July 1, 2009
July 1, 2009
Got to tell you, it's really hard to believe we are already at the 1/2 way point of this year. It is going by so quickly...it's kind of scary!!! Welcome to July, my favorite month. Long days, hot weather, fireworks, picnics, vacations, it just doesn't get any better!!! Well, being at the beach would make it better, but I can't swing it this year. Maybe next year...
If you haven't yet discovered Pandora Radio, I would like to introduce you (yep, radio, not bracelet). I've really been enjoying it...and it's totally free, which makes it even better. It's free radio that you can listen to while you're on the computer. I'm just barely getting started, so I'm still learning about it. Check it out with me: www.pandora.com.
July 4, 2009
Have a wonderful holiday!!!
July 10, 2009
My brother and his wife are supposed to arrive sometime this evening to spend the weekend with me. While I'm waiting, I thought I would pass along some funny headlines a friend sent me recently. Enjoy! Laughing is good for you!
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
This one I caught in the
SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote
this. It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what
he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next day.
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Something Went
Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Really? Ya think?
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Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Now that's taking things a bit far!
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Miners
Refuse to Work after Death
No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-so's!
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Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
See if that works any better than a fair trial!
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War Dims
Hope for Peace
I can see where it might have that effect!
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If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Ya
think?!
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Cold Wave
Linked to Temperatures
Who would have thought!
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Enfield (London) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
They may be on to something!
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Red Tape
Holds Up New Bridges
You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?
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Man Struck
By Lightning: Faces
Battery Charge
He probably IS the battery charge!
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Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
That's what he gets for eating those beans!
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Kids Make
Nutritious Snacks
Do they taste like chicken?
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Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Chainsaw Massacre all over again!
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Hospitals
are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Boy, are they tall!
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July 16, 2009
I found this article from The Canadian Press to be interesting. Thought I would share it with you.
Obama�s White House is Falling Down
By Daniel Greenfield Thursday, June 11, 2009
In the sixth
month of his presidency, Obama has turned an economic downturn into an economic
disaster, taking over and trashing entire companies, and driving the nation deep
into deficit spending expected to pass 10 trillion dollars.
Abroad, Obama seems to have no other mode except
to continue on with his endless campaign, confusing speechmaking with diplomacy.
It is natural enough that Obama, who built his entire campaign on high profile
public speeches reported on by an adoring press, understands how to do nothing
else but that.
Ego driven photo-op
appearances and clueless treatment of foreign dignitaries
While the press is still
chewing over Obama�s Cairo speech, this celebrity style coverage ignores the
fact that Obama�s endless world tour is not actually accomplishing anything.
Instead his combination of ego driven photo-op appearances and clueless
treatment of foreign dignitaries have alienated many of America �s traditional
allies. Those who aren�t being quietly angry at Obama, like Brown, Merkel or
Netanyahu, instead think of him as an absurdly lightweight, as Sarkozy, King
Abdullah or Putin do.
While his officials carry out their dirty economic deeds, Obama responds to any
and every crisis as if it were a Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland musical, with a
cry of, �Let�s put on a show.� Thus far Obama has put on �shows� across America
, Europe and the Middle East . And what the adoring media coverage neglects to
cover, is that Obama�s shows have solved absolutely nothing. They
have
served only as high profile entertainment.
Neither alienating America �s traditional allies, through a combination of
arrogant bullying and ignorance, nor appeasing America �s enemies, has yielded
any actual results. Nor does it seem likely to. Islamic terrorism is not going
anywhere, neither are the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran . While
Obama keeps smiling, the global situation keeps growing more grim.
At home, if Obama was elected as depression era
entertainment, the charm of his smiles and his constant appearances on magazine
covers appear to be wearing thin on the American public. Despite the shrill
attacks on Rush Limbaugh or the Republican Enemy of the Weak-- the Democratic
party of 2009, is polling a lot like the Republican party of 2008. The Democrats
have suddenly become the incumbents, and the only accomplishment they can point
to is lavish deficit spending, often on behalf of the very same corporations and
causes they once postured against.
The
European Union Parliament�s swing to the right cannot be credited to Obama,
though doubtlessly some European voters seeing socialist economic crisis
management on display in the world�s richest country decided they wanted none of
it, but it is part of a general turning against federalism. And Obama�s entire
program is dependent on heavily entrenching federalism at the expense of
individual and state�s rights. Yet that is precisely his Achilles heel with
independent voters who are polling against more taxes and expanded government.
And no amount of speeches by Obama can wish away his 18 czars or the national
debt he has foisted on generation after generation of the American people.
That leaves Obama with a choice between socialism and the independent voter. And
thus far he has chosen socialism.
Obama�s
tactic of hijacking Bush Administration era policies on the economy and the War
on Terror, and exploiting them as Trojan horses to promote his own agenda, have
left him coping with a backlash from his own party, as well as general
Republican opposition.
His Czars are meant to function as the bones in an executive infrastructure
accountable to no one, but a lack of accountability isn�t just another word for
tyranny, but for incompetence. A functional chain of command is accountable at
multiple levels if it is to function effectively. Obama�s White House by
contrast is in a state of over-organized chaos, the sort of organized
disorganization that undisciplined egotistical leftists naturally create for
themselves, complete with multiple overlapping levels of authority and no one in
charge but the man at the top, who�s too busy doing other things to actually be
in charge.
Dennis Blair as National Intelligence, who
collaborated with the Muslim genocide of Christians in East Timor , trying to
muscle out the CIA to create his own intelligence network, is typical of the
kind of chaos being spawned by every chief in an expanding government
bureaucracy working to make sure that all the Indians answer to him. Similarly
the National Security Council wrestling with the State Department, highlighted
by Samantha Power getting her own specially created NSC position to butt heads
with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, illustrates the state of conflict and
chaos in American foreign affairs. A state of chaos so pervasive that
incompetence has now become commonplace, and no one can even be found to double
check the spelling of a Russian word that is meant to be the theme of American�s
diplomatic reconstruction with Russia , or to pick out a gift for the visiting
British Prime Minister.
The death
of Chrysler at the hands of Fiat and the UAW
Meanwhile on the economy, Obama exploited the ongoing bailouts, transforming
them from bailouts into takeovers meant to shift the balance of power in what
had been a democracy and socially
engineer not only corporations, but the lives of ordinary Americans. But the
public�s patience with corporate bailouts is at an end, most Americans were
never happy with them to begin with, and want them to end. The death of Chrysler
at the hands of Fiat and the UAW might look like a victory in the union ranks,
but it doesn�t play too well outside Detroit . And tacking on CAFE standards
that will kill the pickup truck and the SUV will badly erode Obama in the swing
states, if exploited properly in 2010 and 2012. Despite the constant media
barrage, orchestrated out of the White House, the public is growing disenchanted
with the performance of Obama and the Democrats.
With
unemployment booming and the economy dropping, the jobs aren�t there and the
spending is out of control. Republicans today are polling better on ethics and
the economy, than the Democrats are. That shows a trend which is likely to
register in the mid-term elections in 2010, in the same way that the EU
parliamentary elections served as a shock to the system.
In the opposition, Republicans are free to embrace the rhetoric of change, to
champion reform and push libertarian ideas about the size and scope of
government. In turn all Obama has is his celebrity fueled media spectacle world
tour. A charade now serving as a parallel to the depression era entertainment
that functioned as escapism in a dour time. But before long, it may be Obama
that the American public will want to escape from.
A
shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in over his head
Obama has tried to play Lincoln, Reagan, JFK
and FDR-- but in the end he can only play himself, a shallow, manipulative and
egotistical amateur who is in over his head, and trying to drag the country down
with him. Obama�s White House is falling down and while the flashbulbs are still
glittering and the parties are going on in D.C. and around the world, Obama and
the Democratic Congress may be headed for a recession of their own.
July 27, 2009
Happy birthday, Marilyn! Just wanted you to know I'm thinking about you on your special day!
It has been a relatively mild summer, especially by Oklahoma standards. And I keep my AC set on 79 to 81 degrees. So does it make sense to you that my bill for the month was $100 for electricity? And supposedly this was based on the actual meter reading. Something's not right. Somebody's getting screwed and I think it might be me!!!