Today the CNN-Money Headline reads, "Gas Hits All-time High". Wasn't that yesterday's headline? I think I've seen that headline most days in the past few months and it is starting to get OLD!
The article states:
$4-a-gallon gas -- The AAA survey showed that 33 states and the District of Colombia have an average gas price above $4 a gallon.
Alaska has replaced California as the state with the highest gas prices. Drivers in Alaska pay an average of $4.623 for a gallon of gas. Californians pay $4.583 on average for a gallon, and Hawaiians pay $4.408.
The state with the lowest gas price is Missouri, where a gallon of gas averages $3.862.
Diesel prices slipped to $4.762 a gallon from $4.764 the day before.
According to a survey from Consumer Reports last week, 77% of Americans blame the government for high gas prices, compared with 75% who blame oil companies and 70% who blame foreign oil producers.
Surging gas prices have prompted many drivers to change their habits. Nearly 31% said that they now walk or ride bicycles more. And 16% said they were riding public transportation more often.
Last week, AAA reported that it expects the number of Americans traveling during the Fourth of July holiday travel period to decline 1.3% to 40.45 million drivers versus 41 million last year.
So are there are 222% of us voting? ;) Looks like 70% of us are placing blame somewhere and know that *someone* is up to no good!
The question didn't ask about oil speculators, however. They didn't have any percent there pointing to the artificial factors raising the gas prices. Some say its all supply and demand, but with the prices going higher and higher, and more people walking, car-pooling, biking, and using mass transit, how can the demand be up? Fewer people are flying the less-than-friendly skies these days and fewer people are going on holidays via the automobile, opting for "staycations" closer to home.
Where is this "demand" coming from exactly? Is it only happening here?
I obviously have more questions than answers, but this whole idea that *we* are driving the price up is seriously flawed.
I wonder when this will end and if we will ever see the lower prices in gas that we had only a year or two ago. Are those days long gone? It seems any small break in prices brings huge sighs of relief. My fear is that they will be able to keep the prices artificially high now and so long as gas is under four bucks per gallon, most people who will be so happy that "at least the prices are down from what they were!" How do we know what prices *should be* anyway?
I guess I should feel lucky since around these parts gas is still lower than it is nationally, but I know its only a matter of time before the "high" goes up and so do the gas prices where I live.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
We saw this coming...
...but my heart still sank as I read this. PLEASE someone make November come sooner! We don't need a third war to fight! :(
Report: U.S. "preparing the battlefield" in Iran
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.
An Iranian flag flies outside the building containing the reactor of Bushehr nuclear power plant, south of Tehran.
White House, CIA and State Department officials declined comment on Hersh's report, which appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker.
Hersh told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops and Iranian dissidents.
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb and "do not want to leave Iran in place with a nuclear program," Hersh said.
"They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program," Hersh said.
The new article, "Preparing the Battlefield," is the latest in a series of articles accusing the Bush administration of preparing for war with Iran. He based the report on accounts from current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.
"As usual with his quarterly pieces, we'll decline to comment," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told CNN.
"The CIA, as a rule, does not comment on allegations regarding covert operations," CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said.
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, denied U.S. raids were being launched from Iraq, where American commanders believe Iran is stoking sectarian warfare and fomenting attacks on U.S. troops.
"I can tell you flatly that U.S. forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran, in the south or anywhere else," Crocker said.
Hersh said U.S. efforts were staged from Afghanistan, which also shares a border with Iran.
He said the program resulted in "a dramatic increase in kinetic events and chaos" inside Iran, including attacks by Kurdish separatists in the country's north and a May attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 13 people.
The United States has said it is trying to isolate Iran diplomatically in order to get it to come clean about its nuclear ambitions. But Bush has said "all options" are open in dealing with the issue.
Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed at providing civilian electric power, and refuses to comply with U.N. Security Council demands that it halt uranium enrichment work.
U.N. nuclear inspectors say Tehran held back critical information that could determine whether it is trying to make nuclear weapons.
Israel, which is believed to have its own nuclear arsenal, conducted a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean in early June involving dozens of warplanes and aerial tankers.
The distance involved in the exercise was roughly the same as would be involved in a possible strike on the Iranian nuclear fuel plant at Natanz, Iran, a U.S. military official said.
In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor.
Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, warned other countries against moves that would "cost them heavily." In comments that appeared in the semi-official Mehr news agency Sunday, an Iranian general said his troops were digging more than 320,000 graves to bury troops from any invading force with "the respect they deserve."
"Under the law of war and armed conflict, necessary preparations must be made for the burial of soldiers of aggressor nations," said Maj. Gen. Mirfaisal Baqerzadeh, an Iranian officer in charge of identifying soldiers missing in action.
Report: U.S. "preparing the battlefield" in Iran
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.
An Iranian flag flies outside the building containing the reactor of Bushehr nuclear power plant, south of Tehran.
White House, CIA and State Department officials declined comment on Hersh's report, which appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker.
Hersh told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops and Iranian dissidents.
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb and "do not want to leave Iran in place with a nuclear program," Hersh said.
"They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program," Hersh said.
The new article, "Preparing the Battlefield," is the latest in a series of articles accusing the Bush administration of preparing for war with Iran. He based the report on accounts from current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.
"As usual with his quarterly pieces, we'll decline to comment," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told CNN.
"The CIA, as a rule, does not comment on allegations regarding covert operations," CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said.
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, denied U.S. raids were being launched from Iraq, where American commanders believe Iran is stoking sectarian warfare and fomenting attacks on U.S. troops.
"I can tell you flatly that U.S. forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran, in the south or anywhere else," Crocker said.
Hersh said U.S. efforts were staged from Afghanistan, which also shares a border with Iran.
He said the program resulted in "a dramatic increase in kinetic events and chaos" inside Iran, including attacks by Kurdish separatists in the country's north and a May attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 13 people.
The United States has said it is trying to isolate Iran diplomatically in order to get it to come clean about its nuclear ambitions. But Bush has said "all options" are open in dealing with the issue.
Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed at providing civilian electric power, and refuses to comply with U.N. Security Council demands that it halt uranium enrichment work.
U.N. nuclear inspectors say Tehran held back critical information that could determine whether it is trying to make nuclear weapons.
Israel, which is believed to have its own nuclear arsenal, conducted a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean in early June involving dozens of warplanes and aerial tankers.
The distance involved in the exercise was roughly the same as would be involved in a possible strike on the Iranian nuclear fuel plant at Natanz, Iran, a U.S. military official said.
In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor.
Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, warned other countries against moves that would "cost them heavily." In comments that appeared in the semi-official Mehr news agency Sunday, an Iranian general said his troops were digging more than 320,000 graves to bury troops from any invading force with "the respect they deserve."
"Under the law of war and armed conflict, necessary preparations must be made for the burial of soldiers of aggressor nations," said Maj. Gen. Mirfaisal Baqerzadeh, an Iranian officer in charge of identifying soldiers missing in action.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Quick Weekend Update
So far so good.
I haven't had stellar eating habits, but I did make it to the gym four days out of the past week (Tuesday through Friday). I had big plans for today (work and gym) but it was a completely lost day due to an overnight migraine that hit. It was a doozie! Hadn't had to use the anti-nausea meds before. Those did a number on me and I slept away the migraine and the day! Woke up woozy, hung over, and dizzy, but the migraine is a thing of the past! WOOHOO!
Tomorrow is a new day, right? I will spend most of it grading as I'm really behind after losing Saturday and Friday night. It should be ...fun.
Have a great Sunday!
I haven't had stellar eating habits, but I did make it to the gym four days out of the past week (Tuesday through Friday). I had big plans for today (work and gym) but it was a completely lost day due to an overnight migraine that hit. It was a doozie! Hadn't had to use the anti-nausea meds before. Those did a number on me and I slept away the migraine and the day! Woke up woozy, hung over, and dizzy, but the migraine is a thing of the past! WOOHOO!
Tomorrow is a new day, right? I will spend most of it grading as I'm really behind after losing Saturday and Friday night. It should be ...fun.
Have a great Sunday!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Time to FRESHEN UP!
So, I was looking for a more cool sherbety looking color theme for my blog. I think I got that. But MAN it took forever. I still want to be able to add a space or two between the last line of one entry (with comments) and the dateline for the next one, but I have yet to figure that out. I also haven't figured out wrapping text or changing the sizes of the columns (less border, more text). I've wasted enough time just doing the color thing so I'm calling it quits for a while.IN THE PROCESS of messing with things, I lost my original list of links. I hope I included everyone here who was originally on my list. Going to have to spend more time on that list later.
On a related note, I decided to make some much needed changes to my life...yet again! I swear I'm such a loser. With the beginning of the hotter weather, I've been doing much more with my daughter, going out, etc and I've also been working more than I had in the last year--currently five classes. It has been a hard juggling act to maintain, so in the process, of course one or more balls are going to be dropped. For me, it was my healthy lifestyle changes!
Sad to say I've gained a few previously "lost" pounds. They are happy to be home again and I'm highly annoyed and disappointed in myself!
Over the past two months, I have not been making it to the gym. I admit it. I completely fell off the exercise wagon! At first, I was going but less frequently and then I completely stopped meeting with the personal trainer. I stopped making appointments mostly because I didn't have a very open schedule, but also because I want to switch trainers and felt bad about breaking that to him. I don't like his generic approach to things and want to learn to use the equipment more so that I can continue on my own.
How do you break up with your trainer at a gym where you know you'll still be seeing them regularly? Blaming it on my erradic schedule was easy --at first-- because I kept going to the gym. But then I stopped going to the gym. That lack of care started to bleed into other areas. Namely, my eating! :(
Slowly, in the time pinches, we started indulging in fast foods again. I wasn't cooking as often because I was so busy and it was just easier. When I was out for coffee, I might indulge more in a sweet treat. BAD! There were graduations, parties, social engagements, travel, etc. More BAD!
Needless to say, it has caught up with me in a *BIG* way. I've avoided the scale, but swore today I would hold myself accountable--finally. I weighed in, only after dragging myself to the gym for a 45 minute cardio session. I'm still sick, so it wasn't a super hard workout, but it was something. I did sweat and I did get my heartrate going. Having worked out, I felt less horrible about the weigh in, because I had already started the changes I know I have to make. I still feel pretty bummed, however.
How is it that losing weight is such a slow and painful process and gaining it happens so quickly and never hurts one bit (unless you count the itty bits of guilt you feel from time to time)! It is all fun until someone starts to cry. And you do start to cry when you find your clothes getting snug on you again.
That is what happened to me over the past two weeks. What used to fit well started to look less flattering on. Being summer, this is not the look a gal is usually going for ------->
I'm posting about this only to hold myself accountable again. If I don't make it public record, I might start going backwards! Here's hoping I can make some positive changes and get back into my habits quickly. It seems painful to start it all up running on all cylinders, but its much needed. I'm hoping that within the month, I'll be back where I was three months ago when things started to go awry!
A girl can dream anyway! Here's to hoping that dream becomes a reality. I'd like to show myself I can do it on my own and stick to it. I just wish it were easier! :(
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Sad Day :( RIP George Carlin
Today, George Carlin died at 71 years old. Loved this guy.
Here is some of his great stuff on "soft language". He always delivered GREAT stuff on the topic and I always enjoyed his work thanks to my mom who was also a fan.
RIP to a great one!
Here is some of his great stuff on "soft language". He always delivered GREAT stuff on the topic and I always enjoyed his work thanks to my mom who was also a fan.
RIP to a great one!
Friday, June 20, 2008
The Two Obamas --NYT
The New York Times had this great article posted today. I found it interesting and REASURING since its been my opinion for a long time, but no one was chiming out about it! So glad to get some back up! :) LOL
ENJOY!!!!
ENJOY!!!!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Me sick=sux. Baby sick=suckier!
So that is where we are now. I got sick then she got sick two days later. We are both still sick and the worst part is when she runs a high fever. They just are not themselves when they get that way and its hard to watch. On the one hand, she's a big pile of mush to squeeze and love on, but on the other hand she's miserable and would rather be playing.
The days seem to be dragging on to the weekend. I don't mind terribly because I am SO behind on things, having lost two days to being drained and in pain. I found out I had a sinus infection and bronchitis and the next day took her in for her fever and found out it was a sore throat. Just so happens whatever is causing it is also causing a high fever. It marked the first time I took her in for a fever and didn't leave with antibiotics. She's a magnet for infections it seems.
Because of being behind, I got hate mail from a student! Bastards! Who do they think they are? Paying customers demanding "quality" service? X%%$#!!! Anyhoo, I felt bad because I was late with some homework, but life happens. I cannot stop that train ride if i wanted to!
Aside from being "up to my eyeballs in marking" (to quote a dear friend), I am busy with caring for my limp noodle and getting myself healthy again too! :) I also have happened upon a few interesting websites over the last week.
I'll be adding many to my list of blogs here. None are by people I know, but instead spawned by interesting movements. I am loving some of the interesting posts and wishing I had more time to read the frequent updates and archives at these blogs! They are all political in nature and democratic. The perspectives and information are fascinating, however, and I just wish everyone could be exposed to more than one opinion.
I'd also like to create a new look to this blog. I've wanted to for ages, but I hate all the templates and don't know how to make adjustments in color or widths or anything. I could ask my husband and he *might* have the answers, but would he actually make the time to do the work for me? I do not want a lesson in HTML but for someone to DO THE WORK FOR ME. Is that too much to ask? Preferably the someone will charge nothing and do it happily and instantaneously! :)
Something to keep you company until we next meet again:
Hope your week is coming to a climactic and happy end on Friday! :)
The days seem to be dragging on to the weekend. I don't mind terribly because I am SO behind on things, having lost two days to being drained and in pain. I found out I had a sinus infection and bronchitis and the next day took her in for her fever and found out it was a sore throat. Just so happens whatever is causing it is also causing a high fever. It marked the first time I took her in for a fever and didn't leave with antibiotics. She's a magnet for infections it seems.
Because of being behind, I got hate mail from a student! Bastards! Who do they think they are? Paying customers demanding "quality" service? X%%$#!!! Anyhoo, I felt bad because I was late with some homework, but life happens. I cannot stop that train ride if i wanted to!
Aside from being "up to my eyeballs in marking" (to quote a dear friend), I am busy with caring for my limp noodle and getting myself healthy again too! :) I also have happened upon a few interesting websites over the last week.
I'll be adding many to my list of blogs here. None are by people I know, but instead spawned by interesting movements. I am loving some of the interesting posts and wishing I had more time to read the frequent updates and archives at these blogs! They are all political in nature and democratic. The perspectives and information are fascinating, however, and I just wish everyone could be exposed to more than one opinion.
I'd also like to create a new look to this blog. I've wanted to for ages, but I hate all the templates and don't know how to make adjustments in color or widths or anything. I could ask my husband and he *might* have the answers, but would he actually make the time to do the work for me? I do not want a lesson in HTML but for someone to DO THE WORK FOR ME. Is that too much to ask? Preferably the someone will charge nothing and do it happily and instantaneously! :)
Something to keep you company until we next meet again:
Hope your week is coming to a climactic and happy end on Friday! :)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
a game of tag....
Hello Readers! All two-five of you! :) I have to figure out how to "tag" people for this, but I figured I'd follow through since it is my first time being "it". ENJOY and hopefully I can FIND five people to tag!
I've been tagged by my friend Dana in the game of Meme.... Still not entirely sure what that means, but apparently it doesn't matter, because here i am! Here is what you need to know:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then go to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
1. What was I doing ten years ago? I had just completed my first year of gradschool (if memory serves me) at Purdue in Indiana. I was studying Rhetoric & Composition and feeling way in over my head! I also was just two months from marrying my husband! :) We'd known each other for a while at that point--I think over two years.
2. Five things on my to do list for today: Rest, go to the doctors (I'm sick), clean some, grade some papers, stop at the grocery store for a few odds and ends.
3. Snacks I crave: anything SWEET. I have a crazy hyperactive sweet tooth. Baad!
4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Pay off our debt, build a great house in a great part of town, buy a condo in NYC for visits there, buy a hybrid along with many stocks in oil/gas futures, go back to personal training (but have my sessions in my new home gym not at a public gym), put away for our retirement and establish a great trust for Elena's college and beyond, help out family with debt and with college...man, there really is no end to this list!
5. Places I have lived: Texas, NY, NJ, Indiana, PA
6. People I am tagging: Elysia, Helen, Chris, Nelly and Melissa!
Enjoy peeps! :)
I've been tagged by my friend Dana in the game of Meme.... Still not entirely sure what that means, but apparently it doesn't matter, because here i am! Here is what you need to know:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then go to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
1. What was I doing ten years ago? I had just completed my first year of gradschool (if memory serves me) at Purdue in Indiana. I was studying Rhetoric & Composition and feeling way in over my head! I also was just two months from marrying my husband! :) We'd known each other for a while at that point--I think over two years.
2. Five things on my to do list for today: Rest, go to the doctors (I'm sick), clean some, grade some papers, stop at the grocery store for a few odds and ends.
3. Snacks I crave: anything SWEET. I have a crazy hyperactive sweet tooth. Baad!
4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Pay off our debt, build a great house in a great part of town, buy a condo in NYC for visits there, buy a hybrid along with many stocks in oil/gas futures, go back to personal training (but have my sessions in my new home gym not at a public gym), put away for our retirement and establish a great trust for Elena's college and beyond, help out family with debt and with college...man, there really is no end to this list!
5. Places I have lived: Texas, NY, NJ, Indiana, PA
6. People I am tagging: Elysia, Helen, Chris, Nelly and Melissa!
Enjoy peeps! :)
Monday, June 16, 2008
Seeing RED!!!!! WARNING! Vent begins....
NOW!!!
I am so angry I can't see straight!!!! (So excuse typos, errors, etc! I have an excuse today! hehe).
SERIOUSLY!!! I hate this apartment complex. Lots of promises and some perks but none of it is worth the crap we have to deal with on too regular a basis.
In the past few months they have been prepping various vacated apartments for re-habitation. One time last month I was stiff led by an overwhelming strong chemical smell that was pumping into my apartment (I guess via the air vents). This smell was so strong that I worried about my daughter and left.
I immediately complained, quite loudly, to the apartment complex and all they did was apologize and swear up and down that that is *not* how they are supposed to do things when prepping apartments. Apparently, it is protocol to cover/close vents, open windows and THEN use the highly dangerous chemicals that are used to clean, paint, treat walls and floors. "We are so sorry and promise it will never happen again!"
Well here I am. It is happening again. I am already feeling under the weather with enough phlegm in my throat to choke most people, congestion like no one's business and this smell is SO potent that within a minute or two I had a slight headache! WHAT THE HECK IS IN THAT APARTMENT that they are using to treat things with? Turpentine? Paint thinner? A combination of those with a few extra chemicals mixed in for fun?
I am so angry that I could barely find the number and dial it. My favorite employee (seriously) answered and I was fighting off TEARS when speaking to him. I'm mortified that this is happening. MY daughter is sound asleep in the other room and I can only feel the slightest bit of relief because it hasn't infiltrated her room yet. It seems to be limited somehow to the living room. Weird.
Anyway, I'm livid and will tell everyone I know to avoid this complex! It is a wonderful place to live if you don't mind your A/c issues being ignored, fumes coming into your home ever couple of months and then lingering for days, gates for our safety that are ALWAYS opened or broken, maintenance people who don't return calls and most things being outsourced to companies which are less than professional and do a crap job of "fixing" things, often times leaving a trail of paint and spackle in their wake.
I have been waiting for 20 minutes for a call back and as soon as my daughter wakes up, I'm marching over there and giving them a bigger piece of my mind if I can hold it together! I also want to take her OUT of this stinky apartment now. I can hardly wait for her to wake up and may go wake her up just to get myself out of here! :(
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO RETARDED????
I am so angry I can't see straight!!!! (So excuse typos, errors, etc! I have an excuse today! hehe).
SERIOUSLY!!! I hate this apartment complex. Lots of promises and some perks but none of it is worth the crap we have to deal with on too regular a basis.
In the past few months they have been prepping various vacated apartments for re-habitation. One time last month I was stiff led by an overwhelming strong chemical smell that was pumping into my apartment (I guess via the air vents). This smell was so strong that I worried about my daughter and left.
I immediately complained, quite loudly, to the apartment complex and all they did was apologize and swear up and down that that is *not* how they are supposed to do things when prepping apartments. Apparently, it is protocol to cover/close vents, open windows and THEN use the highly dangerous chemicals that are used to clean, paint, treat walls and floors. "We are so sorry and promise it will never happen again!"
Well here I am. It is happening again. I am already feeling under the weather with enough phlegm in my throat to choke most people, congestion like no one's business and this smell is SO potent that within a minute or two I had a slight headache! WHAT THE HECK IS IN THAT APARTMENT that they are using to treat things with? Turpentine? Paint thinner? A combination of those with a few extra chemicals mixed in for fun?
I am so angry that I could barely find the number and dial it. My favorite employee (seriously) answered and I was fighting off TEARS when speaking to him. I'm mortified that this is happening. MY daughter is sound asleep in the other room and I can only feel the slightest bit of relief because it hasn't infiltrated her room yet. It seems to be limited somehow to the living room. Weird.
Anyway, I'm livid and will tell everyone I know to avoid this complex! It is a wonderful place to live if you don't mind your A/c issues being ignored, fumes coming into your home ever couple of months and then lingering for days, gates for our safety that are ALWAYS opened or broken, maintenance people who don't return calls and most things being outsourced to companies which are less than professional and do a crap job of "fixing" things, often times leaving a trail of paint and spackle in their wake.
I have been waiting for 20 minutes for a call back and as soon as my daughter wakes up, I'm marching over there and giving them a bigger piece of my mind if I can hold it together! I also want to take her OUT of this stinky apartment now. I can hardly wait for her to wake up and may go wake her up just to get myself out of here! :(
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO RETARDED????
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Looking Back...and Forward!
I thought THIS was touching.
Having a girl, I do think about what is ahead and what will happen in her lifetime that I may not live to see myself. I thought this article was a refreshing interpretation on recent events from a different persective.
Enjoy! :)
Having a girl, I do think about what is ahead and what will happen in her lifetime that I may not live to see myself. I thought this article was a refreshing interpretation on recent events from a different persective.
Enjoy! :)
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
So much to say, such a short attention span! :) The news TODAY!
There are so many things I'd like to write about today, so I'll just have to be quite brief in order to get a few things off my (heaving) chest:
First the Headlines 
* McCain doesn't care when we pull out of Iraq or if we do. I just said there were many flubs to come and not a day later he has another one!? Man he delivers! Gotta love that. Imagine four blissful years of great comedy! So funny we'll all be crying, no doubt!
*Possible VP noms for Barry are all the talk. Their names are swirling the airwaves, some are so top secret they have no names! They range from Hillary to Gore to people we don't know about and won't care to know. My guess is he'll pick one we don't care about who is a nobody really so that he is the big kahuna of the ticket. Have I told you lately that I'm not impressed? WELL..I'm NOT!
* I LOVE LYNN SAMUELS! YES she may not be a looker and YES she isn't 100% right all the time (in my opinion), but she says things that need to be said and isn't apologetic. She's also easily distracted by shiny objects in a way only a gal with pretend ADD could appreciate! :)
* THIS just IN: Obama is a politician! Speaking of Lynn's favorite new presumptive nom, Barry seems to be a bit of a hypocrite. Do as I say and not as I do? Funny how he hammered Clinton and McSame for more "tangential" relationships. So it really *is* politics as usual, huh? SUPRISE! Sorry! No refunds or exchanges!
* WTF is up with the WEATHER? Tornadoes, floods and heat waves DAILY it seems? Everywhere there is something strange going on. Did they finally perfect the weather machine to help control the weather, hence raising the prices on all forms of energy, INCLUDING our damn food? I know I said it already, but WTF?
* WTF is up with the WEATHER? Tornadoes, floods and heat waves DAILY it seems? Everywhere there is something strange going on. Did they finally perfect the weather machine to help control the weather, hence raising the prices on all forms of energy, INCLUDING our damn food? I know I said it already, but WTF?
* Where's Waldo (in a pantsuit)? You know it wouldn't be a complete round up without my girl mentioned in there somewhere, right? Where are you Hillary? We miss you already! It is almost like she fell into an abyss right after giving that "consession" speech. Well at least people are talking about her--some in a positive light!
* Don't leave your kids in the car, asswipe. How do you forget you have a kid in the car? How do you leave him/her in the car for hours or OVERNIGHT? Some people really should be taken outside and shot. Repeatedly. Then left to die in the heat. I would do something far worse than this to those parents! :(
* Don't leave your kids in the car, asswipe. How do you forget you have a kid in the car? How do you leave him/her in the car for hours or OVERNIGHT? Some people really should be taken outside and shot. Repeatedly. Then left to die in the heat. I would do something far worse than this to those parents! :(
And Finally...
* I work hard for my money! So don't charge me for crap! I won't go into too many details but I won't be visiting one of the local coffeehouses here again after a fiasco regarding my coffee tonight. I pay quite a lot for this coffee and it should be fresh and a refill should be filling of the cup AGAIN, not a topping off. I'm angry and had to leave because I couldn't see straight! I know you are trying to save money, but I WORK HARD FOR MY OWN dang MONEY! Again, words fail me where acronyms do not. WTF?
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Lets go Yankees!!
We will be headed out to another part of Texas in just a couple of days! A chance encounter at Panera Monday morning (yesterday) led to me investigating Astros tickets for this weekend. They are playing the Yankees, its father's day weekend, and dh is a hardcore yanks fan. You do the math! :)
Needless to say, I ended up paid way too much for two GREAT tickets (behind visitor's dugout--4th row) and now need to rush to find a hotel! We are only going two nights, three days, but it should be fun and I know Josh will be happy and grateful! I'm shopping with my mom and daughter while he'll take in the game with my father. Should be a fun time!
This means that my packing job is half done since we just got back from Austin. One week, three cities. Not too shabby for this homebody! :)
The Austin trip was great and the convention was memorable and interesting. I learned a lot and I'm sure its not my last democratic convention. Hillary's campaign won't be my last either. I already am interested in a few other local candidates and look forward to doing what I can locally until the next presidential campaign is upon us.
While I will very likely unhappily support the democratic candidate for president in 2008, I won't be knocking on doors or making phone calls for him. I'll do what I have to do, but little beyond that! :( Sad, but I'm just not feeling it. There is one thing he could do to show me, and millions of others, that he is a true uniter, but I know that won't happen. I hold out a little bit of hope that it will, but I'm 99.9% sure it won't be a headline I'll be reading anytime in the near future.
Speaking of headlines, anyone see this doozy? I found it hilarious given how his wife's family made their millions!
McCain: 'I will veto every single beer'
Posted: 11:32 AM ET
(CNN) – John McCain issued a promise Tuesday that may cause a bit of unrest with a broad swath of voters: He'll veto every single beer?
In a slip of the tongue while railing against excessive earmarks at the National Small Business Summit in Washington, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee inadvertently pledged to veto the popular alcoholic beverage.
"I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer — bill with earmarks," he said, as rumblings from the crowd could be heard. "And every single bill that we have come across my desk I will make them famous. I will veto them, you will know their names."
The first of many doozies to come, no doubt! :)
Needless to say, I ended up paid way too much for two GREAT tickets (behind visitor's dugout--4th row) and now need to rush to find a hotel! We are only going two nights, three days, but it should be fun and I know Josh will be happy and grateful! I'm shopping with my mom and daughter while he'll take in the game with my father. Should be a fun time!
This means that my packing job is half done since we just got back from Austin. One week, three cities. Not too shabby for this homebody! :)
The Austin trip was great and the convention was memorable and interesting. I learned a lot and I'm sure its not my last democratic convention. Hillary's campaign won't be my last either. I already am interested in a few other local candidates and look forward to doing what I can locally until the next presidential campaign is upon us.
While I will very likely unhappily support the democratic candidate for president in 2008, I won't be knocking on doors or making phone calls for him. I'll do what I have to do, but little beyond that! :( Sad, but I'm just not feeling it. There is one thing he could do to show me, and millions of others, that he is a true uniter, but I know that won't happen. I hold out a little bit of hope that it will, but I'm 99.9% sure it won't be a headline I'll be reading anytime in the near future.
Speaking of headlines, anyone see this doozy? I found it hilarious given how his wife's family made their millions!
McCain: 'I will veto every single beer'
Posted: 11:32 AM ET
(CNN) – John McCain issued a promise Tuesday that may cause a bit of unrest with a broad swath of voters: He'll veto every single beer?
In a slip of the tongue while railing against excessive earmarks at the National Small Business Summit in Washington, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee inadvertently pledged to veto the popular alcoholic beverage.
"I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer — bill with earmarks," he said, as rumblings from the crowd could be heard. "And every single bill that we have come across my desk I will make them famous. I will veto them, you will know their names."
The first of many doozies to come, no doubt! :)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Another month...and a Process nears its end...
Wasn't it just the start of May? Now its JUNE? How did this happen??? ;)
Obama is close to clinching the nomination by winning more than 50% of the delegates up to win. I'm going to be up watching the Obama speech, although probably not in its entirety, and all of Hillary's speech tonight. Both should be quite history-making as has this entire primary season. I'm excited to have been a part of it and am still looking very forward to the Texas State Democratic Convention happening this weekend.
I'm not sure which genius decided to schedule this event sometime *AFTER* the primaries were over, but that is when it happens. It is probably moot, but as I've realized in the process, it isn't *merely* about selecting a president, but about selecting our leadership in the democratic party and possibly bringing about change for how the election takes place. Perhaps most importantly, the convention is about laying the ground work for the future elections in our country.
Those in leadership are often times super delegates. Could not a future election come down to the Supers as it has this go round? If so, I'd like my picks making that decision! For too long, not enough people took part in this crucial part of the democratic process, and I'm very proud to be in a position to learn this year and to start a tradition of representing my precinct at the state level and in future years, perhaps beyond that! :)
Yes Mrs.L, I'm really big into this political thing! :) I've always been this way, just dormant for the most part. The excitement and grave importance of this election woke me from my slumber! :)
So in two days, off I go, with my husband and daughter in tow, to spend a few days in Austin. Getting there a day early and leaving a day late and hoping to have a little bit of fun in between the work that will be done. Wish me luck! :)
Obama is close to clinching the nomination by winning more than 50% of the delegates up to win. I'm going to be up watching the Obama speech, although probably not in its entirety, and all of Hillary's speech tonight. Both should be quite history-making as has this entire primary season. I'm excited to have been a part of it and am still looking very forward to the Texas State Democratic Convention happening this weekend.
I'm not sure which genius decided to schedule this event sometime *AFTER* the primaries were over, but that is when it happens. It is probably moot, but as I've realized in the process, it isn't *merely* about selecting a president, but about selecting our leadership in the democratic party and possibly bringing about change for how the election takes place. Perhaps most importantly, the convention is about laying the ground work for the future elections in our country.
Those in leadership are often times super delegates. Could not a future election come down to the Supers as it has this go round? If so, I'd like my picks making that decision! For too long, not enough people took part in this crucial part of the democratic process, and I'm very proud to be in a position to learn this year and to start a tradition of representing my precinct at the state level and in future years, perhaps beyond that! :)
Yes Mrs.L, I'm really big into this political thing! :) I've always been this way, just dormant for the most part. The excitement and grave importance of this election woke me from my slumber! :)
So in two days, off I go, with my husband and daughter in tow, to spend a few days in Austin. Getting there a day early and leaving a day late and hoping to have a little bit of fun in between the work that will be done. Wish me luck! :)
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