Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?

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SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken, cleaned and dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch.

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where’s my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented chickens.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken’s intentions. I am not for it now and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken doesn’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he’s guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken 2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

this is one of those email forwards that I thought was pretty funny. I did NOT write this.

FREE BOOKS ON SEEKERVILLE

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Single Sashimi

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Single Sashimi is book three in Camy Tang’s Sushi Series. Fast paced, funny, romantic chick lit set in an American Asian family. I’ve read all three books and loved them. Single Sashimi is my favorite of them all.
Venus, is the career-minded, of the cousins.. She’s beautiful and hard driving and very successful…until she gets passed over for a promotion…to a job she’s already doing. In the male dominated world of video games, Venus has proved herself an equal to any man, but she can’t quite convince her jerk of a boss that she’s not just another pretty face.
When the promotion doesn’t come through, not only is an incompetent underling given her job, and his now her boss, but the new boss restructures the company so she still has to do his job, and now do her own job, too. Leaving him little to do except collect his hefty paycheck.
Venus gets a job offer that is a huge step down. But she needs to step somewhere before she explodes. But the only offer in town is from Drake, who was her boss once before, and lost her when he asked her to do something disgusting to please a client.
Venus can’t get a break.
Drake swears he’s changed. He vows to give Venus the freedom to run his sister’s start-up company with complete freedom. He apologizes sincerely and often for the mistakes of the past.
And still Venus can hardly look at the man without strangling him.
It only makes it worse that he’s the most attractive man Venus has ever seen.
And then comes Venus’s grandmother. The meddling matchmaker, who has more business connections than any bossy little Asian lady ought to have. And she’ll use them to help Venus get back on her feet, if only Venus will do Grandmother the tiny favor of dating the man Grandmother says she should.
I had so much fun visiting Camy Tang's strong-willed Asian cousins again. I am so hopeful this series isn't over. Single Sashimi is my favorite so far, and I loved the other books. Funny, fast paced, great characters, great plot, great romance.
I loved this book. I love Venus. I'm even starting to like Grandma...a little. A must read.

Find out more at: http://camys-loft.blogspot.com/; http://www.camytang.com/

Okay this is just GROSS-Lobotomies

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Today's post on Petticoats and Pistols is on (what else) lobotomies.

No, not my own, shut up!

Check it out at this link below or click on the title of this post

for way more than you ever wanted to know about lobotomies.

Diamond Duo by Marcia Gruver

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http://www.marciagruver.com/

http://www.yieldedquill.blogspot.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Texas-Fortunes-Trilogy-Book/dp/1602602050/

More about Marcia's book

A Latte and Some Words

A Little Bit of Sunlight

Anne Greene

Be a Barnabas

Book Splurge

BookingIt

Cara’s Musings

Dawn Michelle Michals at ShoutLife

Erica at ShoutLife

Fictionary

God With Us - Finding Joy

Horizontal Yo-Yo

Janice Olsen

Lighthouse Academy

Marthawrites

Mary Connealy - real life

My Christian Fiction Blog

Net’s Notes

On The Write Path

Pam Krumpe

Patti’s Porch

Readin N Writin

Simple Living Christian Style

Tamara Lynn Kraft

Terri Tiffany

The Friendly Book Nook

The Writer’s Tool

Writing by Faith

Trip on a Narrow Gage Railroad

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wonderful, rugged vistas from the train. We went to 10,000 feet and allllllll the way back down to about 5000. Pratically sea level!
Me and Kathleen Y'Barbo havin' a good time, but note the coats. It got a little cold up there. Snow and one kinda lazy bald eagle and quaking aspen trees and pines and just stunning beauty.
Tried to catch the whole train in a picture. There were plenty of curves and lots of steep uphill climbing. Someone had to stoke coal into the engine the whole way. There's a job for me if writing doesn't work out!!!!
The Cumbria Toltec Narrow Gage Railroad. Fun and beautiful and so interesting.

WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK

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Today is my day on Petticoats and Pistols.

Stop by for my blog about my new book Buffalo Gal and my bold experience of TOUCHING A BUFFALO--with my bare hand.

http://petticoatsandpistols.com/2008/10/10/when-animals-attack/

My Day on Seekerville

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http://seekerville.blogspot.com/2008/10/word-pictures.html

Talking about writing mostly

but a bit about

Buffalo Gal

coming this month from

Heartsong Presents.

And I just got my cover for

book #2 in

the South Dakota contemporary series.

Clueless Cowboy

I love this cover.

Note the dirty jeans

The big old house behind them

These two have quite a time finding True Love.

Writer's Heaven?

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Writers' Heaven and Hell
A writer died and was given the option of going to heaven or hell.
She decided to check out each place first.
As the writer descended into thefiery pits, she saw row upon row of writers chained to their desks in asteaming sweatshop.
As they worked, they were repeatedly whipped with thornylashes.
"Oh my," said the writer. "Let me see heaven now."

A few moments later, as she ascended into heaven, she saw rows of writers, chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop.
As they worked, they, too,were whipped with thorny lashes.
"Wait a minute," cried the writer. "This is just as bad as hell!"
"Oh no, it's not," replied an unseen voice. "Here, your work gets published

musophobes (Look it up!) UNITE!!!

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More about the cozy mysteries here:

http://spyglasslane.blogspot.com/

Wasting Away in Seekerville

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We're right on the edge of our

BIRTHDAY MONTH.

So next month is gonna be BIG in Seekerville.

Lots of prizes,

lots of special guests,

lots of fun.

~~~HOWEVER~~~

Tomorrow is my day and it isn't

BIRTHDAY MONTH YET!!!!!!

So I gave myself an easy day.

Stop by for some laid back fun today on

SEEKERVILLE

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First Look at Nosy in Nebraska cover

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Nosy in Nebraska

A three book anthology of romantic comedy cozy mysteries.

Coming in June 09

Click on the cover to make it bigger and see the covers of all three books as they'll be in the Heartsong Presents Mysteries Bookclub.

Find out more about joining the club at

http://www.heartsongmysteries.com/

OF MICE...AND MURDER
Being named in Great-grandma’s will was like hitting bankrupt on Wheel of Fortune. The whole family held their breath while the wheel ticked around and around, or rather while the lawyer opened the envelope. Then they all heaved a sigh of relief when the wheel stopped on Carrie’s name. Carrie the heiress. Great. Clean up the house. Clean up the yard. Clean up Great-grandma’s rap sheet.
Carrie hates mice and loves the big city. So why is she living in a huge mouse infested house in her dinky hometown, Melnik, Nebraska? The town whose mascot is Maxie, the World's Largest Field Mouse. The dead guy in her pantry closet is the most interesting thing that's happened since she came home. Of course the carpenter who's helping her trap her mice and solve the crime is pretty interesting, too.

PRIDE AND PESTILENCE
Joe Manning comes to town to finally meet his dead beat dad, only to find his father has been murdered.
Bonnie is attacked while she's at work in the Melnik Historical Society Museum, proud home of Maxie the World's Largest Field Mouse. Only her attacker now claims it was an accident, and he claims he's never seen the guy before who's dead in Bonnie's store room.
Bonnie wants to be suspicious but once he stopped attacking her he turns out to be pretty sweet. And lots of people had a motive to kill Sven Gunderson - including Bonnie herself. Gunderson, the true owner of Maxie, wanted his mouse back.
In Melnik, that means war!

THE MICEMAN COMETH
Tyler Simpson is opening a new law office and he's home to stay.
The very British Dr. Madeline Stuart is writing an anthropology doctoral thesis about a small town that worships an oversized rodent. Success with her project should lead to her dream job, a full professorship at Oxford... even better, a guest shot on Oprah.
When a body falls out of a cupboard in Tyler's law office, clutching Maddy's necklace in his cold, dead fingers, Maddy gets arrested and Tyler is appointed her attorney.
But once Tyler finds out Maddy's here to betray his beloved Melnik, he isn't giving her his best effort.
And someone out there thinks blaming the murder on Maddy would be a perfect solution to his own problems. And Maddy's more likely to cooperate with being framed - if she's dead.
Maxie the World's Largest Field Mouse must come through one more time to thwart the criminal in his peaceful, if someone mouse-obsessed, hometown.

Barbour Party at ACFW

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This is about 1/4 of the crowd at the Barbour Party at the ACFW Conference.

Starting from the Left with Susan Downs, standing, moving clockwise around the table, Kathy Kovack, Erica Vetsch, Sandra Robbins, Susan Sleeman, Beth Goddard, Rebecca Germany and ME!

Golden Days won Book of the Year

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Me and Erica Vesch after the awards banquet. Erica won the Genesis contest for unpublished writers, except Erica is no longer an unpublished writer. She received a contract from Barbour at the ACFW conference. YAY Erica!!!!!!!!!!!

American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) Book of the Year Winners announced.

2008 Book of the Year Winners:

Debut Author

1.. Sushi for One? (Camy Tang) Zondervan, Sue Brower

2.. Bayou Justice (Robin Miller writing as Robin Caroll)

3.. In Between (Jenny B. Jones)




Contemporary Novella

1.. Finally Home (Deborah Raney) Barbour Publishing, Susan Downs

2.. Moonlight & Mistletoe (Carrie Turansky)

3.. Remaking of Moe McKenna (Gloria Clover)





Historical Novella

1.. Love Notes in Love Letters Anthology (Mary Davis) Barbour Publishing, Rebecca Germany

2.. Beyond the Memories (DiAnn Mills)

3.. The Spinster & The Tycoon (Vickie McDonough)




Lits

1.. Splitting Harriet (Tamara Leigh) Multnomah Books, Julee Schwarzburg

2.. Sushi for One? (Camy Tang)

3.. One Little Secret (Allison Bottke) & The Book of Jane (Anne Dayton & May Vanderbilt)


Long Contemporary

1.. Within This Circle (Deborah Raney) Steeple Hill Books, Krista Stroever

2.. Like Always (Robert Elmer)

3.. Autumn Blue (Karen Harter)



Long Historical

1. Veil of Fire (Marlo Schalesky) RiverOak, editors Jeff Dunn/Jon Woodhams

1. Tie - Where Willows Grow (Kim Vogel Sawyer) Bethany House, editor Charlene Patterson

2. Fancy Pants (Cathy Marie Hake) & Then Came Hope (Louise Gouge)

3. Courting Trouble (Deeanne Gist)




Mystery

1.. Your Chariot Awaits (Lorena McCourtney) Thomas Nelson, Amanda Bostic

2.. Death of a Garage Sale Newbie (Sharon Dunn)

3.. Sticks And Stones (Susan Meissner)



Short Contemporary

1.. The Heart of Grace (Linda Goodnight) Steeple Hill Love Inspired, Allison Lyons

2.. Heart of the Family (Margaret Daley)

3.. Wedded Bliss (Kathleen Y'Barbo)




Short Contemporary Suspense

1.. Caught Redhanded (Gayle Roper) Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense, Krista Stroever

2.. Pursuit of Justice (Pamela Tracy)

3.. Nowhere to Hide (Debby Giusti) & Her Christmas Protector (Terri Reed)


Short Historical

1. Canteen Dreams (Cara Putman) & Golden Days (Mary Connealy) Barbour/Heartsong Presents, JoAnne Simmons

2.. A Wealth Beyond Riches (Vickie McDonough)

3.. A Time to Keep (Kelly Eileen Hake)




Speculative

1.. The Restorer's Son (Sharon Hinck) NavPress, Reagan Reed

2.. Demon: A Memoir (Tosca Lee)

3.. DragonFire (Donita Paul)




Suspense

1.. Black Ice (Linda Hall) WaterBrook Press, Traci DePree

2.. Coral Moon (Brandilyn Collins)

3.. Abomination (Colleen Coble)


Women's Fiction

1.. Remember to Forget (Deborah Raney) Howard Books/Simon & Schuster, Philis Boultinghouse

2.. Watercolored Pearls (Stacy Hawkins Adams)

3.. A Promise To Remember (Kathryn Cushman)




Young Adult

1.. In Between (Jenny B. Jones) NavPress, Jamie Chavez

2.. Sara Jane: Liberty's Torch (Eleanor Clark)

3.. Saving Sailor (Renee Riva)

Let There be Lite

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I'm in this months Afictionado magazine with my humor column.

(I know, I know, you'll be the judge of that)

Check it out.

http://www.acfw.com/ezine/cgi-bin/sep08.pl?record=5

Great Calico Canyon Review

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Click on this link for one of the nicest reviews on

Calico Canyon

so far. :)

http://www.titletrakk.com/book-reviews/calico-canyon-review-connealy.htm

BUFFALO GAL COVER

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I included the front and back version of the cover because I like the back cover copy.

Coming soon from Heartsong Presents.