http://walrustalk.com The Testimony and Other Writings of Paul D. Cardin Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:51:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to to Walrus Talk. I used to think that what I had to say needed to be read. I now know that what I have to say just needs to be written. Some interesting and funny things have happened to me along the way.  And also some very unfunny things.  One of my ... http://walrustalk.com/general/welcome-to-walrus-talk/ I just couldn't pass this up. Enjoy. http://walrustalk.com/general/all-things-walrus/ Welcome to the People's Republic of Wall Street! I can see it now.  In business schools across the nation.......... Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations will be replaced with the Quotations from Chairman Mao. http://walrustalk.com/general/maos-little-red-book/ (Published as The Power Within Us, 1944) Your Majesty, I am that Nunez Cabeza De Vaca who lately sent you a Relation of his shipwrecks and mis-chances during the eight years he was absent from your dominions. In painful doubt whether my words were clear enough, I write again. My meanings being ... http://walrustalk.com/healing/a-letter-to-the-king-of-spain-by-cabeza-de-vaca-an-interlinear-translation-by-haniel-long/ CNN has an interactive map where you can chose which candidate will win state by state.  Oklahoma, of course, is Red.  I turned it Blue just to see what it looks like.  It looks idiotic.    Oklahoma does not mean "Home of the Blue Man" http://walrustalk.com/politics/home-of-the-blue-man/ [The following was presented by Oklahoma State Senator Connie Johnson at the funeral of Col. Robert D. Anderson, USAF Retired on September 15, 2008, at Crossing Community Church in Oklahoma City] Citation of Condolence Whereas, Bob Anderson, a devoted husband, loving father, and friend to the fatherless, was not only a hearer ... http://walrustalk.com/ocaf/citation-of-condence-from-the-oklahoma-state-senate/ [Bob Anderson's obituary was published in the Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 edition of The Oklahoman] Retired Colonel Robert "Bob" Anderson passed away Sept 9, 2008 in Oklahoma City.  He was born June 3, 1929 in Topeka, Kansas to Theodore Cryder Anderson and Winifred (McCollough) Anderson.  Bob spent most his childhood in ... http://walrustalk.com/ocaf/bob-andersons-obituary/ My good friend Bob Anderson died on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008.  He was 79. http://walrustalk.com/ocaf/col-robert-d-anderson-us-air-force-retired/ This may be the funniest joke I've ever heard.  This is my version. --------------------------------------------------- It seems a man in Topeka, Kansas, decides to write a book about churches around the country. He starts by flying to San Francisco and working east from there. He goes to a very large church and begins taking ... http://walrustalk.com/general/the-golden-telephone/ The story you are about to read has absolutely nothing to do with current political or social events. And it happened so long ago it cannot possibly be relevant to anything or anybody. But it remains one of the funniest situations in which I have ever found myself, and, as ... http://walrustalk.com/general/mansfield/