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To: koan who wrote (44909)	11/17/2008 6:24:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Glenn Beck Accosted At Wendy's: "You Racist Bigot!" Conservative personality Glenn Beck was accosted at his local Wendy's Saturday night, he said Monday on his radio show. In his attempt to procure a Frosty — "Everybody wants a Frosty," he said — he was stopped by a truck driver with food in his hair and called a "racist bigot." "I wanted to say, I think you have me mistaken for someone else, but I knew he knew who I was and he just hated me for who I was," Beck said. Beck's full Wendy's rant below: It happened to me at Wendy's Saturday night. We are on the bus and we stop to get fuel and I said, I'm going to go in, I'm treating. Everybody wants a Frosty. I'm going to go get Frosties. And one of the security guys, said, No, you're not. I said, Yeah, I am. I mean, it's a truck stop. How much trouble am I going to get in in a truck stop? Everybody here you can trust. You're not going in. I went in, but I had to bring the swat team with me and so I'm just, I just want to Frosty, please, the guy standing next to me, who, by the way, I may point out. Had food in his hair, is a truck driver and he turned around. He looked at me and the recognition was immediate and he said, You racist bigot! And I just said -- I wanted to say, I think you have me mistaken for someone else, but I knew he knew who I was and he just hated me for who I was. You conservatives that have destroyed this country! And the hatred was so deep, it was breath taking. Luckily the swat team was there and I just separated myself from him and he just shouted through other people and there were children in the restaurant and he blamed me for everything, I believe including the Holocaust, and the hatred was palpable. The guy screamed at the restaurant, you better not let me see you in the parking lot because I've got a truck and I'll run your ass over! Wow. Is this who we've become? Is this who we've become? The TV and radio personality recently signed a deal to jump to Fox News, where he will host the 5PM hour starting in spring 2009. huffingtonpost.com

To: koan who wrote (44909)	11/17/2008 6:25:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The geese in Seattle practice flying in V formation during the fall and winter months but never go anywhere. They take off from a lake, fly in a huge circle, and then land back on the lake. I guess they are staying in shape in case we have a global freezing. <g>

To: koan who wrote (44909)	11/18/2008 11:02:56 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I was there moose hunting. We didn't kill any-lol. So it was a late September fall evening near dusk with a few orange and red clouds and clear and cold. We were in the cabin and heard this weird noise and couldn't tell what it was. So we went outside and looked around, but saw nothing and then one person looked up and what a sight to behold. Thousands of geese, very very high up, maybe a mile, coming to a central spot right over our heads. They were flying in from all directions and were really squawking up a storm like they were stoked-lol. They were still coming as it turned dark, but I assume as they got together they headed south. That sounds like a great experience. In the 50's I witnessed thousands of ducks landing in NJ marshland. Haven't seen that since. Want to go to Nebraska to a preserve on the Platte River in the Spring and see the annual rest stop of the ______ Cranes migration back to to Canada. Heard that is really something. Think one can go in the Fall also and watch when they stop to eat/rest on their way south.