Sorry everyone. The reason the ski’s haven’t been blogging as mightly as before is becuase we were busy preparing for and celebrating Dyngus Day!Dyngus Day is a secret Polish-American holiday always held on the day after Easter. I say secret because no one outside of the northeast or midwest knows about it ~ and most within the northeast and midwest don’t know about it either for that matter! It is sort of the Polish version of Mardi Gras in that a blowout celebration is held, in this case it is after Lent and not before.
But wait, it gets better.
Dyngus Day provides an outlet for singles to express their desire to get to know another person a little bit better. This is accomplished by men sprinkling women with water and women tapping men with pussy willow branches. If you are Polish, this just seems sensible. If you are not Polish, you will never be able to understand, trust me.
ever since the ’skis visited alaska in 2006, we’ve been following sarah palin’s governorship very closely.
palin has a pretty interesting story: she is a mother of 4 and her husband is an oil worker on the north slope. he races snowmachines. she got her start in politics by serving as a mayor of a small town. she was miss alaska.
she caught our attention in 2006 because she beat an incumbent governor (frank murkowski) in the primaries. she went on to beat tony knowles (very seasoned and well-known alaskan) to be governor. since taking office, she has enjoyed an approval rating that has gone as high as 90%. she has been in vogue magazine and has been dubbed “america’s hottest governor.” lately, she has been mentioned as a possible running mate for john mccain. a blogger has started a “draft palin for vp” movement. the weekly standard and even bush has mentioned that she would be a possible candidate for mccain’s running mate.
so, with all of the buzz about palin’s future, you can imagine the shock when she dropped this news at a press conference last week.
that’s right. the 45 year old governor is preggers. not just prego. she’s 7 mths along….and no one could tell.
interesting news from the last frontier. a 45 year with her fifth child on the way…… i just hope my sister doesn’t get any ideas!!!!
The ski’s would like to officially endorse Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. On the morning of this very important day, we would like to give the voters of Ohio and Texas the following reasons to vote for Senator Clinton:
As Bill Richardson stated on Sunday during the show Face the Nation, this is D-Day for the Clinton Campaign.
Can the battle hardened veteran legions of the Hillary Camp successfully storm Obama beach and wrestle control of the Democratic party from the clutches of Barrack’s untried grass root volunteers? Only time will tell. As with the storming of the beaches of Normany many years ago, much did not go as planned but in the end the beaches were taken. So with that said, can Hillary pull this off?
Whatever happens, tonight is going to be one heck of a news watching experience. Oh and even if Richardson was a bit of a wimp to not endorse a candidate either way, he does score points for the metaphor.
For those of you that did not pay attention to the news today, or don’t pay attention to the news in general, you definitely need to check out the video below that shows a German Lufthansa A320 struggling to land in a wind storm outside of Hamburg Germany yesterday. Good lord! That pilot did an amazing job pulling out of that potential nightmare!
I’d like to say, and to think, that most pilots would be able to escape a situation like that, but something tells me that realistically, that isn’t the case. Probably a few pilots from the British, Japanese, German and American airlines could definitely do a repeat of this. Now if the pilot was from Belarus or Ecuador, not so sure about that one….
Anyways, so I wonder what was racing through that pilots mind while he was confronted with this situation, in fact I wonder what was going through the minds of the mostly German (stoic) passengers on that plane! I mean, if I was on that plane, the aircraft wouldn’t be less then two miles away from the landing strip when I’d be screaming at the top of my lungs “ABORT!!! ABORT!!!” (in between my high pitched squeals of displeasure mind you!)
Regardless, hat’s off to those pilots. I just hope Lufthansa gives these pilots more than a few extra weiss wursts and leben kuchen for Christmas this year!
To further my “culturalification” while living here in the “Hub” of New England, I took in a Levon Helm concert last night. A great night of listening to blues, country, and folk all mixed up into one great jamming session. For those that don’t know who ole Levon is, you may recall that he was the drummer in the group called “The Band.” Also, you may recall that Levon played the role of “Mr. Rate” within the movie Shooter. (The real reason why I went to his concert)
Take a look at his 2007 album entitled, “Dirt Farmer.” Some good stuff.
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