least tell his family, since he was going to be put to sleep for the surgery.  I begged him daily, but he said no because he didn't want to be made fun of.  Reluctantly he did tell a few people that he was going to
have the surgery, much to my relief. 

And as the whole world knows now, his brother Scott published an article in this newspaper making fun of Ken.  Our worst fears came true, everyone now knows what he had surgery on and were making fun of him.  Ken is angry and humiliated.  I am also angry and embarrassed for Ken. 

Now I'm sure you're thinking, what is the big deal?  The big deal is that everyone in the world knows what Ken had surgery on.  If just people in the family knew, or close friends, Ken and I would not care a bit.  We would even be able to laugh along with them.  But the point is that everyone in the world knows (even some of his business contacts) and we didn't want this to happen.  I just think that more thought and sensitivity needs to go into what is published.  I also ask that the article that was published be
removed from the archives. 

Ok, I'm done now.  Thanks for the opportunity to express my opinion.
 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

From the Editor

My story was for laughs only and I did tell Ken about it. I asked him if it was funny and he said "It is funny" and laughed with me!

So I published it!  Sorry Jill if I upset you!  ~Scott

__________________________________________

BLOND JOKE

by Marie Boden

A Blonde goes over to her friend's house wearing a T.G.I.F. Tee-shirt. "Why are you wearing a 'Thank God It's Friday tee-shirt on Monday'?"   "Oh crap!" the blonde says. "I didn't realize it was a  Religious T-shirt. I thought it meant Tits-Go-In-Front."

_________________________________________________

This is really politics at it's best!!!!

This should go down as a classic......  

My Friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you will join me as we try to change it."

               Barack Hussein Obama

See What Happens

When You Hang Out With Your Sister-in-law

by Robyn Boden

))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

Kelly loves my dog, Jack. I know, who doesn’t? He is the sweetest, most obedient dog. Kelly has been spending a lot of time with Jack lately. We have been camping every weekend. We are campers just like the mailmen. Neither rain, nor snow, nor monsoons shall keep us from our appointed task…camping. So Kelly has begun to bond with Jack. She has seen how much fun being a dog owner really is. So, Kelly decided she wanted a dog.

 

It just so happens that I know someone whose dog recently had a litter of ten. She had two left as of last Friday. I was being a good friend and put a bug in Kelly’s ear day after day after day. “Puppy, Bow Wow”, “Mommy” day after day after day. Scott helped too. She never stood a chance with us double teaming her. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that the power of suggestion doesn’t work. I have proof and her name is Molly.

Last Saturday, Kelly snuck down to Marion to pick up her new dog. Ryan was out of town so it was the perfect time to pull such a stunt. Kelly, Abby and I went to pick up the puppy. You should have been there. The three of us are approaching the porch when the front door opens and about a hundred dogs came flying at us. Abby squealed, Kelly jumped and I thought “Oh no she’ll never want the dog now!”

 

I needn’t have worried though; one look at that sweet little face and Abby was hooked. Kelly wasn’t far behind. The deal was sealed when Kelly picked her up and she cuddled against her neck. I would have hard time resisting too, if I were Kelly. But I am made of sterner stuff. It takes more than a sweet little face to make me melt!

 

Yep, I don’t fall for the sweet little faces but I sure fall for the PLOY!!! You know the PLOY. It is what ever mother dog teaches her young so that they can find a good home. Every mother dog teaches her pups to sniff out the weak, bounce over to them, snuggle up to their leg and follow their every move. I bet you know where this is going….yes, I came home with a puppy too

and yes, Scott and I are still married. See, my mom taught me the PLOY also and I guess it worked! I got to keep Reagan (Jack’s new little brother) and Scott. I am gooood!

But Kelly and I are asking for donations of paper towels and carpet cleaner. Seems our new little rascals have had a couple of accidents. Reagan’s been good though, nary a one in over twelve hours. I think Scott is beginning to like Regan, just a wee bit. Never mind, that he calls him “Brain Dead”, “Black Bastard” and Obama. Those are only pet names. I bet Scott is adjusting better than Ryan. Kelly, your turn, Tell us how its going!

______________________________________________________________________

 

Chris Boden Dealer

Call 419 458 2871

ask for a Catalog

nedobs@udata.com

http://www.watkinsonline.com/boden/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Less Than 7 Months

There are less than seven months until the election,  an election that will decide the next President of  the United States. The person elected will be the president of all Americans, not just the Democrats or the Republicans. To show our solidarity as Americans, let's all get together and show each other our support for the candidate of our choice.
It's time that we all came together, Democrats and  Republicans alike.
  If you support the policies and character of John McCain, please drive with your headlights on during the day.   If you support Obama or Hillary, please drive with your headlights off at night.

by Marie Boden

________________________________________________________________________

Restaurant Review   May 5, 2008  

On one of our outings for the day, Mike and I stopped in a BBQ place.  Oh, how I could taste a nice rib sandwich.  There it was on the menu, wow that’s what I am getting.  I can really taste it now knowing they have it.  So then I ordered it with potato chips.

Well they were not potato chips, they were potatoes sliced 1/4 inches thick or more, deep fried, topped with cheese melted all through the potatoes.  When they arrived at the table, I said wow!!!!  Please could I have sour cream and chopped onions and bacon bits along with vinegar?  She said sure but we don’t have vinegar never heard of vinegar.   

She looked at me weird, I love my French fries fully loaded like a bake potato and everywhere I go now, when I order at the restaurants they ask me if I want fully loaded.  They remember me because I am the only one who eats fries this way, now a plate with two slices of bread and a big 6 inch rib full of meat came to the table, she set it down and I said I ordered a rib sandwich.  She said yes that’s what that is.

I was now in a grouchy mood, I was hungry my humor mode is gone and replaced by hunger pains.  I said no I ordered a sandwich not a rib with bread. She said this is how it comes and I make it myself.  Then she asked what kind of Bbq sauce I would like?  I said take it, I don’t want it.  I would like a fully assembled sandwich because that is what a sandwich is, and what were my choices, I was bent out of shape all day, I never heard of such a thing. 

So now everywhere I go, I ask when I order a sandwich if the sandwich is made or do I have to make it. I even ask if it has two slices of bread when it comes. To many times I have ordered a sandwich and it has no top.  Geees no one is like me.  I have found places who done it this same way.    It must be an Okie way. (From Oklahoma for all who don't know me)   Never heard of such a thing, anyone else experience this?   I make my own rib sandwiches at home the way I like it.  Gees If I want to make my own sandwich I will make it at home.  

Christina Prater

My Dogs by Marie Boden

DOGS AGAIN.   NOW COCOA HAS A FRIEND VISIT EVERY SO OFTEN...HIS NAME IS JACK.........AND HE BELONGS TO SCOTT.     HE LISTENS REALLY GOOD AND I THINK HE UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING YOU SAY TO HIM.....COCOA AND JACK  PLAY TOGETHER AND HAVE ALOT OF FUN....WHEN JACK VISITS WE GO OUT AND PLAY WITH BOTH OF THEM AND TAKE THEM FOR WALKS...NOW THATS A JOB TO TAKE BOTH DOGS FOR A WALK......THEY LOVE WALKING THOUGH SO WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO?    ...I WAS GIVING THEM BONES OUTSIDE AND THEY WERE COMING UP MISSING SO ONE DAY WE FOLLOWED JACK AND FOUND OUT HE WAS BURYING THEM.....WHAT A STINKER.....WE DUG THEM UP AND THEN HE DIDN'T WANT THEM,,,,TALK ABOUT STUBBORN, HE' S IT...GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO WASH THEM....THEY DON'T LIKE MUDDY BONES.  HAHA.. JACK LOVES IT OUTSIDE AND COCOA LOVES IT INSIDE SO WE TRY TO GO BOTH WAYS....jACK LOVES CHASING RABBITS AND RUNS LIKE I'VE NEVER SEEN........JACK WILL BE LEAVING TONIGHT AND COCOA WILL BE ALL SAD TILL SHE HAS ANOTHER DOG TO PLAY WITH..PROBABLY THE NEIGHBOR DOG WILL COME OVER AGAIN......JACK has been here all week and I think they're both pooped out....Probably sleep for a week.......until next time.....

==============================================

Dogs   Vol. 6      This dogs name is Apache....We call her Patch...She is a Husky....Christina has had her for 8 years now.  Sasha and Patch are friends and love to play together... They seem to talk to each other and its so fun to watch and listen.  She also yodels, and must have learned it from Sasha..lol    She'll  sing and talk to Chris until she takes her outside and give her a treat then she'll go away and leave her alone. Chris found her in the pound when she was one year old.  She ran free and wild for her first year of life until Chris got her.     It took awhile to get used to having attention and to trust Chris.   But I do now and when they say  nite nite I just go to bed....What a wonderful life.....Shes the dog on the left.....

                   ------>>>>>>>

______________________________________________________________________________

Reggin and Molly

DOGS:   VOL. 3       NOW WE'RE UP TO BAILEY.   BAILEY IS A WHITE GERMAN SHEPHARD THAT LOVES TO BARK....SHE'S A GOOD DOG BUT VERY PROTECTIVE OF HER HOUSE AND MASTER.....WHEN WE GO SEE HER I PLAY WITH HER ALOT AND WE CHASE EACH OTHER AROUND AND AROUND THE HOUSE.......SHE LOVES ICE CUBES FOR A TREAT INSTEAD OF DOG BONES.... SHE LIKES TO GO OUT WHEN ANYONE GOES OUT.    AND THEN WANTS RIGHT BACK IN AGAIN.....LAURIE IS HER MASTER AND SHE DOESN'T GET VERY FAR AWAY FROM HER.....IF LAURIE LEAVES THE ROOM BAILEY FOLLOWS....GOOD THING LAURIE DOESN'T STOP QUICK OR BAILEY WOULD RUN INTO HER....IF SHE DIDN'T BARK SO MUCH IT WOULD BE VERY ENJOYABLE TO HAVE HER...SHE CAN COME TO MY HOUSE FOR A VISIT ANYTIME EVEN THOUGH SHE BARKS.......SHE COMES WITH LAURIE EACH TIME LAURIE COMES HERE AND IS ALWAYS FRIENDLY UNLESS SHE DOESN'T KNOW YOU THEN SHE'LL TRY TO BITE.....WELL I THINK IT WAS GOOD FOR HER TO BE PROTECTIVE BECAUSE SOMEONE TRIED TO BREAK IN AND BAILEY SHOWED THEM THE WAY OUT..... GOOD FOR BAILEY.... COME AND SEE ME BAILEY    ....

________________________________________________

DOGS   VOL. 5....THIS DOG'S NAME IS SASHA....SHE BELONGS TO STEVE AND IS A VERY PRETTY DOG..... SHE HAS BEEN HERE BUT I THINK ONLY ONCE....NICE DOG AND SHE ADORES STEVE....TALK ABOUT A ONE PERSON DOG SASHA IS IT....She is a Malamute.Chris rescued her when she was thirsty and full of quicksand she didn't have water and was on a short leash in 90 degree weather so it's a good thing Chris found her.She bathed her and had her dipped to get her clean. After Steve got his own house she went to live with him.  Steve is  her master now....She adores Steve and plays with him and does tricks.This dog can yodel  and does it for long periods of time.She loves to play chase me and and gets treats for doing hide and seek and other tricks. He takes good care of her and is sometimes mistaken for a wolf. What a nice dog.......Shes the one on the right in the picture

bodensonline Summer Edition VOL I

Molly

by Kelly Clouse

_______________________________________________________________

This is true that I wanted a dog. At first I wanted a small dog, I thought anyway. I looked on the internet to see which kind of lap dog that I wanted and they were so expensive, anywhere from $300.00 up to $1500.00 each. Then I thought that a lap dog would just follow me around under my feet and yap, yap, yap and wouldn't play like Jack, and I would hate that. I hate to say this, but, I really wanted a dog like Jack. (Sorry Bailey and Cocoa) I even offered to buy Scott and Robyn the puppy and I keep Jack, lol, but that was a NO. Then Scott and Robyn kept telling me about the dogs she already told you about. So Abby and I decided to go over and check it out.

There were quite a few dogs that ran out the door, not small either, and I was thinking that I would be out of my mind to take one home with me. They were all very pretty dogs though. Very clean and brushed and they all stayed in the yard without a fence. That was impressive. The puppies had to be stopped just a couple of times and I thought that was typical.

Well, as Robyn told you, I did pick up the puppy and it just cuddled me right back. Then I new that puppy (whom I named Molly) was mine. While Abby and I were playing with Molly, Molly's brother Reggin started bonding with Robyn. He is so cute also. We ended up taking the puppies to their house to show Scott. Scott

said NO! But, with a little guilt talking, Robyn and I talked Scott into it. The puppies and Jack played together outside a long time. They all got along great. Now the training comes in (I have never had a puppy before so pray for me, lol)

Molly is starting to know her name and listens pretty good to stay in the yard, which is really good. The potty training is going pretty well, 3 accidents in three days, actually, all were yesterday lol. But, were getting there.

Ryan, I think, hasn't made that connection with Molly yet, but, he has only seen her a short time. I have never had MY own dog before, so I am really excited about her. Her full name is Molly Camp Master LOL and will be camping a lot with us. Molly and Reggin will be playing every weekend together, which is wonderful. I can't wait until they get together again.

The breed of the puppies are Golden Retriever, Lab and Wire Terrier, so they should be pretty playful. I'm so glad they weren't separated, (in a round about way) so they can always be together.

Robyn and I will have to keep you up to date with the puppies, (though I call them the twins) even though they are different colors. Lets just hope Molly is the dog I have been looking for.

~ Kelly ~

____________________________________________________________________

COOKS CORNER

One of life's pleasures is food. So that makes food very high on the list of what needs to be good. You have to eat it, so you might as well enjoy it, even if you have to add some extra sit ups or walk a little further so you can stay in shape for other life's pleasures.

Poppy's Brats are in the good food category. And like all good food, it is in the preparation, ingredients and quality of all the starter meats that makes the difference of something that is just o.k. or you can't stop eating. I prefer food that is so good, you can not stop eating so when you get up from the table, you feel great and satisfied and remark to yourself OR to the cook on how good everything was. This makes good eating, Eating Good!

Well, I watched as Poppy made his Brats, and you have to start with a good base of meat. Saums Ground Brat Meat.

After checking the meat set aside, go to your spices.

Poppy's Ingredients:

21/4 lbs Saums Ground Brat Meat

1/2 tsp Onion Powder

1/2 tsp Garlic Powder

1/4 tsp Nutmeg

1 1/2 tbls Crushed Red Pepper Flakes

3/4 tbls liquid smoke, Apple or Hickory

1 tbls Parsley Flakes

3/4 tsp Ground Black Pepper

1 tsp Mustard Seed

1 tsp Italian Seasoning

1 tsp Salt

Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix well... then add the meat and smoke

After mixing well with hands, it is time to make patties.

Poppy uses waxed paper and makes 1/4 lb patties. This recipe will yield 9 patties.

Now the trick to cooking brats, Poppy says and it is true, you must cook over low heat. If you are on a grill, open flame or in a pan, you must use low heat. AND you must use a griddle, do not put patties on a rack.

Poppy cooked these brats on a griddle over an open flame...

Turning when needed, lightly brown each side of the patty. Do not over cook your brats. That is the most common thing people do to a brat. When the juices are clear, it is done. Usually 15 to 20 minutes is all it takes on low heat.

These are the Number 1 Brats

================================================================

R & R

A Little Taste of Heaven

by Scott Boden

Robyn noticed this place one day last week. There is no sign, it is inside a closed donut shop. We decided to go there tonight. As we pulled in, there was not one car in the lot. We hesitated, but went in anyway. The lady, I guess, who waited on us had an attention span of 4 or 5 seconds and could not remember each order details and Trey, Robyn and I gave her the orders one at a time. Mine was a 3 piece chicken dinner w/fry's and mustard with macaroni, also known as macaroni salad. She had to ask what each of the 2 sides were because, I just blurted it out all at once. I said "I will take the 3 piece with fry's and macaroni salad." She ask me then what my sides were, so I said " fry's and macaroni salad". She said did you want macaroni salad?" I answered "ummmmmmm lets see, I guess that is ok".

This was the same for the other two. You had to repeat everything to her and then she over charged us because her attention span ended before she hit keys on the register. Needless to say, but I will anyway, this is a place to go if you need to unload. It won't take much to just fly off the handle and tell the brain dead B that she has got to be almost as stupid as the punk that one of our daughters is with, you know, the one that keeps talking and talking but really don't say anything you want to hear?

So, it is a place for Jamie to go too. The rest of us will have real food and company anyplace else.

Click above to send in a question to Smelly Mel

===================================================================

Dear Smelly Mel,

I need serious HELP! I have been engaged for nearly six months to a wonderful man who loves me unconditionally and we have been planly our lives together. But...More Recently, I have begun to have strong feelings for another man in my office. We are completely compatible and I have fallen more in love with him in this short time than with my fiance. I want marry the other man but unfortunately he is taking another job in Chicago in three short weeks. What do you recommend? -Seriously in love²

Dear Seriously in Love,  

It sounds like you should follow your heart on this. If you truly feel like your in love with someone, other than your fiance, it's only fair that you end the engagement. Honesty is the best policy and after the storm is over, you'll feel better about yourself in the process.

~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~

What a Bunch of Bull!

by Scott Boden

Kelly gets a dog, we already had Jack, the most perfect dog ever, and then I get this picture on my phone. I knew I was doomed. What could I do? No the sad, made up pathetic crying, broken heart, I gotta have this puppy picture did not make me give in and vote yes for this black ass dog.

I still don't want the dog. I don't want to take care of it, I don't want to hear it cry, bark, and whine. I certainly do not want to step in anything. I want to ignore it and pretend the bag of fur is not here!

We already have a dog, why would we want two with one being a puppy who don't even know his

name? Why would we want to go through that. Now we are trapped. It's like a kid. We have to have a sitter if we go anywhere now!!!!

WHAT DID I DO?

WHy do I have to go through all this with my already busy schedule? With camping, fishing and golf, when will I have the time to take care of this empty headed know nothing, gonna be a dog someday?

Because, Robyn wanted it! Who am I to rule what she wants? Who am I to say no? Who am I to stop her from having what she wants? Who am I?

Just call me lucky with a puppy!

 

(((((((((((((((())))))))))))))))

 

Aunt Dee's Potato Salad

by Joyce

___________________________________________________________________

Every weekend we went to our cottage @ Lake Diane. This was a staple of mom's (Dee's) weekend feast. Dee's potatoe salad.. Boil and cool a 5lb bag of potatoes (Idaho are best) Boil and cool 1 dozen eggs Chop celery, onions to your size preference (I occasionally omit both, that's your call) Mix together 3 cups miracle whip salad dressing, a spoonful of mustard, 1/4c sugar, (I've added 1/4 cup of sweet pickle juice as well-like me I like it sweet!) salt and pepper to taste. Mix all together-fridge overnight. Keep Miracle whip handy if needed, dry potatoe salad is not good.... This is all an estimate of amounts, I rarely measure, just go by eyesight. Enjoy!

~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~

   

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Marie's Helpful Hints  

 A friend sent  this to me, and I sure did not know it.  I never read the ends of  the  box.  Who would know to do this?  Anyway - hope you  find it helpful.  I did....    
  
  
I had to go into the kitchen  and check this out for myself.  Who ever looks at the end of your  aluminum foil box?  What a fantastic idea.  Now, if someone  would just make plastic wrap that didn't stick to  itself.
  
I've been  using aluminum foil for more years than I care to remember. Great stuff,  but sometimes it can be a pain. You know, like when you are in the middle  of doing something and you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes  out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start  over. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.

Well, I  would like to share this with you. Yesterday I went to throw out an empty  Reynolds foil box and for some reason I turned it and looked at the end of  the box.  And written on the end it said, "Press here to lock  end".  Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in  place. How long has this little locking tab been there?   ;I then  looked at a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one, too.  I  then looked at a box of Saran wrap and it had one too!  I can't count  the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out when I was trying  to cover something up.
I'm sharing  this with my friends that did not know this.  If you all ready know  this, delete this message and don't e-mail me and make me feel dumber than  I already feel.  If you didn't know this, e-mail me and let me know  so I won't feel so dumb.

I hope I'm not the only person that  didn't know about this.

_________________________________________________

Christina's Potato Pancakes

by Christina Prater

_________________________________________________

Start with Mashed potatoes or left over potatoes  

--Yukon Gold Potatoes,  I prefer Yukon,  it is more flavorful and buttery tasting, but Idaho will work as well.   --

1 Large sweet onion chopped or shredded  

--herb stuffing mix for bread crumbs, crushed  

--salt and pepper  

--egg or eggs depending on the amount of potatoes you use  

--garlic, lightly chop garlic. 

I love roasted garlic in mine.  To roast in oven. I use single garlic cloves, tossed lightly in olive oil. Roasted in 350 oven for 15, 20 min. then I cut up in a couple pieces so you get a good bite in potato.  

--sour cream or cream cheese or mix both to replace milk in mashed potatoes.

--chicken, or pot roast cut up leftovers.

Pepper jack cheese, or shredded cheese of your choice  

___________

Boil potatoes until done.  Drain, mash and add cream cheese, sour cream (your choice) Add eggs and mix well.  Potatoes should be a little soupy not thick like mashed potatoes.  Add the other ingredients of your choice, stuffing.  Onions, garlic, chicken or beef.   Fry patties in olive oil. Medium heat, until brown and firm.  Top with Pepper Jack cheese or cheese of your choice.  So delicious.   Another way to make pancakes is to shred raw potato, or shred baked potato for that twice baked taste.  Mix the potato with the ingredients of your choice. Dip in egg and flour then fry slowly in olive oil until golden brown for crispier taste.

Enjoy~

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

TELLIN IT LIKE IT IS

by Scott the food critic

Editors Note This next recipe is for those of you who make meat balls from an already made bag of hamburger chunks from the frozen section. It usually isn't very good and no amount of BBQ or Sweet and Sour sauce will cover up the tastes of the frozen so called beef.

Here are real MEATBALLS that make you want more! I have had these, so please do not ask me to try frozen again. After you have good food, it is hard to do bad.  Wendi's vs McDonalds, Hyde Steak Park vs Ponderosa, El Campesino vs Taco Bell, etc. Oh, two more, dog crap sandwich vs White Castle, Ted Bundy's Pate vs Burger King

GREEK MEATBALLS

by Anna Bomas

3 lbs. ground chuck hamburger

1 medium, yellow onion; finely chopped

2 cloves garlic; minced

2 eggs; do not beat

½ c. water

handful of flour

¼ c.  italian parsley; finely chopped 

1 teas. crushed, dried oregano

½ to ¾ teas. crushed, dried mint

salt & pepper to taste

2 to 3 Tble. canola oil or any vegetable oil to fry

 

Mix all of the above ingredients, but the oil, by hand in a large bowl

Cover & let stand for a couple of hours in the refrigerator

Spoon teaspoonfuls of meat mixture onto a plate of flour

Roll meat mixture into meatballs, with just a little of the flour from the plate

Then, roll the meatball over the flour in the plate, lightly coating it

Heat the oil in a large fry pan over medium heat

Fry meatballs in the heated

Use a fork to turn.  Do not puncture meatballs

____________________________________________________

Robyn Takes Reggin Back!

Robyn takes the puppy back. She has decided that there is too much work with a puppy and that she is gone too many hours a day.

I told her I would take care of it during

the day, but she thinks it will be a burden on me and dosen't want to force the care of the puppy on me!

I think it is just too much work for too long of time. But there it is! There Reggin goes! 

CAMPIN TIMES
Some of This Seasons Camping Pic's
 

Politics, Life, Funny, and Back in the Day

THE TRAIN RIDE'S

by Marie Boden

___________________________________________________

My grandpa Hennessy was a Conductor on a  Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train that went from Toledo to Detroit every day....When I was a little girl he took me with him quite a few times..  I could eat in the dining car all the time and when we got to Detroit he would take me places in Detroit.....We'd have supper at a restaurant and shop a little.....When I was eleven I was allowed to walk anywhere I wanted by myself in Detroit...(Couldn't let eleven year olds do that now)     I had so much fun when he would ask me if I wanted to go....I took a friend a couple times and we went to stores and ate and investigated alot of stuff.........I felt so grown up....Sometimes he would take me to a movie while we were there..or a park or if something special was going on we'd go see it......Grandpa had all day to do what he wanted cause the train didn't leave to go back to Toledo till evening.........  We left Toledo at 4 am and didn't get back till 7 pm....It was a very long day every day...I don't know how he did that for so many years.....but I loved it.....another memory for my scrapbook ...

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

One day, long, long ago.......
there lived a woman who did not whine, nag or complain.

But this was a long time ago.......

and it was just that one  day.


The  End

___________________________________________________

Television

    Now there's a subject....Years ago when TV was first invented there was literally absolutely nothing on.....what has changed?    There's still nothing on......the movies that are aired over and over and over...till you wonder if they ever made different movies...I enjoy TV or I should say I used to enjoy TV....Now its better to pop in a movie cause you know you haven't seen it before.....or you watch the same movie over and over...but thats your choice not the stations.  When TV's first came out we had a very small screen and a big magnifier in front of it to make it look bigger.......I remember when all programs ended at 11: pm with the news....The soaps were only on 15 minutes a day ..It was quite awhile till they were even on 1/2 hour but I enjoyed the soaps so much.....It seemed like you were part of them....Not everyone had a TV at first so when there was something good on everyone came to your house to watch it...That was so much fun..... Before TV  my mom and I used to buy comic books and everynight we'd read them, eat chips and drink pop and we still did that when nothing good was on TV....wish I still had all those comic books....We probably bought 400 or more of them over the years....They were only 10 cents then and we'd  buy 5 or 6 every night....Oh well those days are gone.......BUT NOT FORGOTTEN  

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

MEXICO DROPS OUT OF 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS

President Felipe Calderon of Mexico has announced that Mexico will not participate in the Beijing Summer Olympics.
 
He stated: "Casi cada uno que puede funcionar, saltar, o la nadada ha salido ya del parns."
 
Translation:
 

"Pretty much everyone who can run, jump, or swim has already left the country."  

_____________________________________________

 

The Lie Detector -


John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual
gimmick. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to
change.

One day, John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It
was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector.

It was just about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son
returned home from school. Tommy was over 2 hours late.

"Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?", they
asked.

"Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project"
said Tommy.

The Robot then walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him
completely out of his chair.

"Son, this robot is a lie detector; now tell us where you went after
school."

"We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie."

"What did you watch?" asked Marsha.

'The Ten Commandments." answered Tommy.

The Robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him
off his chair.

With lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, "I am sorry I lied.
We really watched a tape called Sex Queen."

"I'm ashamed of you Son," said John. "When I was your age, I never lied
to my parents."

The robot then walked around to John and delivered a roundhouse right
that nearly knocked him out of his chair.

Marsha was bent double laughing, almost in tears. "Boy, did you ever ask
for that one! And you can't be too mad with Tommy. After all, He is
your son!"

The Robot immediately walked around to Marsha, and slapped her three
times . 

===========================================================================================================

Classifieds

Bodensonline.com                                                                                                                                   May 20, 2008

===========================================================================================================

HELP WANTED

Bodensonline.com is looking for someone to watch the Ohio Lottery, send in results and to stay current on drawings. Send Letter to the Editor

____________________________

Bodensonline.com would like to hear a Restaurant Review every time you eat out. We want to know all about your experiences you encounter.

Send Letter to the Editor

____________________________

Bodensonline.com is looking for Headlines on family events, cookouts, weddings, divorces, news, and articles.

Send Letter to the Editor

___________________________

 

FOR SALE

__________________________

FOR SALE

1994 Chevy 3/4 ton pick up. Will trade for new Chevy 3/4 ton 4 wheel drive!

____________________________

Senco screw gun used once $70.00 dollars and a box of screws.

Contact Bill Boden

nedobs@udata.com

Bostich Coil Framing nailer $150.00 Dollars used once.

Contact Bill Boden

nedobs@udata.com

__________________________

Paid $2000.00 Will Take $1500 OBO IT'S A TAPCO BRAKE  14" X 10' 6",

ALSO HE HAS A  PRO STAND WITH  WHEELS, AND SIDEWINDER, AND CUTOFF TOOL,   419 396 6717

10 lb of recycled toilet paper

____________________________

Drywall Lift

$350.00

Contact Bill Boden

nedobs@udata.com

____________________________

HOMES

Price Reduced

$229,000

Must Sell

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

HOMEGalleriesRecipesNewsBirthdaysCalendarContact Us

__________________________Wednesday ________________________

 
U.S.A.                                                                       http://bodensonline.com                                                            May 28, 2008

 

At Thesis Parade

(A look at College Life)

John McCain's remarks about the

Pledge of Allegiance

We have a NEW Idiot to make fun of

Obama & the facts

Letter's to the Editor

At Thesis Parade

by Trey Sands

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In order to graduate, a senior at Reed must complete a year-long thesis, essentially a sixty to one hundred page paper on a subject in their major.  This is a large undertaking, taking hours out of your life, taking sweat off your brow, taking blood from your veins, and transforming all three into ink on the page.  Eventually, though, by mid-May, the pages have been printed and the theses turned in to the library to be used by the incoming classes.  One thing, however, occurs before this; a little event called thesis parade.

At around three-thirty in the afternoon, a crowd of students gather outside the library, many already drinking and in a celebratory mood.  This crowd consists of all classes —freshman, sophomores, juniors, and even the rare senior, emerging from their thesis office—; this crowd consists of almost every single student on campus.  On the fringes, near other buildings, are the faculty, looking on the amorphous crowd of students and sighing, realizing that another year is almost over.  CSOs (Campus Safety Officials) are standing back as well, looking for the few badly intoxicated people to help pull out of the mix if the time comes.

Eventually, a fire in a large pit is lit, inviting all the seniors to throw in their thesis notes, a sort of catharsis pent up over the previous seven months of

straight work.  Crowd after crowd of golden laureled seniors walks up to burn the ingredients of their final project.  As they return, though, to their friends and fellow students, the thesis parade fully begins.

Bottles of five dollar champagne are opened, shaken, and sprayed on anyone with a golden laurel wreath on their head.  Innocent bystanders, i.e. underclassmen, caught in the mist are covered in it as well.  And there was I, right in the middle of it all, sticky and smelling of cheap alcohol, my glasses with champagne spots running down them, my shirt wet and yellowing from the carbonated wine.  I loved it all, however: the feeling of universality, the palpable release of a year's frustration and a year's pressure, the random hugs from grateful strangers, the overwhelming positivity and happiness of the crowds and the entire college.  Yes, this is perfect joy, a deserved joy, and I was there, basking in it with the rest of the hoi polloi, thankful for the year to be over and yet hoping that it would never end.

 

By Trey Sands

sandst@reed.edu 

==========================================

John McCain's remarks about the Pledge of Allegiance

__________________________________________________


 
  In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John McCain is very appropriate: 

 

'The Pledge of Allegiance' - by Senator John McCain
'As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room.
 
This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.
 
One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.
Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama . He didn't wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to work and want to succeed.
 
As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing.
 
Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt.
 
Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed the most important and meaningful event.
 
One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it.

That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could..
 
The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.

As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to Pledge our allegiance to our flag and country.

So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.'
 
'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisable, with liberty and justice for all.'


  oh......and then you have this clown, who refuses to place his hand on his heart and say the pledge.
  Subject: Remember this picture on election day!
Let's all remember this on election day...if you have family serving in the military, make sure you send it along.  I don't care for Hillary, but at least she shows respect for the country she lives in!
I had heard about this but a picture is definitely worth 1000 words! God save us!!!

  Senator Barack Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Ruth Harkin stand during the national anthem.
Barack Hussein Obama's photo (that's his real name).....the article said he REFUSED TO NOT ONLY PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART DURING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, BUT REFUSED TO SAY THE PLEDGE.....how in the hell can a man like this expect to be our next C ommander-in-Chief

Ok Tree Huggers

by Scott Boden

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's almost June. The temps should be in the mid to high 80's during the day and in the 70's at night. The damn tree huggers who by the way are making life unbearable because of gas prices, that will trickle to everything and make everything too expensive and force our economy into another depression. But let us not forget our government who is letting everyone cry about everything so no one is in charge and stopping this madness has again done nothing to these poor tree hugging crybabies and say "tough shit we are going to drill our own oil. Live with it"!

Anyway, where the hell is the global warming that you said is here? Why the hell are people still running their furnaces?

Where are the missing ice caps that you said are melting at an devastating rate that will end the earth?

Guess what? The ice caps have increased!  That's right! You are wrong and you have push America close to a depression. Soon hardly anyone but illegal aliens will be the only ones to be able to afford to buy gas and groceries because their standard of living must be higher than our working class and elderly.

So way to go, life will soon become something history has never seen. There will be more Americans that will be hungry than there will be illegal's.

We have got to take our country back folks!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

We have a NEW Idiot to make fun of

by Scott Boden

Looks as if Jamie gets some competition for idiot of the year, dumb as they come, you know, stupid is what stupid does.

Most likely will be able to reproduce too, Eddie Fredritz joins the few, the proud, the stupid! I will type this slow so you two can keep up.

If any of my children were stupid I would move away.

Some parents don't know their kid is stupid, what do you do then? Can you tell them, would they understand?

Well at least we will have all the more to laugh at, talk about and in general say things like:

Hey you pulled a Jamie! Or Run Eddie Run! Maybe even say I just stepped in some Jamie/Eddie!

What ever your favorite sayings are for stupid people, when you find one you will find others, they hang out with each other. One of them will be the leader of

the group too. The know it all. The know it all will guide the stupid down paths that he or she would not have gone down otherwise, because they were not smart enough to think of that to begin with.

So it is a circle, and the stupid never leave it. They will demand that their children become stupid too. They will marry stupid as their fathers have, hahaha, as their wives have, HAHAHA!

No, but really, stupid people bore me. There is nothing you can do but let them talk, and try not to laugh in their face while they speak. I used to laugh at Jamie all the time and I would always say things to his remarkably stupid words and he never got it! It always went over his head! It was too funny!

Sometimes when Jamie left the room, Robyn and I would laugh so hard we had tears in our eyes! Welcome aboard Eddie, we need new stupid, cause like I said, Jamie bores us! HAHAHA! I kill me! HAHAHA!

_____________________________________________

   

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Garfield on the oil crisis.   A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country. Well, there's a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil. We just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely geographical. Our OIL is located in: ~~~ ALASKA ~~~ California ~~~ Coastal Florida ~~~ Coastal Louisiana ~~~ Wyoming ~~~ Colorado ~~~ Kansas ~~~ Oklahoma ~~~ Pennsylvania and ~~~ Texas ~~~ Our dipsticks are located in DC. Any Questions? NO?...Didn't think So.

________________________________________________________

=========================================

A Vote for Obama is a Vote against America

 

Shitba, what have I done?

A bodensonline.com Retro Hindsight

 

But, we have no White history month!

 

 Shitba, What Have I Done?

 by Scott Boden

__________________________________________________

If Abe were alive today, what would he think! Is it true that Abe was all tanked up on beer or crack and was so hammered he went ahead and freed the slaves? No! That is not completely true. There was no crack back in the day, but Abe did like his beer. He was quoted as saying

 

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

 

Now I truly believe that because Abe was a lawyer, and considered a smart man, and needing to win the war, used the nigrabas as a tool of war. The slaves were mostly in the south belonging to the well to do so Abe said they would be free which prompted bringing them into our neighborhoods and we know now that most flocked to D.C. because during the day you need a flashlight if you drive through there  and, and, the streetlights stay on 24-7.

 

No but really, freeing the slaves and stopping commerce is what really won the war. The South could not make money to finance their effort. Abe choked the south by not letting anything in or out. It was ironic because Abe was about out of money as well.

 

So I am sure, he would not have fathomed the idea that Obama or a black in general would have ever ran for president, let alone get a vote! If he would have believed that  (Obama) I am sure he would have played a different card in the game of war back in the 1860’s. He would have liked Colin Powell and then maybe still maintained his course of action but who know's?

 

Obamaba getting votes is what kills me. He in known for saying he don’t like the words to our National Anthem, because other countries are offended by it! But he gets votes. He won’t sight the Pledge of Allegiance or face the flag or wear the flag lapel pin because his alliance is with Ala and Muslim countries. Yet people still vote for him.

 

Obamaba has an agenda. It is not for America. And listen folks, if we as America do not get the illegal aliens out of this country, and put our needs first, spank the ass of the child that mouths off, or one that shows no respect, or if we do not make English the first language and stop paying everyone that is non American money to live better than our elderly, we will have no country left for Obamaba to ruin!

 

My friend went on vacation last week and went to Disney World, Land or what ever, and all loud speaker announcements were in English and in Spanish, and there were more non Americans there than US Citizens.  Did you know that the ocean front property is being bought up be illegal's, financed by Mexico and sold to the middle east folks who we care so much about that we are letting them buy up our property. Damn, I am getting mad.

 

We have become a gutless country. Our soldiers cannot fight a fair fight because of the media. We are so damned worried that we will offend some little group, color or religion that we have nothing to stand on. We have no motto or creed, we have nothing. We have let everyone take our flag from the hill. We have given all our rights to the race of freedom, that Abe started almost a century and a half ago. One thing is for sure, Abe was a man amoung men, he feared no one, as he knew his adversaries were planning an assassination!

 

Shitba Abe, what have you done?

 

 

 

 

 

bodensonline Summer Edition VOL II

COOKS CORNER

Some people boil meat for preparation to BBQing or for pre cooking dishes to use later.

I find that boiling meat can cause more trouble than what you are bargaining for because here is what happens to meat when you boil.

After adding chicken, ribs or beef to water, bring it to a boil all the fat, and most of the flavor will float up to the top of the water line.

When meat cools, it solidifies, becomes firm and sometimes hardens because the natural juices have been removed during the boiling cooking process. When you remove the meat from the water, all the moisture will go up as steam and leave the meat ruined.

All meats will become firm after cooling no matter how you cook, bake, fry, boil, microwave or broil. When the meats cool, it toughens up.

Boiling however is the most abrasive to meat because you have replaced fats, flavors and seasonings with tasteless water, and if not careful, you could end up with jerky like product.

You can eliminate this by baking. No matter what you are pre cooking, baking will preserve your flavors, juices and tenderness.

Preseason your meats while you bake and add a 1/2 cup of water or so to the bottom to help steam the meat. Cover with a lid or foil and bake until meat is done and tender, not falling off the bone done however.

If you are precooking for a BBQ, you will finish at the grill. While the meats are cooling, leave covered until completely cooled. The meat will firm up, but that is ok, it will still hold its moisture and relax again when it is being re warmed, BBQed or heated.

The more the meat is BBQed or re warmed if you will, the more tender and fall off the bone goodness it will become because you have not killed it by boiling out the moisture.

If you must boil meat, you need to let it cool in the water, use only enough water to do the job, and if possible, add other ingredients to make a chili, or roast or something like that where you use everything in the pan to retain your flavors.

Cool Food Pics

Sent in by Bill

 

From The Back Of The Busba

A bodensonline.com Review of the Oppressed

 

by Marie Boden

____________________________________________________________

A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. As he enters, he asks St. Peter, "I have a question that's haunted me all of my days on earth. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?"

St. Peter said, "That's a question only God can answer."


So the zebra went off in search of God.


When he found Him, the zebra asked, "God, please - I must know. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?"


God simply replied "You are what you are."


The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more , who asked him, "Well, did God straighten out your query for you?"


The zebra looked puzzled. "No sir, God simply said 'You are what you are.'"


St. Peter smiled and said to the zebra, "Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes."


The zebra asked St. Peter, "How do you know that for certain?"


"Because," said St. Peter, "If you were black with white stripes, God would have said, "You is what you is."



WARNING

If you laugh at this, Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson will be comin right over to kick your white honky butt !!!!

______________________________________________

Facts

by Scott Boden

______________________________________

Bodensonline.com is a free press. We are not racists. We do not single any group, race, color or religion. Everyone is fair game. We are however not your typical newspaper. We do not play political correctness. We do not care if we offend some group, color, race, religion, person, job, handicap, sex, or the type car you drive. We will use racial names in disguise because the white race is the only race on earth who is not allowed to say racial slurs, while every other race can use whatever name they want.

Well, here we can too, I say it is allowed. And If you DO NOT LIKE IT, do not read it!

We enjoy making fun of race, religion, cars, handicaps, jobs, politicians, son-in-law's, siblings, children, parents, black people, white people, stupid people, smart people, sister-in-laws, brother-in-laws, and Laurie's dog!

So if any of this will offend you, simply keep it to yourself because I am sure if you speak out we will print it and then make fun of it!

We do not however, want to purposely piss people off, embarrass them, or single someone out due to their stupidity, well, sometimes. But if you wish to say your peace,  you can do that too, I will print it!


Are we Americans as dumb as we appear --- or --- is it that we just    do not think?

While the Chinese, knowingly and intentionally, export inferior products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in American markets, the media wrings its hands and criticizes the Bush Administration for perceived errors.

Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended.

Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?

SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, AMERIKA!!

Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says 'Made in China' or 'PRC' (and that now includes Hong Kong), simply choose another product or none at all. You will be amazed at how dependent you are on Chinese products, however you will be equally amazed at what you can do without. Who needs plastic eggs to celebrate Easter?

If you must have eggs, use real ones and benefit some American farmer. Easter is just an example, the point is.. do not wait for the government to act.

Just go ahead and assume control on your own.

THINK ABOUT THIS            If 200 million Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods, that's a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor...fast!!

The downside? Some American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from having foreign stockpiles of inventory. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh

** Downside??

The solution ?

Let's give them fair warning and send our own message. Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning on implementing this on June 4, and continue it until July 4.

That is only one month of trading losses, but it will hit the Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of their American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.

Remember, June 4 to July 4.

OH HELL . . . START NOW.



Send this to everybody you know.

Show them we are Americans
and NOBODY can take us for granted.

If we can't live without cheap Chinese
goods for one month out of our lives,
WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!


Pass it on America

 

__________________________________________________

Chris Boden Dealer

Call 419 458 2871

ask for a Catalog

nedobs@udata.com

http://www.watkinsonline.com/boden/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CAMPIN TIMES
Some of This Seasons Camping Pic's
 

Politics, Life, Funny, and Back in the Day

INTERESTING LETTER   Even though I am not nearly as anxious as the author of this letter to have our nuclear arsenal unleashed on anyone, I am very sure, if we have to go to the mat with anyone I would much rather have John at the switch than either of the other two. In a war, there is absolutely no substitute for winning. John knows that, and in our hearts the American people know that. Losing a war to a radical group of Muslims can only lead to increasing support for them. Everyone likes to align themselves with the winner no matter what the contest. Nothing could be more true when it comes to war. And it makes absolutely no difference why the war was fought, like it or not, only the winners have their way. So do we win or lose, do we keep America strong or do we let Obama dismantle our ability to defend ourselves, do we let Hillary take from the rich and give to those who will not work for what they want. For many of the reasons stated by this unknown author, deciding who to vote for is a no-brainer for me. And I really hope any of you considering voting for anyone other than John McCain will reconsider. He is far from perfect, and being an honorable man would be the first to acknowledge that fact. Is he the best we have in this country? Is he the very best leader we could put in the White House? As the author of this letter suggest, our process does not require we select the very best. We will never get the very best, because running for president requires a certain degree of arrogance, and the best we have would not seek such a position.     Please read the letter and put it with all the other things you take to the voting booth when you decide who among the choices you have is the best person to be leading this country. Never mind who will do the best thing on all the issues that arise, the only way we will know who has done the best thing is to look back, and that may not always be as clear as some would have you believe.  
Subject: A Citizen Endorses a Candidate... 

After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President. I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.

We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words "money" and "special interests" come to mind, among many others.

Here's the way I see it:

Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois, which has a long and rich history of political corruption of
the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system.

You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President.  ???
What a great statement that would be to the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!

But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job!

Barack, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend "God Damn America" Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there.

The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.

We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man IS your "spiritual mentor".

BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. And please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a "discouraging word" in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in  addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades.

Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.

Now YOU look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there! This is like me telling you that I attended dozens of
Klan rallies and never once heard the "N" word. Yep. And Bill Clinton "did not inhale".

Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you. I am  deeply sorry, that in a county teeming with enormously
talented African Americans who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.

Now, did I mention Bill Clinton?

AH YES ! This brings us to MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, who this candidate really is, in spite of all the other names she may care to call herself. This "feminist" piece of work of course would like to be referred to as MS. and we all know who wears the pant suit in that family.

MS. Clinton, it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents. But, fortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU. Ms. Clinton, I'm sorry, but you could not tell the truth if we waterboarded you!

Still you play the role of the "embarrassed but dignified noble wife". What utter malarky! I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as my not
voting for Senator Obama. You persistently insult my intelligence. It COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky, extremely remote, but possible if we stretch our imaginations  a bit. But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones and the legion of other women who were chewed up and spit out by your lecherous excuse for a husband. Puleese turn off this broken record!!!

But let's set aside your hubby's flagrant peccadilloes. The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don't think the country can survive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater,
Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno's goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you. So our
former President can't keep his  zipper closed, but the REAL issue is that he committed
perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically-attempted cover-up that followed.

Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth. He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. The same folks
who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 3,000 dead Americans ago !

And please stop telling me that you have "8 years of experience" to lead us. You were just the first lady already, not the Commander in Chief. Jeez ! The sum of your "experience" is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House. You even cursed your pitiful staff and the Secret Service agents who were and still are unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect you and all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.

Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs, alcoholism and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible freeloaders in America and to then "garnish the wages" (your own words) of every law-abiding and hard-working American to pay for it. This disaster you refer to as "Universal Health Care". Where have you been the last
30 years ? Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried ? Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed since it gave no reward to those who
worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors to pay for those who would not ??

It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your hubby have left in your wake. Suicides, mysterious deaths, cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a rank
amateur. The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. A man the news media refuses to admit IS a "super delegate" in your own political machine, a fine example of your own "adopted" state of New York . No wonder you moved there to run for Senator! The environment there is perfect for you!

Yes, I would vote for a woman, but I will NOT vote for YOU!

Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.

John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button.

Think about it.

We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabres at us. I want
John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really pissed off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.

John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want ALL of these "world leaders" to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America.

I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Syria,
Pakistan, and those others in the sheets, the Saudis.

On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. The liberals are pissed at him and the conservatives are pissed at him. Just my kinda guy.

From Marie Boden

_____________________________________________

A REDNECK LOVE POEM

by Marie Boden


              SUSIE LEE DONE FELL IN LOVE,
              SHE PLANNED TO MARRY JOE.
              SHE WAS SO HAPPY 'BOUT IT ALL,
              SHE TOLD HER PAPPY SO.

              PAPPY TOLD HER, SUSIE GAL,
              YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER.
              I'D JUST AS SOON YO' MA DON'T KNOW,
              BUT JOE IS YO' HALF BROTHER.

              SO SUSIE PUT ASIDE HER JOE
              AND PLANNED TO MARRY WILL.
              BUT AFTER TELLING PAPPY THIS,
              HE SAID, 'THERE'S TROUBLE STILL.'

              YOU CAN'T MARRY WILL, MY GAL,
              AND PLEASE DON'T TELL YO' MOTHER.
              BUT WILL AND JOE, AND SEVERAL MO'
              I KNOW IS YO' HALF BROTHER.

              BUT MAMA KNEW AND SAID, MY CHILD,
              JUST DO WHAT MAKES YO' HAPPY.
              MARRY WILL OR MARRY JOE;
              YOU AIN'T NO KIN TO PAPPY.

This is just so typically Clinton.

By Marie

It was disclosed yesterday that the Clintons have raked in over $100 million since leaving the White House with the fine china and bath towels.  Fine.  It's a free country.  And the money came from idiots stupid enough to pay to listen to the pair speak and read their books.  It didn't come from me or, to the best of our knowledge so far, taxpayers.
But of that $100 million-plus, the Clintons are getting fawning praise from the mainstream media for giving about 10 percent of the haul to "charity."  A worthy and commendable figure. 
But as with everything else Clintonian, you have to look beyond the obvious.  As our friend Amanda Carpenter of TownHall.com reports this morning, the charity the Clintons gave most of that money to was...themselves!
That's right.  The Clinton tax returns show that $10,256,741 was donated to CFF, the Clinton Family Foundation.
"On the 2005 forms and those from previous years, Bill Clinton was listed as CFF President, Hillary Clinton has the title of secretary/treasurer and daughter Chelsea Clinton was 'director,'" notes Carpenter.  "The 2006 tax forms list Gloria Clinton as CFF CEO and Manager, Erlinda Valdez as secretary and Catherina Hillman as treasurer.  Gloria Clinton was paid $252,500 according to the 2006 returns for her work that year."
Of the $10 million-plus the Clintons gave to themselves, they only parceled out about $2.5 million to other charities.  Then again, $80,000 of that went to the Clinton Birthplace Foundation. 
So the Clintons gave money to themselves in order to give money to themselves?  These people are beyond contemptible.

____________________________________________

  Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
(A Political Fable)


The seven dwarfs always left to go work in the mine
 
early each morning. As always, Snow White stayed
home doing her domestic chores.

As lunchtime approached, she would
prepare their lunch and carry it to the mine.
One day as she arrived at the mine with the lunch,
she saw that there had been a terrible cave-in.
Tearfully, and fearing the worst, Snow White began
calling out, hoping against hope that the dwarfs had
somehow survived.
  'Hello!...Hello!' she shouted.
  'Can anyone hear me? Hello!'
For a long while, there was no answer.
Losing hope, Snow White again shouted,
'Hello! Is anyone down there?'
 
Just as she was about to give up all hope,
she heard a faint voice from deep
within the mine, shouting
'Vote for Barack Obama! - Vote for Barack Obama!'
  Snow White fell to her knees, crossed herself and prayed,
'Oh, thank you, God! At least Dopey is still alive...'
  _____________________________________________________

Obama & the facts

Ok, Obama is supposed to the only hope for America, the man who knows all and will fix all…

 

But here are some real interesting (& true) facts and statements made by the candidate, you decide what is important  about the man who wants to be President……

 

1. Let’s start with May 07-

 

Obama claimed that a Kansas tornado killed a whopping 10,000 people: (just in case you missed it then, there was a large tornado in Kansas), while tragic and an entire town was destroyed, the actual death toll from that storm: 12. Obama blamed Global Warming & President Bush for not doing more about Global Warming!

 

2. Obama has as much trouble with his arithmetic as he has with maps.

Just this last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:

Obama-“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.” Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march took place in 1965, now that is family planning!

 

3. Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed fact about a fake detail in his autobiographical book “Dreams from My Father:”

Obama quotes (wrote) that in a copy of Life magazine that his racial awakening at age 9 was due to an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin (to become white). The facts are the supposed article and the photographs in Life don’t exist, never have, according to Life magazine’s own historians.

 

4. Earlier this month (May) while campaigning in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States;

Obama stated that he had -“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think we have one left to go.”

 

5. Last week, in front of a Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience,

Obama said: “Thank you Sioux City. Sioux City is in Iowa.

 

6. Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again failed basic map reading; 

Obama-“Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known here in Kentucky because she comes from the nearby state of Arkansas, so it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” If you look at map of our country (and it is obvious that Obama hasn’t-and he did graduate from Harvard) you will see that Obama’s home state of Illinois BORDERS Kentucky and that Arkansas doesn’t.

 

7. Just this last weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up.

Obama-“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going         on there (the crowd applauded).  Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”

The real facts are that Obama had voted on the defense authorization bill that specifically addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site Hanford. He even spoke on the record about in the Senate.

 

8. In Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan and the Middle East region by honing in on a lack of translators:

Obama-“We only have a limited number of Arabic translators, and they are all being    used in Iraq, that makes it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.”

Obama claims that because his father is from Africa and he lived overseas while         growing up, he knows more about international relations and foreign culture than   McCain. Does he? You see, the real reason it is harder for us to use the translators Iraq in Afghanistan is, the language spoken in Iraq is Arabic and/or Kurdish, while the Afghanis speak Pashto & Farsi.

 

9. And the maybe most troubling bonehead statement he has made-

Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that “Iran doesn’t pose a serious threat to us (the USA)”–he also argued that “tiny countries, with small defense budgets can’t do us harm”. Then, the following day he reversed himself claiming; “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.” So which is it Senator?

 
Now Obama has told us what we can and ask him or talk about during the campaign:
 
  • WE CAN”T talk about his family unless he does so first, like his grandmother whom he classifies her up as a 'typical white person.' We can't talk about his wife, even when she says that she isn’t proud of her country, not once, but three times! He warned us not to bring it up because he won’t allow it, it is unacceptable! 
  • WE CAN”T talk about his preacher, even when he sits in his church and declares that this country in the KKK of America! 
  • WE CAN”T talk about his terrorist friends, even when they say they should have bombed more locations and the nation’s capital and are only sorry for not planting more bombs! 
  • WE CAN”T talk about his voting record, when he would not take a stand on issues as a state Senator and would only vote present instead of Yea or NEA. 
  • WE CAN”T talk about his religion schooling when he may have attended radical schools, the same type that brought the 911 hijackers to our nation. 
  • WE CAN”T talk about his appeasement values, about talking to the worst terror supporting countries like Iran and human rights abusing nations without any pre-conditions, even though every former President (including FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, & Clinton) followed the same policies (and when he speaks on this he blames only Bush & now McCain for this policy). 
  • WE CAN”T talk about race; we can only be lectured to by the race baiters like Rev, Wright, Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton. Because, according to Obama’s hit-men (Rev, Wright, Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton) we are all racist because white people have all the power, and therefore we are all racist.  
  • WE CAN”T talk about his lack of experience; because instead of answering the question, Obama’s hit-men accuse the questioner of being racist (see above). 
  • WE CAN”T even mention his middle name, 'Hussein', because if we do, we are being Muslim-phobic or racist (see above).  
  • WE CAN”T call him a liberal, because we are demonizing him and being racist once again. 
  • WE CAN”T talk about the crook who is his friend and major political campaign contributor, and currently on trial for fraud. 
  • WE CAN”T talk about his income, where he got his money, how he could afford a house that (he bought from his crook buddy that is on trail now for fraud) the year before he couldn’t qualify for the loan because of lack of income. 

WE CAN”T talk about the fact that he won’t wear a flag pin (unless it suits him) & he would not put his hand over his heart for the National Anthem (see attached picture). 
    
 http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-salute.htm
 

______________________________________________________

Prayer



'Lord, please hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.'

___________________________________________________________


 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

===========================================================================================================

Classifieds

Bodensonline.com                                                                                                                                   May 28, 2008

===========================================================================================================

HELP WANTED

Bodensonline.com is looking for someone to watch the Ohio Lottery, send in results and to stay current on drawings. Send Letter to the Editor

____________________________

Bodensonline.com would like to hear a Restaurant Review every time you eat out. We want to know all about your experiences you encounter.

Send Letter to the Editor

____________________________

Bodensonline.com is looking for Headlines on family events, cookouts, weddings, divorces, news, and articles.

Send Letter to the Editor

___________________________

 

FOR SALE

__________________________

FOR SALE

1994 Chevy 3/4 ton pick up. Will trade for new Chevy 3/4 ton 4 wheel drive!

____________________________

Senco screw gun used once $70.00 dollars and a box of screws.

Contact Bill Boden

nedobs@udata.com

_____________________

Lead balloons  $15.00 ea.

Bostich Coil Framing nailer $150.00 Dollars used once.

Contact Bill Boden

nedobs@udata.com

__________________________

Paid $2000.00 Will Take $1500 OBO IT'S A TAPCO BRAKE  14" X 10' 6",

ALSO HE HAS A  PRO STAND WITH  WHEELS, AND SIDEWINDER, AND CUTOFF TOOL,   419 396 6717

10 lb of recycled toilet paper

____________________________

Drywall Lift

$350.00

Contact Bill Boden

nedobs@udata.com

____________________________

HOMES

Price Reduced

$229,000

Must Sell

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~