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Peanuts animator, Bill Melendez, passed on at age 91.

As for all the fuss over Sarah Palin's pregnant and unmarried daughter ... people that are pointing fingers really need to reexamine their own lives and ask if they are perfect! People are going on about it being ironic that Mrs. Palin's stance is abstinence and her 17 year old is pregnant. Apparently those people are just NOW learning that the old adage of "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" is very true. HELLO, the translation that applies to the current situation is simple; you can instill what you believe are good values in your children and they will do as they damned well please anyway!

The fridge has gone stewpid again. Tom took the freezer apart this time. Oy. Seems there was a layer of ice under the tray. Prolly be another hour or so with the doors hanging open before the piping is thawed. Going to leave them open until the top ice tray thaws.

Bagging and tagging up to 14 Feb 2006 is done.

I have writing to do, but I can't quite get it sorted out in my head, yet. More on that later, maybe. It's more of an RP thing.

In the meantime, before I go off to do laundry and whatnot, I leave you with today's funny (a rerun from the vault) and some lovely youtube music.
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Current Music: Bec Lavelle - McLeod's Daughters Soundtrack - My Heart Is Like a River

First, I heard about the mini city thing from

ladybast. http://mo-chroi.myminicity.com/ If you click the link, you help me boost my little city's population level. Thank you!

So, has anyone else heard the fuss about Chelsea Clinton telling a guy the answer to his question was none of his business?

Come on, Chelsea, you are out on the campaign trail for mom and supposed to be making her look good not coming off like a snarky bitch. Yes, she had every right to tell the guy it was none of his business, BUT... anything a President or potential President does in the public eye is subject to scrutiny. Frankly, if I had been in her shoes, I think I would have told him that Hillary showed no weakness during the Monica Mess. Hillary tried to protect her daughter as best she could and she was loyal to her husband, whether or not he deserved it. Now, what happened behind closed doors that IS none of his business. Frankly, if Monica didn't go bragging about who she was blowing to her taping recording not friend, nobody would have been any the wiser.

To the guy that asked... Don't you have a better question to ask? I mean really, people MIGHT be asking in their own circles, you might have asked a question on a lot of people's minds, but really ... Lewinski is old news, LET IT GO, there are more important things to worry about!!

I have one disc of Sherlock Holmes remaining to watch. I'm starting it up now. I have a few odds and ends to attend to around the house. 1 AM and I'm folding clothes and what not. Sorted a pile of stuff to go back in the youngin's room.

Dinner ended up to be burgers and fries. I need to separate and freeze the hamburger. Not sure if making the meat pie or sausage. Might hit the store for shredded cheese or have Tom to it and make my own version of the pie.

Need to call the bank and check on deposits and balance. Hopefully, getting ready to kick the IRS mess in the ass a bit.

Barring rain, Thursday should be a good day to get to work in the yard. Tuesday can be used for dumping the fridge, laundering the throw rugs and mopping the kitchen floor. I figure I can toss the meat pie into cook before doing either job and it would be left to warm after cooking.

Need to have a long chat with my dear son. Since his work schedule has been changed to help accommodate his forthcoming school schedule, if I set up dental appointments on Tuesday or Thursday, he can drop me off and pick me up at the office or the library, which is open late on those nights.

Need to get the paving sand so Kevin and Tom can work on the walkway out to the game building. Also need to get a roll of screening so Tom can repair the screen again. Need to measure the windows that we no longer have screens for.

I have a few writing projects that I would like to get moving on.

Um... yeah... Tuesday was not the best of days and what's already passed of Wednesday is not so hot either.
( The Daily Babble )

Gov. Rick Perry has pretty much pissed me off. Sure, Gardasil's ability to help prevent cervical cancer is great thing, but requiring girls entering the sixth grade to have the inoculation is ridiculous!! It's been discovered that certain types of human papillomavirus cause cervical cancer, the catch is that this vaccine apparently only combats the strains that are sexually transmitted. If this is indeed the case then it's about as insulting as the random usage of silver nitrate in the eyes of all newborns. It ONLY prevents blindness if the mother is infected with Gonorrhea. Considering they test for all sorts of things through out the course of a pregnancy, I still find it insulting when hospitals use that as standard procedure. I also find it insulting that the governor of Texas has single handedly decided that the vaccine will be required and therefore assumed the all girls in the Texas school system are sexually active at 11 or 12 years old. Sad, isn't it?

I know popular usage allows for the name of this month to be pronounced "Feb-you-ary," but I don't. There's an R after the B, demmit!

Saturday's list is pretty short:
Clean up
Fridge
Laundry
Office
Tom's room and bathroom

The garage needs to be cleaned up, but it's much too chilly out there.

This spring I want to get my flowers attended to and make the backyard look better. I still need to put that last bag of marble rock under my yellow rosebush. Kevin wants to get the wood on the outside of the house taken care of. I'd like to have a roof over the patio. Nothing huge, just about 6 by 4. That's about the size of the patio slab. I'd like to be outside more often, but not in the direct sun as I sunburn easily. We agree that we both want that new patio door, hopefully, that will be this year as well.

Eventually, and likely part of the wood replacement project, the pillars out front need to be refurbished or removed. I've always thought it would be nice to have arbor of some sort there for the morning glory vines to climb.
Something like this.

Today is Veteran's Day. A day for remembering and being thankful for the sacrifices made on our behalf by the men and women that have served in the Armed Forces. Nanny used to refer to this day as Armistice Day, until I was older, I didn't know why. When you are a kid, what you understand most is ... day off from school. Armistice Day commemorates the signing of the treaty (or armistice) that ended World War I.

A bit of trivia, in my senior year of high school, the last football game of the season was at the homefield of our arch rival on Nov. 11, 1977. The score was 19-18. We won. I just find it interesting that the score was the same as the year the war ended and the game was on the same day.

Now.. to get all Emily Littella on this... What's all this fuss about the pledge of allegiance again? It seems student leaders at Orange Coast College have decide to restrict the Freedom of Speech of their fellow students. Oh, yes, I know... only Congress is not allowed to do that according to the Constitution and these young people have opted to ban it at their meetings. Apparently it only applies to meetings of the student board of trustees and no other groups on campus.

A school official had this to say:

Martha Parham, a spokeswoman for the Coast Community College District, said her office had no standing on the student board and took no position on the flag salute ban.

"If their personal belief is that they don't want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, the district certainly isn't going to dictate what they do," she said.

I just want to know when colleges started being in districts like public schools.

Isn't California where the atheist doctor was from that tried to say making his daughter say the pledge violated her rights? What scares me about that is we have a doctor that didn't bother to do the most basic research into his case history. His daughter didn't object to saying under God because she was raised as a Christian, therefore, it wasn't really violating her rights at all. I think it's freaking hilarious that a man who calls himself the Rev. Dr. Michael Newdow is an atheist.

Wasn't it also in California where all this mess started about one man/one woman after the rumblings in Washington? California had it built into the state constitution and there was San Fransisco, one of its own cities challenging it.

The Declaration of Independence has this nice little thing in it about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." As long as someone's pursuit of happiness does no harm to anyone else, I just don't see the fuss. I mean really... all this crap now has probably set off a chain reaction that wasn't expected. In some state, it's now a nono to marry and/or have a domestic partnership with a person of the same gender. Well, how does one define a domestic partnership? Does this now mean that parents will have to worry their college student offspring needing to be bailed out at same point for having a roommate of the same gender? I bet they weren't thinking about that when they went to the polls to say no to gay marriage, etc.

And people laughed when we, here in Texas, voted for allowing concealed handguns with permits? Statistics have proven that crime has gone down. We hear far less about car jackings. Why? Well.... if you have any working brain cells, you'd be wondering if you do try to jack a car on the highway if it will be the last time you ever do anything. I'm surprised that more states didn't jump on that bandwagon and say... "Hey, this could work for us." This not to say that handgun ownership is the solution to everything, it's not. It's just... in most cases laws just keep honest people honest.

The spark plug for the passage of that law was a massacre in a local cafeteria. All they wanted to do was have lunch. Many people were touched by that event in many ways. I know a girl that lost her father, she was in our Scout troop.

Anyway... getting back to my point, I have to wonder how many more things that start in California are going to end up shaking up the country .... aaaaaaaaaaagain.

There are several things I don't like about the time of year I refer to as electioneering hell.

I can't stand it when all the candidates have to do is snipe at each other via TV ads. You'd think they could have at least sprung for different announcers for those commercials. I have voted for people just because they didn't do that. Bad reason for voting for them, perhaps, but... if the others have nothing more constructive to do than point out each other's faults, the one that says, "I believe in this and would work toward this" without pointing fingers going.... "hey look at him/her and don't notice I'm being an idiot to hide my own faults," is probably the better choice.

The cries of get out and vote... they get old after a while. For the record, I did not vote in the general election, yesterday. I did, however, take the time over the course of this year to vote on several issues that effect my community and state. Interestingly enough, the majority voted for a smoking ban in certain buildings in town and to lift the ban on sales of alcoholic beverages in stores in the county. This was a dry county. I stepped up and voted against an amendment to the TX state constitution to ban same sex marriages/partnerships. Much to my annoyance, that passed.

One day people are going to wake up and realize that once one person's freedom is chopped into, it's only a matter of time. Remember that old poem about "when they came for me no one was left to speak?"

And the last thing on the list... people are always bitching about what's wrong with the government. Stop bitching, get off your ass and run for public office. Maybe you will learn it's not as easy as you think to be running any sort of government.

It's like I have said before, the pickin's at election time are always slim. Those that would make a good President, don't run. Those that do run can always look forward to every Tom, Dick, Harry, Jane, and Mary pointing out their faults.

DO YOU WANT THE JOB?

I surely don't, I watched what's probably the last "honest" man we had in the Oval Office age rapidly over the course of his 4 year term. Jimmy Carter is who I'm talking about. He didn't win another four years. I think that had a great deal to do with Ronnie Raygun saying he'd nuke (or send troops into, I forget) Iran after the hostages. Reagan was a decent President despite having the beginnings of Alzheimer's. He poked fun at his own failings before the press could.

I'm always reminded of Doc Brown in back to the future...
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who's President in the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?

Thank you to

mummm for the pumpkin on my profile! :)

Tomorrow is Halloween and the city has the "safe trick or treat" downtown beginning at 5:30 PM. I am armed with 2 bags of candy (candy bracelets with ghosts on them) and a bowl of mini Playdoh containers. We don't get a lot of kids out our way anymore, so that should be more than enough for the 6PM-9PM run about. I go outside and sit on the back of the car as it is easier than having to haul the dog away from the door every time the kids go through.

Interesting news on CNN while I was waiting to get my ID card renewed. Seems a few states have now passed laws requiring registered sex offenders to not place any decorations (or turn their porch lights on) that might attract children to their homes. I think they also said they are prohibited from helping at public events that are geared toward children.

A few quotes:

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. "
--- Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. "
--- Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

"Anyone that is great at anything does it for their own approval."
-- Gil Grissom C.S.I.

If those strike a chord, run with it... but one of them, the last, is for my own benefit.

I really should take the time to write down my craft ideas. Things like:
Oven door in a Barbie stove should have an opening in for viewing like some real ones do. Whipstitch the edge of the opening, but slide a piece of clear plastic between front and back door parts then stitch the pieces together.

Thinking about making a few of my own patterns for bookmarks and covers. Maybe incorporate some of the cross-stitch or needlepoint motifs that are already in my books.

Need to remember to scan and print the ten square grid to practice the patterns.

Yesterday, I was feeling drained and cranky. Today is not too bad. Head feels a bit fluffy and I have a few sniffles, but so far ::knocks wood:: I'm mobile and not feeling like a gas bomb ready to go off.

So, I had a couple of strange dreams last night. Dreamed of being in my old neighborhood, buying jewelry, and riding a bus that had a route name on it that might have ended up at my late grandmother's, now my uncle's, house. It would have ended up as my aunt and uncles for sure. The dream did remind me that there's a certain style of jewelry that I've been looking for to send as a gift or to make, but I haven't been able to find the charms I want.

Random Thought.... what sense does it seem to make to be asking for opinions one minute and then in the next breath say you don't want them? Just struck me as odd.

I have a few craft projects in various stages about the house.

Saturday, I had a neat experience. We got home from the store and unloaded the car. A couple dozen dragonflies were swarming over the front yard. People that are not into watching Mother Nature in action might not get that, but those that are can probably appreciate that high speed display of grace in flight. Only drawback was they were too fast to photograph with my camera.

As far as writing goes, I'm clogged.. aaaagain.

I hate the smell of Raid. It's sickeningly sweet and that aerosol is not helping. Tom says he didn't use it in the bathroom, I know better. SOMEONE DID or it wouldn't stink like dying flowers in a funeral home in there. I keep telling them to not use it inside because 1- It makes me puke, which could explain yesterday. and 2- it is not at all good for the four leggers around here. It's just a few ants, people, if you don't have a long trail of them, it's almost impossible to see how they are getting in. If we off that colony, living near the one rosebush, with poison, they will ALL be in here. Not something I want to happen. Funny part is... While that vine was in place, there were no ants coming into the house. Now, there's irony for you. Remove the vine and the ants start trying to move in. This coming spring... a trellis will help.

( Telephone Company Telemarketers posing as charity/political group )

I need to write a note to my other half today. Funny, innit? It's easier to mail him and let him read. This way, my thoughts are together, I don't have to repeat and get interrupted half way through with some homophonic version of what I said then I have to start over because I lost my train of thought. It's a freaking long train and I just don't have the patience to be backing the damned thing up all the time to get it on another track. Thank yooooou very much. Or as a few people I know say... kthnx.

Apologies to

ldygwynedd, I was arguing with my offspring when you IMmed.

I have several jokes and things to post to fill in the gaps in this journal.

Pulled an all nighter. Got carried away with some reading. It happens. Feel like death warmed over and my stomach is queasy at the moment. Bleah.

Now, for some good news on the family front. My baby boy passed his driver's test, yesterday, with flying colors!! YAY!! It really felt weird to have only one car here and both Kevin and I at home. Tom still has a week of the driver education course to take, but between the that and the Drug and Alcohol Program that they offer, he is eligible for a 15% discount on his car insurance rates. Those of you with teenagers or that are younger drivers can probably know what a boon that can be. A rep at our State Farm agent's office said the 10% for the driver's ed program is good until he turns 25.

Heh, cracks me up that GWB was caught saying shit over an open mic. Given the comment was pretty much on the money, I have to wonder why he sounded so smart when he thought the mic was off and like a bonehead when the cameras are rolling. Reminds me of the "Hey, y'all watch this," joke, not sure why. Things that make ya go hmm.

Is it just me or does anyone else hear that snarkey British chick's voice when they read the phrase, "Goodbye, you are the weakest link?"

Before I begin my little soirée into the world of editorializing, here's something to ponder:

The Soldier

It is the soldier, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Poem has been credited to several authors including
Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
Charles Michael Province, U.S. Army

It is the soldier
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.

A protest raged on a courthouse lawn,
Round a makeshift stage they charged on,
Fifteen hundred or more they say,
Had come to burn a Flag that day.

A boy held up the folded Flag,
Cursed it, and called it a dirty rag.
An OLD MAN pushed through the angry crowd,
With a rusty shotgun shouldered proud.

His uniform jacket was old and tight,
He had polished each button, shiny and bright.
He crossed that stage with a soldier's grace,
Until he and the boy stood face to face.

"FREEDOM OF SPEECH," the OLD MAN said,
"Is worth dying for, good men are dead,
So you can stand on this courthouse lawn,
And talk us down from dusk to dawn,
But before any Flag gets burned today,
This OLD MAN IS GOING TO HAVE HIS SAY!

My father died on a foreign shore,
In a war they said would end all war.
But Tommy and I wasn't even full grown,
Before we fought in a war of our own.
And Tommy died on Iwo Jima's beach,
In the shadow of a hill he couldn't quite reach,
Where five good men raised this Flag so high,
That the WHOLE DAMN WORLD COULD SEE IT FLY.

I got this bum leg that I still drag,
Fighting for this same old Flag.
Now there's but one shot in this old gun,
So now it's time to decide which one,
Which one of you will follow our lead,
To stand and die for what you believe?
For as sure as there is a rising sun,
You'll burn in Hell 'fore this Flag burns, son"

Now this riot never came to pass
The crowd got quiet and that can of gas,
Got set aside as they walked away
To talk about what they had heard this day.
And the boy who had called it a "dirty rag,"
Handed the OLD SOLDIER the folded Flag.

So the battle of the Flag this day was won
By a tired OLD SOLDIER with a rusty gun,
Who for one last time, had to show to some,
THIS FLAG MAY FADE, BUT THESE COLORS DON'T RUN.

In searching for that poem, I found this: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/zellmiller2004rnc.htm I want to know why Zell Miller didn't run for President.

Before you go past these either of these cuts, be warned... it's angry, it's political, it's many things, but it's what I think. You don't have to like it, you don't have to agree with it.... but in the spirit of our founding fathers, I ask that you respect MY right to Freedom of Speech and my opinion. And some of you that know me really well are likely going to thinking.... "What in hell woke up the bear?"

( The Gold Star I never want to get and the phrase I never want to hear. )

( What I think about the Dixie Chicks and their current hoopla )

Current Music: Toby Keith - Courtesy Of The Red White And Blue (The Angry American)/American Soldier

I have this urge to begin this entry with... "What's all this fuss about.... ::insert topic:: on television," ala Emily Litella.
( Washington Foibles )

Current reading/audio
Le Morte d'Arthur by Mallory (cassette)
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt (CD)
Ill-made Mute by Cecila Dart-Thornton (book)

I decided to make two vase of plastic canvas and see which works with which set of flowers that I got at Hobby Lobby.

Finished tagging and realigning 2001 Jan-Oct LJ entries

UHBS - Laundry : 2 loads away, 1 in dryer, one in washer

So, I'm off to do a bit off experimenting with my Sims after I get my laundry switched up.

Current Music: CBS Radio Mystery Theater on Live 365.com

I'm all for Freedom of Speech, Ms. Sheehan, really I am. However, when your right to freedom of speech and assembly becomes a hazard to life and limb, I say... move your damn protest.

How would you like it if a bunch of the widows and family members decided to protest your protest ... oh, say... on Christmas and park their asses on the street in front of your house? My guess is you'd have a shit fit. You want to protest? Get organized.. get a permit... march past old 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. You tried it without one and got arrested.

You aren't really getting the President's attention. So, how about instead of pissing off my neighbors up the road by endangering their lives and those of your fellow protesters by cluttering an already narrow country road, you pack up you gear and go march on DC? Your fifteen minutes of fame is over, and your own family is angry at you for disrespect to your son's memory. I don't think it's because they believe you don't deserve answers. I think they, like others, believe you have used his death to further your own agenda, like your book.

Your husband is divorcing you, buy a clue, lady. Did you stop to think that it might be because you are spending more time trying to avenge/get answers about your son's death than you are spending time with the people you have left alive?

And talk about selfish.... http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/9/24/85619/4714/23#23 You seem a bit jealous here that Hurricane Rita got more attention than you. You want cheese with that little whine?

It's like dealing with Saddam's Christmas gifts, lady... please... I would prefer to not compare a law abiding (which is questionable if you park yourself on that road since that law passed) to one of the worst madmen/butchers/dictators/, etc. in history. However, for years American service men spent their Christmas holidays away from home because Saddam always dropped a surprise around then. This is despite the fact that American troops respected the holiday of Ramadan as best they could.

All I have to say is... if GW's father did the job right or if old Ron hadn't given them the damn weapons, we wouldn't be in this war in the first place. It goes far deeper than GW Bush, but I guess you were too busy doing something else to go up to DC and say... "Hey, Ron, we don't give a flying fig about the hostages in Iran, let 'em die." Giving Iraq weapons to fight Iran was how some of this mess got started, well, I should say American involvement.

Simple rule in the Army and in life ... SHIT... ROLLS... DOWNHILL. People do bite the hand that feeds them. And this most valuable lesson here is... "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" might be true one minute, but that they will become your enemy in a heartbeat and cut your throat.

To all of you that wished me "Happy Birthday," thank you.

I'm catching up on entries, my connection has been weird today.

For anyone living in Texas, that it might matter to, I voted NO on Proposition 2. It passed, but I did go and vote my say. Frankly, I think Prop 2 is too much of a reminder of that poem that goes on about how the man didn't speak up for others and when the time came for him to be rounded up no one was left to speak.

Judy Garland
"You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many."

"From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between M-G-M and me-- whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood."

"I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them."

Liza Minelli

"Living as a legend, as the daughter of legends, is confusing."

"I have sometimes been an emotional Chernobyl."

"Other people have been icons. I just get up there and sing and dance."

Cher

"I wouldn't give myself any advice, because advice is kinda bullshit. Take a deep breath and don't take any of it too seriously."

"Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not."

"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."

Olivia Newton-John

"Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old."

"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young."

"There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end."

Jacqueline Kennedy

"A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear."

"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"

"I want to live my life, not record it."

Lauren Bacall

"The old saw that time heals all wounds doesn't quite wash. Time helps-- it's the only thing that does; it helps you to go on, to live, to laugh, to love-- but it doesn't help you to forget or lessen the tiny stab of pain that remembrance brings."

"When a man speaks his mind it is accepted as charming, interesting, sexy, but when a woman speaks hers she is aggressive, unattractive, pushy-- some might even say a bitch."

"It's been misspelt a lot. He decided on it. It's not Bog-ey. He signed with an ie. And that's good enough for me." (on Humphrey Bogart)

the pickings are slim.

I planned on writing a light hearted entry about the Sims 2, but the entries by friends regarding the debate between Bush and Kerry last night spurred something else. I didn't watch the debate. It's usually two guys posturing about what they will do if elected President when anyone with a clue knows they have to have the approval of the Congress and Senate before they do most things. The real laugh to that is that Bush is apparently smart enough to smack Kerry upside the head with that information. Maybe he's not quite as stupid as people thought all these years. After all, Claudius feigned being feeble minded to escape the notice of Caligula.

Yesterday, in a rare discussion on politics in our household, my husband said that voting this year is a damned if we do, damned if we don't situation. At first, he said a vote for Bush could set our son up for being drafted, but a vote for Kerry could cost him his job. Let's be honest, people, we all know how the Democrats love taking money from the Defense Department's budget. That issue has caused me to take serious notice of who was running for what office over the years. A vote against money for the Defense department was a vote against the money that put, and still helps put, a roof over the heads of my children and well as clothes on their backs and food on the table they ate/eat from. It was and is that that is often the deciding factor of who gets my vote. Today, it also helps provide for my oldest grandson.

Later in the day, my husband came back with one of those things that make ya go hmmmmmm statements. He said something about it being Democrats that put the bill to reinstate the draft. I did a little research and found this:
http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00163:@@@L&summ2=m&
The list of names on that bill are as follows:

Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004 D
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004 D
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004) D

While party affiliation is not noted on the information on that addendum or the related bill, http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN00089: all the sponsors of reinstating the draft are, in fact, members of the Democratic party. At last check, the President, is in fact, a Republican. Can we say major oops?

Keep in mind that I'm not saying there are not members of the Republican party that do support that bill. I just find irony in the bill being introduced by a group of Democrats, not a single Republican among them, and yet, people are saying that Bush is sponsoring the draft. Anyone else see something wrong with that picture besides me?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight... using providing for the common defense, as written in the Constitution, as an excuse to reactivate the draft for both men and women, when you don't grasp the Second Amendment is a bit much.

( Political and Other Rambling, avoid if sensitive to such subjects. )

Once upon a time, on a farm in Texas, there was a little red hen who
scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of
wheat.

She called all of her neighbors together and said, "If we plant this wheat,
we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"

"Not I," said the cow.

"Not I," said the duck.

"Not I," said the pig.

"Not I," said the goose.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen. And so she did.

The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

"Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen.

"Not I," said the duck.

"Out of my classification," said the pig.

"I'd lose my seniority," said the cow.

"I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread. "Who will help me bake the bread?"
asked the little red hen.

"That would be overtime for me," said the cow.

"I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.

"I'm a drop out and never learned how," said the pig.

"If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They
wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said,
"No, I shall eat all five loaves."

"Excess profits!" cried the cow.

"Capitalist leech!" screamed the duck.

"I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose.

The pig just grunted in disdain.

And they all painted "Unfair!" picket signs and marched around and around
the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then a government agent came, he said to the little red hen, "You must not
be so greedy."

"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.

"Exactly," said the agent. "That is what makes our free enterprise system so
wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under
our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the
fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle."

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who
smiled and clucked, "I am grateful, for now I truly understand."

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked
bread because she joined the "party" and got her bread free.

And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established.

Individual initiative had died but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared,as
long as there was free bread.

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

His wife Hillary got $8 million for hers.

That's $20 million for memories from two people who for eight years
repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.

God Bless America!

In order to place a stopgap between people that might be offended by the subject matter of gay marriage and length this post might grow to, it is behind a cut. In short, feel free to read and debate my opinions as you wish, but keep it civil.
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( Weekend update.... )
Incoherent Insanities on..
( Politics )
Roleplay and Storytelling

It's funny how sleeping a lot will bring thoughts to mind to trigger stories. Now... if I could recall what the dreams were on waking it would be great. Maybe I'll be awake to play a bit tonight.

( Cryptic Messages brought on by drugged stupors. )

8:45 4 June
Dinner is cooking; salad is on the table. Need to do the rolls in a bit.

Tom's report card came, four A's.

Liz called, all is well. Said to keep "Legends of the Fall" as she got it on DVD.
Called home, Dad wasn't home, yet; talked to Mom.

After dinner clean up will watch whatever is left of Knight's Tale then watch more of Harriet the Spy while I press clothes and if I have time before I do the RDI thing at 11, I'll get some stitching time in.

I started posting several updates a day instead of one long one. Seems to work well, especially to help memory issues.

5 June 11:30PM

Planned to post the previous portion of this last night, but my power went out from like 10:40 until about 3:30 AM. Tornado season... gotta love it. Power went out this afternoon, too. Hopefully, Mother Nature is done toying with us.

I am saddened about the death of President Reagan, he will be missed. In May, Mrs. Reagan, his wife of 52 years, was quoted as saying, "Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him. Because of this, I'm determined to do whatever I can to save other families from this pain. I just don't see how we can turn our backs on this."

On Harry Potter.... Most of this is behind a cut to avoid too much being revealed. I will say this... I enjoyed it very much!
If you read the books, I doubt I will be telling you anything you don't already know.
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I am not in favor of the possible reinstitution of the draft. My husband, a retired Army NCO, is also not in favor of the reinstitution of the draft.

What follows behind the cut may be offensive, you have been warned.
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