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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 I have never known – never – a bill that went through Congress that directly affected me in a way I could feel immediately, or that I could get really excited about. I recognize that there are bills out there that did, but not the way the health care bill was going to. I was so excited last week to learn that maybe I would qualify under the new health care bill for Medicaid. (Or is it Medicare? I can ...read more I just want to say that if Obama summoned me to the White House, I would have walked George Washington type miles to get there. I would have ridden my bike. I would have taken the train. I would have hitched a ride on the expressway. The fact that three of the bankers; the CEOs of Morgan Stanley, Citibank and Goldman Sachs were ‘fogged out’ so they called in on a speaker phone to the President of the United States boggles ...read more Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about war. War versus peace. The difference in my life when we are at war and when we are peace. Bear with me. When we were at war during World War I and II, the whole country was at war. Women went to the factories and had parties without men because they were all away fighting. Even in the Civil War, everyone participated. Then, during the Vietnam War, we all waited each year for the ...read more Here is the thing. I want to know that the First Family is safe. I want to know that if you are not invited to the White House, you cannot get in. I want to rest at night knowing that our government agencies are not inept. I personally cannot take on another thing. I had to get my car fixed after the accident with Buck (may he rest in peace). I have Christmas shopping to do. I have a big ...read more This is my first Thanksgiving blog and for those of you taking time out of your busy holiday, I wanted to be sure to bring something new and different ‘to the table.’ Get it – to the table? So, I went to the Net and am presenting History.com’s Thanksgiving history for your reading pleasure. Be sure to read about table manners. And, check the actual menu at the bottom. But, it’s what I love about our country. We just add to things ...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