Yeah, everclear is okay in a pinch but ain't got that smoothness that you get with good shine... As fir hangovers... Geeze, yeah, I guess... Most of the folks I know don't drink shine to get drunk, tho... They take them a shot and go about their business... I like me a shot of shine if I gotta do tree work with my chainsaw... KInda takes the edge off the noise of the saw and yet keep the right amount of edge for being careful with the saw...

As fir the ABC stores in Virgina??? The current Governor was elected because he had all these supposed great ideas... Yeah, Bob McDonell told the voters to elect him 'cuase he was gonna fix the road/gridlock problem with some secret plan he had concocked and he was gonna sell off the ABC stores to get revenue for the state... Well, this past week he had to scale back the promise on the roads to no-plan-at-all and junk the idea of selling off the ABC stores because he had forgotten the fact that they are a constant revenue source for the Commonwelth of Virgina... Duhhhhh, Bob...

So there goes all his great ideas... Now we're stuck with the guy but...

...at least we have inmate maintained rest stops on the interstates...

We got alot of inmate labor here in Page County, too... I had two inmates assigned to me last summer when I did a major landscape contract for the Town of Luray... But one Friday I had a killer band coming in to play our concert series and I told the Twon that I'd like to reward my two inmates by letting 'um hear the band but the Town siad, "no" 'cuase they didn't want to porject an image of folks in striped suits at their concert, regardless of the facdt that on any given day there are stripers all over the country and town doing work... So the Town understood that it wpould present a bad image to have stripers mingling with the population for our guest but Governor Bob thinks it's perfectly okay for folks passing thru seein' stripers there at the rst stops cutting grass and cleaning the bathrooms???

Hey, persoanlly I like the idea of inmate labor... It's a win-win situation for everyone 'cuase the stripers want out for the day... But running the state with prison labor as one's secret plan to restore fiscal responsibiluty to one's state ain't no panacia...

Now back to the discussion at hand...

B~