And I mean both the Shrub & myself.

Every time I try to get caught up on e-mail & LJ these days, I get distracted by election coverage. Daily KOS, Crooks & Liars, & the Huffington Post (not to mention the Guardian)- I'm like an addict. I've got six more boxes to move from out of the middle of the room here so I can set up a couple of tables ( Read more... )

I ranted about this ridiculous proposal by the HHS before when I first found out about it. American United for the Separation of Church & State posted this update & call for action about it, which I've posted here in its entirety ( Read more... )

Stumbled across a really, really good op-ed piece on Palin. Or, more specifically, on what we don't know about her & what she isn't saying.

Questions for the Mystery GuestAnd I wanted to post it before my computer crashes again ( Read more... )

My good friend bissonmomma posted a link to an article in the Huffington Post.

Apparently, the Dept of Health & Human Safety is moving to classify contraceptives as a form of abortion, with the specific intent of allowing agencies that receive federal funding to refuse to offer it to their patients. In other words, they want poor women with no access to ( Read more... )

I just got what I think may be the most disturbing/disgusting spam ever. The subject was "Nursing Home Abuse" & the body of the message was "Are your relatives being mistreated? If so, you might be entitled to compensation ( Read more... )

From an article on the BBC site about the massive beef recall:

"However the department says the health hazard is minimal. Much of the meat was purchased for school lunch and other federal nutrition programmes."
In other words, there's no danger to the general public as all the potentially tainted beef will be eaten by school children & poor people ( Read more... )

When I was talking about the Outsiders, I was talking about an entirely different issue than what most of you guys responded with. That's OK, because both of them are really good points. But I do want to be clear about what I was trying to say ( Read more... )

This disgusts me on so many levels, I can't even count them all.

Slavery in the '60's-- the *19*60's.

I mean, what the fuck? How do people *do* that kind of shit to other human beings? And the nephew's comment- "He was a good man, a Christian." Dude, your uncle owned *slaves* a hundred years after it was *outlawed*. I can't speak for his ( Read more... )

Just a small boat & not quite a pretty as I'd envisioned. But it should burn nicely. :-D Now I just need to make a small Old Bear poppet to set in it & that's the last of my prep-work for the Funeral this weekend, other than printing out the rite for myself & my helpers. I also talked to one of his old buddies from his early days who's driving ( Read more... )

So what does it say about me that I go to drive up to friend's place to pick something up & I make sure to grab my iPod but have to come back to get my purse which has my driver's license? Particularly when the iPod was *in* the purse to begin with ( Read more... )