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I kept rereading the news pieces after they caught the Russian spies wondering at the twenty years we followed them. Twenty years is a long time. A really long time. But I’m a believing American, and I still remember that all the grown up smart people in our neighborhood where I grew up built bomb shelters to protect their valuable children from the bombs that were surely arriving any day Fed Ex from east of Berlin. We were the only ...read more So, here is the 411 on what happened. Al Snyder’s son died in Iraq in May 2006. Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church picketed his son Matthew’s funeral, with signs reading things like “Thank God for Dead Gay Soldiers.” So, the young man’s father went to court and got a $5,000,000 settlement. The church appealed the settlement based on their right to free speech and won. So, the long and the short of it is that Matthew’s father was ordered ...read more Hmmm. “Why would she ever go here?” Dear Whomever (is it the Pres, a Senator, or Congressperson?), Look, Canada’s health care bill is ten pages long. Literally, it’s ten pages. I have googled our new health care bill and alas, it’s thousands of pages long. And, I can’t get a straight answer to the following three simple, straight forward questions. What would it cost me to get my own health care should I choose to leave my company? Will I be able to choose ...read more Ok, come on. An earthquake in Chicago? Thirty six inches of snow in Washington DC? More snow there than in Colorado? This has to mean something, but what? They shut the Federal Government down yesterday, ostensibly because of the snow. A friend was there and told me. “The Federal Government is closed today, and maybe tomorrow.” It’s almost like the Federal Government is a person, or a place, or what? I decided it was a good idea. The Federal Government needs ...read more I’ve been out of the loop a bit recently. I’ve been traveling and busy at work and away from the fray of politics, media, and especially Haiti. At a dinner last night, there was talk about the missionaries from the good ole US of A who went into Haiti, took 100 children and were “going to the Dominican Republic with them to set up an orphanage.” They had no paperwork for the kids, no proof the kids were orphans, and ...read more I think we all won in Massachusetts. Everyone keeps saying the Dems are in trouble. The Republicans will wash everything out in the next election. I want to believe something totally different. I think the man Scott Brown won. I think his comments about the seat being the ‘people’s seat’ won him the election. His comments about independent people in Massachusetts bringing him to Washington are true. I would have voted for him. A new politics might be coming to Washington that’s ...read more Harry Reid is fighting for his political life today for comments he made during the Presidential campaign last year. He apparently said that if Obama was a darker-skinned person of color who spoke with a ‘negro’ dialect (what year is he living in?), he could not have been elected President. Condemnation of his comments was swift, and he personally apologized for them to the President, and I’m sure to everyone he has seen since. This brings to mind Obama’s speech two ...read more It’s not that I’m against Ben Bernanke. Well, that’s a lie. Even when he was re-appointed by Obama I was unsettled. It reminded me of the arsonist who is a firefighter, lights the fire, then puts it out and wins a medal. Correct me if I’m wrong – I’m so not a finance girl – but wasn’t he in charge of the country’s finances a year and a half ago when we all fell into the abyss? And, wasn’t he ...read more |
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Pat Robertson and Haiti
I understand that I’m an opinionated person who sometimes can’t see another point of view. I think we are all held hostage by the movie running in our heads about what we think about this and that. It doesn’t offer commercial interruptions from others who might hold a different point of view. I try very hard to “seek to understand, rather than to be understood,” and rarely get there. But then there are times when I am actually baffled by ...read more