The View just had kids and internet stuff on the show. The had people on to discuss the problems and dangers kids find, but nobody say to keep kids off line, or to restrict their access. The just recommended trying to follow their site histories, and mentioned a group that can track them through their emails. Why do kids need so much access in the first place. Why do they need cell phones and text messaging? This stuff isn't doing them any good in any way. We're raising a generation with no social or education skills. Or very limited and skewed abilities. Any kid who thinks that text talk goes over well in employment is just so wrong. And they all will. Why? Kids can't think, that's why. It's what makes them kids. They haven't spent even 1 minute as an adult yet. What would they know? And they all think they know it all.
The Duggars, the family with 18 kids, keep strict controls on the sites their kids can access. It can be done. Only a couple of kids know the password for their acceptable sites and have to get the littler kids on line. They use the net for education resources since they homeschool, maybe some games, I don't know. But if they can control 18 kids, anybody can control one or two or 3 or 10.
Why would people let their 14 year olds have facebook and myspace pages in the first place? It's pure madness. They'd be spending their lives policing their kids, uh, explorations.
Friday, February 6, 2009
ah, I see
Kelly's yellow dress was from last May. There were taped portions on the show today, but I missed the first 15 minutes so didn't realize it till somebody mentioned the date. At least something makes sense to me.
So, you can't face having to cook all that much? Add a day or two a week. How else do you spend that could be changed? Clothes? Quit buying them. Or add a jacket or vest to change things up some. Just wear them for an extra season and see that you won't die. Quit taking expensive vacations. Tour locally, less days, cheaper venues. If people don't have to cut living expenses, they don't have to do anything at all. Stay home on vacations and repaint the kitchen. We seem to waste a lot of time and money from not thinking and believing we have to have more, that we're entitled to more, like 8 bathrooms.
I think what I do with several of the other bathrooms, assuming that all bedrooms have one each, with 3 or 4 other bathrooms somewhere (no floor plans were available) is to try to figure out how to make the bedrooms bigger. Especially for kids' rooms, have a play/craft type area, toy storage, make a bigger closet if the on there is small. For older people, a desk, sitting area might be nice. It really depends on the number and ages of people living in the house. But if kids can't share a bathroom, there's a problem somewhere.
But I'd be planning a house for one. Me. And the dogs and cats and whatever happened to be around. I'd need a lot of cleanable surfaces. A big great room/kitchen area is where I'd mostly live. With a tv, pc or mac, a refectory table and couch, accidedntal tables somewhere. I'd probably do things for resale like a formal livingroom and dinning room, but don't see using them. 4 bedrooms, the standard master w/bath, all 4 with walk-in closets and none smaller than 12 by 12.
With an upstairs, I'd put a laundry up, near the bedrooms where the clothes are. Probably a full bath downstaris near the kitchen for dog washing reasons mostly. Washable floors, please. Ever live with dogs?
There's been a house tour on Hooked on Houses this past week that I found very interesting. One of the houses, a Tudor style had some features I'd look for. Dark panneling and dark wood staircase. One had some windows that bugged me a lot and I'd look to avoid. They look like a series of checkerboards, 9 over 9 pannels on 3 sets of windows plus french doors all in a row. Just too busy. The last house has curtains I like. Most window treatments look absurd and overly formal to me, the plain, simple full length/cafe style suits me better. But those houses are really too big for me and a few pets. There is some planning involved for resale value, but it doesn't have to be out of the ordinary. It just needs to be livable to an ordinary number and sort of persons.
The Tudor house, I think it was, had a really bad kitchen. Almost no work space, butlers pantry for storage, but I'd want adequate (meaning lots) of work area. It's surrounded by sitting areas, but looks really small and useless for cooking.
So, you can't face having to cook all that much? Add a day or two a week. How else do you spend that could be changed? Clothes? Quit buying them. Or add a jacket or vest to change things up some. Just wear them for an extra season and see that you won't die. Quit taking expensive vacations. Tour locally, less days, cheaper venues. If people don't have to cut living expenses, they don't have to do anything at all. Stay home on vacations and repaint the kitchen. We seem to waste a lot of time and money from not thinking and believing we have to have more, that we're entitled to more, like 8 bathrooms.
I think what I do with several of the other bathrooms, assuming that all bedrooms have one each, with 3 or 4 other bathrooms somewhere (no floor plans were available) is to try to figure out how to make the bedrooms bigger. Especially for kids' rooms, have a play/craft type area, toy storage, make a bigger closet if the on there is small. For older people, a desk, sitting area might be nice. It really depends on the number and ages of people living in the house. But if kids can't share a bathroom, there's a problem somewhere.
But I'd be planning a house for one. Me. And the dogs and cats and whatever happened to be around. I'd need a lot of cleanable surfaces. A big great room/kitchen area is where I'd mostly live. With a tv, pc or mac, a refectory table and couch, accidedntal tables somewhere. I'd probably do things for resale like a formal livingroom and dinning room, but don't see using them. 4 bedrooms, the standard master w/bath, all 4 with walk-in closets and none smaller than 12 by 12.
With an upstairs, I'd put a laundry up, near the bedrooms where the clothes are. Probably a full bath downstaris near the kitchen for dog washing reasons mostly. Washable floors, please. Ever live with dogs?
There's been a house tour on Hooked on Houses this past week that I found very interesting. One of the houses, a Tudor style had some features I'd look for. Dark panneling and dark wood staircase. One had some windows that bugged me a lot and I'd look to avoid. They look like a series of checkerboards, 9 over 9 pannels on 3 sets of windows plus french doors all in a row. Just too busy. The last house has curtains I like. Most window treatments look absurd and overly formal to me, the plain, simple full length/cafe style suits me better. But those houses are really too big for me and a few pets. There is some planning involved for resale value, but it doesn't have to be out of the ordinary. It just needs to be livable to an ordinary number and sort of persons.
The Tudor house, I think it was, had a really bad kitchen. Almost no work space, butlers pantry for storage, but I'd want adequate (meaning lots) of work area. It's surrounded by sitting areas, but looks really small and useless for cooking.
economy
All this economy talk has really been raising memories.
My mother was especially thrifty. My father tried, but he tended towards flamboyance a bit. He got oriental carpets, for example, and made chipino. But he wore his clothes until they were rags and bought used cars and straighted out bent nails to reuse, etc.
But food was really a big savings area at home.
Mom used to dilute whole milk half and half with powdered. She'd mix up 2 quarts of powdered and add 2 quarts on whole (she used two marked pitchers, gradiated in cups and quarts for ease). Is it cheaper? I don't know, can't do that kind of math.
I keep powdered milk now for baking. Saves running to the store, can't taste any difference, no fat, and likely cheaper. Very handy, I've found.
They'd plan for leftovers. Dad used to take left-over pot roast to make beef hash. He cooked the carrots, potatoes and onions with the meat. Then he'd chop the meat very fine and grate the carrots and potatoes, chop the onion and moisten with gravy. Heat in a frying pan to achieve a crust or not, easy, fast and tasty. Season, of course, to taste.
A roast can make several meals and sandwiches. So can roast chicken, which we never had, but mom's fried chicken, really browned and steamed, made lovely sandwiches for a couple of days.
Make twice as much of things that can be frozen, freeze half for the next month and that's another meal mostly done. Spaghetti sauce, meatloaf, many soups and stews, lasagna, etc, can all be made ahead and divided into meal portions.
We had very few packaged foods. Cookies, sometimes, but mom and I both baked.
Buy extra when on sale of things you know you use. Meat and canned goods work well here. People don't have to be mega shopping savers to make a difference in their budgets. It's mostly about a change of thinking, anyway, leading to a change of action.
With leftovers, there's usually something to pack for school and work lunches. Eating at home can save a fortune. Is Starbucks a necessity or a preference. Save it for specail occasions. Is that a real or percieved sacrifice? How expensive is convienience and thoughtless living?
Buy used. Not food. Clothes, toys, books, etc. Or quit buying. Games, movies (rent instead), cute shoes, stuff, whatever.
My mom would make meatless meals once in a while. Spanish rice, and a spread for french bread made of canned chilies, cheddar, green onions and a little mayo, heated to preferend doneness. Easy and cheap. She also always made salad and vegetables, mostly fresh in later years, but few canned and some frozen early on.
Bubble and Squeak appeals to me as a meatless meal. I like potatoes and cabbage, chopped small and fried like the hash. That's vegetables and potatoes are filling. Easy enough to add some fruit salad or other vegetable and bread to round it out. Would people really miss the meat that much? Some probably would. Add some bacon on the side, maybe. Still easy.
Easy fruit salad and probably cheap. A can of fruit salad, drained, mixed with apple, banana, pear, grapes, Mandrine oranges, whatever. A little mayo (my mother's way), I used fruit yoghurt usually, little nutmeg or curry powder if liked (I don't). Easy, fast, convienent and maybe even cheaper than all fresh fruit and it's gotta be somwhat cheaper expecially for out of fruit season times. This is stuff people can and do keep on hand as well.
I usually cook extra potatoes. I boil them unpeeled, eat one or two, use the rest for fried potatoes or salad. I'm much more likely to make things if the food's mostly ready.
I hardboil 6 to 8 eggs at a time. Good for egg salad and gratting into tuna salad, or deviled eggs. But there're there. Sometimes I snack on them. Already ready to go.
When I make chicken stock, I boil a whole chicken and use the meat for several dishes, many to be frozen. The stock is great to freeze for recipes, use for soup, chicken and
dumplings, what ever sounds good.
Mix up baking mix to replace bisquick. Keep the dry ingredients in a bucket, then just add the liquids as using. My mom used Bisquick for dumplings (great on any soupy, stewy meal) and strawberry short cake. Maybe for waffles and pancakes at one time, too, don't remember. There's a good looking recipe at Chickens in the Road for it and I've seen several on the web.
Effective living is about thought. Effective thinking. Justifing what we do to continue the doing is what digs the ditches in life.
Kelly on Regis and Kelly has on a really pretty dress and she looks great in it. But it's wrong. It's a sleeveless, light yellow that looks like spring. See? I don't get 8 bathrooms or fashion. It's gray and rainy here today and her dress makes me extra cold.
My mother was especially thrifty. My father tried, but he tended towards flamboyance a bit. He got oriental carpets, for example, and made chipino. But he wore his clothes until they were rags and bought used cars and straighted out bent nails to reuse, etc.
But food was really a big savings area at home.
Mom used to dilute whole milk half and half with powdered. She'd mix up 2 quarts of powdered and add 2 quarts on whole (she used two marked pitchers, gradiated in cups and quarts for ease). Is it cheaper? I don't know, can't do that kind of math.
I keep powdered milk now for baking. Saves running to the store, can't taste any difference, no fat, and likely cheaper. Very handy, I've found.
They'd plan for leftovers. Dad used to take left-over pot roast to make beef hash. He cooked the carrots, potatoes and onions with the meat. Then he'd chop the meat very fine and grate the carrots and potatoes, chop the onion and moisten with gravy. Heat in a frying pan to achieve a crust or not, easy, fast and tasty. Season, of course, to taste.
A roast can make several meals and sandwiches. So can roast chicken, which we never had, but mom's fried chicken, really browned and steamed, made lovely sandwiches for a couple of days.
Make twice as much of things that can be frozen, freeze half for the next month and that's another meal mostly done. Spaghetti sauce, meatloaf, many soups and stews, lasagna, etc, can all be made ahead and divided into meal portions.
We had very few packaged foods. Cookies, sometimes, but mom and I both baked.
Buy extra when on sale of things you know you use. Meat and canned goods work well here. People don't have to be mega shopping savers to make a difference in their budgets. It's mostly about a change of thinking, anyway, leading to a change of action.
With leftovers, there's usually something to pack for school and work lunches. Eating at home can save a fortune. Is Starbucks a necessity or a preference. Save it for specail occasions. Is that a real or percieved sacrifice? How expensive is convienience and thoughtless living?
Buy used. Not food. Clothes, toys, books, etc. Or quit buying. Games, movies (rent instead), cute shoes, stuff, whatever.
My mom would make meatless meals once in a while. Spanish rice, and a spread for french bread made of canned chilies, cheddar, green onions and a little mayo, heated to preferend doneness. Easy and cheap. She also always made salad and vegetables, mostly fresh in later years, but few canned and some frozen early on.
Bubble and Squeak appeals to me as a meatless meal. I like potatoes and cabbage, chopped small and fried like the hash. That's vegetables and potatoes are filling. Easy enough to add some fruit salad or other vegetable and bread to round it out. Would people really miss the meat that much? Some probably would. Add some bacon on the side, maybe. Still easy.
Easy fruit salad and probably cheap. A can of fruit salad, drained, mixed with apple, banana, pear, grapes, Mandrine oranges, whatever. A little mayo (my mother's way), I used fruit yoghurt usually, little nutmeg or curry powder if liked (I don't). Easy, fast, convienent and maybe even cheaper than all fresh fruit and it's gotta be somwhat cheaper expecially for out of fruit season times. This is stuff people can and do keep on hand as well.
I usually cook extra potatoes. I boil them unpeeled, eat one or two, use the rest for fried potatoes or salad. I'm much more likely to make things if the food's mostly ready.
I hardboil 6 to 8 eggs at a time. Good for egg salad and gratting into tuna salad, or deviled eggs. But there're there. Sometimes I snack on them. Already ready to go.
When I make chicken stock, I boil a whole chicken and use the meat for several dishes, many to be frozen. The stock is great to freeze for recipes, use for soup, chicken and
dumplings, what ever sounds good.
Mix up baking mix to replace bisquick. Keep the dry ingredients in a bucket, then just add the liquids as using. My mom used Bisquick for dumplings (great on any soupy, stewy meal) and strawberry short cake. Maybe for waffles and pancakes at one time, too, don't remember. There's a good looking recipe at Chickens in the Road for it and I've seen several on the web.
Effective living is about thought. Effective thinking. Justifing what we do to continue the doing is what digs the ditches in life.
Kelly on Regis and Kelly has on a really pretty dress and she looks great in it. But it's wrong. It's a sleeveless, light yellow that looks like spring. See? I don't get 8 bathrooms or fashion. It's gray and rainy here today and her dress makes me extra cold.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
new word
frisson - a French word for a thril or shiver of pleasure.
I saw 'frissance' used and asked about it. This is apparently an anglicized version. Not exactly a real word but a terrific one.
So I'm having a frissance. I got a book today. But almost better than that, I got my liscense renewed. Had to go to DMV. It's been years since I've been. They moved. They didn't tell me. Fortunately, the lady in the same building knew where they went and I got directions. Only had to pass the eye test. Bet next time it's the written or some other equal torture. To top it off, bet I don't even pass the eye test next time. I'm good for now. Till the next thing.
But with all that time sitting around at DMV, I figured out what I do with the excess bathroom problem.
I'd take the least interesting bedroom in a 5 bedroom house and turning it into a laundry room, take out the bathroom fixtures and add washer/dryer and possibly an extra hot water heater. If possible, I'd line the closet with cedar and use it for seasonal clothes and long-term linen storage. It would be nice to have a folding table and ironing board set up, with extra storage pieces. For stuff. And things.
Now about those other 7 bathrooms, I don't know quite. It's just too many bathrooms. How much time are people (other than teenagers) spending in bathrooms? Families don't practice any kind of togetherness anymore. Uh, I didn't mean in the bathroom at the same time or anything. I get no frissance from excess bathrooms. No frisson, either.
But I did get frissance and frisson from my new book. It's "Gods and Goddesses" by Crusie, Stuart and Rich. Available in grocery stores nation wide. Also probably in bookstores, but I got a copy at the grocery. It's down the street from DMV. So I got frozen dinners, too. Since I already paid bills, I figured I deserved a treat? Truthfully, I just wanted some potatoes and gravy. With meat. All suffering deserves a frissance of relief now and then, and please. Nobody try to tell me that DMV isn't all about suffering.
I saw 'frissance' used and asked about it. This is apparently an anglicized version. Not exactly a real word but a terrific one.
So I'm having a frissance. I got a book today. But almost better than that, I got my liscense renewed. Had to go to DMV. It's been years since I've been. They moved. They didn't tell me. Fortunately, the lady in the same building knew where they went and I got directions. Only had to pass the eye test. Bet next time it's the written or some other equal torture. To top it off, bet I don't even pass the eye test next time. I'm good for now. Till the next thing.
But with all that time sitting around at DMV, I figured out what I do with the excess bathroom problem.
I'd take the least interesting bedroom in a 5 bedroom house and turning it into a laundry room, take out the bathroom fixtures and add washer/dryer and possibly an extra hot water heater. If possible, I'd line the closet with cedar and use it for seasonal clothes and long-term linen storage. It would be nice to have a folding table and ironing board set up, with extra storage pieces. For stuff. And things.
Now about those other 7 bathrooms, I don't know quite. It's just too many bathrooms. How much time are people (other than teenagers) spending in bathrooms? Families don't practice any kind of togetherness anymore. Uh, I didn't mean in the bathroom at the same time or anything. I get no frissance from excess bathrooms. No frisson, either.
But I did get frissance and frisson from my new book. It's "Gods and Goddesses" by Crusie, Stuart and Rich. Available in grocery stores nation wide. Also probably in bookstores, but I got a copy at the grocery. It's down the street from DMV. So I got frozen dinners, too. Since I already paid bills, I figured I deserved a treat? Truthfully, I just wanted some potatoes and gravy. With meat. All suffering deserves a frissance of relief now and then, and please. Nobody try to tell me that DMV isn't all about suffering.
in further news
There is no news. I am currently between blog reading and game playing with nothing to do while I watch tv. It's a sad state.
So I'll blog and bore everyone to death. Just like PETA does.
Only without the bombs and tree spiking.
If lumberjacks catch anyone spiking trees, they'll kill 'em. Nobody would say a word. I wouldn't blame them at all. They're suffereing severe injuries and possibly death. For a cause. Somebody else's cause. They need to feed and house their families. PETA and other naturalists don't bother finding them other work. It's the same as Christians bombing abortion clinics and writing hate mail. Pure ideology is wrong and stupid and destructive. For others, and they risk their own souls.
So now what can I talk about when I have nothing to say about anything? I perhaps can find something. Oh, I just did.
I did look up some more grammar topics. Like/as and bring/take. Like/as is too subtile for me to immediately comphrend, but apparently I've been using bring/take correctly anyway even without knowing which is what. Shocking but true. And yes, I know that's not a complete sentence. It's a style issue. Perhaps.
Haven't been reading "Animals Make Us Human" recently. Still on the horse chapter. I suddenly realized that I don't know how they make us human. Either she hasn't said yet, or I missed it. I probably missed it AND she hasn't said yes. Sometimes all choices are correct.
Maybe not, but I'll say so anyway.
My latest obsession is bathrooms. New houses seem to feature large numbers of bathrooms. 5 bedroom houses regularly have 8 bathrooms. What for? Who for? What's the point? Who'd be using all those bathrooms? They take up a lot of space for nobody to use very often? That's 3 extra bathrooms if every bedroom has one. Why do all bedrooms need a bathroom? Is this part of a life of excess that we all aim for these days? Who wants to clean that many bathrooms? Even it if might most often be dusting?
I honest to God don't get this large number of bathrooms in new construction.
What I do think is handy is to have 2, maybe 3 water heaters. One for laundry. In a big house, maybe 2 for showers and kitchen. I saw that in a appartment of all things. I liked the idea right away.
So I'll blog and bore everyone to death. Just like PETA does.
Only without the bombs and tree spiking.
If lumberjacks catch anyone spiking trees, they'll kill 'em. Nobody would say a word. I wouldn't blame them at all. They're suffereing severe injuries and possibly death. For a cause. Somebody else's cause. They need to feed and house their families. PETA and other naturalists don't bother finding them other work. It's the same as Christians bombing abortion clinics and writing hate mail. Pure ideology is wrong and stupid and destructive. For others, and they risk their own souls.
So now what can I talk about when I have nothing to say about anything? I perhaps can find something. Oh, I just did.
I did look up some more grammar topics. Like/as and bring/take. Like/as is too subtile for me to immediately comphrend, but apparently I've been using bring/take correctly anyway even without knowing which is what. Shocking but true. And yes, I know that's not a complete sentence. It's a style issue. Perhaps.
Haven't been reading "Animals Make Us Human" recently. Still on the horse chapter. I suddenly realized that I don't know how they make us human. Either she hasn't said yet, or I missed it. I probably missed it AND she hasn't said yes. Sometimes all choices are correct.
Maybe not, but I'll say so anyway.
My latest obsession is bathrooms. New houses seem to feature large numbers of bathrooms. 5 bedroom houses regularly have 8 bathrooms. What for? Who for? What's the point? Who'd be using all those bathrooms? They take up a lot of space for nobody to use very often? That's 3 extra bathrooms if every bedroom has one. Why do all bedrooms need a bathroom? Is this part of a life of excess that we all aim for these days? Who wants to clean that many bathrooms? Even it if might most often be dusting?
I honest to God don't get this large number of bathrooms in new construction.
What I do think is handy is to have 2, maybe 3 water heaters. One for laundry. In a big house, maybe 2 for showers and kitchen. I saw that in a appartment of all things. I liked the idea right away.
Monday, February 2, 2009
I really hate
Kate Goslin. She was on Larry King regarding the new octuplets from th woman who has 6 others and said that after the first year, she and her husband were on their own with the kids. Not exactly. There was her sister in law until she blew her off, and then all the nannies the the Jon and Kate plus 8 show pays for. Plus a couple of freebee laundry helpers, and all the free clothes and other stuff people send them. And who knows who else.
Oh, ya. I read somewhere that the show pays for an organic chief for them, too.
If this mom can't make a similar tv deal with her kids, she'll be on welfare. That's not a lot of money to raise 14 kids. Wonder if the public will as generous with her as J and K. She's already got a black eye over this.
And the there's liberal arts. The one degree that leads to exactly 0 jobs. But they could look at all school as liberal arts education, which in many ways it is already with a variety of subjects taught, with an added focus on one particular area, maybe. It doesn't hurt a dental hygenist to know about Faust even if he won't be dropping by for x-rays.
I really should look up dependent and independent clauses. My punctuation is probably not quite as bad as my spelling. But I won't and call it good.
Oh, ya. I read somewhere that the show pays for an organic chief for them, too.
If this mom can't make a similar tv deal with her kids, she'll be on welfare. That's not a lot of money to raise 14 kids. Wonder if the public will as generous with her as J and K. She's already got a black eye over this.
And the there's liberal arts. The one degree that leads to exactly 0 jobs. But they could look at all school as liberal arts education, which in many ways it is already with a variety of subjects taught, with an added focus on one particular area, maybe. It doesn't hurt a dental hygenist to know about Faust even if he won't be dropping by for x-rays.
I really should look up dependent and independent clauses. My punctuation is probably not quite as bad as my spelling. But I won't and call it good.
I didn't do it.
Miss the garbage pick-up. The first truck I heard was the recycle truck. I'd run the can out before it got to this side of the street thinking I'd missed the earlier garbage truck. There wasn't an earlier garbage truck. That one finally came around noon. This is all backwards.
The pick-up used to be tomorrow. The garbage truck got here by 7 a.m. The recycle truck an hour or two later. I can't cope. This is just wrong. But I got the trash picked up, so I won't bitch. Not until next time I forget to get it out on time.
Tom Dashels' taxing moment. Everybody who knows the whole tax code raise your hands....that's what I thought. The right can't, won't give him the benefit of the doubt.
They want to do the fair tax. I think it's the only taxes anyone pays, personal and corporate are on consumer purchases. No social security or withholding from paychecks, etc. No income tax.
That's likely to throw lots of people out on the street. It will, of course, further line the pockets of the wealthy who can buy retirement and health policies. I wonder if they'll buy corporate jets and 2 thousand waste baskets or create new jobs. At what pay rate? Things always sound good on paper. Communisum
did. Pure ideology's dangerous.
And what's wrong with raising taxes on smoking? Nobody should do it anyway. They should leave wine alone since it's really a food item, but cigarettes and hard liquor could handle more taxes. It's not gonna stop either one, anyway.
The pick-up used to be tomorrow. The garbage truck got here by 7 a.m. The recycle truck an hour or two later. I can't cope. This is just wrong. But I got the trash picked up, so I won't bitch. Not until next time I forget to get it out on time.
Tom Dashels' taxing moment. Everybody who knows the whole tax code raise your hands....that's what I thought. The right can't, won't give him the benefit of the doubt.
They want to do the fair tax. I think it's the only taxes anyone pays, personal and corporate are on consumer purchases. No social security or withholding from paychecks, etc. No income tax.
That's likely to throw lots of people out on the street. It will, of course, further line the pockets of the wealthy who can buy retirement and health policies. I wonder if they'll buy corporate jets and 2 thousand waste baskets or create new jobs. At what pay rate? Things always sound good on paper. Communisum
did. Pure ideology's dangerous.
And what's wrong with raising taxes on smoking? Nobody should do it anyway. They should leave wine alone since it's really a food item, but cigarettes and hard liquor could handle more taxes. It's not gonna stop either one, anyway.
Hilary
Hilary's being sworn in as we speak. So to speak.
I'm really happy for her. She deserves good things. She's worked a lot, suffered a lot, all for a country who often doesn't appreciate her, bad-mouths her and her family, and often call her Mrs. Clinton instead of Senator or Madam Secretary. She's tougher than the rest of us put together. The right could at least appreciate her duty and sacrifice for US. No matter what crap people throw at her. They could show some appreciation, some respect. That's what they want from the left. They need to give what they want returned. Isn't that the Christian thing to, way to be? Do unto others? Or something. Maybe. Or maybe not. It wouldn't be Republican.
I'm really happy for her. She deserves good things. She's worked a lot, suffered a lot, all for a country who often doesn't appreciate her, bad-mouths her and her family, and often call her Mrs. Clinton instead of Senator or Madam Secretary. She's tougher than the rest of us put together. The right could at least appreciate her duty and sacrifice for US. No matter what crap people throw at her. They could show some appreciation, some respect. That's what they want from the left. They need to give what they want returned. Isn't that the Christian thing to, way to be? Do unto others? Or something. Maybe. Or maybe not. It wouldn't be Republican.
Michael Phelps, well.
Smoking a bong is hardly murder, never the less, it's not exactly legal. The anti-Phelps as role model folks are the same folks who are anti-mentioning Palins pregnant teen. Palin as role model but not Phelps? We need to check into our own hyporicies, our own biases, or own goals and motivations. We easily and eagerly assign those things to others while rejecting any acceptance of any of our own.
I don't like Republicans, and I know it. I'm not in a position where I have to be fair especially. I'm not too fond of Democrats quite often, although I naturally land on the left of many issues. But not always. And I don't think I'm untypical in this. Most people are a combination of left-right beliefs. It's what makes this a moderate country. Joy and Elisabeth on The View are unusual to my mind o this. They both argue a solid left or right slant. Whoopie, Barbara and Sheri don't. But that's party politics and that's something I really can't honestly do. Argue strictly for one side or the other. They both have times I agree with and both left and right have the same American rights and obligations. It's just that the Republicans are mostly wrong. From my point of view, and I'm just so seldom wrong. About my opinion. I do know what that is unless I haven't decided yet.
I don't like Republicans, and I know it. I'm not in a position where I have to be fair especially. I'm not too fond of Democrats quite often, although I naturally land on the left of many issues. But not always. And I don't think I'm untypical in this. Most people are a combination of left-right beliefs. It's what makes this a moderate country. Joy and Elisabeth on The View are unusual to my mind o this. They both argue a solid left or right slant. Whoopie, Barbara and Sheri don't. But that's party politics and that's something I really can't honestly do. Argue strictly for one side or the other. They both have times I agree with and both left and right have the same American rights and obligations. It's just that the Republicans are mostly wrong. From my point of view, and I'm just so seldom wrong. About my opinion. I do know what that is unless I haven't decided yet.
crap
I finally figured out how to use spell-check on the blog. Now I hav to use it. Parochial didn't highlight. Could it possibly be spelled right? Unlikely, but possible.
So. What's wrong with small town politics? Nothing. Bush's politics work in Texas. Palin's work in Alaska. But neither work for national and international politics. Palin herself said it. Speaking in a small town, 'where the real Americans are.'
And I probably missed the garbage pick-up. This is more critical than Palin. They changed the pick-up day and I'm not with it at all yet. Guess I can leave the can out all week. And make waffles, too, now that I have flower. I can do many things. Or not.
And Alaska may be the largest state in square miles, but it's the samllest in population and almost all of it's small town. The biggest towns aren't known for their cosmopolitian settings. No matter what the right wing media says, they're as slanted as the left.
So. What's wrong with small town politics? Nothing. Bush's politics work in Texas. Palin's work in Alaska. But neither work for national and international politics. Palin herself said it. Speaking in a small town, 'where the real Americans are.'
And I probably missed the garbage pick-up. This is more critical than Palin. They changed the pick-up day and I'm not with it at all yet. Guess I can leave the can out all week. And make waffles, too, now that I have flower. I can do many things. Or not.
And Alaska may be the largest state in square miles, but it's the samllest in population and almost all of it's small town. The biggest towns aren't known for their cosmopolitian settings. No matter what the right wing media says, they're as slanted as the left.
and the problem is
Sarah Palin. Some more. Some guy made a documentary to show media bias against her. Liberal, mainstream media. Palin, in an interview clip, said McCain's handlers made her continue with another one or two interviews with Katie Curic after the first one didn't go well and she, Palin, didn't want to continue. But Palin didn't refuse. She didn't take much credit for screwing up. She did blame others.
And the shocking horror of people discussing her unmarried, pregnant teen daughter. The issue is the ramming of absestence only birth control education by the religious right on the public at large represented by the very fundamentalist Christian Palin who's religion and abstinence programing doesn't seem any more effective than planned parenthood methods. But nobody talks about this. They only argue about the correctness of mentioning her daughter's slip or not mentioning it.
One of the problems with teen pregnancy is the tolerance for it. Her daughter's been sanctified by the right when the right are the ones who scream the most about it, blaming the left. They can't control it either.
Why shouldn't people talk about her. They keep snarking about Hilary's pantsuits. And the teen pregnancy speaks directly to Palin's politics. Her right-wing, religious politics. A national candidate? She's too Alaska, a very rural, small town state. Parochial. Well, I sure spelt that wrong.
And the shocking horror of people discussing her unmarried, pregnant teen daughter. The issue is the ramming of absestence only birth control education by the religious right on the public at large represented by the very fundamentalist Christian Palin who's religion and abstinence programing doesn't seem any more effective than planned parenthood methods. But nobody talks about this. They only argue about the correctness of mentioning her daughter's slip or not mentioning it.
One of the problems with teen pregnancy is the tolerance for it. Her daughter's been sanctified by the right when the right are the ones who scream the most about it, blaming the left. They can't control it either.
Why shouldn't people talk about her. They keep snarking about Hilary's pantsuits. And the teen pregnancy speaks directly to Palin's politics. Her right-wing, religious politics. A national candidate? She's too Alaska, a very rural, small town state. Parochial. Well, I sure spelt that wrong.
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