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Here's a quote I really love. This was taken from the Opinion Journal of the Wall Street Journal:

Speaking of which, the Associated Press has a delightful quote from the Saudi ambassador to Washington:

"It's amazing how people who were doing everything possible to derail the success" of the Iraq war now "feel they have the right" to reconstruction contracts, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan said. "It just takes so much chutzpah."

Did he say "chutzpah"? Who knew Prince Bandar was Jewish?

Chutzpah? The next thing you know, he'll be getting Bar Mitzvah'd!!! Well, I for one would say L'Chaim to that!

On a more serious note, I'm glad that Hussein is in custody. I just hope his interrogation is long and painful. I hope that he "accidentally" dies in interrogation, and is never even given the option of a trial before a death sentence. For the truly heinous ass-darts, trials do nothing but prolong the pain and suffering of the victims. Some people just need to be retired.

Now, changing subjects: Should I give a restaurant that has pissed me off a second chance? I have finally (after 2 attempts) gotten Summits Wayside Tavern to respond to my feedback related to the utterly horrible service that we received at their Cumming location last Spring. They've even gone so far as to offer us a gift certificate to come back and try them again. Do they deserve a second chance? I did say that it would be a long time before I would ever return there, if ever. And it has been a long time. Can the promise of free beer and chicken wings really soften me? You betcha! Free equals good.

To this day, we have not gone back to another Hardee's restaurant after their unbelievable act of stupidity in 1992 or 1993. Their lack of synaptic connections and room-temperature IQs has cost them business permanently. I have no patience for restaurants who can't even serve the food that I ordered and paid for, the way that I ordered it. When I say I don't want tomato on my sandwich, dammit, I mean it!

Has there been some law passed since 1990 that has made it a crime to think in this country, or otherwise use your supposedly advanced brain functions to do what's expected of you? While I know that I am FAR from perfect (like 20,000,000 lights years from it), I at least know the FIRST principle of customer service: The customer is ALWAYS right, even when they're wrong.

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